Spacedoc Newsletter: A Recipe for Alzheimer's Disease

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Newsletter October 11, 2011

A Recipe for Alzheimer's Disease

by Seneff

Alzheimer's is a dreaded diagnosis that immediately causes a patient to confront the frightening fact that the rest of their life will be defined by steadily eroding memory and cognitive function. Alzheimer's is alarmingly on the rise, and has been so for the past several decades. The cost to society, both financially and emotionally, is staggering. Together with colleagues, I published a paper this year on a theory for the cause of Alzheimer's, which was based on the idea that a key contributor is insufficient cholesterol in the brain.

Fructose, Sunscreen, Statins and Flu Shots: a Recipe for Alzheimer's Disease.Read the full article here:

A Recipe for Alzheimer's Disease

Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Alzheimer's Disease and Statins

by Duane Graveline MD, MPH

The so-called glial cells of the brain, long suspected of providing certain housekeeping functions, have been shown to produce their own supply of cholesterol for the specific purpose of providing nerve cells with a vital synaptic component. Since the brain cannot tap the cholesterol supply in the blood because the lipoproteins that mediate the transport of cholesterol are too large to pass the blood-brain barrier, the brain must depend upon its own cholesterol synthesis, which the glial cells provide. The highly lipophilic statin drugs such as Lipitor®, Mevacor® and Zocor® far more easily cross the blood-brain barrier and interfere with glial cell synthesis of cholesterol than their hydrophilic counterparts such as Pravachol®.

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Alzheimer's Disease and Statins

Duane Graveline MD MPH

Former USAF Flight Surgeon

Former NASA Astronaut

Retired Family Doctor

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