The First Reason Why Alzheimer’s Disease Has Remained a Mystery is…
It effects the one place in the human body we know the least about: the brain. And because the brain is so self-contained, the only non-invasive testing we can reasonably do with a live host is through imaging – which gives hints, not answers. So, we are left to try to solve this pandemic with the next best thing: associations, correlations & hunches.
The Second Reason Why Alzheimer’s Disease Has Remained a Mystery is…
As diseases go, Alzheimer’s is particularly slow progressing. Therefore, cause and effect are too far apart to draw accurate conclusions. By the time you are showing symptoms enough to be cursory diagnosed, the Alzheimer’s Disease process had been silently underway for years. And not you, or anyone around you, were paying undivided attention to your health when the cause of your cognitive decline first made its appearance.
The Third Reason Why Alzheimer’s Disease Has Remained a Mystery is…
Researchers are not thinking multi-disciplinary. Understanding AD involves Neurology, Rheumatology, Immunology, Microbiology, Bacteriology, Infectious Disease, Gerontology, Endocrinology, Urology, Gastroenterology, Dentistry …even Nutrition. But researchers don’t see it that way. Each is confined to their own part of the elephant – an age-old reference that speaks to how myopic science finds itself – only seeing the singular part of science it’s been educated most about – like just the trunk of the elephant or only it’s ears – you get the point.
The Fourth Reason Why Alzheimer’s Disease Has Remained a Mystery is…
Alzheimer’s has become an economy. There are so many vested parties who are now reliant on this disease never going away. Big Pharm for one, never wants to NOT have the opportunity to provide a new pill to this already over-prescribed population that has guaranteed insurance coverage (at least here in the US). And what about all those memory care units popping everywhere? We suspect they will go the way of the TB Sanitariums back in the day when “consumption” was finally cured (it too was bacterial in origin). That will cost lots of companies lots of money as they race to occupy these facilities or file bankruptcy.
The Fifth Reason Why Alzheimer’s Disease Has Remained a Mystery is…
It affects the population that many could care less about. In general, our society has become so selfish that we believe our elders should be discarded like the trash we delight in throwing away. But what most fail to realize is this: Alzheimer’s steals your memories too! Your family history – the answers you will want to ask later …. will die along with that elder historian who contracts this disease that we are now 100% certain is avoidable and can eventually be cured.
