Great link Phoebus. Brain iron one of the "universal signs" of Alzheimer's.
Can't believe they are finally looking at chelation to halt progression of disease.
https://www.bloomber...zheimer-s-fight
Pulling Iron From Brain May Offer Hope in Alzheimer’s Fight
"Doctors in Toronto in the mid-1980s found that twice-daily shots of desferrioxamine mesylate -- used for managing excess iron levels in the blood of thalassemia sufferers -- reduced the rate of cognitive decline by 50 percent over two years. Ironically, the study of 48 probable Alzheimer’s patients was conducted to investigate the role of another metal, aluminum.
“It remains one of the only positive clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease,” said Scott Ayton, a research fellow with the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne, who is also working on the deferiprone study.
The Canadian research wasn’t replicated or followed up at the time amid growing interest in targeting amyloid, he said. In the past few years, evidence supporting iron’s pernicious role in Alzheimer’s disease has mounted.
Patients with more iron in their brains deteriorate first and fastest, and those with low iron seem to have slower or delayed progression of the disease"
A wise man named Sherlock Holmes once said: "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
Edited by Dorian Grey, 07 October 2018 - 07:04 AM.