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Green tea and resveratrol reduce Alzheimer's plaques in lab tests

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It's not even clear if the plaque is a cause, side effect, or even the body's attempt at fighting back.

This was discussed a few months ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32183302

GSK paid $720M for a resveratrol company back in 2008 and recently dumped all development due to weak efficacy and renal toxicity risks.

I'll pass.

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/weak-efficacy-renal-ri...

Please could you provide a source?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpxQoGk_ryg

and more on his channel

No. A youtube channel is not a legitimate source. It is a channel. For a source see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-03635-7

For me, the difference between youtube and nature.com is quiet low. Nature.com declares a "breaktrough" every other day.

Just an example, the wise way is to read scientific research and reviews showing both sides and form a grounded opinion.

The fact is that the owner of this particular chanel is MD and the channel format is host talking while citations from relevant scientific research papers are highlighted on screen. Better then Nature..

Trying to find occurrences of “mouse”/“mice” in Alzheimer’s articles as soon as they show up on HN frontpage is now a meme of mine.

PS: there is none this time, which is progress, I guess?

They're lab tests, which means they are just testing in a petri dish. These ones are easy to use human cells with-- but they tell you very little about the effect of a human taking it at a reasonable dose

Problem is, the biological model of Alzheimer’s isn’t panning out. They have drugs that reduce plaques but they don’t improve peoples conditions. Seems they need new models to try again. Billions have been thrown in this hole, but it’s such a huge market they’ll keep doing it if anything shows promise.

…or would could build better tools that enable us to monitor and examine the human body.

It's not panning out because of fraud. 20+ years of research down the drain.

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