“cognitive deterioration due to decreased auditory and visual input, social disengagement and loneliness due to problems communicating, and age-related degeneration of the central nervous system.”
I’ve witnessed this twice in my family. Fortunately, both people (grandma who went blind and uncle who went blind and nearly deaf) were in their early and mid 90s before this set in. My mom got dementia in her early 80s.
It’s a lousy way to go, locked up in your thoughts every day with no social interaction.
We learned yesterday that a 71 year old friend just learned this week she has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. She started feeling a bit unwell a few weeks ago and now this death-sentence diagnosis.
I’m not sure which is worse...slow cognitive decline due to vision and hearing loss or the sudden and painful death of pancreatic cancer. It’s so much better to go peacefully in your sleep.
All of our smoke alarms went off this morning at 4:45 am. I thought that instantaneous shock and fright was going to kill me, but I pulled through.
I am sorry to hear about your friend.
My wife discovered her pancreatic cancer about three years ago this time of year.
It is a horrible disease. And the treatment is worse.
But it has become more treatable, depending on where its spread and where the primary tumors are in the pancreas.
We have been fortunate in that my wife has responded well. But the 5 year SEER is still pretty poor.
You and your friend will be in my prayers.
Nicotinamide Riboside (at around 450 mg/day (three capsules pf the prior formula and appears to be the same three capsules with the bigger molecule version Thorne now uses, but check if using that brand)) I believe was used for the results listed in the study writeup:
When the scientists supplemented the diet in genetically modified mice with nicotinamide riboside, a derivative of vitamin B3 that increases intracellular levels of NAD+, they did not observe tumour development. Surprisingly, when they gave this diet to mice that had already developed the disease, the size of the tumours was reduced and they eventually disappeared.
The results have been reproduced in other types of cancer such as pancreatic cancer. “We observed the same results in mice with pancreatic adenocarcinoma with regards to DNA damage, so we could conclude that this treatment is effective on tumours caused by oncogene-induced DNA damage and thus, deficit in NAD+,” says Krishna Tummala, first author of the study.
In addition to working with the mouse model, the authors have collated the results of nearly a hundred human samples.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-team-derivative-vitamin-b3-liver.html
Vitamin D helps:
https://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(14)00379-1
A neem plant extract shown to help:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160211184014.htm
Black seed oil helps:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080519092215.htm
Apigenin and luteolin helps:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130815172358.htm