Peter Attia· MD
I think unfortunately clinically it's still considered one disease but you know to the best of my understanding it's really several diseases that all have a very similar common final pathway
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
I think unfortunately clinically it's still considered one disease but you know to the best of my understanding it's really several diseases that all have a very similar common final pathway
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and it sounds like what you're saying is alzheimer's is not really one disease it's kind of an umbrella term that encompasses many different diseases of the brain that have some common features in the way that cancers all cancers have some common features that you know cells don't respond to normal signaling but th this notion that someone could have a form of alzheimer's that largely spares the frontal cortex and therefore preserves some higher order functioning versus another person that has something that's not