Posted on 12/08/2014 3:59:08 PM PST by ConservativeMind
...Yet a very small study out of UCLA is offering a glimmer of hope for those with what is often a hopeless diagnosis. Nine out of the 10 patients involved in the study, who were in various stages of dementia, say their symptoms were reversed after they participated in a rigorous program. The program included things like optimizing Vitamin D levels in the blood, using DHA supplements to bridge broken connections in the brain, optimizing gut health, and strategic fasting to normalize insulin levels.
A few months after starting the extreme program, patients in the study, aged 55 to 75, noticed their cognition had either improved or returned to normal. Only one patient, a 60 year-old female who was in the late-stages of dementia when she began the program, continued to decline...
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Perhaps they’re just talking about their anchors...
I’m still suspect. They’re obviously beyond help.
maybe i’m just a grammar nazi but stupid headline. i reverse “signs” of a flu by taking some OTC stuff. doesn’t cure the flu just eases some symptoms. you want to identify the early signs of alzheimers to reverse the disease. but i graduated college in the ‘70s when grammar was still important so what do i know.
Like all those other aging conditions, mechanical help will be the key....and who in their right mind would ask for that...they are no longer functioning properly to make those decisions. We have or will become the guinea pigs....for what??
Grammar but not capitalization?
a glimmer of hope for those with what is often a hopeless diagnosis.
So Joe Biden and Hillery Clinton have something to hold
on to.
I think they said all they legitimately could. “Reverse symptoms” or “reduce symptoms” might have been better.
Without doing brain scans, which they can’t always do - my father couldn’t have one because of his heart pacemaker - they can’t say they’ve “reversed” the organic development of Alzheimer’s. All they can say is that some test subjects’ symptoms improved.
If these results are as reported, it will be beneficial for some. Sometimes nutrient-deficiency is an issue for the elderly. My father improved for a while, early in his progression, when he began getting Vitamin B-12 shots.
There is some recuperative capacity in the human body. Programs like this attempt to make the most of it. Nobody is believing this is going to make them live forever.
He lost his job in Green Bay, moved to Memphis where his wife's people are from. She divorced him and he's now living alone in a pitiful apartment.
I call him every few weeks. I'm afraid in a year, he'll be in an institution in one of those “silent wings.”
In before the pictures of Hilary.
Gee that sounds great.
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Gee that sounds great
Gee that sounds great
I’m sorry to hear that. No children, no family of his own?
There can also be psychological knock-on effects from the perception of memory loss. One believes that one is losing one’s marbles and it becomes self fulfilling prophecy.
That, too, can effect brain scans.
Yes, there’s a lot going on with the brain.
Yes, for what...
Good question.
1 daughter, out of college and on her own. He was a coal salesman in the territory north & east of mine. Stocky Arkansas graduate, raised in Oklahoma.
Alzheimer’s and other dementia disorders are without question pathologies not just ordinary effects of aging.
Sounds like he’s pretty young, if his daughter is “out of college and on her own,” as opposed to “in late middle age with ten kids.”
Very sad situation.
Funny story from an earlier time.
We hired this guy from a Kentucky coal company and had a meeting scheduled for his new corporate office in Wisconsin. The closest airport was Milwauke and he had arranged for a rental car to take him up to the office.
When he arrived, there were no cars. None of the rentals had any cars. Every single car had been rented.
The guy pleaded...”I’ve got to get to my first corproate meeting.”
The rental agent paused and said, “Well, there is the eight door.”
It was a Cadillac limo, seemingly 150 feet long. He made a great entrance and the whole crew went bar hopping in the “eight door.”
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