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xIdXd

04/08/17 3:57 AM

#2983 RE: F1ash #2982

If PKCe levels allow Alkon to predict if someone will get Alzheimers with a 95%(!) accuracy rate, I'd say that's pretty much proof that he has found one of the earliest causes of the disease, which if normalized leads to a cognitive improvement that is consistent with what the compassionate use patients showed, i.e. reversal of the disease.

Combine that with the fact that phase 2 patients have asked to be included in further trials in order to keep receiving the drug, and suddenly you start to see a pattern.

As for arguments that Bryostatin causes seizures, I suggest you read about the more than a thousand cancer patients that experienced no side effects whatsoever except some muscle pain, which is easily treated with painkillers. Those trials were also performed with a much higher dose than what is used here.

Then there are arguments about the length of the trial, where I assume people have a suspicion that a longer trial would show side effects eventually. These people however seem to have looked over the fact that Alkon specifically mentioned treating one patient for 7 months before they were unable to continue (most likely due to death from age-related disease).

It wouldn't surprise me if the phase 2 trials show some adverse events, as some of the patients are so old that a mental recovery wouldn't stop their other organs from failing due to old age. What I do expect however is a reversal of cognitive decline in the patients that do manage to stay alive for the entire duration of the trials.
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runncoach

04/08/17 7:15 AM

#2984 RE: F1ash #2982

I realize first things are first as with the current trial results, but this possible test has incredible potential it would seem. Hopefully its development isn't too far on the back burner.