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- alapoet, on 12/26/2008, -1/+94It really is a horrible disease.
I lost my Dad, after a long struggle, to it two years ago. Now my Mom has it, too. - justrasputin, on 12/26/2008, -1/+53That's terrible, my heart goes out to you and my best wishes go to your family.
- mark076h, on 12/26/2008, -1/+34If you want to help battle this disease get your CPU's and GPU's folding http://folding.stanford.edu/ they have been doing a lot of work with Alzheimer's. Here is one example that was just published on how folding@home is helping research and leading researchers into the right direction for a possible cure. http://folding.typepad.com/news/2008/12/new-fah-re ...
- doublefelix, on 12/26/2008, -0/+24"The best ways to improve blood flow to the brain and thereby reduce the chances of getting Alzheimer's is to reduce cholesterol intake, manage high blood pressure and exercise, especially entering mid-life. "
- DangQuesadilla, on 12/26/2008, -0/+21Hmm....."exercise and eat right." Yes, a real breakthrough for us all.
- JCPahl, on 12/26/2008, -0/+21Spoiler: it's glucose!
- sn9500, on 12/26/2008, -0/+20Very interesting. No one wants to get this disease.
- NodOfficer, on 12/26/2008, -1/+13fookoo, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having read it. I award you no diggs, and may God have mercy on your soul.
- seizurefriendly, on 12/26/2008, -1/+13lolwut
- ReemonIJ, on 12/26/2008, -0/+11This is a very good piece of information. We really need to start as early as possible to look after our mind and body health.
- Fartbandit, on 12/26/2008, -0/+11Both parents? That's harsh. I lost my grandfather to a heart attack before the disease fully claimed his mind 2 years ago so i know somewhat what you're going through. My heart goes out to you...
:( - dext3r, on 12/26/2008, -1/+10wut
- JaredXM, on 12/26/2008, -0/+9Slow starvation of what? Read the article to find out!
- misfit32, on 12/26/2008, -0/+8This, for me, is really good news. My Grandpa had Alzheimer's and my pops had Parkinson's. It's great to hear about progress in neuroscience research ^.^
- dmightx, on 12/26/2008, -0/+8Apparently he watches TV.
- DangQuesadilla, on 12/26/2008, -0/+7Don't forget the aluminum antiperspirant crowd. (antiperspirant has aluminum in it)
- lacreme, on 12/26/2008, -0/+6did you even read the article?
- inactive, on 12/26/2008, -0/+6time to get our asses out from behind the computer and get some exercise....
- madywithshovel, on 12/26/2008, -0/+6Actually, I would theorize that low carb diets would be protective in this instance. Low carb diets are protective against reactive hypoglycemia, which seems like just the kind of situation to starve the brain that the article speaks of. Low carb diets are low glycemic, which means that blood sugar will be less likely to go low a few hours after eating, which means blood sugar levels will be less likely to dip at these times. A healthy pancreas is easily able to maintain ideal blood sugar levels on a low carb diet- look at studies of Eskimo and Masai diets.
I am a type 1 diabetic who gets severe low blood sugar (I'm talking about walking into walls and slurred speech from too little glucose in my brain). Reading this article was definitely an "Oh *****" moment for me. Endocrinologists put so much stress on reducing blood sugar (with those lovely threats of amputation and blindness), but I never hear anything about long term effects of low blood sugar other than the immediate threat of coma and death. Yuck. - NoPis10, on 12/26/2008, -0/+6Wow! That is amazing. My mothers side has a big history of Alzheimer's and when my Great Aunt was in the more progressed stages of it she had to go to the ER because she fell and hit her head. They found that her brained was being starved of oxygen and that when she hit her head it temporarily fixed it. Before this she had forgotten my Grandpa who she helped take care of and raise but when my grandparents got to the hospital she instantly recognized them and started talking to them right where she had left off 5 years ago.
After a while it wore off but the doctor definitely said that her problem was a starvation of oxygen in he brain and that he didn't think she had Alzheimer's. Since then we've often wondered if the doctor was 100% correct in his diagnosis. Alzheimer's research is progressing quickly nowadays and I hope that my family will be able to be healthy but if that doctor was correct in his diagnosis then we had no idea what was wrong with the people in our family that we thought had Alzheimer's. However, in light of this information I now am now a bit torn.
Alzheimer's is a terrible disease and I've seen two of my Great Aunts die of it. They were both about the age of 70 but right before they started showing symptoms they were some of the smartest, most interesting women I had ever met. Less than 2 years later they had to move into an assisted living home and 4 years after that they had to move her to one specifically for Alzheimer's patients. My Grandfather has had the plaque in his carotid artery cleaned out twice for something else. Hopefully he will be okay but his plaque build up has not looked good so far. - stklaw, on 12/26/2008, -0/+6lol
- BlueCadenza, on 12/26/2008, -0/+6I've only known people outside of my family that had this, and even then it is a rough thing to see. I hope your family the best through those times, because dealing with any type illness in the family is such an exhausting thing. I know the time will come in a few decades when I have to help my parents through their illness and I hope to let them know how much they're appreciated before that time.
- Mujokan, on 12/26/2008, -0/+6Schizophrenia is a helluva drug.
- sherrington19, on 12/26/2008, -0/+5i may have Alzheimer's, but at least i don't have Alzheimer's
- ThatSwedishGuy, on 12/26/2008, -0/+5It does make a lot of sense though, exercise, eat healthy and you will be healthy. Also use your brain every day. Do puzzles, crosswords, sudoku etc etc. Yet again, the brain - use it or lose it.
