Lilly Study Could Sink Prospects for Alzheimer’s Treatments














Be more serious next time. Like diabetes and cancer, the best medicine is prevention, beginning as early in life as possible. Exercise, continuous education, good diet, moderation in all vices, good social activity, control of high blood pressure: all of these are good in extending useful life, whether in the body, or the mind.

There may not be a "magic bullet" folks. In fact, senility was not recognized as a "disorder" until just recently. There are vascular components, there are dietary components, and certainly some genetic component.

But you my friends are in business to sell disease treatments. There lies the rub.

--M.D.