{"id":18048,"date":"2014-01-05T12:40:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T19:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=18048"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:38:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:38:45","slug":"quick-update-war-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/05\/quick-update-war-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Update on the War Against Alzheimer’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IdaThis 6 minute video addresses many questions about Alzheimer’s including the current status of , \u00a0ment and prevention.<\/p>\n

Please turn off the television, go to someplace quiet and listen carefully to this outstanding short update.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now have a good picture of the stages of the disease, going from this gooey toxic material that sticks to the nerve cells and kills them and then the nerve cells die from within, and then, even worse, the brain sees all this and thinks it\u2019s an attack from the outside and the immune cells start to attack the nerve cells, and nerve cells die by friendly fire.”<\/p>\n

~ Rudy Tanzi, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Thanks to the Alzheimer’s Reading Room<\/a> for the heads up on this report<\/p>\n

If you wonder why I care about Alzheimer’s, this is a video I took of my mom as Alzheimer’s slowly took her life.<\/p>\n