Several Common Drugs Are Linked To Dementia

Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/several-common-drugs-are-linked-dementia
Published: Jan 29, 2024
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2024-01-29 06:45:29 by Horse
Views: 760

Drug-induced dementia, the late neurologist and neurosurgeon K.K. Jain wrote, is a type of reversible dementia different from common neurodegenerative disorders.

Several drugs increase the risks of dementia, the most prominent being anticholinergic drugs, anti-epileptics, oncology drugs, and sedative-hypnotic drugs. These are all common prescriptions for older people.

In recent years, antidepressants have also been linked with dementia risks.

Psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin, who has published several books on psychopharmacology, told The Epoch Times that most drugs on the market have some degree of neurotoxicity, which can lead to cognitive and neurological side effects.

Not everyone will be affected by a drug’s neurotoxic effects, though older people and those with brain deficits are more vulnerable.

With illnesses that surface in old age and the pills prescribed to treat each symptom, older people also tend to be the most likely cohort to be prescribed drugs that damage their cognition.

For example, many drugs prescribed to treat Parkinson’s disease are linked with dementia risks since they block acetylcholine in the brain as a way of preventing tremors and sudden movements in patients. Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter that also facilitates cognitive function.

Proton pump inhibitors, often prescribed to treat heartburn, have also been shown in studies to increase people’s risks of dementia by 44 percent.

Within the literature, the most well-known class of drugs that can induce dementia are anticholinergic drugs.

Anticholinergics block the release of acetylcholine. As early as 1977, experiments using the anticholinergic drug scopolamine showed that 40 minutes after drug administration, young medical volunteers in their 20s manifested dementia-like symptoms and had a harder time recalling things they had just learned.

Anticholinergic drugs block autonomic muscle movements and various bodily functions and are often prescribed for cramping and spasms in various organs. They also function as a sedative

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#1: Esso    To: Horse, 4um (#0)

Paging Dr. Horse...

I saw that earlier this morning. Strangely, there's no mention of the vaccine-induced dementia from the clot-shots that is melting my buddy's and his wife's brains. So, EVERYTHING gives you dementia EXCEPT the clot-shots apparently.

I saw this in the comments, but don't know if it's based in facts, I'm not an MD and don't talk to Dr. Kimmy about it anymore because it leads to fights. It has 8 upvotes and 12 downvotes, so somebody must think is is bad advice.

People need to go back to eating foods with avocado, butter, olive oil, to protect the myelin in the brain.(list below)

The primary function of the myelin sheath is to support, protect and nourish nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, Add the following to nourish and protect your myelin sheath

Meat like chicken breast and beef liver
Seafood like clams and crab
Nutritional yeast
Fortified soy products like tofu, soy milk and tempeh
Low- or nonfat dairy products like milk and yogurt
Eggs
Real butter
Nuts and seeds like walnuts, flax and chia seeds
Fish like herring, salmon and sardines
Oysters
Canola oil
Beans like navy and kidney beans
Vegetables like broccoli, Brussels sprouts and squash
Fruits like avocado and blackberries

What do y'all think?

(Edit) I agree with this reply to the above post...

Switch the low- or nonfat dairy to full fat, omit the canola oil and soy products (GMOs), and add all red meat, and it's a great list, imho.

Beware or know the source of seafood, much are farmed or sourced from polluted water. Reads like my grocery list -sans the liver and brussels sprouts (blech). [I like liver and brussels sprouts]

I bake my own sourdough bread w/organic flour, and activate the natural yeast in it with water then "feed" that starter w/flour myself as I use it, so I always have a jar of it in my fridge ready to go. [I used to bake my own bread]

Esso posted on 2024-01-29 07:41:06   Reply   Private Reply

#3: BTP Holdings    To: Esso (#1)

Fortified soy products like tofu, soy milk and tempeh

I stay away from soy products if at all possible. Soy contains anti-nutrients. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2024-01-29 08:29:25   Reply   Private Reply

#4: Esso    To: BTP Holdings, 4um (#3)

I stay away from soy products if at all possible.

I do to.

Soy contains anti-nutrients.

Soy is a Phyto-estrogen. I like being a man, especially when Dr. Kimmy is here. My T-level is about 3-4 times higher in my 60s as some of these long necked soibois in their 20s. No soy lattes for me.

The use of soy in baby formula is feminizing boys (look at their Audrey Hepburn necks and low-T) and ultra-feminizing girls (look at the change in breast size from a couple generations ago). I'm sure the childhood vaccines play into that somehow too, but I don't know much about it.

Esso posted on 2024-01-29 08:54:02   Reply   Private Reply

#5: Horse    To: Esso (#1)

Coconut oil is great for babies either on formula or on goat milk because it adds the fat toddlers need for their myelin sheaths.

Horse posted on 2024-01-29 11:53:11   Reply   Private Reply