Posted on 10/23/2017 9:08:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Roughly 5 ¹/₂ million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, a disease that ravages sufferers’ memories and, ultimately, stops their bodies from performing basic functions. There’s no cure, and not much that patients and their caregivers can do to stop the progression — but according to Joseph Jebelli, a neuroscientist and author of “In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer’s” (Little, Brown; out Oct. 31), hope is on the way. He estimates that there will be a medication to prevent the disease within the next 10 to 20 years.
“[The idea is to push] the disease back, by developing a drug that we can give to someone years before they start experiencing symptoms,” Jebelli tells The Post. Researchers can use biomarkers — certain signs of the disease visible in spinal fluid and blood — to determine who may need early treatment.
“It will change the course of the disease, pushing it back to the point where not only do they not experience any symptoms, but they’re dying naturally,” Jebelli says.
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Looks great for tomorrow. Thanks for posting
They have been saying that for the last fifty years just like they ave been saying they would have an arthritis cure in that time.
And avoid margarine like the plague.
They should try phosphatidyl choline and huperzine A.
Curcumin is very interesting.
I am waiting to hear the answer to that also!
Nothing hopeful in the article.
I know Alzheimer’s is mostly due to environmental causes. I do not know what they are. I live with it daily and have for nine years, with dad and Mom. I do not have the “gene(s)” f9r it. Why did they both get it? They both had very active lives, built a dream home in their 70s, Dad worked all through retirement for fun, Mom read huge history books daily, they traveled, had a few homes. Mostly a healthy diet but both loved dessert. Neither exercised much but they’ve weren’t overweight. Sprayed a lot of roundup, didn’t eat organic, used a lot of plastic
, and toxins in the laundry. So what did it? Why’d they both end up like this?
The staying mentally active thing is BULL.
I mean, of course everyone should stay mentally active. But both my parents were off the charts mentally active and had very enriched lives. It didn’t help.
The sugar thing may be real. Both my parents had sweet tooths. Sweet teeth? My mom now 7 years down the Alzheimer’s trail is a sugar junkie that we have to watch every second.
I think it is beneficial to limit all processed carbs. Avoid breads and pastries and sugars of all kinds, and only one serving of fruit a day. If you do this for 5-6 Days a week, it might help prevent Alzheimer’s. Eat potatoes and sweet potatoes and stuff, just avoid the processed carbs.
Focused ultra-sound treatment for the brain.
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimer-s-treatment-fully-restores-memory-function
I wish we knew for sure.
It seems to be an epidemic for people 75-90 right now. No such thing as a genetic epidemic. What was it about this generation? It was the first plastics generation, lots of plastics heated around food. Could that have been it? Hot drinks in styrofoam, in plastic mugs? TV dinners, plastic in microwaves, plastic linings in canned food? Tupperware? Nonstick pans?
Pesticides would be another potential culprit. They don’t just destroy the neurosystems of insects.
As would laundry detergents, fabric starches and treatments, dry cleaning, softeners, dryer sheets, all neurotoxic and all entering the bloodstream and brain through the skin.
It’s so hard to know.
“He estimates that there will be a medication to prevent the disease within the next 10 to 20 years.”
So this dude is 40ish and he’s convinced that with another 20 years of research funding... He’ll have enough to retire on. I hope he doesn’t get Alzheimer’s.
There!
Right there. That's where I quit reading.
The moment they say they're looking for a chemical to solve this problem, I call BS, dead end and turn the page.
I guess it’s time for me to show the public where memories are actually stored. Ever since I died of meningitis and returned to my body, I feel people’s stored memories in their souls as physical objects.
By the way, a person’s memories of their life experiences go all the way back to conception. It’s easy to tell what a pregnant mother thought of the child’s father by testing the stored memories of the child who is now 70 years old.
A few years back it was found that coconut oil helped reverse and prevent Dementia/Alzheimers. Turns out coconut oil is an excellent source of MCTs. Butter also has some but not as much as coconut oil. Lard, the kind that needs refrigeration NOT the processed type stored at room temp, is also beneficial.
Alzheimer’s is caused by a physical malfunction of the hippocampus which acts as a directory locator to find the stored memory. The hippocampus functions in a linear aspect as the memories are stored in reverse sequence with early childhood memories being stored furthest from the physical body. This is why Alzheimer’s patients often remember childhood events as current events as the memory locator malfunctions.
The amygdala is the organ responsible for emotional memory retrieval. Unlike the hippocampus which works logical/linear, the amygdala functions emotional/circular. This is why Alzheimer’s patients often remember when they get angry or emotional.
The two aspects of consciousness both lock onto the same memory, however the hippocampus locks on to the space or location where the memory is located while the amygdala locks onto the actual memory in the location.
This is what creates the differences between logical linear thinking and the creativity of emotional thinkers.
For me this is simple as the consciousness is physical. I can often use this to ability demonstrate and remove learning disabilities in children.
The deficiency in dendritic spines on the pyradimal neurons in level three of the brain also directly relate to consciousness field strength and is the reason short term memory decreases with increased pot smoking. These also play a role in schizophrenia.
Current research disputes the earlier research relating to omega-3s.
Several scientists have tried to replicate the original studies unsuccessfully. I was surprised when this was presented earlier this year at a major medical conference on the neuroscience research on the brain.
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