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This stuck out to me because some people in my family suffered from Alzheimers disease. Alzheimers is a very scary disease because the fact that you know it is coming, and there is litterly nothing you can do about it. Eventually, you lose your personality and even sometimes forget who you are. I feel even more pity for all the family members who have to watch Alzheimers patients suffer and slowly change. What is even more disheartening is taking care of someone who does not recognize you and never will.
Back to the drug. Although this drug is still in its earliest stages, it has already shown extremely promising effects of quickly removing brain plaques hundreds of times faster than any preceding drugs of its kind. What usually took drugs several months to do, this one has proven to do the same thing in just a few days! The scientists warn however that very few drugs make the transition from animals to humans which is very hard to do with all the FDA laws.
I really hope this drug makes the transition because I'd say that after cancer, Alzheimers is one of the worst diseases out there because it gives everyone the fear of growing old altogether. According to British scientists, Dementia patients in the UK alone will reach over 1 million in the next decade and I think its quite obvious that if this drug turns out that it does work in humans, then that number will be significantly less if not non-existent.
This stuck out to me because some people in my family suffered from Alzheimers disease. Alzheimers is a very scary disease because the fact that you know it is coming, and there is litterly nothing you can do about it. Eventually, you lose your personality and even sometimes forget who you are. I feel even more pity for all the family members who have to watch Alzheimers patients suffer and slowly change. What is even more disheartening is taking care of someone who does not recognize you and never will.
Back to the drug. Although this drug is still in its earliest stages, it has already shown extremely promising effects of quickly removing brain plaques hundreds of times faster than any preceding drugs of its kind. What usually took drugs several months to do, this one has proven to do the same thing in just a few days! The scientists warn however that very few drugs make the transition from animals to humans which is very hard to do with all the FDA laws.
I really hope this drug makes the transition because I'd say that after cancer, Alzheimers is one of the worst diseases out there because it gives everyone the fear of growing old altogether. According to British scientists, Dementia patients in the UK alone will reach over 1 million in the next decade and I think its quite obvious that if this drug turns out that it does work in humans, then that number will be significantly less if not non-existent.
