"Alzheimer’s Disease appears to occur only in humans but not even in humans’ close relatives, such as chimpanzees (Finch and Stanford 2004)."

Would you feel the advantage of using Chimpanzees to test this hypothesis worth the unethical approach?

"One hypothesis for the development of Alzheimer’s Disease is that oligomers of beta amyloid are toxic to human neurons (Geula et al. 1998). A reasonable experimental approach to evaluating this idea would be to determine whether beta amyloid was less toxic to neurons from a range of nonhuman primates, particularly humans’ close relatives, like chimpanzees, that do not get the disease. However, for ethical reasons, isolated chimpanzee neurons are difficult to obtain."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140272/

Since apostles are of such an advanced age when they reach the First Presidency, they should call orangutans just to be safe.

It's also known as type 3 diabetes. It's the result of many years of heavy carbohydrate consumption.

madeguy Wrote:
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> It's also known as type 3 diabetes. It's the
> result of many years of heavy carbohydrate
> consumption.

Before I read your post, I had never heard of any potential diabetes/Alzheimer's connection before. You are correct about the possible connection.

Thank you.

You really don't want aluminum salts (Like PeptoBismol) accumulation in your brain from years of digestive aid use. The numerous products similar to baking powder and many diarrhea OTC medications carry the suspect additives. There may be other sources.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0946672X16303777

Interesting. Maybe domestication isn't the best thing for this species.

"How common is senility in dogs?
More common than you might imagine! Estimates vary from a whopping 60% of dogs over 8 years old showing signs, to a more modest 14% (which is still a huge number of dogs if you think about it!)."

Elder Berry Wrote:
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> Interesting. Maybe domestication isn't the best
> thing for this species.
>
> "How common is senility in dogs?
> More common than you might imagine! Estimates
> vary from a whopping 60% of dogs over 8 years old
> showing signs, to a more modest 14% (which is
> still a huge number of dogs if you think about
> it!)."

None of these animals, or people, are supposed to survive this long.

A wolf will live under ten years in the wild, and a domestic dog maybe twice that at a stretch.

Domestic cats can live fifteen years (thirty in one possible instance), but in the wild, they are lucky if they survive three years.

Regular human lifespans probably didn't extend beyond forty in the Stone Age. Same problem, different causes.

I think we are longer lived than chimps and for their males an older male is 35.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/humans-male-chimps-mellow-age#:~:text=Combing%20through%2021%20years%20of,they%20report%20today%20in%20Science%20.

I believe way back when they set the retirement age at 65 for us because that was when the mortality doubling rate sky rockets.

If the lion eats you before you get old enough to lose your marbles, it might be hard to tell if you were going to lose your marbles.

Chimps don't get it in captivity. It might not be that simple.