dementia

[rocketray]

It appears be more prevalent than ever-parusing the litature the new drugs may not be that great-it appears that diet of fresh fish...rainbow trout,salmon maybe an orange   and nuts seem to be working for some taken for a year has good write ups   good nutrition has cured many diseases

[Jess from VA]

Good diet, and good exercise.  Every single day. 

Feel better, more energy, clearer thinking, better sleep, and better attitude. 

[98valk]

avoid nuts

Linoleic Acid — The Most Destructive Ingredient in Your Diet

https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/linoleic-acid

Linoleic Acid: A Narrative Review of the Effects of Increased Intake in the Standard American Diet and Associations with Chronic Disease
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/14/3129

https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/alzheimers.shtml  part 1
https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/alzheimers.shtml  part 2

 "" THE FUNCTION OF ENERGY

    Most people are slightly demented now and then, when they are very sleepy or tired, or sick, or drunk, or having a hormone imbalance or extreme anxiety state. Sometimes physicians have described people as demented, implying that the condition would never improve, when the person was depressed or hypothyroid. If the person has a history of epilepsy, or is very old, the physician is more likely to diagnose dementia than if the same loss of mental function occurs in a younger person without a history of a nervous disorder. Even people with less education are at increased risk of being diagnosed as "demented."

    In 1976, I saw a 52 year-old woman who had the diagnosis of epileptic dementia. After 3 or 4 days of taking progesterone, her mental function returned to the extent that she could find her way around town by herself, and could work. A few months later, she returned to graduate school, got straight As and a master's degree. A few years later, a man in his 80s showed the classical signs of senile dementia, with childishness, confusion, self-centeredness, and unstable emotions. A few days after getting a mixture of thyroid, pregnenolone, and progesterone, his mind was again clear, and he was able to work on a research project he had set aside years before.

    When the body temperature is very much below normal, mental functioning is seriously limited. I think the first question that should be asked about a demented person is "is this the cold brain syndrome, or is something else involved?" When it is known that the brain has shrunken drastically, and filled up with plaques and developed gliosis, we know that something more than a "cold brain" is involved, but we don't know how much function could be regained if the hormones were normalized. Every moment of malfunction probably leaves its structural mark. Early or late, it is good to prevent the functional errors that lead to further damage, and to give the regenerative systems an opportunity to work. Before the final "calcium death" described (above) by Fujita, there are many opportunities for intervening to stop or reverse the process. The older the person is, the more emphasis should be put on protective inhibition, rather than immediately increasing energy production. Magnesium, carbon dioxide, sleep, red light, and naloxone might be appropriate at the beginning of therapy.""

[Hook#3287]

Wow, after reading

https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/linoleic-acid

I'm just going to stop eating all together.

Or, I let the rest of the world deal with my dementia, cause I won't care.

There certainly is a lot to consider in that article, but at this time in my life, will it even matter?

[HayHauler]

I am seriously overweight.  I have made the conscious decision to only eat basic, whole foods.  If the ingredients list has things I cannot pronounce, contains any seed oils (most products have soybean oil in them), etc.  If it is not meat, chicken, fish, veggies, or fruit, I'm not eating it. 
I challenge anyone to take a walk down the salad dressing aisle in the supermarket and find one without soybean oil.  Soybean oil must be so cheap, that most all products include it at some point.  Even potato chips are cooked in it.
Soybean oil is so bad for you.

This is my $.01875, you keep the change.

Hay 
Jimmyt

[Jersey mike]

It’s a rotten disease.

I truly believe it’s a blood flow issue to the brain.

While we were dealing with my wife’s dad, many times he’d have fantastic moments of clarity when he was angry, agitated and he got his Irish up, meaning his blood pressure or adrenaline. Once those moments or minutes passed things would revert back to his normal self.

[cookiedough]

It’s a rotten disease.

I truly believe it’s a blood flow issue to the brain.

