Encouraging study on Alzheimer's!
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Comments (18)Silversword, I didn't say you were wrong, I said tumeric is not all that spicy. It doesn't matter who said it was spicy, what matters is that now people who read this post will know that that is not true. If that isn't a contradiction... I didn't say you were wrong... what matters is that people...will know that that is not true. Spicy does not necessarily mean hot. It can mean piquant, pungent, heavily spiced... etc. To some people, it is a bit over the top. Obviously someone at BBC thought it was spicy. You don't. That doesn't mean you're right and they are wrong. A "little peppery" to you may mean HOT to another person. For someone so concerned with getting it accurate to the umpteenth degree this personal opinion being given as blanket truth is misleading. I find it a little more than irritating that this forum is constantly bogged down with your opinion that you and only you have the correct answers. Sometimes there is no correct answer. Is turmeric spicy? Depends on who is eating it. I think a more accurate statement would have been for you to say "I don't find turmeric particularly spicy". What matters to me is that researchers are saying the compound in turmeric may prevent Alzheimer's. This is interesting to me. It could have led to a discussion on regional diets and their effects on the brain and body. It could have led to a discussion of favorite uses of turmeric. Instead it turned into another pi**ing contest. For me, it's boring. It's tiring. It's less than educational. And it isn't any fun. I don't dislike you Brendan, I just have a hard time paying attention to anything you say because it comes across as so condescending....See MoreArticle in the Los Angeles Times about ping-pong and Alzheimers
Comments (2)My husband who had AZ had a brain scan and the result was part of his brain had atrophied. It could never get better, that part of his brain was dead. Nothing helps Alzheimer patients. The meds they give them are all experimental, never been proven to help....See MoreReally great breakthroughs in Alzheimers research
Comments (17)I'm with rob on this, it was what I was trying to say but my explanation wasn't very good. Her link was to an article about a Merck product that just got pulled. The publication also had an article about an Eli Lilly drug that was similarly in late stage trials and got pulled in November. Lilly was said to have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on that project, an amount hugely in excess of the funds that academic labs have to spend. That article also said "Over the past decade, 99 percent of experimental drugs for the disease have failed in clinical trials". Here's another project that was terminated. These drug projects would have received a lot of media attention about their promise and may have caused many to have false hope. Research has a lot of ups and downs and is a very long process. False conclusions and misdirection are far more frequently the outcome of research work than silver bullets....See MoreQuestion about Alzheimer’s
Comments (26)Chisue, you raise some very good questions. In my 40+ years of hospital nursing, I have seen heartbreaking instances of people with advanced dementia being forced to undergo life extending procedures -- such as open heart surgery! -- because their family members felt that it was the right thing to do. But, they fail to see the terror, the pain, the combativeness, the inability to leave drains and IVs and wounds alone, the patient sometimes injuring themselves or a staff member, and so on, because he/she is unable to comprehend what is being done to them or why, and unable to feel safe in such a foreign environment. Then those family members come in and demand that the patient not be receiving sedation or pain medication because it leaves them drowsy when the family wants to interact with them. And, those families often have failed to understand that Alzheimer's, for one, is itself a fatal disease. One of the ways that medicine has changed in the past 40 years is the way that we respond to fatal illness -- back then, we wouldn't put terminally ill or advanced dementia patients on life support, or ask families if they wanted us to "do everything, including CPR", when we knew that would be futile or merely extending their dying process. We just didn't (and I think society in general didn't) consider it a reasonable option: Now, we are obligated to do just that. I made the decision on the behalf of both of my parents -- who each had dementia of different types, my mother from repeated cerebellar strokes, my father from microvascular ischemia -- that they would receive comfort care only in the event of a major illness. Therefore, any treatment would be solely for the sake of relieving pain, shortness of breath, and so forth; not to extend life just for the sake of extending life. I feel strongly that we need to respect the gift of life, however we are designed to have our lives end and we need to respect that and recognize that death is sometimes a gift also....See Morematti5
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