The hall mark of alsheimers is sticky as and tangles in the brain. The amelid hypothesis says that when the data amaloid doesn't get blushed out, you get these sticky plaques which cause memory loss. So it's caughet the amaloidess because it focuses on this type of brain trash called the bata amaloid brain trash.
For decades, Alzheimer’s researchers have been stubbornly pursuing a single theory, but they’re starting to wonder: is this narrow focus the reason we still don’t have a cure?
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