Alzheimer's Cure Memory And Cognitive Function Fully Restored Potentially In Sufferers By New Ultrasound Treatment Successful In 75% Of Diseased Mice

        25 March 2015, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA - Two researchers at the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland earlier this month reported in a study published in the Science Translational Medicine journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science that a non-invasive ultrasound treatment had fully restored the memory of 75% of mice without damaging surrounding brain tissue. The researchers found that the ultrasound treatment cleared their brains of neurotoxic amyloid plaques which are responsible for memory and cognitive function loss in those suffering from Alzheimer's.
       One of the researchers Jurgen Gotz in a press release referenced in Science Alert by BBC Crew on 18 March 2015 linked to second below said that in his opinion the term "breakthrough" was appropriate for the treatment which in addition to being non-invasive did not require the use of any drugs. Gotz however warned the study results are preliminary as the treatment next will be tested in higher animals such as sheep and if successful is hoped to be scheduled for human trials in 2017.
       The Ninth Amendment without having further researched the following nor claiming any medical knowledge whatsoever upon which to rely nevertheless in the meantime refers interested readers to its 27 September 2014 post linked to third below concerning a British Medical Journal (BMJ) study finding a possible link of benzodiazepines and Z-class sleeping drugs to Alzheimer's onset. One MD, Phd. commenter to the New York Times article reporting on the BMJ study referenced in the Ninth Amendment post in refutation to the study's proposition observed that "there is a fairly large scientific literature showing benzodiazepines reduce the deposition of amyloid as well protect from the toxicity of the abnormal protein" therefore protecting from Alzheimer's onset. The Ninth Amendment emphasizes that it has no medical knowledge whatsoever on which anyone should rely. Pertinent links to the full BMJ study as well as the New York Times article including the above and all comments can be found via the below Ninth Amendment link.
       According to the Alzheimer's Association there are more than 5 million Americans suffering from Alzheimer's which with the United States aging population has been called a "fast growing world-wide epidemic" by the National Institutes of Health. Readers interested in more information on the claimed "breakthrough" ultrasound treatment headlining this post will find more information via the first link below to the 24 March 2015 Huffington Post article reporting on it. Yes that is a lot of links to remember.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/24/alzheimers_n_6924974.html

http://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimer-s-treatment-fully-restores-memory-function

http://waronnothing.blogspot.com/2014/09/bmj-study-links-benzodiazepine-anxiety.html

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Active Aged 55-79 Women And Men Who Are "Serious Recreational" Per Below Bicycle Riders Found By The Journal Of Physiology Study To Have Physical And Cognitive Abilities Such That "They Did Not Show Their Age" Morever Based On Their Testing "Dataset" It Would Be "Impossible" For A Clinician To Predict Their Age Because "On Paper They All Look Young"

      Thursday, 8 January 2015, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - A new study  on the effects of aging published this week in The Journal of Physiology reached the surprising conclusion this week that active older people resemble much younger people physiologically. What they found is what we presently assume about the inevitability of physical decline with advancing years may be incorrect and "that how we age is, to a large degree, up to us".
       They found that more mature active adults in the 55-79 age range who exercised by bicycling as "serious recreational riders but not competitive athletes" rather than resembling people their own age on standard tests instead were more like people who were much younger physiologically.
       In order to qualify the men in six and a half hours had to be able to ride at least 62 miles (that is just less than ten miles per hour) while the women in five and a half hours had to be able to ride at least 37 miles (that is about seven miles per hour). These are indicators of what typically is found to be in older people a "high degree of fitness".
       As part of the study volunteers who were and were not at this "high degree of fitness" measured through cylcing went through a variety of physical and cognitive tests. This group of cyclists afterwords simply not only "did not show their age" but instead showed stable functioning from passing of decade to decade and which "was much closer to that of young adults than of people their age." Even the oldest among the cyclists "had younger people’s levels of balance, reflexes, metabolic health and memory ability".
       But even more encouraging was that it was their "Timed Up and Go" test results "that were exemplary". On average at least 7 seconds were needed by older people to accomplish this, and those needing 9 to 10 seconds considered "to be on the cusp of frailty". Incredibly among the cyclists even the oldest on average took just five seconds to get up and walk which remarkably is “'well within the norm reported for healthy young adults'”.
       In sum the senior author of the study who is the director of the Centre of Human and Aerospace Physiological Sciences at King’s College London Dr. Stephen Harridge concluded that “'[if] you gave this dataset to a clinician and asked him to predict the age'” based on one of the test cylcists' test results he said “'it would be impossible.'”  Gretchen Reynolds author of the New York Times "Well" Column linked to below concludes that "[o]n paper, they all look young". 
       Finally for the information of interested readers there has been another quite recent study unfortunately to which the Ninth Amendment cannot at this time provide either a direct link nor a citation that has reached a similar conclusion to that above as to "serious recreational" bicycle riders for mature adults who rather than walk instead merely jog at the slowest of paces even taking walking breaks as necessary whereby their physiological test scores put them on a par with that of the average college student. That certainly sounds encouraging to us.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/how-exercise-keeps-us-young/?contentCollection=Health&module=WelcomeBackModal&region=FixedCenter&action=click&src=recg&pgtype=article

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