While we were dealing with my wife’s dad, many times he’d have fantastic moments of clarity when he was angry, agitated and he got his Irish up, meaning his blood pressure or adrenaline. Once those moments or minutes passed things would revert back to his normal self.

meds like sertraline and risperidone (more so), among others,  can control anger and anxiety/mental ssues in dementia patients on the right dosage.  Mom had to be on both for 12 years dealing with this dreaded disease.

[rocketray]

maybe google top 8 spices to prevent Alzhiemers and dementia

[semo97]

i guess we can go back to cooking with lard and bacon fat. sure made those eggs taste good. At some time in life someone had to try and prove some type of food was bad for you. My be this guy is up to something or just bs. Eat correctly in moderation, common cense and get out and sweat for several hours. Good hard physical labor is the best medicine for mind and body.

[98valk]

i guess we can go back to cooking with lard and bacon fat. sure made those eggs taste good. At some time in life someone had to try and prove some type of food was bad for you. My be this guy is up to something or just bs. Eat correctly in moderation, common cense and get out and sweat for several hours. Good hard physical labor is the best medicine for mind and body.

saturated fats keep us healthy. they started lying in the '60s to sell vegetable oils like crisco. they knew back then they were poisonous to humans, but since they didn't kill people in 24-48 hrs they are considered safe by FDA. look at all of the increased disease, cancers and early deaths ever since people stopped using butter, tallow, lard, coconut oil to cook with.

"" Intense lobbying by the soybean oil industry has created the widespread belief that "tropical oils" cause heart disease. In a comparison of many kinds of oil, including linseed oil, olive oil, whale oil, etc., palm oil appeared to be the most protective. The same researcher [32] more recently studied palm oil's antithrombotic effect, in relation to platelet aggregation. It was found that platelet aggregation was enhanced by sunflowerseed oil, but that palm oil tended to decrease it.

Much current research has concentrated on the factors involved in arterial clotting. Since the blood moves quickly through the arteries, rapid processes are of most interest to those workers, though some people do remember to think in terms of an equilibrium between formation and removal of clot material. For about 25 years there was interest in the ability of vitamin E to facilitate clot removal, apparently by activating proteolytic enzymes.[33] Unsaturated fats' ability to inhibit proteolytic enzymes in the blood has occasionally been discussed, but seldom in the U.S. The equilibrium between clotting and clot dissolution is especially important in the veins, where blood moves more slowly, and spends more time.

. . . the slower blood flows the greater its predisposition to clotting. However, this intrinsic process, leading to fibrin production, is slow, taking up to a minute or more to occur. Thrombosis as a result of stasis, therefore, occurs in the venous circulation; typically in the legs where…venous return is slowest. In fact, many thousands of small thrombi are formed each day in the lower body. These pass via the vena cava into the lungs where thrombolysis occurs, this being a normal metabolic function of the organ. [34]

In the Shutes' research in the 1930s and 1040s, vitamin E and estrogen acted in opposite directions on the clot-removing enzymes.[33] Since estrogen increases blood lipids, and increases the incidence of strokes and heart attacks, it would be interesting to expand the Shutes' work by considering the degree of saturation of blood lipids in relation to the effects of vitamin E and estrogen on clot removal. Estrogen's effect on clotting is very complex, since it increases the ratio of unsaturated to saturated fatty acids in the body, and increases the tendency of blood to pool in the large veins, in addition to its direct effects on the clotting factors.

Immunodeficiency and Unsaturated Fats: Intravenous feeding with unsaturated fats is powerfully immunosuppressive [35] (though it often was used to give more calories to cancer patients) and is now advocated as a way to prevent graft rejection. The deadly effect of the long-chain unsaturated fats on the immune system has led to the development of new products containing short and medium-chain saturated fats for intravenous feeding. [36] It was recently reported that the anti-inflammatory effect of n-3 fatty acids (fish oil) might be related to the observed suppression of interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor by those fats. [37] The suppression of these anti-tumor immune factors persists after the fish oil treatment is stopped.

