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#38 - Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Ph.D.: Advancing Alzheimer’s disease treatment and prevention – is AD actually a vascular and metabolic disease?

The Peter Attia Drive

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The Different Types of Memory Diseases in Alzheimer's Disease

The damage is primarily in the mammillary bodies. We create the greatest memories from them. If you affect this system anywhere, you get a memory disease and they just have different names. For example, people with chronic alcohol develop Wernicke's Corsakov dementia - also known as Corsakov psychosis. You can get this from B vitamin deficiencies as well.

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