The Reality of a Vaccine to Protect Against Alzheimer's
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Margery recently went for a physical, and while she was there, she got vaccinated for pneumonia, shingles, and a tetanus shot. Similar to most people, she doesn’t like getting shots, but there is one she wouldn’t mind at all: a shot to protect her against Alzheimer’s!
Margery lost her mother, her grandmother, and two aunts on her father’s side from the debilitating disease. She knows she has a family history of it, so she does what she can to stave it off, including exercising, eating right, and challenging her brain by trying new things. With years of research though, she wonders, shouldn’t there be some sort of vaccine to protect people from Alzheimer’s and other forms of
dementia?
How Alzheimer’s Destroys the Brain
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive memory disorder that affects nearly one in three seniors and is on the rise, currently affecting 43 million people worldwide. Behind the memory impairments, Alzheimer's destroys the brain over time from accumulations of a protein called tau. Tau can accumulate in long tangles that disrupt the ability of neurons to communicate with one another. Recently, University of New
Mexico researchers have developed a vaccine that could prevent the formation of the tau tangles and potentially prevent the cognitive decline typically seen in Alzheimer’s patients!
An Alzheimer’s Vaccine is in Progress
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