When people hear about the word Alzheimer's, it's pretty scary as it should be.

It's a devastating neurological disease.

And it's right up there, I think if you ask anybody with cancer, these are the two things

that no one wants to hear their loved one diagnosed with.

And for people out there watching, you may think if you're younger, well, this is, you know,

this is about older people. So I can tune out now, I'll catch the next segment.

Not really, unfortunately.

Here's one of the recent headlines.

More Americans are being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's.

How early?

It says here, in the past few years, there have been a 200% increase in the numbers of Americans diagnosed in their 50s, 40s,

and even in their 30s. And this is shocking. And one of the things that has happened just over this

past summer is there's this idea of what Alzheimer's is. The medical community tested a hypothesis,

did some studies, and they said, ah-ha, we found it.

We found what causes Alzheimer's, and now it's time to build the pharmaceutical drugs to defeat

this crippling disease, and we will win, just like we won against polio, just like we won against

all these other diseases. One problem, though, we have medical sleuths using new imaging

technology, went back to the papers, the founding papers of the Alzheimer's theory, the dominant

Alzheimer's theory of these amyloid beta plaques, these proteins, these misfolded proteins in the brains

of people with Alzheimer's,

they're saying that that is where the science pointed. They said, people have these,

and we need to get these misfolded proteins out of their brains, therefore curing Alzheimer's.

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