[extropy-chat] Alzheimer breakthru?

[Hara Ra]

This is all of interest since I am a user of HGH, which has some 
'youthifying' properties (and keeps my Type II Diabetes at stasis, no 
improvement, no worsening) and Chorionic Gonadatropin which brings a 
testosterone level of a 30 year old, but alas, no cure for the ED brought 
by the diabetes. Before I started using dopamine agonists, this created a 
serious amount of lust, which vanished with the dopamine. However, the 
dopamine has leveled the negative emotional rollercoaster I have had for 
the past 30 years and I am actually doing things. A tradeoff which I 
accept, though I miss the lust.

None of this so far is to me clear as to whether Gonadatropin helps or 
hinders Alzheimers.....

>Damien Broderick forwards:
> > http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,10922717,00.html
> > Alzheimer's breakthrough 'excites' scientists
>
>"Taken together, these results suggest the marked increases in
>serum LH following menopause/andropause as a physiologically relevant
>signal that could promote A-beta secretion and deposition in the aging
>brain. Suppression of the age related increase in serum gonadotropins
>using gonadotropin releasing hormone agonists/antagonists may represent
>a novel therapeutic strategy for AD [Alzheimer's Disease]."
>
>Hal

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