We always suspected that the "Alzheimer's" of our dear aunt who used M****** deodorant for years was due to aluminum... but in this video interview with Dr. Mercola, scientist Dr. David Ayoub reveals that aluminum can cause many other neurological disorders - and from a very early age.
Dr. Mercola's site is at http://www.mercola.com
We use Epsom Salts dissolved in water as a deodorant. It's magnesium, so it is healthy - and makes skin silky like talcum powder.
Showing posts with label alzheimer's disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alzheimer's disease. Show all posts
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Global Alzheimer's Disease Charter
"We are facing a public health and social care emergency and immediate action is needed!
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia and accounts for 60-70% of all cases. Alzheimer's disease and other dementias are progressive, degenerative illnesses that attack the brain. They affect people's abilities, impacting on all aspects of their life and upon others in their lives, particularly those who care for them day by day.
Every year, 4.6 million new cases of dementia are reported worldwide: One new case every seven seconds. By 2050, it is projected that there will be 100 million people with dementia in the world. No country is adequately prepared to deal with a crisis of this magnitude.
Lack of awareness and understanding has resulted in insufficient resources to address this crisis. Worldwide, attention to this rapidly growing problem is so small that most of those affected continue to suffer without help, or hope. This must change! The quality of life of people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias can be transformed. Too often, they, their families and carers lack the support that they need and deserve.
We, the members of Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI), representing 77 associations around the world, urgently call upon all governments and stakeholders to act now."
Link to Petition
We couldn't agree more... but think that this unhappy state - of DEFICIENCY DISEASES - has arisen due to bad nutrition. Information about maintenance of brain health through proper eating and supplementation is important in prevention of Alzheimer's and the dementias, should begin in childhood and last all your life. A society that knows and cares more about what goes into pet food than human food - and lets its elders eat dog food - should be ashamed of itself.
WHAT REALLY CAUSES ALZHEIMER'S? We think Harold Foster has the answer and you can read his book free, here.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia and accounts for 60-70% of all cases. Alzheimer's disease and other dementias are progressive, degenerative illnesses that attack the brain. They affect people's abilities, impacting on all aspects of their life and upon others in their lives, particularly those who care for them day by day.
Every year, 4.6 million new cases of dementia are reported worldwide: One new case every seven seconds. By 2050, it is projected that there will be 100 million people with dementia in the world. No country is adequately prepared to deal with a crisis of this magnitude.
Lack of awareness and understanding has resulted in insufficient resources to address this crisis. Worldwide, attention to this rapidly growing problem is so small that most of those affected continue to suffer without help, or hope. This must change! The quality of life of people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias can be transformed. Too often, they, their families and carers lack the support that they need and deserve.
We, the members of Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI), representing 77 associations around the world, urgently call upon all governments and stakeholders to act now."
Link to Petition
We couldn't agree more... but think that this unhappy state - of DEFICIENCY DISEASES - has arisen due to bad nutrition. Information about maintenance of brain health through proper eating and supplementation is important in prevention of Alzheimer's and the dementias, should begin in childhood and last all your life. A society that knows and cares more about what goes into pet food than human food - and lets its elders eat dog food - should be ashamed of itself.
WHAT REALLY CAUSES ALZHEIMER'S? We think Harold Foster has the answer and you can read his book free, here.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
What Really Causes Alzheimer's?
A complete book in PDF format by orthomolecular nutrition expert Harold Foster.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060526175827/http://www.hdfoster.com/Foster_Alzheimers.pdf
Link Foster's expertise in health includes AIDS and schizophrenia and much more. His books are sensible, technically impeccable, a pleasure to read - and help a lot of people avoid bad nutrition that brings on neurological disorders.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Terry Pratchett: On His Alzheimer's
UPDATE: Aug. 9 2009
Pratchett is fighting for the right to die.
Link
Not so fast, Sir Terence: Alzheimer's may not be what your medical experts tell you it is. See
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Not so fast, Sir Terence: Alzheimer's may not be what your medical experts tell you it is. See
Harold Foster.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060526175827/http://www.hdfoster.com/Foster_Alzheimers.pdf
From The Times
January 30, 2009
Discworld author Terry Pratchett on Alzheimer's and his best work
The Discworld author is funny, fluent and channelling the anger towards his Alzheimer's disease into some of his best work
Andrew Billen
The Talmud decrees that to save one life is to save the world. If scientific research can save Sir Terry Pratchett from Alzheimer's disease, then it will also save Discworld, the fantastical other Earth that the novelist has chronicled in 36 books. Discworld is a flattish disc that rests on four elephants standing on an enormous turtle - but you probably know that, even if you have never read Pratchett. The idea is such a delightful joke, both on creation myths and the more pompous strains of fantasy fiction, that it resonates. As a young fan interviewed on a two-part BBC documentary that follows Pratchett's first year from diagnosis, says: “How could a great mind like that be lost?” I try the thought out on Pratchett, that for intellectuals, such as Bernard Levin or Iris Murdoch, the disease is particularly cruel. “Yes, isn't that a pile of c***?” he replies. “It is a tragedy for everybody. Or, if it is a tragedy for anyone, then it is tragedy for everyone.”
You need to be careful when talking to Pratchett on this matter. For a start he has a particular strain of Alzheimer's called Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA) and its symptoms are different. Second, he does not think it makes him special. Over the new year, Edward Stourton on the Today programme on Radio 4 made the mistake of linking his knighthood with the news of his illness, released on the web 13 months ago, a few months before his 60th birthday. Pratchett retorted that he hoped he was being recognised for more than getting ill. He let Stourton off when he said he was referring to the way he had addressed the condition. Stourton was lucky. I get into trouble for saying that having a film crew accompany him as he investigated his own prognosis must have been a “sacrifice”.
