It's all enough to make a person dizzy. But that's research. As I've said in these posts many times, we'll see this go on and on, but one day there will be a crucial breakthrough (or more than one). A breakthrough that sticks.

One day we may find that there is a combination of factors that cause Alzheimer's and it will take a combination of drugs to prevent or cure it. The only way we'll get there is to continue on with this sometimes infuriating rollercoaster ride of following studies, seeing what's new, what's promising, what may work. And then wait. And wait some more. Because they will all have to go through years of study.

Meanwhile, those with Alzheimer's disease setting up camp in their brains gain little comfort from all the hoopla. For them, all of this moot. But we must soldier on, as generations are lined up at the door waiting and wondering. Am I next? Will I get Alzheimer's? And if I do, will there be help for me?

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