Posted on 06/09/2012 12:43:55 AM PDT by neverdem
It has a cause, we just don’t know what it is. Sure seems to be a lot more common these days then 30 years ago.
I get muscle aches from every statin on the market.
After trying all of them, my doctor put me on 2 grams of niacin every day, lo and behold, it works.
That was a very moving post. I won’t get into it, but I went through something over the past year along the same lines. At the end, though, God gave my family a gift...one last visit just like you had in your dream about your grandfather. Hold on to that dream, and revisit your earlier, happy memories of your grandfather often. They are more valuable than any treasures this world has to offer.
It is so hard to understand unless you have experienced it. Even my brother would get angry because “She knows better than that.” but she didn’t.
It is hard to understand and even hard to believe unless you’ve been there.
I remember over 30 years ago finding a woman who was lost and wandering on a freezing Christmas day that wasn’t dressed for. She seemed so sweet and we wondered how the family could have let that happen. Many years later I figured it out because my mother would run away too.
How about animal lard? I love it, but my wife banned it from the house.
High fat diets and sedentary lifestyles are becoming major concerns for Western countries. They have led to a growing incidence of obesity, dyslipidemia, high blood pressure, and a condition known as the insulin-resistance syndrome or metabolic syndrome. These health conditions are well known to develop along with, or be precursors to atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Recent studies have found that most of these disorders can also be linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). To complicate matters, possession of one or more apolipoprotein E 4 (APOE 4) alleles further increases the risk or severity of many of these conditions, including AD. ApoE has roles in cholesterol metabolism and A clearance, both of which are thought to be significant in AD pathogenesis. The apparent inadequacies of ApoE 4 in these roles may explain the increased risk of AD in subjects carrying one or more APOE 4 alleles. This review describes some of the physiological and biochemical changes that the above conditions cause, and how they are related to the risk of AD. A diversity of topics is covered, including cholesterol metabolism, glucose regulation, diabetes, insulin, ApoE function, amyloid precursor protein metabolism, and in particular their relevance to AD. It can be seen that abnormal lipid, cholesterol and glucose metabolism are consistently indicated as central in the pathophysiology, and possibly the pathogenesis of AD. As diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and early AD are becoming more reliable, and as evidence is accumulating that health conditions such as diabetes, obesity, and coronary artery disease are risk factors for AD, appropriate changes to diets and lifestyles will likely reduce AD risk, and also improve the prognosis for people already suffering from such conditions.That's the abstract, but it's a FReebie.
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