fossilesque to LongevityEnglish · 6 months agoAlzheimer’s Takes a Financial Toll Long Before Diagnosis, Study Findswww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down12cross-posted to: globalnews@lemmy.zip
arrow-up122arrow-down1external-linkAlzheimer’s Takes a Financial Toll Long Before Diagnosis, Study Findswww.nytimes.comfossilesque to LongevityEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square3fedilinkcross-posted to: globalnews@lemmy.zip
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·6 months agoI don’t know why people want to treat this as a binary thing… You don’t just wake up and it happened overnight, and it’s not some disease you can avoid through sheer luck. If you’re lucky enough to live into your 70s, this stuff will start happening. It’s an inevitability. There are things to do to mitigate it, but brains just didn’t evolve to keep working well decades after our bodies stop. It’s still going to happen
I don’t know why people want to treat this as a binary thing…
You don’t just wake up and it happened overnight, and it’s not some disease you can avoid through sheer luck.
If you’re lucky enough to live into your 70s, this stuff will start happening.
It’s an inevitability.
There are things to do to mitigate it, but brains just didn’t evolve to keep working well decades after our bodies stop. It’s still going to happen