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What if Alzheimer's isn't one disease?
Most Alzheimer's drugs target one thing: amyloid plaques. Bredesen says that's like patching one hole in a roof that has 36. The rain keeps coming in. His research identified at least 36 different contributors to cognitive decline, and they vary from person to person.
Alzheimer's disease is not a single disease. It is actually a protective response to three different categories of insult.— Dale Bredesen
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Neurodegenerative Disease Researcher
Dale Bredesen is a neuroscientist and professor at UCLA who developed the first protocol shown to reverse cognitive decline in peer-reviewed studies.
Based on Dale Bredesen on Preventing and Reversing Alzheimer's Disease, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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