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Alzheimer’s is seriously one of the most frightening diseases to me. If I ever got Alzheimer’s in my old age — OR MIDDLE AGE, APPARENTLY — I am going to feed myself a bullet. It’s that serious.

Here is the article:

“Alzheimer’s Disease Now Striking Americans in Their 40’s

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, November 14, 2008
Key concepts: Alzheimer’s disease, Cognitive function and Health trends

Alzheimer’s used to be primary diagnosed in people over 65, but now it’s suddenly appearing in hundreds of thousands of people who are merely in their 40’s. Why is this happening?

Though the conventional medical industry won’t admit this, the real reason why Alzheimer’s is striking people in their 30’s and 40’s is because of lifelong exposure to toxic chemicals that affect brain function. Those chemicals include the very pharmaceuticals that doctors are prescribing patients to treat the symptoms of Alzheimer’s, by the way. They also include the toxic chemicals in foods, household cleaners and personal care products.

If we don’t stop the widespread exposure to these chemicals, we can expect to see yet more loss of cognitive function in middle-aged adults.

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The Wall Street Journal - Health - When Alzheimer’s Hits at 40

From Online.wsj.com: While most people who get Alzheimer’s are over 65, Mr. Kammerer is one of about 500,000 Americans living with Alzheimer’s or other dementias at an atypically young age. Alzheimer’s takes a long time to develop — usually, it isn’t diagnosed until 10 years after the first symptoms appear…. More”

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This is absolutely frightening. I’ve read some studies that SOME Alzheimer’s could really be Mad Cow Disease that was dormant in a person for years. Did you know we could all have the Mad Cow Disease in us right now that can lay silent in us for many many years, and then spring up on us at any time?

Aluminum might also cause Alzheimer’s. The talc inside of MOST deodorants and MOST baby powder is definitely something to stay away from.

Also, I was reading a forum about this earlier, and I want to show you all some comments on what few people said about Alzheimer’s that I wholeheartedly agree with.

Here are peoples comments (and my commentary at the bottom of this post):

Here is the most important comment I’ve seen:

“reply posted on 16-11-2008 @ 11:40 PM by nikiano

I’m a pharmacist, and I can also tell you that there has been some more evidence over the last few years that shows that the brains in many Alzheimer’s patients seem to not utilize glucose properly. A few researchers have suggested that because of this, Alzheimer’s may be a type of “diabetes of the brain.”

Aluminum may also be a culprit, too. There are molecules of aluminum that show up in the “tangles” in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, but nobody knows why, yet. My grandmother and both of her sisters have it/had Alzheimer’s. They all grew up near a river in the Ohio Valley where there was a large aluminum plant on the river, and I’ve heard that there is a large incidence of Alzheimer’s and cancer in that city.

Personally, I’m convinced that we’re poisoning ourselves, through food and medicine. We probably are causing Alzheimer’s. Remember, the FDA approves new medicines and food additives based on short-term toxicity studies only. They don’t require long term safety studies from manufacturers. That’s why so many medicines get yanked off the market years later. I have no more faith in the FDA anymore. They’ve become so corrupt over the last 10 years or so, it’s insane. I even know a fellow pharmacist who used to work for them, and even he says they’re corrupt as hell.

I for one, have started to avoid all pharmaceuticals in recent years, unless it’s a life or death situation. I now recommend herbal and homeopathic medicine to my patients whenever possible, instead, too, because I know it’s safer. Also, I’m trying my best to eat a diet of organic and raw foods. Although our cooked/processed food is addictive, so I’m finding it hard to let it go all at once.

Interestingly, in homeopathy, there are many remedies that you can use to treat Alzheimer’s, if you catch it early enough. (I went to homeopathy school for a year, and my teacher was also an M.D.) In homeopathy, you use the principle “like cures like” to cure disease. Interestingly, the remedy “alumina” (aluminum) is used to cure dementia. They were using alumina for dementia long before they ever discovered that there was aluminum in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. It sounds counter-intuitive, yes…but then when you study and understand the “like cures like” principle behind homeopathy, it makes sense why it works.”

What my friend, and also a medical student, had to say about the pharmacist I just quoted:

SN IS PROTECTED (11:52:05 PM): The pharmacist has it on the dot, mainly.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:52:08 PM): He knows what he’s talking about.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:52:24 PM): I don’t even have to do research on it.

Here’s another:

“reply posted on 16-11-2008 @ 11:44 PM by adrenochrome

This has to be from the aluminum found in many products we consume and use…

I’ve heard that 40%-60% of Alzheimer’s patients have some sort of aluminum coating on the surface of the brain. The aluminum found in underarm antiperspirant seems to be a major culprit…

EDIT: When did they start putting aluminum in antiperspirants?? it seems like it would have been around 40-50 years ago…”

And another comment:

“reply posted on 16-11-2008 @ 10:46 PM by Memysabu

Sounds like high maintenance individuals get Alzheimer’s quick. Just my two cents. My great grandma was not that way, she lived to be 102 and she did not suffer from Alzheimer’s. She had a stroke at 90 and FINALLY retired. She was a nurse up until her stroke.

I believe this breaks down to lifestyle. She never took any medications that I knew of either. She didn’t believe in wasting electricity so she was in the dark most of the time. She cooked everything from scratch. Made all of her own blankets etc and grew a lot of her own food.

I dunno maybe we should examine the lives of those that didnt get it and learn from them.”

Here is one more:

“reply posted on 16-11-2008 @ 11:55 PM by asmeone2

Whoa, really scary right there.

What the articles don’t go into is how this relates to artificial sweeteners, which I think is the real culprit.

