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Alright, well we'll cut into this one here and before I do, a little background here too regarding Alzheimer's. A few things to consider with the research. A few different particles responsible or proteins responsible for it, or at least thought to be responsible for it. There's the tau protein, there's also ATP proteins, amyloid and precursor proteins, and from that there's amyloid B proteins and then the oligomer and then neurofibrillary cables. Now tau, the tau proteins, are found in axons. Axons are the, these are the parts of a nerve cell that sends the information out. So look for the long skinny arm that comes out from the neuron. Then there's dendrites. The dendrites take information in and pass it into the nerve cell. So they're complementary to one another. So tau, the production of tau, it seems to be starting the ball rolling, focuses around the amyloid B plaques and just before that you have ATP amyloid precursors which is what gives rise to the amyloid B. And these amyloid Bs, they're toxic if they're not cleared from the neurons and they cause inflammation and damage and then from this you get these tau proteins that break off inside the axon cell. The tau proteins are important because they help maintain the integrity of the axon and when that's not maintained the axon starts losing messages. They start leaking out once the tels start breaking off from them.