Predicting Alzheimers & Dementia (and minimizing risk)

Given how ubiquitous and unavoidable these microplastic particles are, if they have seriously deleterious health effects, then we are facing a slow moving but massive world wide catastrophy. Present day old people may be the last relatively healthy generation for who knows how long. Anyone 40 and under is up the creek if this transpires to be a serious threat.

I guess it was inevitable, that as humans radically change the natural environment and introduce countless novel and untested molecules into the biosphere, that some of them will turn out to be mortal threats to life on this planet. Maybe cockroaches will survive, and if not, then microbes and viruses, lol.

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Protection from hot work?

Scientists told Whitney that the high levels of heat shock proteins in his brain might be the result of his life experience.

ā€œI spent 20 years in the Navy, most of it in the hot spots, like the engine rooms of shipsā€”110 degrees is nothing on a ship,ā€ he says.

That environment may have caused an increase in heat shock proteins, which were able to limit the spread of tau and prevent the onset of Alzheimerā€™s.

The scientists studying Whitney arenā€™t sure if thatā€™s all, or even part, of the explanation. But they are hoping that the paper on Whitney will encourage other researchers to look for answers.

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