healthcare

Alzheimer’s breakthrough!

https://interestingengineering.com/health/enzyme-breakthrough-in-alzheimers

Here’s an easier way to attempt to explain this article from ChatGPT:

Some special helpers in the brain, called astrocytes, try to clean up this trash. But while cleaning, they accidentally make too much of a sleepy chemical called GABA. GABA tells the brain workers to slow down or stop, which isn’t good when you need to think or remember things. ￼

Scientists have found that an enzyme named SIRT2 tells the astrocytes to make more GABA. So, if we can find a way to quiet down SIRT2, the astrocytes won’t make too much GABA, and the brain workers can keep doing their jobs well. ￼

This discovery is exciting because it gives us a new idea for helping people with Alzheimer’s disease feel better by keeping their brain city clean and active.

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Really, really hope we will be be able get rid of Alzheimer's one day. Ideally in my life time and before I get it (if I do), lol

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Indeed! 

Here goes hoping for all of us <3

Wouldn’t getting older be a little less scary, eh?

I think there’s a chance with all of the information I see every day.