I'm on some other health groups and one person just posted this morning that both he and his wife are 66 and he has Parkinsons and now Dementia hitting him, and his wife is pretty deep in dementia....He's asking for help but one has to make their own decisions on care etc.. My feeling more and more just too many Statin drugs given to people for the so called cholesterol issue that isn't that big an issue. We need good fats. A great doc years ago got me straight on this cholesterol fear....she checked homocystein and it was elevated and I went to work to lower it. Tragic how so so many millions are mis led and so drugged. ;
My youngest sister's husband is getting the first stages of something. He is spending a lot of time with his family lately and I think it must be pretty bad with a bad end in sight. He is younger than me but not exactly sure how old he is. He has arthritis also so he must have really bad genes. I never realized how old I was until just a couple years ago. I really wanted to continue working even if it was only a half a day. I enjoyed getting the fresh air and being out in the sun a little. I had a little stool I sat on to work on the small stuff and I would go to the sugar mill company store where they had hot lunches everyday. I ate a lot better when I was working and sure do miss that. I am thinking about getting those meals on wheels one day, they are pretty good here but the helpings aren't really big enough for a growing boy like myself.
Thomas, maybe you should sign up for the meals on wheels; even if you had to supplement the amount it would be nice to have hot food delivered.
I'm sure I'll get around to it one day soon. My old friend here was always giving me a lot of his meals because they always gave him a lot of extras no charge. I really enjoyed them because they taste like home cooked meals. They would have to be a heck of a lot cheaper than the stores today. I don't mind the cost so much as the standing and cooking, I just don't enjoy cooking and have no need to do it again.
Here in CA I have not heard great things about meals on wheels, but it's food....and I've heard a sandwich and some fruit and about hot food, um, maybe that's true in other parts of the world...
I have no experience with MoW, but this is from their website... "Our menus are designed to provide at least one-third of the daily nutrients required for older adults. Each meal includes a salad, entrée, starch, vegetable, bread, dessert and milk. We also provide the DASH diet for those who require diabetic, soft, low cholesterol or low sodium meals. Vegetarian meals are also available."
Hmm...., got off-topic, pretty quickly. Back to it: There are many, many drugs, including popular OTC's, that have been implicated in dementia. The PPI's for heartburn have been shown to increase one's odds of getting dementia by 54%! This was in a meta study that has been validated. I'm really glad I formulated my own heartburn cure that doesn't include those poisons!
I haven't read the, @Trevalius Guyus but I have read several studies on statins. There is evidence that they accelerate the progression of dementia, but I haven't seen any with evidence they actually CAUSE dementia. I wonder what the link is between the PPIs and dementia. Any thoughts?
Very happy to share. I've thought about going into business, making it, but the red tape is horrendous, and I'm too old to get excited about starting up yet another business, after having four very successful ones here in Austin. Here we go: Order food-grade Sodium Alginate (SA) and Potassium Bicarbonate (PB) (two separate orders) from Amazon. Order "00" vegan capsules. Get a lab ring stand, plastic funnel that will fit into the opened capsule, a scale that measures in mg, a tamp that will fit in an opened capsule, two small beakers, mini lab spoons. Learn how to use your scale. Measure 500 mg. of SA into one beaker, add 100 mg. PB. Put your funnel into the ring, put a stand clamp below it, with a small wooden block, drilled to accept and hold the longer opened capsule segment. Put one of the beakers below the wood block to catch any overflow. Load the capsule in the block. Lower the slanted funnel end to just barely touch the open capsule segment with its leading edge. Pour enough powder into the funnel to fill about ¾ of the capsule, tamp it down, fill with the rest of the powder. Close up the capsule with the shorter segment. Take one capsule after every meal and before bed. Take two, if you want to. The ingredients are safe, as far as I've found in my research, but I make no guarantees. Take at your own risk! For me, the above HAS WORKED WONDERS! Please understand I did not come up with the two ingredients on my own. Rather, an MD told me about a UK Gaviscon that contained them, along with a bunch of garbage excipients. I did not want that garbage, so I took matters into my own hands, literally. After dealing with heartburn, for six months, following a self-diagnosed, acute onset, hiatal hernia caused by a tire changing incident, I am virtually symptom free. I can, once again, eat foods I thought were off the table forever, pun intended. I'm a happy guy. Best of luck to anyone who follows my instructions, above. If you need more advice, just ask.
"First, PPIs may affect amyloid-beta (Aβ) metabolism, one of the pathological markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD). There is evidence that PPIs could cross the blood-brain barrier, enhance Aβ levels in the brain and decrease Aβ degradation." The preceding has not been proven, experimentally. It is, at this time, conjectural. There is, however, much anecdotal evidence, out there, that OTC PPI's promote Alzheimer's. I have read enough to the point where I would NEVER take any of them on a regular basis, and would try to never take them, at all.