Seeking the Cause of Dementia: An Analysis of Correlation Leading to Hypotheses for Causation and the Grok-Ritchie Dementia Protocol

The US Health and Human Services Secretary, RFK Junior, said in testimony to the House Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee on 2026March14-15 in response to the heavily funded and fruitless amyloidal plaque focussed dementia research that: "We should have the cure for Alzheimer’s today. We don’t have it purely because of corruption at NIH. And we are going to have it quickly." So lets have a look at some of the evidence for the potential causes and potential cures for dementia and see if we can offer some alternative hypotheses and actually a protocol for the NIH funders.