I just don't know. You can do everything right - eat all the right foods and supplements, cook with olive oil, add coconut oil, MCT oil, and axona to your diet, and STILL get AD. I don't think the experts know either.
I agree with joang. A lot more work is needed, but this may lead researchers in the right direction. For years we have used olive oil in cooking (mostly since I took over when DW could no longer do it) and I don't see any difference.
My DH. comes from the Olive Oil Region of Italy.....always plenty in his diet...I have always used a lot of O.O. My Dh. also had a large veg. garden so there was always plenty of fresh greens...he played tennis, in his 80's biked...bowled...had a brain that could fix anything that needed fixing.....Who knows where this monster comes from...you do all the right things in life...there is no answer, as yet...Went through the same thing with our Son...at 36 he was dx with ALS..healthy,young man..loved all sports, a brillant mind....and out of the blue, there was this monster in our lives.....no answers there either.....
I can't help getting excited about ANYTHING with the slightest possibility of helping with this disease. I would make DH actually drink the stuff if we knew it would make a difference. It will be years before they know, though.
weejun, I am with you, girl. I have a dear cousin who is always sending me articles about food or food products that would "cure Alzheimer's". I wish the people who wrote those articles would be required to know more about the subject.
Just goes to show once again that the Press doesn't always report all the truth all the time. Ya think?
Over the half century that we have been married we both shared the same meals day after day. So how can anyone explain why he has dementia and I, so far, don't have it. He is only five years older than me. Neither family had this problem in the past as far as we know.
Everyone wants to put their 2 cents worth in - a cousin of my DH keeps sending articles about the latest drug trial - I have been there and done that - you just can't sign up for every trial that comes along - plus we just finished one with no improvement whatsoever. Then the oldest son suggested yoga - my DH tried it for a few weeks earlier in the disease and was bored to death. We have done the vitamin supplements, you name it - bottom line is that he is in perfect physical health - what good does this do when his brain is addled with AD? The most recent suggestion was that I have my DH work with a personal trainer at the fitness center! There is no way that he would remember how to use even one machine, let alone a whole regiment of machines. Of course, I still find myself looking for that magic bullet - but in my sane moments I know that "it ain't gonna happen"........
Oh, former soulmate, I hurt so for you. My daddy had AD, was the healthiest specimen you would ever find. In the early 60's before physical fitness crazes he started skipping rope on the patio after work. He was a crossword fanatic, did the income taxes for all his friends, low BP, low cholesterol, never smoked, starting in his 60's he jogged a minute for each year of age on his birthday each year. By age 78 he was in a fetal position for months before death.
I don't look for any magic bullets; call me a fatalist but I think we do the best we can regardless of genes, environment, etc., whatever's going to be will be -- we just must hope for the best.
Like with dear Nancy's Krissy -- how come most of us plug along on one heart for 50-80 years and she's on #3 and not yet 30 years old???
The best comfort I can take from any of this is that through my travails with AD/dementia with a father and now a spouse is that I've met the most wonderful people and made some of the best friends of my life. Guess though it's a terrible price to pay -- the payback is more than enough.