Do the charts/graphs apply to a certain age, e.g., 70 if you applied healthy activities to your lifestyle,or 80 if you did not...My mother developed dementia at 90 with symptoms that interfered with life. It is hard to believe she has this since she exercised every day for 40 years, ate a healthy diet, read avidly as a passion and completed Crossword puzzles 6 days per week from The NY Times. We can only conclude that she was 90, and a recent widow.
We cannot avoid these diseases unfortunately over a long enough time frame. All we are ever doing is tilting the odds to push them out to later in life. Developing one of these conditions at age 90 is of course heartbreaking but statistically a huge success. Most people develop at least one much much earlier in life and very few get to age 90.
Interesting. My dad has been diagnosed at 64 with Lewy Body Dementia. He did have type 2 diabetes but lost 8 stone through exercise and diet straight after, 15 years ago. He has been kept on the medication for diabetes since, even increasing doses in recently years. On paper he did the right things but may have been too late?
Lewy body is one of the rare dementias I mentioned. It has far less research available than the other two types. Any positive changes made at any time can have a big impact. It sounds like he made a huge effort.
Do the charts/graphs apply to a certain age, e.g., 70 if you applied healthy activities to your lifestyle,or 80 if you did not...My mother developed dementia at 90 with symptoms that interfered with life. It is hard to believe she has this since she exercised every day for 40 years, ate a healthy diet, read avidly as a passion and completed Crossword puzzles 6 days per week from The NY Times. We can only conclude that she was 90, and a recent widow.
We cannot avoid these diseases unfortunately over a long enough time frame. All we are ever doing is tilting the odds to push them out to later in life. Developing one of these conditions at age 90 is of course heartbreaking but statistically a huge success. Most people develop at least one much much earlier in life and very few get to age 90.
It is a huge success, but not unexpected. All the women in her family have lived into their 90’s.
Interesting. My dad has been diagnosed at 64 with Lewy Body Dementia. He did have type 2 diabetes but lost 8 stone through exercise and diet straight after, 15 years ago. He has been kept on the medication for diabetes since, even increasing doses in recently years. On paper he did the right things but may have been too late?
Lewy body is one of the rare dementias I mentioned. It has far less research available than the other two types. Any positive changes made at any time can have a big impact. It sounds like he made a huge effort.
Your article makes no reference to hormones and how they relate to onset of Alzheimer’s?
I will be doing an entire article on hormones and the impact of replacement in the near future so watch this space.
That’s good as hormone replacement seems to have an impact on Alzheimer’s