A group of friends from around the world have gathered because they all have something in common. They all want to have fun. They all want to exercise. And they all want to eat healthy. Those reasons are great. But they are not why these people have banded together. The have banded together because they all carry the APoE4 gene. That gene increases their risk of getting the brain-destroying disease known as Alzheimer’s. We all found out that we carry one or two copies of the APoE4 gene. Which is it puts us at higher risk for Alzheimer's. Susan, who gives only her first name, says her father died from Alzheimer's. As the disease progressed in his brain, doctors had little to offer except a memory-boosting drug called Aricept. She adds that doctors had a fatalistic attitude, meaning they acted as if they could do nothing to reverse the damage from Alzheimer’s.
Title: Health Hackers: Alzheimer’s Patients Help Themselves
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1388/alzheimer_patients.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Health Hackers: Alzheimers Patients Help Themselves' data-article-id='1880'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='6708'>A group of friends from around the world have gathered because they all have something in common.</span> <span data-start-time='6708' data-end-time='9271'>They all want to have fun.</span> <span data-start-time='9271' data-end-time='12229'>They all want to exercise.</span> <span data-start-time='12229' data-end-time='15646'>And they all want to eat healthy.</span> <span data-start-time='15646' data-end-time='17833'>Those reasons are great.</span> <span data-start-time='17833' data-end-time='22292'>But they are not why these people have banded together.</span> <span data-start-time='22292' data-end-time='29396'>The have banded together because they all carry the APoE4 gene.</span> <span data-start-time='29396' data-end-time='37604'>That gene increases their risk of getting the brain-destroying disease known as Alzheimer’s.</span> <span data-start-time='37604' data-end-time='44146'>We all found out that we carry one or two copies of the APoE4 gene.</span> <span data-start-time='44146' data-end-time='47813'>Which is it puts us at higher risk for Alzheimer's.</span> <span data-start-time='47813' data-end-time='54750'>Susan, who gives only her first name, says her father died from Alzheimer's.</span> <span data-start-time='54750' data-end-time='65104'>As the disease progressed in his brain, doctors had little to offer except a memory-boosting drug called Aricept.</span> <span data-start-time='65104' data-end-time='77229'>She adds that doctors had a fatalistic attitude, meaning they acted as if they could do nothing to reverse the damage from Alzheimer’s.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1388/alzheimer_patients.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' 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