Ancient Alzheimer's?

[Jolly]

https://today.usc.edu/alzheimers-in-history-did-the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-experience-dementia/

[taiwan_girl]

Definitely could have something to do with lifestyle, but the problem (for me) with the report is that the amount of people living a long time back then was pretty small. Most people died "young".

And some/most of the really old people were probable just commoners. They may have gone crazy, but it just was not documented.

[Jolly]

AFAIK, they had no rheumatoid arthritis, either.

[Copper]

Wasn't it the lead water pipes that messed them up?

[taiwan_girl]

@Copper said in Ancient Alzheimer's?:

Wasn't it the lead water pipes that messed them up?

And I think a lot of plates and bowls and eating utensil had lead in them also.

[Renauda]

Lead and regular exposure to other toxic heavy metals. Mercury comes immediately to mind.