Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and Gut Health Reset

My recent comment about 1 of 3 of us will end up with Alzheimer’s dementia created some comments. A few things came to mind. There may be a downward trend in age of start of symptoms. This suggests that people are younger when they get the disease. Why. Why are we one of the most ill [populations on the planet? There is no absolute answer, as there are no absolutes in medicine.. Highly processed foods are getting some blame. Our daily toxic bath has a high degree of suspicion. Talk and data about that go way back. Rachel Carson in Silent Spring exposed DDT. Others have exposed Glyphosate. (see America’s Two Headed Pig by Leah Dunham, a local author); PFAS has had a lot of publicity in the past few years. Lead, mercury, aluminum. Then there are the deficiencies in our bodies-magnesium, Vit D3, B12, effects of Celiac disease, on and on. Pogo said years ago “We have met the enemy and he is us”. There are things we can do. The biggest effect comes from starting early, before the onset of symptoms, and even way before that. Most of us have missed that opening chance. So start now and be on the 2/3 side of the three who prevent the diseases. I am adding Parkinson’s disease to this as well. We don’t need highly processed foods for anything except to be lazy. May I suggest this class of foods and much of the quick meal replacements and pre made snacks are simply bad planning if we choose to use them. Start with school lunch programs and go to the other end of things and get changes made in our meals offered to the elderly population. These categories need a lot of improvement. Sugar wreaks havoc on our immune systems and we usually have many contacts a day with sugar. Read a snack bar label, count all the different sugars and add the total. A four ounce chocolate pudding has 27 grams of sugar added. Tastes really great and is 7 tsp of sugar. It is slow self destruction. So, besides sidestepping all of the above take a peek, as in read, hilite, take action, with info in “The Mind Diet by Maggie Moon. A scientific approach to enhancing brain function and helping prevent Alzheimer’s and Dementia. If that doesn’t grab you, try Chronic by Dr. Steven Phillips and A Silent Fire by Shilpa Ravella. And then there is the Classic Mediterranean Diet and way of life. It is the most researched anywhere. Don’t change it. The lifestyle and social affect are a very large and important component. Bon appetit. And we used to say when we sold them, that if you are not using an air purifier you are the air purifier. Water, cool, clear water, anybody. Not from a bottle, may be best through a quality purifier at home though.
Also, Our Daily Poison by Marie-Monique Robin, who also wrote: The World According to Monsanto.