For activity today @crypt-skip and I walked this morning before it got really hot. I stopped at Lincoln Park in front of the fountain to do my #seven77 pushup video. At least it sounded a little cooler there with the water cascading down the fountain. You can see the video on Twitter here.
This afternoon I drove to St. Louis to participate as a volunteer in a research study for Washington University. The study, named SEABIRD, was to validate their research for a new blood test that will be used to identify a substance in the blood called Amyloid that can indicate a precursor to dementia (Alzheimer disease). This will be a valuable diagnostic tool because the only two ways in use now to find Amyloid before the actual onset of the disease is an MRI (very expensive) or a lumbar spinal tap. Neither are optimal for diagnostic purposes. This test under research will be a simple blood test. It should be a very useful tool. My participation today involved them drawing my blood and I was given the oral test that is administered to potential dementia patients. It involved reading, following oral instructions, making some drawings, and some memory work. It also involved about an hour of having the study and all my rights explained and signing a ton of paperwork, lol. Gotta love all the red tape.
Alzheimer's is a very debilitating disease and I hope that this blood test is validated and becomes available in the near future.
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