Blood test holds promise for predicting when Alzheimer’s symptoms will start

Blood test holds promise for predicting when Alzheimer’s symptoms will start.

Blood test holds promise for predicting when Alzheimer’s symptoms will start

A blood test holds promise for predicting when Alzheimer's symptoms will begin by determining whether there is a 'lesion' present. We'll be monitoring the situation and bringing you details throughout the day. A new study could solve' A new blood test could determine a patient's.

How to Understand Alzheimer's Blood Test Results

How to understand the results of an Alzheimer's blood test, Careblazer. You absolutely blew me away. If I had thought about how you would answer, I would have been completely lost.

I posted a video a few weeks ago about a blood test that's going to be available very soon to find out if you're at risk for Alzheimer's disease.

Because blood tests can detect things like amyloid plaques and tau proteins, we can see that these are two proteins that are marked.

Alzheimer's disease could be present. So I made this whole video, and I asked, would you want it if it were available, if this blood test became widely available to anyone who wanted it?

I wouldn't have guessed it. So what I want to do in today's video is I want to get you thinking about what to think about before you go through any kind of test like this.

Consult Health Care Providers

This video is not about whether you should do this or not, but I thought it might be helpful to review some of the risks and do a test like this, and the last risk is the most important risk that I think is important when it comes to our daily experience, knowing whether we have this increased risk or not. I would want to start making the changes needed to help.

Start Doing Healthy Things Now

Well, it's very interesting because we definitely know the changes that will help us if we have dementia, and we want to live a better quality of life.

Or if we are at risk of dementia and we don't want to get it, we know what to do. I recently made a video on these five factors that we can all engage in to reduce our risk of dementia.

Even if you have plaque and protein in your brain, there are TAUL links in your brain. Below is the description. You can download it, watch it.

We all know this. So if we already know what we need to do to reduce our risk, whether you have cognitive impairment or not,

Then we can do it now. We don't have to wait to be told. We have these things. We can start doing healthy things right now.

That was really interesting to me. So it was a consideration that whatever you think you would stop doing to be healthy, if you stopped doing those two things, you would be healthy.

I really want to get my finances in order, or legal papers, things like that.

Finances and Legal Affairs

Why wouldn't we do that now? Genuine question. I'd love your feedback and comments on this video that you're thinking, in terms of, well,

Why would we need to know what's going on to plan our lives and plan for the future with advance directives and powers of attorney?

That we leave behind, we can start doing those things now, regardless of our genetic risk. That was number two. A third consideration would be to think before we get a genetic test before we get it.

Why is fasting important for health? Does it control sugar?

that there would be insurance issues. So that's one reason I think this blood test isn't as widely available right now, is if insurance companies catch on and know that you're at risk, they know that the risk of genetic testing is going to be increased for you?

Insurance Risks

Will they take away your coverage? Will it prevent you from getting other types of insurance, like long-term care insurance? So there are some issues there that worry me.

The other thing I would worry about is whether people like us could get this test. Let's say you get it now, many of us would still be in the working field.

If your employer had access or somehow found out that you were considered at risk for this job, you would be at risk.

Being considered for promotions, for certain projects? Would you now be more likely to pass than other people? Ideally, they would never find out.

Work

However, it is something that I would definitely consider. Another issue would be just how other people treat you.

If they now find out that it is true, even if you have dementia, sometimes it is really a personal decision, or if you want to share the diagnosis with others.

Because sometimes people start treating you differently, they start to back off. There is a lot of confusion here, and they don't know what they are doing.

To do or to say. So that is another concern. So the sixth and final thing that concerns me in terms of people wanting to know if they have this genetic risk or not is really more about the emotional impact and something called the nocebo effect.