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Title: Turtle Knows Something You Don't
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Published: Jun 1, 2010
Author: Turtle
Post Date: 2010-06-01 12:06:37 by Turtle
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Comments: 10

I work with old people, crippled people, retarded people.

Half the people in nursing homes have Alzheimer's. A lot of people with Alzheimer's are still are home, fortunately.

Forty years ago there were half-a-million people with Alzheimer's. Today there are five million, and it's growing every day. We're living longer, but it cannot explain this.

The cost of caring for these people is astronomical.

These people can live anywhere from two twenty years with this diseaase.

In stage three, they become incontinent, and can't even feed themselves. Afer a while workers can't even feed them, they are asleep all the time, and end up with a feeding tube. Then they're put on hospice, which they have six months or less to live.

The cost of caring for these people is already running into tens of billions a year. Soon it's going to be hundreds of billions.

This is a hidden time bomb and hardly anyone knows about it.

Researchers have been so far able to slow it down, but have not yet discovered a cure.

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#1. To: Turtle (#0)

Researchers have been so far able to slow it down, but have not yet discovered a cure.

How about it's cause? I believe aluminum exposure is associated with Alzheimer's, and exposure to aluminum is through pots and pans, including those in coffee machines, made of aluminum.

Aluminum is not for contact with food. As a relatively soft metal, higher amounts will leech into food and be consumed.

The only kind of pot that's difficult to find which is made of something other than aluminum is a pressure cooker, but there are a few steel ones out there.

Pinguinite  posted on  2010-06-01   12:19:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

My maternal aunt died of Alzheimer's a couple decades ago after extensive stay in a full care facility.

Generally speaking the condition is thought to be caused by build ups of toxic plaques inside the body. Included is suspicion of aluminum cooking material contributing to these plaques. And there are many diets that will help the body get rid of poisons instead of allowing them to build up. The simplest thing to do is drink a lot of pure water and take various healthy supplement foods and vitamins and not eat processed and artificially enhanced items. Going even further there are breathing and physical exercises taught by practices like yoga and tai chi which create a better overall physical condition for the entire body. These of course would take discipline and work.

The rate of Alzheimer's is much higher in industrialized countries than in places where people live a more natural lifestyle. Something in our industrialized lifestyle is creating much greater risks for this condition, and many others just as bad.

AGAviator  posted on  2010-06-01   12:22:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

You scarcely consider that it is related to living longer.

Medical science has figured out how to cure or control so many ailments that were death sentences when I was a child. People are now able to live on despite bad hearts, bad lungs, even cancer. Drugs can strengthen the organs or weaken the disease, and transplants can even replace old parts with newer parts.

But no such luck with the brain. There is a definite limit to what medical science can, or will be able to do. After all, experiments with animals will hardly provide usable data regarding the subtle aspects of early dementia.

Effectively, the brain remains the one part of the body that cannot be transplanted or otherwise prevented from aging. People are, thanks to medical science, living beyond the span that was common a couple of generations ago - surviving to the point where the one organ that cannot be replaced goes bad.

Shoonra  posted on  2010-06-01   12:23:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

but have not yet discovered a cure.

Where's the money in that?

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile.

Prefrontal Vortex  posted on  2010-06-01   12:26:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

You scarcely consider that it is related to living longer.

It's well known that Alzheimer's is much higher in industrialized countries.

Alzheimer's is caused by plaques of toxic materials inside the brain, not organs wearing out. Keeping the plaques from forming will prevent the disease from happening.

AGAviator  posted on  2010-06-01   12:29:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

But no such luck with the brain.

And your brain is a prime example.

WWGPD? - (What Would General Pinochet Do?)

Flintlock  posted on  2010-06-01   12:36:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Researchers aren't too sure about aluminum, but the tangles of plaque in the brain do have aluminum in them. Personally, I avoid the stuff. Fortunately, there is no Alzheimer's in my family.

It's been found people of less education and intelligence get more Alzheimer's. Exercising your brain, then, can prevent it.

I deal with it every day. It's a horrible disease. Taking 20 years to die? Christ, cancer is a mercy compared to that.

For it is not the wolf or any of the other beasts that would join the contest in any noble danger, but rather a good man. — Aristotle, Politics, Book IIX

Turtle  posted on  2010-06-01   12:37:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

do you work at nursing homes?

christine  posted on  2010-06-01   13:44:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

do you work at nursing homes?

Nursing home, assisted care, retirement home.

Pretty cool job, actually. Cats and dogs live there, fish, birds, too.

Inhome theater, swimming pool, weight room.

For it is not the wolf or any of the other beasts that would join the contest in any noble danger, but rather a good man. — Aristotle, Politics, Book IIX

Turtle  posted on  2010-06-02   10:47:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

but have not yet discovered a cure.

Where's the money in that?

There are researchers out there working sixty hours a week to discover a cure.

If a cure is not discovered, the growing number of Alzheimer's patients will simply crush the health-care system.

You think it's bankrupt now? Just watch.

What are we supposed to do with this people? Kill them? Personally, I think there should be no feeding tubes. They're down to less than six months anyway. Just hydrate them and them slip away.

For it is not the wolf or any of the other beasts that would join the contest in any noble danger, but rather a good man. — Aristotle, Politics, Book IIX

Turtle  posted on  2010-06-02   10:51:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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