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The World, the Universe and Us — The Strange Case Of The Man Immune To Alzheimer’s
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The Strange Case Of The Man Immune To Alzheimer’s

The World, the Universe and Us

Episode 367 Some people are genetically destined to develop Alzheimer’s disease. But one man who carried the devastating mutation seems to have escaped it entirely - and scientists think it may be because of his job. Doug Whitney inherited the rare variant of a gene that should have caused early-onset Alzheimer’s in…

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