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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Very skeptical of that one.
    They’ve been trying to target amyloid for more than a decade, and it’s the first time I hear of it actually working.

    The treatment seem to have huge side effects (brain bleeding and swelling) and lead to patient death during the study.
    Elly Lilly is also know for marketing zyprexa as a treatment for dementia (despite inefficacy and increased risk of death). Which is IMO criminal, at best unethical. I’m not inclined to trust them at all.

    I hope I’m wrong and it works. Alzheimer is a terrible way to go.




  • I don’t know much honestly, I know of them because of some friends living in Peru.

    You can look up Uru (or Uro) people.
    Basically it was their take on the castle and moat.
    The islands are made of some sort of cane, and have to be maintained regularly, it’s very labor intensive.

    It’s one of the many cultures there that are at a crossroads, since they have to choose a way between their traditional lifestyle and the comfort of modernity. Knowing that tourism can bring them an order of magnitude more money that what they can make locally, at the risk of becoming actors, maybe.