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It's a hell of a lot more likely to find the primary causes of Alzheimers outside of the human body imo, medicines/pollution/additives/radiation etc. The human
by codr7 1y ago
It's a hell of a lot more likely to find the primary causes of Alzheimers outside of the human body imo, medicines/pollution/additives/radiation etc.
The human body is a pretty amazing construction, nature doesn't make a lot of mistakes.
- mihalycsaba 1y agoIt makes a lot of mistakes. Without modern medicine we wouldn't live this long. Alzheimer's is not a modern disease.
- hello_computer 1y agoThe primary improvement to human life expectancy was not medicine, but public sanitation. Prior to that, death was bi-modal, with peaks at infancy and old age. When people (and doctors) started washing their hands, the infant peak was flattened. Dead toddlers really kick the average in the nuts.
- hello_computer 1y agoThere is a strong correlation (noting my word choice here before the incorrectors accuse me of confusing it with causation) between general anesthesia and onset of dementia. I’m not going to dig it up, but it is easy enough to find on pubmed. There is a decent amount of noticing in the literature.