Our closest relatives ( other great primates) I don't get Alzheimer's, like a bunch of other specifically human diseases don't (mental illnesses, autism, autoimmune diseases), and others they do much less often than we do (cancer, type II diabetes). I do NOT have AIDS either, all attempts to make the chimpanzee sick, starting with the 80s, they failed. Why? Sure, it could just be a coincidence, some modified enzymes, some modified receivers and the result is different. The chimpanzee has other infectious diseases, for example, another species causes malaria in chimpanzees than in humans. However, regarding the above diseases, things could be less random. It would be the sensitivity to these diseases linked to something essential in humanization? In this case, I will not give any more details. The answer lies in "The civilization of hunger„. There are also predictions, some expressed, others that can be deduced from the data presented. Predictions are not only about the future, said a philosopher, Mary Williams. Indeed, predictions are not only about the future, they can even be about the past, about the present and about many other phenomena, consequences of a theory, regardless of the time they spend.
Here are some predictions of the "Civilization of Hunger" theory:
Leptin, a hormone secreted by adipose tissue, appears to be linked to the risk of Alzheimer's. A higher level seems protective, but not very high, actually generated by a highly developed adipose tissue (high obesity means a lot of leptin), not. The authors of the study say that in fact a kind of resistance to leptin appears in obesity, that is, the tissues no longer respond to this hormone, as happens in the case of insulin resistance, when insulin-sensitive tissues no longer respond. It could also be this, but maybe leptin is not the protective factor, but something else? That is, people who are not very thin, but neither obese, those are the most resistant to Alzheimer's? Something to do with fat distribution? It is to be studied. That's enough...I won't say anything more. However, I do not exclude the direct influence of some hormones either, not only leptin. But the determining factor would be another...
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Fat+hormone+and+Alzheimer's&form=msnhpm
This second item is sweet. Pare horror, sure, but it rarely happens that you see that some predictions have come true so clearly and simply.
http://www.9am.ro/stiri-revista-presei/Incredibil/145139/Holocaustul-posibila-cauza-a-cancerului.html
In "Civilization" even a phrase that shows in which populations the incidence of this disease will increase. Unfortunately, I found out after I finished it, that reality exceeds predictions, most of them not very pleasant, of the theory expressed in the book. And it's not just about diseases, but also other things related to human nature. Regarding this, everything is extremely simple. It's just a generalization of a phenomenon already described by others on certain populations. It was logical to go to the Jews, but also on other populations. The same must be true for the descendants of Ukrainians starved by Stalin, like many people from the third world. The experiments on people made by the Nazis (but also by their friends, communists) it is not limited unfortunately, to those of Mengele... It's the bizarre way in which some politicians help science, but honestly I would have missed such help.
The idea would be that if you were once extremely poor, so poor that food intake was a big problem, especially in the prepubertal period, it's good to never overdo it, and do a lot of sports. Too bad he can't help it...
Solutions? Sure, would be, but how do you get research money? Let's hope that they will find each other... The evil that a killer like Jack the Ripper does is nothing compared to what the lack of responsibility of some people can do, either politicians, be something else. But human laws are not made with long strokes, they do not take into account many steps of thought, distant implications…
