[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by pooh

It is indeed one of life's greatest mysteries. I have a friend whose family is impacted with familial Alzheimer's. Members of her family have been studied, also. She is beginning to exhibit brain shrinkage, associated with coming down with the condition. As of this date, she has not exhibited Alzheimer's. It's been a few years.

Not sure if I would want to be tested VPl. At this point, if Alzheimer's manifests, actually very little seems to help, actually nothing really does at the moment.
One physician, Dr. Mary Newport reports success with her husband, an Alzheimer's patient, using coconut oil. Is this a cure all? Did it really work? Will it bring about a host of other medical problems?
If prevention through diet, exercise, preventing blows to the head turn out to nip the condition in the bud, you're right, prevention needs to start early. If other factors play some part in Alzheimer's, hopefully continued research will better pinpoint exactly why things happen. We know what happens, but why???

The book (100 Simple Things....) explains that there can be brain shrinkage and all kinds of other signs of degeneration and some people go on living normal lives. So, it's a strange disease. But it's thought that there can be offsetting factors like keeping active etc..