TAU Team Reverses Early Signs of Alzheimer's:
Approximately 50 million people worldwide live with Alzheimer's or other related forms of dementia. Alzheimer's disease leads to memory loss and impairment in cognitive function, and is the most common cause of dementia among older adults. While certain treatments can help reduce symptoms and sometimes reduce disease progression, there is currently no way to prevent or cure Alzheimer's.
[...] Using hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), in which subjects breathe 100% oxygen in a special chamber of high atmospheric pressure, the researchers were able to reverse brain damages associated with the biological hallmarks of Alzheimer's.
"By treating the root problem that causes cognitive deterioration with age, we are in fact mapping out the way to prevention," says co-lead researcher Prof. Shai Efrati.
[...] "After a series of hyperbaric treatments, elderly patients who were already suffering from memory loss showed an improvement of blood flow to the brain as well as a real improvement in cognitive performance," said co-lead investigator Prof. Uri Ashery.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 13 2021, @09:11PM (1 child)
I sure hope these results are more than just wishful thinking. Unfortunately, many populations have shown "improvements" in a wide variety of metrics...because the experimental subjects were stimulated by participating in the experiment.
Get people with early stage memory loss engaged in something (almost anything) and frequently they get a little better.
(Score: 2) by rigrig on Tuesday September 14 2021, @07:16AM
Yeah, looking at the paper [researchgate.net]:
I'd feel a lot happier about this if the control group had (instead of no treatment) received similar sessions, only using just regular air instead of the 100% oxygen.
No one remembers the singer.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Mockingbird on Monday September 13 2021, @09:30PM (3 children)
Wasn't this hyperbaric stuff just hyped a while ago as the cure for COVID-19? The hyperbole is certainly hilarious, but they forgot the zinc!
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday September 13 2021, @10:09PM (2 children)
It would be quicker to make a list of the things that WEREN'T supposed to be COVID miracle cures....
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 13 2021, @11:21PM (1 child)
Horse dewormers on top of everything.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 13 2021, @11:50PM
Seems to have worked for India, unless the widely-publicized COVID wave of theirs fizzled entirely on its own.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian-states-turn-anti-parasitic-drug-fight-covid-19-against-who-advice-2021-05-13/ [reuters.com]
https://covid19.who.int/region/searo/country/in/ [who.int]
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Monday September 13 2021, @09:40PM (5 children)
There was another cure for Alzheimers, but I can't seem to remember what it was.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 13 2021, @09:59PM (3 children)
A baseball bat to the head... sounds like you could use a round of treatment. I'm sure we can find plenty of volunteers if your insurance doesn't cover it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Mykl on Monday September 13 2021, @11:00PM (2 children)
Wow, that escalated quickly.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 14 2021, @01:16AM
Not really. You must be new here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 14 2021, @03:15AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DEgDjH1dro&t=105s [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by corey on Monday September 13 2021, @11:25PM
:)
I was thinking of ways to oxygenate the brain without access to a hyperbaric chamber. Getting out and going hiking? Doing daily cardio workouts out in nature? And pranayama yoga breathing exercises (I’ve done this a bit). I guess you’d need to be diagnosed first.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 13 2021, @10:25PM (9 children)
So, our resident faux philosopher should have started this about 2300 years ago?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 13 2021, @11:23PM (8 children)
He'd be just breathing faster, get more oxygen. Hyperventilating is the medical term, yes.
(Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Monday September 13 2021, @11:28PM (7 children)
Do you think that's air you're breathing?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 14 2021, @12:33AM (6 children)
Is your question in any relation with the topic? Epistemological, ontological, deontological, gerontological, whatever, any kind of relation?
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday September 14 2021, @12:40AM (5 children)
Presumptions that oxygenation is the operative mechanism to the alleged treatment for Old Timer's Disease. Pseudo-science on SN again. And, we could be in the Matrix, gacking down the horse de-wormer.
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday September 14 2021, @01:30AM (4 children)
Ummm... at the end of TFA:
Some Googling after the name of the authors and asking for a DOI, I got this [nih.gov]. They declared they used "two-photon live animal imaging, behavioral tasks, and biochemical and histological analysis" on model mice, and found "HBOT reduced amyloid burden by reducing the volume of pre-existing plaques and attenuating the formation of new ones". They tabled the hypothesis of "changes in amyloid precursor protein processing, elevated degradation and clearance of Aß protein" as a possible mechanism that could offer an explanation.
And here's the DOI [doi.org]
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With all the information now at hand, feel free to contact the authors and communicate your peer review on their methods and findings, I'm sure they'll see your points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday September 14 2021, @06:11AM (3 children)
Um, c0lo, I think many have interpreted your comment contrary as to what you intended? Can't be helped, quite often, on SoylentNews, where STEM and science and logic and evidence and facts and stuff, are important.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday September 14 2021, @06:25AM (2 children)
To their peril. I stopped feeling responsible for my humanoid brothers' shortfalls and longfails, I barely have enough of my lifetime to dedicate to making my own mistakes (God, they're delicious).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday September 14 2021, @06:46AM (1 child)
Jdi v míru, můj bratře.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday September 14 2021, @06:51AM
Köszönöm (I hope google translate works fine for something that simple).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Tuesday September 14 2021, @05:10AM
which makes sense since Google prioritizes recent things, but I thought I had read about work on hyperbaric oxygen for treating dementia from decades ago.
(Score: 2) by gawdonblue on Tuesday September 14 2021, @07:51AM (1 child)
Didn't know what "TAU" stood for so I looked it up: "An alien race from the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe".
The humanitarian work of alien races never ceases to amaze!
(Score: 3, Touché) by PiMuNu on Tuesday September 14 2021, @12:18PM
Also a greek letter. Hope they don't get shot down for trademark infringement.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 14 2021, @05:57PM
They don't breath pure oxygen but it is certainly at high pressure, some effects should carry over.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 16 2021, @01:28PM
So could increased atmospheric CO2 levels contribute to Alzheimer's?