Study: Antidepressant may cut Alzheimer's protein

Abnormal proteins, like the prions that spread Mad cow disease and caused fatal CJD in humans eating the meat, appear to be the cause of most forms of dementia. Research done by private drug companies is aimed at profiting from the discovery of drugs they can patent which will treat symptoms of dementia. There is no profit to be made from researching how the abnormal proteins that use amyloid plaque to create copies of themselves and cause dementia are being transmitted from person to person. The abnormal proteins causing kuru in New Guinea were transmitted by eating the brain of someone who died of the disease in a funeral feast. BSE was transmitted to cows by eating feed containing the disease, and transmitted as CJD to humans who then ate the cows. Deer in North America transmit the disease through feces which contaminate the grass that other deer eat. So the most likely transmission route for dementia in humans is the practice of using human feces as fertilizer for food and fodder crops. In North America about half of all sewage sludge biosolids from cities are spread on agricultural lands as fertilizer, and prions are known to be in such sewage. However there is no political will to investigate or stop this route for transmission of dementia causing abnormal proteins because it is considered to be a cheap and easy way to dispose of sewage, and would disrupt the trucking and waste disposal industries that are profiting from it. The world needs universities to conduct research that is for the benefit of humanity and funded by governments for this purpose. The present allocation of all resources to corporate for profit and government partnerships is contributing to the death of millions of people who could be saved by meaningful research into preventive practices.

jim Great post , totally agreed ,, thanks .