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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: 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