Is Hope for Alzheimer’s and Rare Childhood Disease to Restore Lost Brain Molecule?

Children born with the rare, genetic disease—RCDP—usually die within a few years due to loss of a vital brain molecule, plasmalogen, also found low in those with Alzheimer’s disease. Could restoring plasmalogens revive health for both conditions? In 2007, Dr. Dayan Goodenowe discovered a single molecule much lower than normal i...