Imagine one day not being able to remember the names and faces or your loved ones or maybe the location of your own home. To some this may seem unfeasible, however to a person with Alzheimer's disease this is a crude but unavoidable fate. The slow death to which Alzheimer's has come to be known affects mostly people past the age of sixty. Sometimes in some what rarer cases Alzheimer's affect people in there thirty's. There is know known cure for Alzheimer's, but with the right knowledge an Alzheimer's patient can effectively fight the disease.
To begin fixing a problem you must first know what the problem is. For this reason it is important to know what Alzheimer's is. Alzheimer's is a form of dementia (a brain disorder) that affects a person's ability to control thought, memory, and language. There are chemicals in the brain that carry messages back and forth to the nerve cells and the nerve cells control our memory. During the process of AD (Alzheimer's disease) these messages are disrupted thus impairing thought and memory. Now that there is an idea of what Alzheimer's is the next thing to know is what causes AD.
There is know single cause of AD, but there are two major factors involved in a person having the disease. These two major factors are age and genetics. There are two kinds of AD the first is early-onset in which people between the ages of thirty and sixty get the disease. In the cases of early-onset AD the factor of genetics plays a key role suggesting that the disease was inherited. The second kind of AD is late-onset in which people sixty and above get the disease. Age is the factor associated with late-onset AD suggesting the person got the disease the most common way and that is aging. However there is one gene identified so far for late-onset AD and that gene is apolipoprotein. Everyone has the gene apolipoprotein it is the gene that helps carry cholesterol in the blood.
