Alzheimers - clinical study shows symptoms can be reversed

Just saw this:

health.usnews.com/health-care/articles/2016-06-16/health-highlights-june-16-2016?src=usn_fb


The treatment included diet, exercise, sleep, brain stimulation, drugs, vitamins


Are they finally realizing that it's not all about handing people a few bottles of pharmaceuticals?

This is great news. I hope that they will research this.

By now everyone has a sad story of people they know or love with Alzheimers. And all would agree that it is heartbreaking.

I know, right, Trav?


It's what a lot of us have been pushing for - for many years. Not just the pharmaceuticals.
And...we were told recently that if we were to give my MIL a med - it might slow down the progression for maybe 6 months to a year...and there are side effects. That's hardly worth it.

"including diet changes, exercise, improved sleep,"

I don't understand how this is some "revolutionary" treatment plan or concept. This "treatment" plan pretty much improves everything.

If you do this "treatment" plan what it does is it nourishes the cells in the body properly and optimally. If cells are properly nourished then it will fight and/or prevent disease. Cells were design to be healthy but it needs the proper fuel to be healthy. Cells can get "sick", malfunction, etc, when you eat crap everyday, don't move around, and not get proper rest.

If I know this, then of course medical doctors with 8+ years of schooling and years of experience know this. The issue is they are supposed to sell pharmaceuticals and not prevent or heal. They have become glorified drug dealers.

I hope this means even doctors are tired of not healing people like they probably really want to and are now going against the grain. Good for them.

Sounds similar to Dr. H's MSIDS model. Finally looking at the body as a whole. He often uses the analogy of 16 nails in the foot, kinda like the wholes in the roof.

WOW.

smh. LOL...sigh... I need this day to be over.

thx for posting...

-p

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Thnx for book suggestion MaryClaire
Just requested from public library !

dacarte3 said...
Wow, just read my post from 2 years ago. I was 6 months into lyme and obviously angry haha.

nobody here expects he will be stuck on this forum for years.

We have some energy to spend, some ideas to hold to. When they are gone we find new ideas. When those are gone and we are still on the same forum, still sick, some sort of apathy takes hold.

This is why many people don't even post. I can see them online, some veteran members, reading (footer of forum page). But not posting anything. They are not posting not because they are healthy. They are not posting because they had enough of posting. 5 years of healingwell and 20000 posts is quite enough for anybody...

dacarte3 said...

mpost said...

dacarte3 said...
Wow, just read my post from 2 years ago. I was 6 months into lyme and obviously angry haha.

nobody here expects he will be stuck on this forum for years.

We have some energy to spend, some ideas to hold to. When they are gone we find new ideas. When those are gone and we are still on the same forum, still sick, some sort of apathy takes hold.

This is why many people don't even post. I can see them online, some veteran members, reading (footer of forum page). But not posting anything. They are not posting not because they are healthy. They are not posting because they had enough of posting. 5 years of healingwell and 20000 posts is quite enough for anybody...

Makes a lot of sense.

I will never leave this forum, personally. I want to help people on here. I want to learn and research things with other lymies on here.

Even when I have a long symptom free stretch of life I remember to come on here because (for me personally), it feels "wrong" to just come on here when I'm in deep need and then forget about this place when I'm feeling great. When I'm feeling great someone one else might be in a bad stretch and need my/our assistance and support.

I'll be here as long it exists.

And two years from now I'll read this post and laugh because of the paradoxical nature of it. It will be like looking into a mirror, looking into a mirror,....looking into a mirror (infinite regress).

I've been feeling a lot of things lately. This seems like the right place to voice some of those feelings.

Mpost:
In response to what you said, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for the discouragement, lack of resolution, and ongoing trials you're facing. I'm glad you said what you did. I wondered why you seem angry and harsh in some of your posts. I understand better now, and I'm truly sorry.

In case some of those burned out folks see this, I'm going to tell how I feel. I've noticed over the past few months that quite a few long time members have dropped off. Some of them are the more science-minded folks.

Personally, I find that very discouraging. I joined this forum because I felt the members here were well-informed, knowledgeable, and encouraging. I need the smarter, more scientific folks. I depend on them to provide what I and others lack and to help keep us from spinning wheels and chasing fruitless rabbit trails. Without them, I feel defenseless in some way.

Furthermore, I'm concerned about the countless posts by multiple members that sound like they've joined other groups that I personally wouldn't want to be a part of. The tone is angry, vengeful, arrogant, superior, and talking down to other people. They profess "science" and "justice," but IMO it's theories and ideas tauted as absolute fact. Their so-called justice sounds more like militant vengeance to me. Beware of the company you keep, for they will surely influence your way of thinking and your attitudes. Don't fall into a snare.

dacarte:
Thank you for such a heartfelt post. I appreciate you. That's amazing you still feel that way after 2 years. I don't know how I will feel about all this 2 years from now, but I hope I will follow your lead. Thank you again.