Both my parents are in their late 40’s and drink diet sodas. I have tried my darnedest to tell them all that’s wrong with them and it’s in one ear and out the other.

I certainly hope they are not effected but I think this increase will only continue.”

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BASICALLY… Alzheimer’s is not some random thing that random people get. Nor is it a gene. Alzheimer’s is accumulated over time.

EDIT:

Here are some more thoughts from my friend, medical student, that I quoted above.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:09:38 PM): I read your latest post on Alzheimers.

Concetta (11:09:44 PM): what do you think of that

SN IS PROTECTED (11:09:51 PM): I can provide you with some info concerning that, as I’m doing research in Neurology.

Concetta (11:10:00 PM): okay

SN IS PROTECTED (11:10:06 PM): They just found out that the tests they’ve been conducting for it for the past few years are wrong.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:10:18 PM): Like, they’ve proved absolutely nothing. There’s no cure/remedy in sight.

Concetta (11:10:30 PM): that’s frightening

SN IS PROTECTED (11:10:35 PM): Their basis was an amyloid plaque formation, which is formed within the brain.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:11:05 PM): Amyloids are essentially Beta-pleated protein sheets which are gone awry.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:11:22 PM): Anyway, the theory was that those amyloid plaques are causing it.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:11:26 PM): Turns out, a NEW theory is coming out.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:11:44 PM): The brain is probably CREATING these amyloid plaques to -stop- Alzheimer’s from progressing completely.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:11:57 PM): So, for the past few years, they’ve been looking at the cure as the killer.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:12:02 PM): And the killer as the cure.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:13:39 PM): I got it from a magazine. I read a magazine called ‘nature’ magazine.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:13:55 PM): Here, I’ll link it to you.

Neuroscience: The plaque plan

Concetta (11:19:47 PM): so

Concetta (11:19:47 PM): wait

Concetta (11:19:51 PM): you don’t think its talc then

Concetta (11:19:54 PM): or aluminum

Concetta (11:19:56 PM): or mad cow disease

Concetta (11:19:59 PM): or anything like that?

SN IS PROTECTED (11:20:59 PM): Could be. Science is stupid like that.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:03 PM): Especially Biology.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:08 PM): Mad Cow is a prion disease, though.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:18 PM): Whoever is correlating those two=stupid.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:19 PM): Truly.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:22 PM): Mad Cow=CJD.

Concetta (11:21:30 PM): <–CORRELATED THOSE TWO

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:36 PM): Cruefedlt Jakob’s disease. SP on Creufedltz

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:38 PM): LOL, sorry!!!

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:48 PM): But, CJD is a PRION disease. People suspect it’s actually a virion/viroid.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:22:06 PM): Alzheimers isn’t. It’s mostly amyloid based.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:22:14 PM): Then again, prions create amyloid fibrils which kill the brain.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:24:35 PM): It’s like this, okay?

SN IS PROTECTED (11:24:56 PM): There’s a popular hypothesis that prions are virus-generated. It’s not really popular, but a few professors/scholars believe it.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:25:03 PM): But, prions CANNOT be destroyed under any circumstances.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:25:51 PM): A specific protein, dealing with copper oxidation of the cell, becomes defective and begins develop amyloid fibrils.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:26:06 PM): These fibrils cause apoptosis, which is cellular destruction.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:26:16 PM): Prion diseases affect neurons mainly.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:26:23 PM): Not mainly, actually. Only neurons.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:26:28 PM): So, the neurons die off eventually.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:26:57 PM): Prion diseases work relatively fast. Like, within days, the person loses cognitive function, develops speech impediments, etc.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:27:04 PM): They literally become brain dead

SN IS PROTECTED (11:27:07 PM): They finally just die out.

Concetta (11:27:18 PM): and that’s what i heard mad cow disease does to you

Concetta (11:27:58 PM): that’s scary especially that it can’t be destroyed at all

Concetta (11:28:01 PM): you’re pretty much going to die

Concetta (11:28:10 PM): bam eat a bad piece of meat and you have a death sentence

SN IS PROTECTED (11:28:14 PM): Pretty much.

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More about Amyloid

SN IS PROTECTED (11:35:07 PM): It’s probably the brain’s way of containing the toxic properties.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:35:16 PM): Really..really hard to explain.  But, it’s like ..

SN IS PROTECTED (11:35:30 PM): B-pleated sheets are going renegade, creating plaques.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:38:04 PM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloid

SN IS PROTECTED (11:38:37 PM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloidosis

SN IS PROTECTED (11:39:19 PM): Proteins have four main structures.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:39:26 PM): First, secondary, tietierary and quartenary.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:40:06 PM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_structure

SN IS PROTECTED (11:40:27 PM): Something goes awry with the b-sheets, which are integral to protein structures.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:40:39 PM): It becomes b-pleated. Think of various..sheets, bent randomly.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:40:44 PM): That’s b-pleated, mainly.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:41:19 PM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Protein-structure.png

SN IS PROTECTED (11:42:03 PM): Then again, b-pleated sheets could be natural; it’s just the drowning of them that is unnatural.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:42:09 PM): Sorry, just a lot of information to remember.

My medical-student-friends main advice?

DO MORE RESEARCH AND READ MORE

SN IS PROTECTED (11:50:31 PM): Just read, read and read more.

SN IS PROTECTED (12:01:01 AM): Do so much research, your eyes are bleeding.

SN IS PROTECTED (12:01:05 AM): Not just you, but everyone.

SN IS PROTECTED (12:01:21 AM): People hop on bandwagon’s too quick. And if you don’t know, find someone who does.

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