As mentioned above, stress and hypoxia can cause cells to take up large amounts of fatty acids. Cortisol's ability to kill white blood cells (which can be inhibited by extra glucose) is undoubtedly an important part of its immunosuppressive effect, and this killing is mediated by causing the cells to take up unsaturated fats. [38]

Several aspects of the immune system are improved by short-chain saturated fats. Their anti-histamine action [39] is probably important, because of histamine's immunosuppressive effects.[40] Unsaturated fats have been found to cause degranulation of mast cells.[41] The short-chain fatty acids normally produced by bacteria in the bowel apparently have a local anti-inflammatory action.[42]""

https://raypeat.com/articles/nutrition/oils-in-context.shtml

[98valk]

https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/blog/

“The food you eat is making you sick and the agencies that are providing you
with guidelines on what to eat are giving dangerous advice with devastating
health consequences. You can change that today.”

-Dr. Davis
""After 25 years of practicing cardiology, it became clear that I was in the business of dispensing prescription drugs and procedures, not health. Once I rejected conventional notions of delivering “health” through drugs and procedures and instead began to seek out ways to restore health naturally, logically, inexpensively, so many answers became apparent. Delivering these ideas to people has resulted in reversing hundreds of common health conditions, effortless weight loss, day-to-day functioning at higher levels, as well as many age-reversing effects. It all got started a number of years ago, when I observed that over 80% of the people I met in my cardiology medical practice were pre-diabetic or diabetic. In an effort to reduce blood sugars, I asked patients to remove all wheat products from their diet based on the simple fact that foods made of wheat flour raise blood sugar higher than nearly all other foods. Yes, that’s true for even whole grains. More than table sugar, more than a Snickers bar. Organic, multigrain, sprouted–it makes no difference. Not only that but wheat and other grains throw our microbiome out of balance and can wreak havoc on so many other bodily functions. I observed dramatic effects when I asked people to banish all wheat and grains from their diet.""

[semo97]

Ok Dr. Davis, My wife makes bread, and about anything you can think of from sprouted wheat, we grind our own into flour. We are in our 70s and when we have physicals they can not believe we take no medications. Blood tests perfect no high blood pressure. I eat oat meal every morning and eggs. We grow a garden and use  cow manure fertilizer out of the pasture, seven dust when needed no organic stuff for us. We eat fruit off the trees and vines. Work hard and enjoy life. Raise and butcher our own beef. We have lived this life together for 51 years. Many of my family members the same. Get out of the office Doc and go spend time with the people that live this life and enjoy Gods country. And by the way Doc I grew up on raw cows milk and our children too. No allergies good health. Just my way of life and opinion, anybody can believe what they want or find on the internet.

[HayHauler]

You said a ton right there Semo97.  You raise and grind your own wheat for your bread.  There are no chemicals or fillers added when you make your own. No one really knows what the term "enriched" means on the bag of flower.  The loaf of bread from the store has so many ingredients, most I cannot pronounce.  There aren't that many in a real loaf of bread....
I wish I could grind my own wheat for bread.  I love it sooo much.

I stopped eating things with ingredients that I cannot pronounce.  Grass fed/finished beef, chicken, pork, eggs, and the occasional fresh blueberries.  Back to the basics for me.

Hay 
Jimmyt

[Oss]

my morning shake is frozen or fresh organic blueberries and strawberries, some Calm (MG) some green stuff usually organic spinach or kale and some melon pieces

I feel good knowing those are foods to help avoid dementia. Only i still lose my keys an aweful lot and forget why I opened the refrigerator just about every day

We try to get pasta made in italy as it does not have the stuff in it that we allow here  Prices are not so different if you shop carefully
Life without cappellini is something I want to avoid if possible

I do not really mind sugar it is the substitutes that are nuts IMHO

[GiG]

Mmmmm… capellini & nuts 


You guys ever make your own pasta?
We do - sometimes…
Another thing is - we usually throw a handful of veggie or spinach pasta in with the four noodles

Still working on that perfect bracciole