I take 10 vitamins and supplements a day in the desperate hope that they will slow my memory lapses due to old head injury.
Turmeric is supposed to help a lot. Plus the Vitamin Bs, but who knows?
would be nice for all that have it, AND the Soldiers with head injuries, not to have to fear this disease in old age.
The link between brain injury and Alzheimer’s/dementia hasn’t been studied enough to be conclusive, but it would make sense, as tau buildup in TBI patients has been documented.
You should look into nootropics.
They helped my wife with her head injury.
I also take many supplements. I have found Life Extension’s Cognitex with Brain Shield to be really helpful. Kinda pricey though.
Ginkgo is good for brain too.
And dont skimp on animal fats and good fats like butter and coconut oil.
Health fads and healthy diets seem to come in fad-waves.
First they expounded the values of low cholesterol foods, then they told us we need to consume tons of Calcium, then they shifted to Omega 3, then they shifted to antioxidants.
We were told to eat a Mediterranean diet, a Paleo diet a Blood type diet, so on and so forth. They told us to reduce caffeine intake, sugar intake, Sodium intake, so on and so forth. THERE IS NO CURE ALL.
One must eat less processed foods, more vegetables & fruits and LESS food.
The key is to reduce QUANTITY and eat more modestly...
Before my husband died of A in 2005 I had tried a number of vitamins, minerals, and herbs. We also used Aricept, and Respiradol when he became paranoid. I don’t know that it slowed down his A by much but it did maintain his general physical condition, so that he only developed incontinence 6 months before, a seizure 4 months before, and at 3 months I was making plans for a walker or wheel chair. He collapsed 3 weeks before he died, but I was able to bring him home from the hospital and rehabilitation nursing home for his last week. He had wanted to die at home. I had figured he would die quickly when he could no longer swallow his vitamins. Swallowing issues started 2 or 3 months before death.
In the last 3 years he could not find his way home, and could only remember for 15 seconds. He was an active man and kept trying to get me up to go to work every day. We were both retired. I had some land with a tin roof picnic shelter on some land in the country. I decided to close it in and make a cabin. He loved helping me do that. We had no electricity. I would measure and mark a board, like a 2 x 8 or 2x6, start a cut and then he would saw it through with the hand saw. I would also have him hold boards and start a big nail. Then he would finish hammering it in. People underestimate how much a person can do even with almost no memory if it is continuous movement and they are willing.
Overexposure to carbohydrates and glucose is suspected to be responsible for the deterioration of the myelin sheath protecting the nerves in the brain, which is suspected of being implicated in a variety of neurological disorders ranging from diabetes, dementia and Alzheimers’s Disease to Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy, and other neurological maladies. Changing the diet from a reliance upon glucose to a reliance upon ketones derived from fat for daily caloric and nutrient requirements has anecdotal and research suggesting these disorders can be mitigated or reversed to some extent. The use of coconut oil with nutritional ketosis is alleged to reverse some short term memory loss and dementia.
A friend of mine now claims that turmeric is helpful in cancer. I never know about these claims.
Take a few days off every now and then. It's hard to get the right balance of minerals with most supplements. People will end up accumulating too much iron, or copper or sometimes zinc. 3-4 days off can give your body time to readjust.
Tumeric is great for inflammation too. I use it for my bad back.
Tastes like dirt, but I can get 2 tablespoons down before I gag. My doc says it’s not possible to OD on it.
I helps go down if you make a thin paste out of it.
The key is not avoiding dementia because it will come if it comes.
The key is learning to cope with it.