Dementia / Alzheimer Theories

I'm thinking it might relate to the reason we have more autism than we used to. Not the same drugs, necessarily, but it probably has to do with something that medical science has given us to solve one problem, but which creates another. I agree with both of you that the widespread use of statin drugs might have something to do with it too. My last doctor said that he would recommend statin drugs to anyone over the age of forty, and I don't know very many people my age who aren't taking statin drugs, or who haven't had a doctor prescribe statin drugs. I wouldn't discount the idea of processed foods or insecticides of the sort that Monsanto has given us having a play in it, too. In other words, I don't know, but we're doing something wrong.

 

I have also read about MCT oil, or even coconut oil, helping with brain function and healing.
Once the brain is very damaged, it may or may not be possible to heal and rejuvenate it; however, I am totally in favor of doing everything that we can to keep our brain active and healthy in the first place.
I have found that a cup of Bulletproof Coffee in the morning gives me amazing mental focus, and enough energy to go to the fitness center and swim for almost a mile each day.
The authority of Bulletproof Coffee, Dave Asprey, recommends special coffee, and Brain Octane for the MCT oil; plus grass fed butter.
I have only been using regular coffee and plain coconut oil, but I did buy a cube of grass fed butter to put in the coffee. Since I only use a small spoonful each morning, it lasts a long time.

Another thing which is supposed to be very important (and we have discussion in another thread here), is to incorporate autophagy, which is how the body and brain heals and restores itself.
Basically, our body is either in the process of digesting food, or is done with digestion, and is using the energy to rebuild our body, which mostly happens when we sleep at night.
I just found a short article on Facebook that explains more about autophagy as it applies to healing our brains, and thought that this thread is a good place to share it.
https://www.optimallivingdynamics.com/blog/31-powerful-ways-to-induce-autophagy-in-the-brain?sfns=mo

 

I don't know anything about Bulletproof Coffee, but I take that idea and extend it to a couple of pots of coffee in the morning, afternoon, and evening. Oh, and I skip the swimming part.

On topic, however, like with many other diseases or disorders, it's hard to know what to think. While being well aware that the medical industry doesn't necessarily have my best interests at heart, outside of the established industries, there are no dependable standards. Someone could create a few websites promoting the idea that eating pig excrement twice a day would prevent Alzheimer's. All we have to go by is who has the most professional looking websites. Yes, we can always look for other people corroborating whatever the health theory might be but it's not hard for a motivated person to create several websites supporting one another.

 

Not every day. Sometimes I'll go entire days without any, and every now and then I have tea instead. I have no trouble sleeping, however.

 

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I totally agree with you about this, @Joy Martin . None of us have any guarantees about our health, mind or body; but just like automobile maintenance usually prolongs the mechanical life of our vehicle, so does taking care of our health help to protect our body.
At this point in my life, probably the most important goal that I have IS to take care of my health as best as I can, in the hopes that whatever years remain to me, will be useful ones.

Obviously, not everyone has the same hopes and goals in life; so for some people, simply enjoying now and not being concerned about how we will feel tomorrow, or what we will still be able to do, seems like a lot more reasonable way to live than the way that you and I (and some of the rest of us here in this forum) have chosen to live our life.

In my world, it doesn’t make sense to waste the evening watching television mindlessly, when I can be reading and learning something that might improve my life, or at least inspire me to do better.
The books that I have read about the use of coconut oil indicate that it is of great value, both to help us think clearer and to give us energy. When I read something, then I become my “guinea pig” and experiment to see what effect (if any) the food or exercise (or whatever it is) has on me, and when I find that it helps me, then I keep on doing that.

I used to have 2-3 cups of coffee in the morning, just to wake up my brain, and get my body somewhere close to being ready to go to the fitness center and swim, and some days, Bobby kind of dragged me out of the door, to be honest.
Really soon after I started making my coffee with the spoon of coconut oil and spoon of butter, plus spices (cinnamon, cloves, cardomum), I noticed that my brain became clear and focused, I got done with morning chores and had my swimming suit packed and ready for the fitness center with a lot more ease.