Posted on 07/24/2015 10:37:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The researchers must suspect that Alzheimer's is related to thiamine deficiency.
Point well made; other therapies that might make sense in non-Alzheimer’s cases of dementia would be better targeted this way.
Also in the continuing slow research on Alzheimer’s disease, experimental or serendipitous treatments (as for other disease conditions) that continued to show some positive sign in the Alzheimer’s cases could be more solidly attributed to their effect on Alzheimer’s rather than on something else. In the case of fighting many diseases, often many small doors are opened rather than (or before) one large door.
Something that made significant inroads on Alzheimer’s would not be able to go ignored indefinitely. In the meantime neurofibrillary tangles are a problem. It’s like getting cat pee on your computer’s motherboard.
Is there a remedy for neurofibrillary plaques?
If so I never heard of it yet. It was the source of the aluminum scare of recent memory because the plaques incorporated aluminum, which is a significant component of many modern foods. But studies have shown that “normal” dietary variations in aluminum don’t seem to have an impact on the occurrence of Alzheimer’s cases. Whether a strict no-aluminum diet would impede it? In theory it might; it would need to be very strict since whatever forms them seems to grab whatever aluminum it can, and aluminum is a very common element on earth.
It wasn’t difficult to diagnose, at least in my dad. None of the medicines helped. He progressed like a textbook case. The VA hospital treated him well. He died without pain and with loved ones.
The only surprises were his conversion, and that he came to enjoy TV, which he didn’t before.
Until medical care catches up, I will rely on eating brain food (fish and seafood, krill oil), getting enough sleep, drinking caffeine (it has been shown to help), and watching my blood sugar and weight.
There will eventually be a cure, possibly within my lifetime. I hope to see it. Until then, or at least till the day that there is decent treatment, the tests will cause more pain than they can prevent.
No remedy that I have read about. Once they start, it seems like the writing is on the wall.
But, avoiding them with caffeine intake (about five cups of coffee a day), exercise, good food choices, low blood sugar, etc. is something we can do now.
I have the Stanford folding program on my laptop. See:https://folding.stanford.edu/
This, IMO, is an area where gobment spending not only is justified, but is likely to produce far more economic gain than the initial cost.
Giving a person a warning so that they can put their affairs in order and make their wishes known to their families seems like a no brainier (excuse the pun).
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I’d much rather see tax payer dollars spent on THIS research than on AIDS. ALZ happens to unwilling victims. ...AIDS happens to people who know the risks but still willingly participate in actions that bring it about.
I can see surreptitious testing now of dates and prospective partners for the 55+ crowd.
Interesting, I didn’t know that.
That would only work for a while. As I am daily exposed to both, alz isn’t like autism where a routine would keep them going. Alz is a destruction of the functioning of the brain. At some point they would not be able to remember the sequence, follow along, or understand the passing of time.
Also, and this is EXTREMELY SAD but this is the truth: they lose their taught religion. My mom was devout. She read scriptures daily for at least an hour, read religious books and pamphlets. Everything she talked about, she’d relate to In a religious way. She was very religious and very spiritual. It’s all GONE. She can’t really pray any more or even understand about it, though she says she still does. She hasn’t picked up her bible in two years but she thinks she has, maybe daily.
Gd doesn’t care. He takes care of the helpless, whether they are 8 months or 80 years. But know that a regimented life as those nuns lived can’t prevent or cover for Alzheimers except for the early stages.
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