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The Inflammation Theory of Disease

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The Neuroinflammation of Alzheimer's Disease

We have a couple of things in the brain that function well until they don't. One is called amyloid beta proteins. When they become misfolded, then all of a sudden it becomes... We've talked about amyloid plaques and that's what they are. These plaques form and they're basically misfolded versions of ordinarily good amylid beta proteins. There's also something inside the neurons called tal proteins and these are also great. They do great work, big fan.

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