If you’ve ever gotten so lost in the details of a problem that you forgot a key piece to solving it, you’re not alone. Take Alzheimer’s disease. It’s a condition that affects millions worldwide, and scientists have been hard at work trying to find its root causes since the disease’s discovery at the turn of the twentieth century. But until recently, those efforts have been focused primarily on the brain (where the obvious symptoms of the disease occur), leaving out a potentially crucial factor that Dr. Alois Alzheimer himself called out when he discovered it.
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We’re leaving out a crucial part of Alzheimer’s disease
Alois Alzheimer noted an association between blood flow and the disease that bears his name in 1906. So what happened?
So how do we reexamine this widespread disease from a new lens? With the help of top Alzheimer’s researcher Dr. Michael Devous, we’re taking a step back to consider another vital part of the body– the bloodstream– and the unexpected ways that it could tie back to Alzheimer’s, opening us up to new causes, and hopefully, new ways to treat it.