Search results for: starting with the hippocampus • People are getting it at a younger age (as early as their 20s) • There is a correlation between hyperinsulinemia and Alzheimer’s • Treating amyloid plaque hasn’t produced results • There is a risk factor involving APOE There is an alternative theory that Alzheimer’s is a lysosome storage problem. The lysosome is a part of the cell that helps clean up damaged proteins and recycles them into new building blocks. The theory is that this part of the cell is broken. The process of the lysosome cleaning up damaged protein and recycling it is called autophagy. The most potent trigger of autophagy is fasting

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