Eat This Kind of Meat and You Could End Up With Alzheimer's

Prions are detected in 25% to 50% of all Alzheimer's patients. People are 10 times more likely to be cognitively impaired at death than those without them.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• For a number of years now, researchers have theorized and found evidence suggesting Alzheimer’s disease may in fact be a type of prion-based disease, capable of being contracted via prion-contaminated meat and transmitted via certain invasive medical procedures

• Research published in 2011 found a prion-like protein called TDP-43 in 25% to…