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The Skeptics Guide #942 - Jul 29 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Benefits of Using a Big Airport

There are now three, three drugs that are disease modifying in Alzheimer's disease. They're not just symptomatic, they actually changed the course of the disease. These drugs are targeting amyloid, which is the protein that is abnormal in Alzheimer's when they clump together and form the plaques. This is the first time with these three drugs that there's, we've closed the loop and it's like, oh yeah, it's probably contributing to progression because if you treat the amyloid,. If you bind to the amylid, it actually reduces the progression of the disease."

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