
Cognoscopy: C-Reactive Protein
CRP (C-Reactive Protein) is a test to measure for systemic inflammation in the body. It is non-specific meaning that it doesn’t tell you where the inflammation is at or where it’s coming from. But it gives us a picture of how inflamed your body can be. This test is commonly done in many routine blood tests. Inflammation is one of the subtypes of Alzheimer’s Disease, in that if the body is inflamed, there’s reason to know that the brain is inflamed too. When the brain gets inf