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Ancient Alzheimer's?

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

    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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      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.

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        AFAIK, they had no rheumatoid arthritis, either.

        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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

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

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            @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.

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

              Elbows up!

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