{"id":1041715,"date":"2010-05-29T08:14:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T08:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/alzheimer%e2%80%99s-forestalling-the-darkness-with-new-approaches-preview\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T20:51:13","slug":"alzheimers-forestalling-the-darkness-with-new-approaches-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/alzheimers-forestalling-the-darkness-with-new-approaches-preview.php","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s: Forestalling the Darkness with New Approaches (preview)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his magical-realist masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude , Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez takes the reader to the mythical jungle village of Macondo, where, in one oft-recounted scene, residents suffer from a disease that causes them to lose all memory. The malady erases “the name and notion of things and finally the identity of people.” The symptoms persist until a traveling gypsy turns up with a drink “of a gentle color” that returns them to health.<\/p>

In a 21st-century parallel to the townspeople of Macondo, a few hundred residents from Medellín, Colombia, and nearby coffee-growing areas may get a chance to assist in the search for something akin to a real-life version of the gypsy’s concoction. Medellín and its environs are home to the world’s largest contingent of individuals with a hereditary form of Alzheimer’s disease. Members of 25 extended families, with 5,000 members, develop early-onset Alzheimer’s, usually before the age of 50, if they harbor an aberrant version of a particular gene.<\/p>

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