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> You could sum up Alzheimer's as: Diet/Lifestyle + a congenital form of Cushing's syndrome and you have increasing glucocorticoids which imply downregulation of the PVN,

Wit all else patients on GLP-1 agonists I wonder if the incidence of Alzheimer’s will decline? I wonder if Semaglutide reduces CRP? There are some preliminary indications that it may: https://cardiab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12933-02...



Between weight loss, inhibiting addictive behavior, lowering the risk of major cardiovascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and potentially derisking for Alzheimer’s, we should be pumping GLP-1 agonists out like a wartime effort. Likely contributor to fixing 70+ years of socioeconomic configuration that gave us Western Disease and the trimmings that come with it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-10-18/glp-1-dru...


T will be interesting to see the side effects of chronic use of these compounds. Still too early to know.




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