Comments on: 106.2 Million Alzheimer’s Patients by 2050: Are Scientists Trying Desperately to Avert It?

By: Bob Biggs

Bob Biggs — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:27:34 +0000

this disease is not “genetic” as some will say. Eating lots of vegetable oils, rancid fats, trans fats ie margarine, lower your cholesterol down to levels, eating free radicals ie fried anything, not eating good fats is the problem. Your brain myelin is made up of cholesterol, as in 100%. Now what do you think is going to happen when you starve your body of good fats, eat vegatable (omega 6) oil, don’t get enough cholesterol (sat fats)? How is your body going to adequately going to produce myelin which coats the nerve fibers of the brain? When you starve your body of healthy fats ie omega 3 & saturated fats (that are not oxidized) you will get some form of dementia & eventually Alzheimers. Anyone questioning saturated fats better go talk to eskimos and see how little they get heart disease…so NO MARGARINE, SHORTENING, COOKING OILS (oils become rancid – oxidized rapidly), FRIED ANYTHING, BURNED ANIMAL PROTEIN (free radicals)

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:56:06 +0000

I have been concerned about Alzheimer’s since my early 20s at least, and now I am 63 years old! No one at that time in my family had Alzheimer’s, since then an number of my aunts and uncles have either developed Alzheimer’s or have even died of it. I knew 40 years ago that this was a slowly developing national emergency but felt hopeless about doing anything about it except to warn as many people as I could, and essentially not nearly enough has been done. I sure hope the next 20 years shows progress in the treatment of this horrible disease!

By: Dr. John

Dr. John — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:13:49 +0000

It wouldn’t surprise me to find that huge increase in Alzheimer’s cases is due to the huge push by the medical / Pharm. industry to make sure everybody is vacinated for everything under the sun. It has been said the anyone who has had a flu shot for 5 consecutive years has a ten-fold increased risk of deveoping Alzheimer’s Disease.
Now look what they’re doing with the new Swine Flu scare – using Fear to scare everyone into getting a shot this year. It has already been said that the swine flu is anything but dangerous to the normal, average immunologically strong person….but EVERYBODY should get the vacination!
There are much more logical AND safer ways to protect yourself from the flu anyway, as well as simply safe and inexpensive ways to fight it IF you got it. BTW – If you got the flu shot today and it “broke out” in your town in November…your shot would, in all likelihood, be useless in protectingyou against it because it mutates constantly. Ask you MD.
Look up Ted Koren, D.C. for more information on Vacinations and Alzheimers. Nobody pays any attention to him because he’s only a chiropractor …and what do they know, right? Read the research then – Make up your own mind

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:25:32 +0000

The children, siblings, spouses and friends who take care of people with Alzheimer’s Disease are the unsung heroes of our society. They care for someone who they love and care about eventually no longer recognizes them, adding to the pain and sadness.
The costs, both emotionally and financially, can be devastating. I strongly suggest family and friends consider adult medical day care for their loved ones. They are all over the country and offer respite for the caregiver, quality care for those with dementia, and the cost is considerably less than residential care or in-home care. Unfortunately, the health care system provides little assistance to the valient care givers and the amount of money allocated for care in the public sector pales in comparison with the need.
If you know someone who is caring for someone with Alzheimer’s Disease, offer to make a meal, give them a break from caregiving, help with errands. So many caregivers need a break and an understanding helping hand.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:10:09 +0000

No the medical industry has been quietly working on their own Plan B for this unavoidable mass dementia problem the world will soon be facing. It’s euthansia. Watch the slow progression of assisted suicide legalization and standardization as it progesses around the globe. That is the ultimate cure for an uncurable disease. No one’s that much money into because why bother? Seriously, there aren’t enough people with insurance or subsidies to finance research in this area. Generally the victims are not wage earners any more and viewed as deadweight by the time they are stricken.
Watch and see it happen. There will be large campaigns for legalization of assisted suicide in each country, and that’s a small leap from granting rights to custodians to euthanize those incapable of deciding for themselves.

By: Charles Fritz

Charles Fritz — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:36:38 +0000

My father had parkinsons and alzheimers together and was in a nursing home for years. My mom was with him everyday and now she has alzheimers. This is cruel to some but they had a do not revieve (SP) notice at the nursing home but not in the local hospital. They brought him back twice in one night and he lived in an entrapped world for another 4 years. His last words were do not let me live like this.
With these deseases there is no cure. Let nature take her course. What kind of a life can they really lead. Before he got to bad he talked with me about how it was to be trapped inside unable to even kiss the women he loved or say thank you. Quote from my father; I am in a cloud of death that I cannot control and it engulfs my memories until there is nothing but the need to die but yet I live on in this body for nothing.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:23:02 +0000

My father was diagnosed with this horrific disease in 1979 at the age of 54. He lived to be 72 and spent his last 12 years in a Veteran’s hospital. He had many bouts of pneumonia for which he was treated, only to recover until the next trip to the ICU. It was an experience I will never be able to fully describe. Our family was fortunate to have him hospitalized at the VA and we are so grateful. Today this is not possible. I understand what Ms. Mac has said about her mother. I often felt guilty that I let him live through this horror but I didn’t have the courage to do something about it. I hope he is finally at peace.

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:43:00 +0000

My father died of Alzheimer’s Disease in 2007, after battling it for nearly a decade. After witnessing what he and my mom went through (his care cost over $4,000 a month near the end), I no longer believe that the medical and pharmaceutical communities really want to cure it. It’s much more profitable to treat it than it is to cure it.

By: Ms Mac

Ms Mac — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:07:04 +0000

My mother passed away last week from this heartless painful
disease.It sucks to see your mom waste away after 8 years
of this horrible disease.Never once did my mom ever complain that she was condemmn with this heavy cross.
They have to find a cure for this wasteful disease.
I ache for her to die she gone now and I miss her madly.
Mom when you get home please turn on the light at the door .
I’ll be seeing you soon.Please keep your wings open for me.

I LOVE YOU.
MS.Mac in LOS ANGELE