# Will there be a cure for Alzheimer's Disease in my lifetime?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 20, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-be-a-cure-for-alzheimers-disease-in-my-lifetime/593434 "2011-08-20T15:28:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lane\_Simonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3e96dc/32.png) [@Lane\_Simonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lane_Simonian)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-be-a-cure-for-alzheimers-disease-in-my-lifetime/593434/41 "2011-11-06T22:05:14Z")

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A quick correction, superoxides form as a result of tumor necrosis factor-alpha’s activatiion of NADPH oxidase.

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**Author:** ![Lane\_Simonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3e96dc/32.png) [@Lane\_Simonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lane_Simonian)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-be-a-cure-for-alzheimers-disease-in-my-lifetime/593434/42 "2011-11-06T22:33:20Z")

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I didn’t mean to ignore the study on green tea, red light-laser, and Alzheimer’s disease, which was quite interesting. Any means to increase the amount of phenolic compounds that reach the hippocampus is worth consideration.

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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-be-a-cure-for-alzheimers-disease-in-my-lifetime/593434/43 "2011-11-07T00:34:59Z")

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Face it…the human brain just isn’t very good after 80 years of use.  
Much better to download everything into RAM/HDD.  
Then we can have immortality as well.

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**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-be-a-cure-for-alzheimers-disease-in-my-lifetime/593434/44 "2011-11-07T02:31:19Z")

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> [@ralph124c](#):
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> Face it..the human brain just isn’t very good after 80 years of use.  
> Much better to download everything into RAM/HDD.  
> Then we can have immortality as well.

In my earlier post I said that AD has hit close to home. To be more specific, early onset of AD has hit close to home. During a conference with an counselor at the Alzheimer’s Association the counselor said “Unfortunately, business is booming. We are seeing more and more people that are contracting the disease at an early age.” It’s one thing to get the disease in your '80’s, it’s another thing to get it in your '50’s.

A very few get it in their '40’s. These are normally otherwise productive people that have their social and professional lives shut down at an age that far proceeds their expected retirement. It can destroy their marriage and their relationship with their family. This is a very debilitating disease.

Finding a cure isn’t about saving people in their '80’s and '90’s, it’s about giving a life back to people in their '40’s, '50’s and '60’s.

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