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Originally Posted by frayedends
Regarding dementia you are putting words in my mouth. My mother is still cognitively not quite functional. She was on all those meds and she required a special bed and special wheelchair for nurses to move her and get her up. All the biopharm drugs were stopped because, frankly, on hospice and in her painful life there was no reason to be trying to keep her cholesterol low. Her BP hadn't been high in years but they still had her on meds. She was on 6 different meds for these conditions.
Her dementia did not decrease and she was not put on any keto diet. We just stopped her meds. Within 2 months she was more verbal, a bit more aware and physically better. She is still wheelchair bound. But she went from being hunched over and shaking to being sitting upright and not shaking. Her skin issues also greatly improved. She stopped picking at her scabs on her face and all her dry skin was much better.
Okay, regarding my doctor: He said that I could likely improve my results by diet and exercise but that since I was over 50 he didn't see many people continue with that and they usually fail. He literally said, "You are over 50, nothing you can do. Just take the pills."
He recently retired. The replacement doctor looked at my test results and my LDL was just a bit high (which is common on keto/carnivore diet). It was just a bit over and he said, "Did your last doctor talk to you about taking a statin." In my pre-visit questionnaire I mentioned my diet. I mentioned that I drink too much on weekends. I mentioned a few skin issues I wanted to discuss. All he did was look at test results from previous visit (a year old) and try to put me on a pill.
Now if you consider high blood pressure and cholesterol and pre-diabetes something to be "cured" then a keto diet cured me in 4 weeks and if you are a doctor and fail to realize that low carb diets can fix metabolic disease and you just push drugs, then you are the problem.
From MyChart before and after 4 weeks of keto. To be honest, the after test wasn't until about 2 months. I lost the weight in 4 weeks.
Oh and I've worked in Biopharm for 28 years. I won't take the drugs, just saying.
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First of all, I had no intention about being insensitive about your mother. I'm glad she is doing better. And you might be surprised that I agree with discontinuing unnecessary medication, especially something as ridiculous as anti-cholesterol medication given her mental status. I misinterpreted the keto diet reference as having something to do with your mom's improvement. It is also ridiculous for a physician to suggest statins for
borderline high LDLs unless there is an associated cardiac condition. Looks like you did quite well with weight loss, which in turn reduces HbgA1C and LDL. (Or looking at it the other way, excessive weight can elevate HbgA1C and LDL)
I think my point is simply that there a lot of quacks out there, a lot of books out there, and a lot of people who think "alternative medicine" is as good or better than the real thing. It is not. No amount of combining "power foods" is going to cure pneumonia or a brain malignancy.