[ExI] Alzheimer's and pot

[spike]

From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Anders Sandberg
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>…There probably has to be some sex therapy too…

 

I don’t see why not.  I have a pile of new insights from the experience, which I may roll out in a few weeks.  It is a bit of a downer topic, so I may delay it and ponder some of the ideas a bit longer. 

 

 

>…In my own family, the patient passed away last week. 

 

>…I am so sorry to hear that. :-(  Anders Sandberg…

 

 

My former college roommate was visiting yesterday, said his 80 yr old father is showing early signs of AD.  His father, being a doctor, specifically a gerontologist, he already knows what it is and how the disease will progress.  I started thinking again about that notion I had about bexarotene and how an alcohol solution could perhaps get it across the blood brain barrier.  To experiment with such a thing, what we need is an informed patient (that was a the show stopper in the family case, we didn’t have that by the time I came up with the idea.)  If we have an early AD chemistry-hip doctor and explain the scheme, I would feel perfectly well in the green on the ethics meter.  The patient being a doctor might take out the risk of legal difficulties with regard to practicing medicine without a license.

 

I have many things to ponder.

 

spike

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