Anavex Life Sciences Corp (AVXL)

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A Billion Customers?

I was just thinking... I'm 57 years old, and I've been hearing all my life about how people become more forgetful as they get older. There's a medical distinction between serious memory problems that are due to some form of dementia or pre-dementia like MCI, and milder memory problems just due to normal aging. In fact, part of the diagnostic assessment for dementia and MCI is that the memory problems are worse than the memory problems just from aging.

So most people develop mild memory problems as they age. But why? There must be a biological process going on... something's got to be changing. Here's my new hypothesis: Everyone has some protein misfolding in their brain cells that gets worse over time, but people who develop MCI and dementia have substantially (MCI) or dramatically (AD) more of it than "normally" forgetful elderly.

If my hypothesis is correct, and if A2-73 helps prevent misfolded proteins, helps correct those already misfolded, and has no significant side-effects, then regular low doses of A2-73 could become common for everyone after some age, at least in developed nations.

AD patients are in the tens of millions of people. Aging people with memory problems are in the hundreds of millions.


(Sorry if I am slow to respond here. I find I-Hub's interface very confusing, so I hang out mostly on the Yahoo board, where I cross-posted this).