The cause and the cure...
(Now, if he could just remember where he put the glass...)
Posted on 02/21/2016 5:33:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I’ve read the theory on it being another type of inflammation, related to heart disease and diabetes.
They have been saying that about Diabetes for the last 45 years.
How long will it take for the medical profession to find a no-fail cure for neuropathy? That would be a Nobel Prize candidacy.
(Now, if he could just remember where he put the glass...)
In the mean time we can do a few things that might help:
Mind Diet that appears to lower the risk of Alzheimers:
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/13639/20150323/mind-diet-may-protect-against-alzheimers.htm
Walking a mile or so several times a week.
Walking Can Lower Your Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
www.ingalls.org/Alzheimers-Walking.aspx
Walking Can Lower Your Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease For years, we’ve been told there’s little we can do to prevent Alzheimer’s Disease, but new research shows we can.
Brain exercises can reduce dementia and Alzheimer’s.
http://www.alzheimersprevention.org/4-pillars-of-prevention/exercise-and-brain-aerobics
Daily low dose of aspirin for better mental health.
An aspirin a day could help stop dementia say scientists ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2516010
An aspirin a day could help stop dementia say scientists as ... to suggest aspirin may prevent ... benefits of a low dose of aspirin outweigh ...
Low to moderate alcohol consumption. Like good Californa red or white wines or a microbrew.
Remain Socially Active | Alzheimer’s Association
www.alz.org › We Can Help › Brain Health
Remain Socially Active | Alzheimer ... Research shows that people who are regularly engaged in social interaction ...
Exactly. I heard this 5-10 years ago and it’s almost too late for my dad.
Guess I’ll get it when I get my flying car.
No. That has been ruled out. We don’t have more alzheimers because people are living longer. It’s a myth. My grandparents all lived into their late 80s or 90s. My parents have Alzheimer’s, both of them, and had it by age 80.
We aren’t living that much longer in the last 20 years but there are so many more cases of Alzheimer’s. That is not the sole reason there is more neurodegeneration. There is far more when you add in all the ALS and Parkinson’s and other chronic neurodegenerative diseases in late life.
There is something in our environment, something we are doing, that is causing it. I personally suspect plastics, as the 80-90 year olds today were the first who dealt with a lot of plastics in their food and skin. But I don’t know; it could be something else.
You lost me at “famed irish scientist.”
Well, both my parents have it. Four years ago, when my dad for sure had it, but people were still saying m was just “over stressed” caring for dad, I had one of those healthy check ups where they do tons of blood tests. When I was sitting in the doctor’s office and the doc was going over the test results, she said “Well, you don’t have the Alzheimer’s gene.” I didn’t even know they tested me for it. Both my parents have it, but I just don’t believe the huge amount of it today is from a genetic connection - it can’t be.
And when both sides of a couple have it, it really makes me think about their long lives together, maybe exposed at the same time to the same things. Plastic cookware, nonstick, Tupperware, plastic in microwaves, the same foods, lotions or other products, laundry products that enter the bloodstream, whatever.
A quick test, which ‘they say’ is pretty accurate indicator for Alzheimer’s is to have the person draw a clock- dial clock- round- people with Alzheimer’s draw the numbers weird- often in a straight line, or going outside the clock or in wrong order
Also have them put a specific time in when they draw the clock- people with Alzheimer’s or early Alzheimer’s can’t do it correctly-
Make sure they can’t see a clock when they draw theirs though- (check for watch too)
The idea is to have them draw it from memory
This is a pretty standard early indicator test-
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