“You see, there you go again. It seemed to me absolutely natural because I had to tell people and I thought, ‘Well why be bashful about it?' It's not as if I'd done something wrong. In too many people's minds Alzheimer's is considered madness. It is a physical disease that affects the brain.” In fact, he will admit that the campaigning - not just the television but a visit to Downing Street, where Gordon Brown personally made him a cup of tea and, what is more, listened, a pledge to give a million dollars in research, appearances at support groups and so on - has cost him “half a book”. This is a sacrifice, for he must keep writing.
“Otherwise I'm just Terry Pratchett, ‘the sufferer'. It's all part of our modern culture. We like people to be sufferers because then we can pity them.” He doesn't then want a movie made of his “battle”, such as that Iris Murdoch film? “No. I think three different researchers wrote to me asking could I help them with work on analysing my style as the illness progresses, and I wrote back, 'What I like about vultures is that they wait until the donkey is dead'. I just couldn't believe that they would try that.”
Link
About his television program on living with Alzheimer's
Link
http://web.archive.org/web/20060526175827/http://www.hdfoster.com/Foster_Alzheimers.pdf
From The Times
January 30, 2009
Discworld author Terry Pratchett on Alzheimer's and his best work
The Discworld author is funny, fluent and channelling the anger towards his Alzheimer's disease into some of his best work
Andrew Billen
The Talmud decrees that to save one life is to save the world. If scientific research can save Sir Terry Pratchett from Alzheimer's disease, then it will also save Discworld, the fantastical other Earth that the novelist has chronicled in 36 books. Discworld is a flattish disc that rests on four elephants standing on an enormous turtle - but you probably know that, even if you have never read Pratchett. The idea is such a delightful joke, both on creation myths and the more pompous strains of fantasy fiction, that it resonates. As a young fan interviewed on a two-part BBC documentary that follows Pratchett's first year from diagnosis, says: “How could a great mind like that be lost?” I try the thought out on Pratchett, that for intellectuals, such as Bernard Levin or Iris Murdoch, the disease is particularly cruel. “Yes, isn't that a pile of c***?” he replies. “It is a tragedy for everybody. Or, if it is a tragedy for anyone, then it is tragedy for everyone.”
You need to be careful when talking to Pratchett on this matter. For a start he has a particular strain of Alzheimer's called Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA) and its symptoms are different. Second, he does not think it makes him special. Over the new year, Edward Stourton on the Today programme on Radio 4 made the mistake of linking his knighthood with the news of his illness, released on the web 13 months ago, a few months before his 60th birthday. Pratchett retorted that he hoped he was being recognised for more than getting ill. He let Stourton off when he said he was referring to the way he had addressed the condition. Stourton was lucky. I get into trouble for saying that having a film crew accompany him as he investigated his own prognosis must have been a “sacrifice”.
“You see, there you go again. It seemed to me absolutely natural because I had to tell people and I thought, ‘Well why be bashful about it?' It's not as if I'd done something wrong. In too many people's minds Alzheimer's is considered madness. It is a physical disease that affects the brain.” In fact, he will admit that the campaigning - not just the television but a visit to Downing Street, where Gordon Brown personally made him a cup of tea and, what is more, listened, a pledge to give a million dollars in research, appearances at support groups and so on - has cost him “half a book”. This is a sacrifice, for he must keep writing.
“Otherwise I'm just Terry Pratchett, ‘the sufferer'. It's all part of our modern culture. We like people to be sufferers because then we can pity them.” He doesn't then want a movie made of his “battle”, such as that Iris Murdoch film? “No. I think three different researchers wrote to me asking could I help them with work on analysing my style as the illness progresses, and I wrote back, 'What I like about vultures is that they wait until the donkey is dead'. I just couldn't believe that they would try that.”
Link
About his television program on living with Alzheimer's
Link
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Alzheimer's and B3/Niacin
Vitamin B3/Niacin as Alzheimer's therapy:
"Memory loss is the signature feature of Alzheimer's disease, and therapies that prevent or delay its onset are urgently needed. Effective preventive strategies likely offer the greatest and most widespread benefits. Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors increase histone acetylation and enhance memory and synaptic plasticity. We evaluated the efficacy of nicotinamide, a competitive inhibitor of the sirtuins or class III NAD+-dependent HDACs in 3xTg-AD mice, and found that it restored cognitive deficits associated with pathology. Nicotinamide selectively reduces a specific phospho-species of tau (Thr231) that is associated with microtubule depolymerization, in a manner similar to inhibition of SirT1. Nicotinamide also dramatically increased acetylated -tubulin, a primary substrate of SirT2, and MAP2c, both of which are linked to increased microtubule stability. Reduced phosphoThr231-tau was related to a reduction of monoubiquitin-conjugated tau, suggesting that this posttranslationally modified form of tau may be rapidly degraded. Overexpression of a Thr231-phospho-mimic tau in vitro increased clearance and decreased accumulation of tau compared with wild-type tau. These preclinical findings suggest that oral nicotinamide may represent a safe treatment for AD and other tauopathies, and that phosphorylation of tau at Thr231 may regulate tau stability."
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More here: Link
A link has been established between Alzheimer's and calcium - a substance we take like candy in antacids. Link
What is the counterbalance for calcium? Magnesium. What makes magnesium work better? Niacin....
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Help your Aging Parent
Image: Linus PaulingLinus Pauling lived to be 94. Here is some Micronutient information for the older adult from the Linus Pauling Institute.
And if you take good care of yourself, you won't need these checklists and resources on assessment and care for elders soon.
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