Alzheimer's rate increasing? Nah a wild conspiracy.

All that tasty Aspartame aside, there is another factor behind the exponential jump in identified cases of Alzheimers.

Alzheimers disease has only been recongnized as such for a few decades. A certified doctor in the 1920s would have lumped it under the catch all "dimentia."

Has there really been an exponential increase in the manifestation of this disease, or are the high numbers the result of better diagnosis and record keeping?

Just a thought . . .

[bluestix]

Originally Posted by historycircus

All that tasty Aspartame aside, there is another factor behind the exponential jump in identified cases of Alzheimers.

Alzheimers disease has only been recongnized as such for a few decades. A certified doctor in the 1920s would have lumped it under the catch all "dimentia."

Has there really been an exponential increase in the manifestation of this disease, or are the high numbers the result of better diagnosis and record keeping?

Just a thought . . .

From the original post:

Kelleher points to a 9,000 percent increase in the domestic diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease since 1979. That year, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, 653 people died of Alzheimer's disease in the United States.



I am pretty sure there was a consistent medical definition for Alzheimer's in 1979 and that doctors were at least somewhat familiar with it.

No reliable statistics exist beyond the 1970s.

Read for yourself:

http://www.jyi.org/volumes/volume6/i...res/reger.html

[Phtha]

The establishment would certainly like us to believe we just got better at detection.
Either way everything has a cause. We don't just develop these diseases for no reason.
All you need to do is look around and see how many people get diseases nowadays. And then look at the ingredients in food, pretty much everyone of those
chemicals that is in 90% of the stuff in the grocery store causes some form or
cancer or other diseases.
1 in 4 people get cancer now? Thats tells you right there something is afoot.

Not to mention there are many old cultures who were completely disease free.
Cancer never existed, teeth didn't rot, the only death was caused by injury or
old age, aside from rare cases.
Look for yourselves.

No it's not that we got better at detection or put new names to things.
Despite what science and his-story tries to tell us, we aren't any smarter
now then we were back then. In fact we've been become technologically advanced but intellectually primitive as a whole.

[burgundia]

I personally know two men in their 70s now, who suffer from Alzheimer's. the third one i knew died a few years ago.

[Morgan]

In my awesome and totally unbiased psych 101 class (ha), it is drawn to our attention that there is a relationship between a disease achieving a label and/or treatment (drug), and the increase in occurrence of that disease or of diagnosing that disease. So...

A disease gets a name = more people have said disease
A disease gets a drug to treat it = more people have said disease

Not sure if either have anything to do with Alzheimer's, but hey.

Also, as evil as aspartame is, it is merely one factor. Take a look at the entire chemical soup we ingest daily be it pesticides, heavy metals, artificial and natural flavours, preservatives, colours, etc. etc. etc. - they all take a toll on ALL body systems and pretty much all of them can be stored in our body fat, to effect us later on or to effect us over time. No one is free of them, we all have this chemical soup in our blood - every single one of us. Even newborns.

If it's not from our food, it's from our water. If not water, the air. If not the air, then it's the things we touch. Breathing, ingesting, contact. Your skin absorbs all kinds of junk. (I read somewhere that if it's not something you would eat, you should definitely not be putting it on your skin! This applies to all skin care products, shampoos, etc!)

I am very glad though that people are aware of the dietary links with basically all maladies.

[Seven]

I somehow feel/believe that dementia and alzheimer is one of 'm ... is a form of escaping the world they live in, for whatever reason ...
I work with demented people, in a nursing home ... and somehow it's like they life in another world, for periods of time ...
If this strikes a chord with anyone, i would like to hear ...




Note: I'am not a dr or brain expert ...
I'm just me, rethinking and trying to comprehend the "problems" in this world ... I check my thinking whith what i feel, or try to put my feelings into words ...

[AndyH]

Originally Posted by Morgan

In my awesome and totally unbiased psych 101 class (ha), it is drawn to our attention that there is a relationship between a disease achieving a label and/or treatment (drug), and the increase in occurrence of that disease or of diagnosing that disease. So...

A disease gets a name = more people have said disease
A disease gets a drug to treat it = more people have said disease

Not sure if either have anything to do with Alzheimer's, but hey.

Also, as evil as aspartame is, it is merely one factor. Take a look at the entire chemical soup we ingest daily be it pesticides, heavy metals, artificial and natural flavours, preservatives, colours, etc. etc. etc. - they all take a toll on ALL body systems and pretty much all of them can be stored in our body fat, to effect us later on or to effect us over time. No one is free of them, we all have this chemical soup in our blood - every single one of us. Even newborns.

If it's not from our food, it's from our water. If not water, the air. If not the air, then it's the things we touch. Breathing, ingesting, contact. Your skin absorbs all kinds of junk. (I read somewhere that if it's not something you would eat, you should definitely not be putting it on your skin! This applies to all skin care products, shampoos, etc!)

I am very glad though that people are aware of the dietary links with basically all maladies.

Bingo.

[Seeker Mom]

Whats more worring is that your driving a 2009 car in 2008

In the US the new models come out in the fall. What's odd about that?

Maybe I time traveled to next year to buy it. Oh Lord, now that is a conspiracy!

[alternative-answer]

Alzheimer's & Senile Dementia
Alzheimer's, Senile Dementia & L-Carnosine Therapy
In experiments, treatment with carnosine was found to reduce or completely prevent cell damage caused by beta amyloid, the substance found in the brain of Alzheimer's disease patients. Beta amyloid can interact with certain RAGE receptors causing damage to the nerves and arteries of the brain. Carnosine blocks and inactivates beta amyloid, so it protects neural tissues against dementia.

Moreover, carnosine protects the brain cells by fighting the highly toxic alpha, beta-unsaturated aldehyde acrolein which is formed during the peroxidation of polyunsaturated lipids, raising the possibility that it functions as a 'toxicological second messenger' during oxidative cell injury (Burcham et al. 2000).

Recent research also confirms that the toxic unsaturated aldehyde crotonaldehyde (CA) contributes to carbonylation resulting in protein damage during lipid peroxidation (Fontaine et al 2002). As carnosine combats all aldehydes, it offers another explanation for its benefits in prevention of Alzheimer´s disease and other conditions with oxidative stress.

Metal chelation by carnosine may prevent and slow down Alzheimers.
Some laboratory studies have reported excessive amounts of metal ions such as zinc, copper in Alzheimer´s brain. Such ions may possibly change the chemical architecture of normal beta amyloid, making it more harmful. A mildly acidic environment appears to be important in the process that binds these metals to beta amyloid. Experts observe that such conditions (acidic environment and higher levels of zinc and copper) commonly occur as part of the inflammatory response to local injury. Carnosine has the unique ability to chelate copper, zinc and other metals, and to remove them from the body, as explained above in the section Metal Chelation. This may be an important function of carnosine in preventing and slowing down Alzheimer´s and other degenerative brain disorders.


http://nutrarejuvion.com/index.php?i...rnative-answer

[honeybee]

In this presentation Dr Russel Blaylock looks at how excitotoxins (which kill brain cells) are being added to our food in large quantities and explains how this is contributing to the rapid increase in neurological disorders such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons disease.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...P1xsC_Aw&hl=En