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This is probably why methylene blue works so well to treat it.

See http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3181/00379727-161-405... and http://taurx.com/phase-3.html

Hmm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylene_blue#Alzheimer%27s :

A Phase 3 clinical trial of LMTM (TauRx0237 or LMT-X), a derivative of methylene blue, failed to show any benefit against cognitive or functional decline in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. Disease progression for both the drug and the placebo were practically identical.

That was news about the 2016 trial. It did significantly better as a monotherapy in the latest trial in 2017[1].

[1] https://content.iospress.com/download/journal-of-alzheimers-... (pdf)

Very interesting. I was able to find the patent, but not the whole paper. Seems to suffice as a substitute.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4181128

If you want the full paper just paste the DOI into a certain hub of science.

10.3181/00379727-161-40521

PS: sci-hub: https://sci-hub.tw/

they seem to be describing some protocol also involving light? I assume you can't just drink the stuff?

Methylene blue is an FDA approved drug, it is injected I understand.

I'm pretty confident my 'home chemistry set' included something by that name back in the late 80s. One of the experiments I remember is drinking some of it in order to render my pee blue.

have you acquired super powers, and or become an evil villain since?

Some people would probably claim the latter. The blue pee was temporary, and mildly disappointing from what I remember. But I'm assuming it's reasonably safe if it's included in chemistry sets...then again, mine also had mercury in it..

So the chemistry set encouraged consuming some of the chemicals and also contained mercury? How times have changed...

Thanks for your comment.

Some/Many HN commentators love what one could call the collective helplessness associated with authoritarian scientism and materialism - the idea that we are thrown into a ruthless and cold universe where life has emerged out of random and no easy solutions exist but instead only costly manipulation of small particles like genes and other molecules may safe us, but only in a distant future that we will probably never reach. Only persons of authority associated with the institutions in power may guide us to the holy land.

Due to that philosophy there are many comments discrediting possible solutions.

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