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What they don't tell you:
The theory is sound, but in practice, if it works, you're trading alzheimers for terminal cancer.
Edit: This has been discussed in other places. The chemical used for the treatment is very carcinogenic, and while this experiment seems to work on mouse brains, almost every time a "reverse alzheimers" med gets to this stage it fails completely in the human trial.
Jokes on them. My mom has both. Yeah.it fucking sucks.