McKnight's August 2, 2023
Alzheimer’s is a disease of data. The disease doesn’t have what we typically react to quickly: There is no pain, no blood, no pus, no rash, no dry mouth, nothing is visibly out of kilter.
Yet, Alzheimer’s disease generally starts its destruction 20 years before symptoms (most notably memory loss) are acknowledged. There can be more than 50 treatable causes to be dealt with simultaneously. More than half of the patients my company has worked with have more than a dozen of these treatable accelerants of brain degeneration — already active.
Remarkably, everything we need to know about dementia and its status is readily available through data: how to predict it, how to detect it, how to prevent...