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This new study highlights the importance of certain soluble proteins, called cytokines, in Alzheimer’s disease. The study focuses on one of these cytokines, tumor necrosis factor-alpha(TNF), a critical component of the brain’s immune system.
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The new study documents a dramatic and unprecedented therapeutic effect in an Alzheimer’s patient: improvement within minutes following delivery of perispinal etanercept, which is etanercept given by injection in the spine. Etanercept (trade name Enbrel) binds and inactivates excess TNF. Etanercept is FDA approved to treat a number of immune-mediated disorders and is used off label in the study.
This is really important news. Alzheimer’s is one of the most insidious diseases. Slowly becoming a vegetable is a horrible experience for everyone involved.
Thank you for this post. It is hard to watch someone with a brilliant mind turn into a person who cannot find the keys in their hand or the glasses on their face.
If only we could get this today. It would be worth the risk.
Following the upsetting news that Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, this is a welcome ray of hope.
Well, that’ll kill my joke about forgetting about the Alzheimer’s.
Getting serious, if you get the joke already, we can only hope this works. I agree with Hopper, this is a terrible disease.
A fantastic discovery! There is evidence that Omega 3 fatty acids may help fight the disease,
from Medicine Net: http://tinyurl.com/22djgf
I can’t find any legal way to “disappear” should I contract Alzheimer’s. That’s the most horrible way to go I can imagine.
I’d rather go out in a bent stunt plane, yelling to ATC, “I’ve tried A, I’ve tried B, I’ve tried C, oh sh”
I can’t wait for those Omega 3 food supplement pills which are nothing but 1% Omega 3 fatty acids and 99% corn starch.
Mmmmmm. More sugar.
The supplements I’ve seen are about 1/2 fish oil and 1/2 glycerine. Keeps the fish oil from turning into a solid.