Having Alzheimer’s at 38 (2015)
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Having Alzheimer’s at 38 (2015)
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Re: Having Alzheimer’s at 38 (2015)
#2This topic is touched upon briefly in the excellent game / walking simulator "Firewatch".
Re: Having Alzheimer’s at 38 (2015)
#3How very sad. I don't have the same genetic issue he does, though I do worry about this disease and it's frequency in my family tree. Frankly, I hope for a cure.
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#4There is an excellent German ZDF documentary about Alzheimer/Dementia at young people: https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/37-grad/37-das-grosse-verge...
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#5Diseases which affect your brain are quite bizarre in terms of quantifying the effects. I have some lesion damage from multiple sclerosis, but there's very little information available on what effects, if any I'd be able to identify. It's quite a bizarre experience to have physical damage that manifests in such a way that the entire outcome is subjective (was not putting clothes in the dryer an effect of Alzheimers? maybe), though clearly in this case the results are later measurable as the disease progresses. Nerve damage lower in the spine is easier to make judgements about, but still not perfect (for me this manifests as sensation loss, which is only measurable by stabbing me with a needle and asking how it felt).
Though obviously unobtainable, I wish there was better ways of measuring cognitive damage than drawing overlapping pentagons, though I seem to be able to pass that one with my own evaluation despite lack of drawing skills.
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#6This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night. I really hope we can make breakthroughs with these sorts of things soon.
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#7I see someone is subscribed to Peter Attia's Newsletter.
On topic, this was seriously a very good read and I seem to have a strange obsession of reading about afflictions of the brain and how they manifest in different people.
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#8Reading this will rightfully scare the bejeezus out of us. The question is, what can we do? Alzheimer is sometimes referred to as diabetes type 3. Cutting out sugar and eating a low carb diet is a good precaution. It likely wouldn't have helped Jo, but it might save quite a few of us from this scary outcome.
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#9Not specificly linked to alzheimers but id note three things :
> famous celebrity `chipchan` just died from cancer, she also had symptoms like schizophrenia... symptoms of schizo like claimed she was being followed and hit with energy weapons, lots of mental distress, mental pain, mental fog etc
> i cured my schizophrenia with hot tubbing and ice baths. google ice bath athlete to get the idea. i also had cancer
> it could be food related imho, i suspect icebath are taking off among beef eaters. you can test for yourself eat grapes, limes and coconut for a week and watch how sick you get.
my video explaining, it may be worth a watch if u have cancer or mental issues
Re: Having Alzheimer’s at 38 (2015)
#10Reading this will rightfully scare the bejeezus out of us. The question is, what can we do? Alzheimer is sometimes referred to as diabetes type 3. Cutting out sugar and eating a low carb diet is a good precaution. It likely wouldn't have helped Jo, but it might save quite a few of us from this scary outcome.
Diabetes type 3!?!?! I have never heard this but I'll sure as he'll keep this in mind now.