I'm a little worried

that I may be developing dementia. I am unsure of my family history on my father's side. On my mother's side, my mom has mental illnesses, so knowing if she has dementia is not easy. My maternal grandmother died in her 50's. My maternal grandfather is 96 years old and sharp as a tack. My maternal great-grandparents both had atherosclerosis. This caused many strokes in my great-grandmother and 2 heart attacks in my great-grandfather. My great-grandfather developed dementia due to this in his late 60's. Both my great-grandparents had familial type 3 hyperlipoproteinemia and Familial Hypertriglyceridemia. My father and his parents also had Familial Hypertriglyceridemia. I have both disorders, too.😔

I figured I would have issues in my 70's or 80's, but I will only be 60 this month. However, yesterday, I forgot how to zip my coat. I don't have health insurance until I turn 65, so until then, I am going to become very serious about my diet, and I will be researching what I can do to slow this down. I have a teeny tiny hope that yesterday was just a bad day, but I have been zipping my own coat since I was 3 years old. Today, I zipped my coat with no trouble. I did get a concussion from being rear-ended at a stoplight on October 21st last year. Maybe this has something to do with that.🤷‍♀

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Girlyfriendcollecting · F

So if this is running in your family there is not much you can do all the advice is out there you can try like diet changes and i would recommend asking a doctor on that because I worked at three different nursing homes in their dementia unit and what I learned is everyone is unique and on different medication you need a different type of diet so dont just listen to peoples diet advice from the internet ask a doctor. Cutting out processed food is always good. Doing mentaly stimulating things like reading and math helps, just memory exercises can help but if this is written genetically you can only prolong when it starts and only up to a certain extent.

OogieBoogie · F

Quit sugar
Reduce simple carbs
Cut out all processed food.

Up your good fats* and protein.
- your brain is made of 50%+ fat. Literally made of it.

We've been lied to about good fats....they are essential to our nerves and neurons. Every cell.

*Olive oil
Avocado oil
Cocoanut oil
Butter
Ghee
Lard
Tallow

Avoid canola oil like the plague

Food with polyphenols:
Basically anything that is brightly coloured - purple grapes, red tomatoes, dark spinach....eat the rainbow. (Also dark chocolate)
Dont forget berries and oily fish.

Reducing inflammation is key.
We all carry it but a healthy diet does wonders.

Think natural. Try and bring your eating back to basics.
Rule of thumb - buy foods with only one, (or as least as possible), ingredients in them.

Someone told me to shop in only the outside aisles at the supermarket.... that's where all the fresh stuff is. Get rid of packets of processed stuff.

I swear i got off my mood altering meds by eating bacon and eggs for nearly a year. It wasn't planned....its just what i craved. I looked up vitamin b deficiency (eggs are loaded with b group vitamins)....and i coulda ticked off 3/4 of that list .

Food is medicine....eat for health, its amazing.

This is everything i can give you in a nutshell that ive learnt .

And i cant state fats enough.

Sometimes i have bullet coffees, ( ur standard coffee blended with some butter), for all day energy.

Good luck🤗

Oh.... and give it time.
It takes weeks/months etc for your body to renew cells with the new nutrients you're feeding it.

Oh
... and fasting will help clear out old and damaged cells.

But be careful....keep up your electrolytes and fluid when fasting.

Subsumedpat · 41-45, M

@OogieBoogie ^ This, and if you somehow can make it to see a doctor over this rather than wait. Seems they are coming out with things more and more that can slow progression. Who would have thought but a recent study provided strong evidence that the shingles (herpes zoster) vaccine may slow the progression of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, in people already diagnosed with the condition. It also appears to reduce the risk of developing dementia in the first place. I am sure there are other things. If you don't have insurance contact the Alzheimer's Association they can help you there.

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