I've known the author for over 25 years, since he became interested in the relationship between nutrition and education. This account of identical twins with only one developing Alzln'imc'r'fi disease is unusual because it is probably the only identical twin pair in the world where one of the members was given the benefit of orth.omolecu.lar treatment Identical twins are relativety rare, orthomolecu.lar therapy is unfortunately altogether too rare and when these two rare phenomena, are put together with this kind of therapeutic response one must sit up and take notice.

This is the first step in the long march to develop a preventive program, for Alzhieimers disease. It is in fact a very long step, for this kind of therapeutic study on people with the same genetic structure is much more valuable than running nany paired studies with unrelated people. It is not proof it does not establish that there is indeed a. relationship but it suggests that such a relationship may exist. It coincides with my own observation that elderly people who follow a similar program age less quickly and more gracefully S-ian those who do not follow such. a program. I really hope that investigators with access to similar patients will follow these important leads.

Several years ago two identical twin women, both over age 80, were referred to me for evaluation and treatment. They both had AIzheimers disease. I was surprised how similar they were in appearance. I had difficulty telling one from the other by their appearance. I started them both on a nutrition enriched program. One twin followed the program, the other did not. The one who did began slowly to improve. This was the situation until, they were both admitted to a local nursing home. The home refused to bring these patients to see me and I lost track of them.