New Alzheimer's Drug And Jack's Easter Egg Hunt

There is a new Alzheimer's drug that can really be effective with early detection. But how do you detect it? How can you tell simply aging from Alzheimer's?  Jack has been forgetful lately. He is planning his own Easter egg hunt for himself next year. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So yet another Alzheimer's drug is showing great progress in
a new study and is h And it's one of
your late stage clinical trials where they've gone through a
whole bunch of different other stuff. And this is down
to the does this early work or not? There may
soon be another option. This from NBC News. There may

(00:21):
soon be another option for Alzheimer's drugs capable of slowing
the progression of the devastating disease. An experimental drug from
Eli Lilly helped slow cognitive decline in patients in the
early stages of the illness. According to the results of
this late stage clinical trial, some of the side effects
were serious in some cases, including brain swelling and brain bleeds.

(00:43):
Nobody wants dr Does both sound bad? Yeah, But the
results come on the heels of the Food and Drug
Administration's approval of another drug from a Japanese drug maker,
which slows the progression of the disease. Also, and I
was listening to some scientists, I think it was on

(01:03):
NPR talk about this is going to be the decade
of Alzheimer's in terms of breakthroughs and science. We're we're
just like this close to like really making an impact
on this I hope. So I hope it goes the
way of smallpox and mumps and a bunch of other
things that plagued humanity and then we came up with
a way to deal with it.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, it's hard to picture more cruel desires.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh my gosh. The key though, and this got my attention,
The key to both of these drugs so far is
catching it early. If you get in there early, you
can really make a difference. If you don't get in
there early, it's hard to make a difference. The problem
is anybody's over the age of fifty regularly walks into

(01:46):
a room and can't remember why they went in there,
and and wonders, at what point is this not just
normal aging? And at what point you know, should I
be taking Alzheimer's drug? And I don't know that that
is that well nailed down.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, or that well known among everybody. Everybody ought to
know how you figure that out? Right, m h Since
we're all dealing with aging.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Like I got this habit lately. This is a regular thing.
It's happened like three times in the last couple of
weeks where I put something in a special place to
make sure that I'll remember where it is or hide
it properly. Like we went on vacation. I had a
house sitter and everything like that, but I had an
envelope with a little bit of cash in it. I
got to put this in a special place. I have

(02:31):
no idea where I put it. I mean in like
zero memory, not not even like a hint of an
idea where I put it. And I've done this with
a couple of different things lately.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
But you remember that you did it.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
No, I remember. I remember where it used to be
and it's no longer there. And I have a little
bit of a memory of thinking I should put it
somewhere else, but nothing beyond that. Well, And I've got
a couple of those examples.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Is that.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Just normal aging or a guy who doesn't get enough sleep?
Or should I be on the Alzheimer's drugs? And that's
the question that all of us are going to have,
well sleep deprivation. I mean that's a huge candidate. Yeah, yeah,
like not an inkling. I had another one of those,
like I don't remember what it was, a key to
something I put somewhere. It's like, who knows, I just

(03:21):
give up. I don't even try I literally could hide
my own Easter eggs. I mean not even a joke.
I could hide them and then get up the next
day and not know where they are, and to have
all the enjoyment of trying to find them for their
delicious chocolates. I might do that this coming Easter.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Wow, well, that's just kind of an oddly ironic yet
terrifying self something or other.