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Recently, even the TDAP (Tetanus) vaccine was correlated with lower incidence of dementia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26919881 https://news.ycombinator
by khriss 3mo ago
Recently, even the TDAP (Tetanus) vaccine was correlated with lower incidence of dementia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26919881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26919881
I recall seeing a few discussions on HN comments hypothesizing that immune system stimulation via the vaccine might be the root cause. Now that the Amyloid hypothesis is on the wane, hopefully we'll explore other paths.
- zahlman 3mo ago> the Amyloid hypothesis is on the wane Oh? What did I miss?
- Terr_ 3mo agoI think the short version is that people have developed a lot of things to substantially reduce the levels in human brains, but in practice is doesn't seem to be yielding clearly-good results.
- khriss 3mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32183302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32183302 TL;DR A lot of evidence supporting the Amyloid hypothesis is suspect.