How to spend your legacy?

[MossRoad]

Laugh, but I believe that Demenita and other brain related ailments is rooted in the over consumption of sugar or alcohol or both. I have read a few dementia doctors articles on how sugar goest to the brain and hardens the synapses/neurons in the brain begins to “harden” and won‘t work anymore. I have cut my sugar consumption way down. My parents did not have dementia and were skinny and ddint consume sugar.

My father in-law was the epitome of health... until he got dementia. But he was 90 when he got it for crying out loud. Something is gonna kill a 90 year old man. No way around it. He was so healthy, that when they tried to do a stress test on him, they couldn't raise his pulse high enough on the treadmill to make the determination. So they had to do the chemical stress test. Crazy.

Then there was a VP at my wife's employer. He was also the epitome of health. He played sports all his life. Thin. Active. Smart. He was on the fast-pitch softball team. Maybe late 50s. Good looking guy. All the ladies liked him. Happily married. Started forgetting how to play softball. Had to step down from his job. Died of dementia two years later.

While I'm sure excess sugar ain't good for you (yet I keep eating cookies), I think dementia is a complicated issue. I'd not wish it on anyone, that's for sure. Or their loved ones.

 

[ovrszd]

Laugh, but I believe that Demenita and other brain related ailments is rooted in the over consumption of sugar or alcohol or both. I have read a few dementia doctors articles on how sugar goest to the brain and hardens the synapses/neurons in the brain begins to “harden” and won‘t work anymore. I have cut my sugar consumption way down. My parents did not have dementia and were skinny and ddint consume sugar.

My Dad had a body fat percentage of less than 10 his entire life. Rarely used sugar. Rarely used alcohol. Died of Dementia at 76. Started down that path at 72.

 

[IndyJay]

My father in-law was the epitome of health... until he got dementia. But he was 90 when he got it for crying out loud. Something is gonna kill a 90 year old man. No way around it. He was so healthy, that when they tried to do a stress test on him, they couldn't raise his pulse high enough on the treadmill to make the determination. So they had to do the chemical stress test. Crazy.

Then there was a VP at my wife's employer. He was also the epitome of health. He played sports all his life. Thin. Active. Smart. He was on the fast-pitch softball team. Maybe late 50s. Good looking guy. All the ladies liked him. Happily married. Started forgetting how to play softball. Had to step down from his job. Died of dementia two years later.

While I'm sure excess sugar ain't good for you (yet I keep eating cookies), I think dementia is a complicated issue. I'd not wish it on anyone, that's for sure. Or their loved ones.

There has been a strong argument that aluminum has contributed to the Alzheimer epidemic. I avoid drinking out of aluminum cans or using aluminum cookware. Of course this has been thoroughly and scientifically debunked by research sponsered by the aluminum industry.

As always, do your own research with just a pinch of salt.

 

[RSKY]

I'm going out like the Indians around here did. I am going to take a bunch of peyote and go on my vision quest. I already have my spot and I will sit there and do what ever peyote does to you. The Indians never died of the peyote, it was always exposure to the elements that got them. Plus then it looks like a hiking accident.

Several years ago I heard of a local man who had a slow acting but painful, non-treatable cancer. He had got to the point that he was going to have to stop driving due to vision problems. The only driving he did was a couple miles to church and a small Dollar General type country store with a lunch counter. Never getting over 25-mph. He had cataract surgery and loudly told everybody how much better he could see and that he could now drive anywhere he wanted to. He was in constant pain and getting worse. About two weeks after the eye surgery he missed a corner and wrapped his truck around a huge oak tree, head-on, estimated to be doing 70-mph when he hit. Insurance pays double for accidental death and he had a bunch of children.

RSKY

 

[MossRoad]

There has been a strong argument that aluminum has contributed to the Alzheimer epidemic. I avoid drinking out of aluminum cans or using aluminum cookware. Of course this has been thoroughly and scientifically debunked by research sponsered by the aluminum industry.

As always, do your own research with just a pinch of salt.

Salt causes dementia.

 

[MossRoad]

Several years ago I heard of a local man who had a slow acting but painful, non-treatable cancer. He had got to the point that he was going to have to stop driving due to vision problems. The only driving he did was a couple miles to church and a small Dollar General type country store with a lunch counter. Never getting over 25-mph. He had cataract surgery and loudly told everybody how much better he could see and that he could now drive anywhere he wanted to. He was in constant pain and getting worse. About two weeks after the eye surgery he missed a corner and wrapped his truck around a huge oak tree, head-on, estimated to be doing 70-mph when he hit. Insurance pays double for accidental death and he had a bunch of children.

RSKY

I plan on dying in a a brush cutter accident in about 30 years.

 

[MossRoad]

Salt causes dementia.

Salt Sense: Scientists at the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute Investigate the Link Between a High-Sodium Diet and Dementia

On its face, the logic seems straightforward. Eating too much salt can lead to high blood pressure; numerous studies have shown that having hypertension in midlife makes it more likely that you’ll develop certain forms of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, in later years.

news.weill.cornell.edu

 

[IndyJay]

Salt causes dementia.

That's why they say a grain instead of a pinch?

 

[MossRoad]

 

[RSKY]

We have a friend now in her sixties whose husband developed Dementia or Alzheimer's at age 46 and died in his mid fifties. The doctors told her that whatever he had was inherited. I believe they have four kids and I know they have all been tested for the disease but I don't know what the tests look for. Caring for him nearly killed her and he finally had to be put in some type of care facility.

Mom had the beginnings of Macular Degeneration and my sisters and I take a vitamin called AREDS 2 to prevent us getting it. AREDS stands for Age Related Eye Disease Study. According to the Retinologist we go to the vitamin will decrease your chance of getting the disease by half. And if you get the disease will decrease it's progression in half.

Hopefully they will find something like that for Dementia and Alzheimer's.

RSKY