Is AMN degenerative disease?

[JasonHarnum]

By definition, it fits. However I don’t recall any scientists and researchers defining AMN in as a degenerative disease. Anybody have any thoughts on that? Yes, you too monkeybus

[AussieBob]

It is a neurodegenerative disorder

[monkeybus]

I'd say so. All that myelin, all those axons, all the organs attacked by the VLCFA into the bargain.

It's downhill all the way, baby.

I still think it can be slowed with antioxidants and upregulating ABCD2. I took Valproic Acid a year or so back. Seeing my neurologist in April, I'm going to get some more and take it for a year. All scientific-style.

[JasonHarnum in reply to monkeybus]

can always count on you for a positive spin on it

[csak]

Neurodegenerative Diseases by Beart et al:

ALD and AMN are listed in this work as a neurodegenerative disease.

books.google.at/books?id=je...

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I do think AMN can be a progressive, neurological disorder for some in how it affects their lives. I hope that not all are affected by it in a way that their health steadily deteriorates and maybe some only progress very, very slowly. Strictly speaking it is probably neurodegenerative, even if it just progresses in infinitesimally slow steps:

Maybe in some patients the VLCFA‘s (and other stuff?) are not so high throughout their lives and so they can maintain a somewhat or even (?) normal life (even if there is a machine that could detect very small damages); I don’t know, if that is possible, I just hope.

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[julie_]

It is degenerative but it does vary from person to person.