Teenager in China becomes youngest person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease

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A teenager in China is the youngest person ever diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published on Dec. 31 by the doctors who diagnosed him.

A teenager in China is the youngest person ever diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's disease, according to aAlzheimer’s is a degenerative disease that affects thinking, memory and behaviour. The overwhelming majority of Alzheimer’s patients are over 65, making this case especially exceptional.

Gradually, the teen's memory worsened. The authors wrote he often lost his belongings, couldn't remember whether he had eaten, and struggled to describe content he had just read. He had no history of head injuries, psychiatric or psychological disorders or diseases related to memory decline, and doctors ruled out other common causes of cognitive impairment in young people, including inflammation, infection, intoxication, abnormal metabolism, trauma, and "congenital abnormalities."

His cerebrospinal fluid showed a buildup of abnormal tau and his MRI showed atrophy – the loss of nerve cells and the connections that help them communicate in the brain's tissues – in his hippocampus.

 

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They might want to check those amyloid plaques for spike protein.

I know someone personally who died of full blown Alzhemimer's at 43. Diagnosed at 31. It wasn't pretty.

So, if you're a teen, chances of getting it, or it killing you or hospitalizing you are about 1 in 1.4billion. What do you say Trudeau? Mask up, lock down, stick a bar code in your forehead and become a human pin cushion? cdnpoli

That’s serious

Early Onset Alzheimer’s. It’s not that uncommon. Just incredibly rare for those that age to have it.

The vaccine

Definitely not caused by the Covid vaccine

One of china's guinea pigs for vaccines no doubt about it

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