- rpieszak, on 12/26/2008, -0/+5wat?
- ChileanGoD, on 12/26/2008, -1/+6I rarely wishes bad things on someone.... then you had to comment.
- oboshoe, on 12/26/2008, -3/+7FTA
"An estimated 10 million baby boomers will develop Alzheimer's in their lifetime, "
Personally I hope I get Alzheimers only after I'm dead. - BradBrown, on 12/26/2008, -0/+4Well, from his bio, I'd say Dr. Pande understands the science:
http://folding.typepad.com/about.html
I like Folding because it allows me to allocate a specific resource to a scientist, rather than cash. I'd rather donate specific resource to a scientist who understand the science, rather than just giving a wad of cash that could be used to purchase random things. - DrunkenPirate34, on 12/26/2008, -0/+4I feel like there is some great hidden message in that post, but I just can't grasp it.
- ivansusanin, on 12/26/2008, -0/+4what you say!
- megaton, on 12/26/2008, -0/+4Time Cube? Is that you?
- aufte, on 12/26/2008, -0/+4I am also wondering what.
- heynow21, on 12/26/2008, -0/+4Reading about diseases like Alzheimers and then remembering we had an administration that stifled medical research for 8 years based on religious beliefs ***** infuriates me.
- inactive, on 12/26/2008, -2/+6Protip: Eating more candybars won't help
- m0llusk, on 12/26/2008, -0/+3This is an important issue, but this story is full of incomplete or incorrect information. Hardening of the arteries is clearly a factor, but may be only one of many influences on blood flow to the brain. Additionally, hardening of the arteries is known now to be related to several other factors, in particular alcohol use. The remark about cholesterol intake is completely wrong because dietary cholesterol is not absorbed by the body. Only cholesterol levels in the blood are correlated with disease, and those are elevated by the body primarily as a response to high levels of saturated fat in the diet. Reader beware, as taking this article seriously could lead to making choices that are bad for health.
- markosfunk, on 12/26/2008, -1/+4go take a hike, seriously, so you can remember
- microtwitch, on 12/26/2008, -0/+3One could assume here those low-carb diets are dangerous for the reasons illustrated in this article, caused by a sort of glucose deficiency.
Thank you for the great info. - JonLatane, on 12/26/2008, -0/+3If you live in an apartment that includes power or a dorm, though, there's no reason not to run it! (Aside from hardware life, but that probably won't be an issue unless you plan to keep running your 2GHz dual-core machine when the most basic processors sold are 20x as fast.)
- Ellipsys, on 12/26/2008, -0/+3This is the absolute worst website ever, but some groundbreaking science - http://www.molecularalzheimer.org/ . It is most likely that what we call Alzheimer's today can be caused by many factors, just how we used to consider people dying of "old age" or "frailty" which was later revealed to be cancer. This website, if you have the fortitude to look through it describes how pathogens can create what we currently know as Alzheimer plaques and brain degeneration - chief amongst them, is Lyme disease, which has a cell-wall deficient cyst form. Autopsies performed on deceased Alzheimer's patients have shown Borrelia Burgdorferi (Lyme) found in brain tissue. Something to be aware of.
- kismetropolis, on 12/26/2008, -0/+3I'm so sorry to hear not only of your loss but that you're going through it a second time. My good thoughts and heart go out to you all.
- specialK16, on 12/26/2008, -0/+3OH U!
- DavidinBoston, on 12/26/2008, -0/+3I work in a nursing home/ rehab facility. When you watch a person who has Alzheimer's, you quickly see that it is like they are trapped on an island, isolated from any really meaningful communication with the outside world. In a way, it's worse than being in a coma, IMHO.
- m0llusk, on 12/26/2008, -1/+4The aluminum cookware thing was a mistake and got debunked by some other studies anyone can easily find with some searching.
Objections to antiperspirants were only ever partly about aluminum. Perspiration is natural, serves a number of functions, and is related to maintaining hormonal balance.
What we really need are some studies into the threatened by dissonance crowd. - paker, on 12/26/2008, -0/+3Women I know who have "starved" themselves to stay thin when they were young who are now in their 50's are experiencing bone loss in the form of degenerating disks in their backs and neck, along with general bone loss. I'm wondering as time goes on if Alzheimer's disease is in their future. This could have been avoided with a correct, natural diet and exercise.
- eryximachus, on 12/26/2008, -0/+3Well, all my elderly female relatives are from the depression era generation and find obesity disgusting. All of them are either still alive well into their 80s or died in their 80s or 90s with minimal health trouble.
By the way, have you heard of caloric restriction? - AngelaQ, on 12/26/2008, -0/+2This is interesting, but they did not cite any studies demonstrating a link between high cholesterol and Alzheimers's. If there are, they should have. If there are not, the recommendations are based on nothing at all.
- TigerStar337, on 12/26/2008, -0/+2Most people I know don't like exercise because it is to much work. Oh, well.
- Auzy, on 12/26/2008, -2/+4Just be aware that people have found that whilst folding at home at first appears to be cheap, it has been shown on http://au.ps3.ign.com/articles/776/776347p1.html , that for PS3's at least that it costs from $84 to approximately $324 per year to run..
I hate to be a hippy, but $84 per year sounds like money better donated directly to the scientists directly. And a lot of these distributed computing projects seem to be more about brute force then logic. I'd rather donate to scientists who actually understand the science, rather then just testing a whole bunch of random combinations and hoping.. - specialK16, on 12/26/2008, -1/+3???
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