Wellness

[Anonymous032819]

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@Laura14 wrote:

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@sidsmom wrote:

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@Lilysmom wrote:

@sidsmom , my doctor told me if you have Alzheimer’s in your family, you have a 50% higher risk of having it so heredity does play a role.  LM

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@Lilysmom 

If I had a doctor throwing out statistics like that,

I would definitely ask for studies to back up that claim.

And I would ask, ‘I understand diet & lifestyle help increase

the chance of not getting it. What would you suggest I do?’

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It is not a study.  It is a genetic fact.  You get one APOE gene from your mother and one from your father.  If one or both have the APOE 4 Gene, depending on their combination, you can get it and  it raises your risk.  If one has a double, you will definitely inherit at least one as half of your genetic code.  Pure science and math.  

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@Laura14 

Forget it. SHe LOVES to blame the patient for their illness, as if a vegan can never get sick, never get cancer, never have a stroke or a heart attack.

They brought it on themselves, don't you know?

For, if they ate like she did, why ALL diseases would simply cease to exist!

No more cancers, no more ALS, no more dementia.

To blame the patients for causing their disease is downright cruel, and she loves to be cruel and to twist the knife in a wound.

She's not worth wasting your time responding to.

[eddyandme]

Well, I lay down and snuggle up to my furbaby watching TV in bed.  Suddenly, I awaken around 4a.m. hearing a noisy television broadcast!  Searching the queensize bed often fully awakens me - while tracking down that clicker!  Then, Eddy likes to get up around 5 and makes sure I'm with him.  After I'm sitting outside, sipping coffee, for at least an hour and playing ball.  So that probably explains why I have no trouble nodding off!

By the way, can anyone fill me in on Bull this week - only caught the very beginning, then was off in la-la-land?

Get a dog - you won't need nightime pills!

[Laura14]

@Anonymous032819 I am well aware. I am responding occasionally only to clarify certain claims that are so outrageous or unclear for people who may be lurking. I actually hold a pharmacy license. As far as I know, there is solely a belief system on the other side and what you don't know can and will hurt you.

[Anonymous032819]

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@eddyandme wrote:

Well, I lay down and snuggle up to my furbaby watching TV in bed.  Suddenly, I awaken around 4a.m. hearing a noisy television broadcast!  Searching the queensize bed often fully awakens me - while tracking down that clicker!  Then, Eddy likes to get up around 5 and makes sure I'm with him.  After I'm sitting outside, sipping coffee, for at least an hour and playing ball.  So that probably explains why I have no trouble nodding off!

By the way, can anyone fill me in on Bull this week - only caught the very beginning, then was off in la-la-land?

Get a dog - you won't need nightime pills!

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@eddyandme 

I think that you accidentally put this post in the wrong thread?

I think you ment to post it in the "What REALLY Works For Sleep?" thread.

This is the "Study Says Drugs Linked to Dementia" thread.

Don't worry. It's all good!

[BirkiLady]

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@newjersey wrote:

@sidsmom , does hydroclorohthiazide really cause diabetes?  I start taking it tomorrow for slight edema in my ankles.

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@newjersey  I would say, "No. However, I would also suggest eating at least 1/2 a banana per day to keep your potassiam levels in check. Hydroclorohthiaside does decrease potassiam levels and bananas are the easiest way to remedy that problem."

My mom was on diurectics for decades and never developed diabetes. I was never on a diurectic, had no family history of diabetes and preferred fruits to anything with sugar or flour. To my surprise, in my late 50's I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes! I'm now 71 and haven't had to test my blood sugars for over eight years. I continue to walk daily, swim three times per week, am currently in PT for my back, love working in my flower beds and voluntering with the City Parks Dept.; I also have always had a healthy diet (no not plant based or ever dieted) and take my medications regularly & as directed. The rapport and communication with my PCP and specialists is extremely important. 

Best wishes on the diurectic. For the first few weeks stay fairly close to a bathroom. It's amazing how quickly and often you will need one! Mom also continued to do her Kegel exercises to avoid any leakage IIRC. 

[violann]

I have enormous confidence reading DIFFERING views from astute women who know that we are all miraculously made evidence of multiple inputs of ancestry/genetics, lifestyle iand environmental influences, and most likely numerous other known and unknown things combining to produce the individuals that we are.

I have chosen to avoid as many of this drug group because I know that when I took them on a regular, too-long schedule, they had negative impact on my health, and possibly my ability to think clearly. SO, I STOPPED TAKING THEM. 

Should I, like C*cky Locky, state that EVERYONE ON EARTH WILL BENEFIT from never ever taking an anticholinergic drug again? Hope not, ‘cause I won’t.

[sidsmom]

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@Laura14 wrote:

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@sidsmom wrote:

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@Lilysmom wrote:

@sidsmom , my doctor told me if you have Alzheimer’s in your family, you have a 50% higher risk of having it so heredity does play a role.  LM

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@Lilysmom 

If I had a doctor throwing out statistics like that,

I would definitely ask for studies to back up that claim.

And I would ask, ‘I understand diet & lifestyle help increase

the chance of not getting it. What would you suggest I do?’

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It is not a study.  It is a genetic fact.  You get one APOE gene from your mother and one from your father.  If one or both have the APOE 4 Gene, depending on their combination, you can get it and  it raises your risk.  If one has a double, you will definitely inherit at least one as half of your genetic code.  Pure science and math.  

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If one does have the APOE gene, the effects are rarer later in life.

”...just because you carry that particular form of the gene

does NOT mean you will develop the disease.”

What was important to note...

All the factors to decrease the risk?

All no choice...except one (good cardio health)

All the factors to increase the risk?

All no choice...except one (cardio health/diabetes-HBP)

And as for the choice?

A decision is made 3times a day to better our life or

hurt our life with this condition. 

Many will think ‘I medicate my diabetes/HBP’, so I’m good’.

No...medication will just mask the symptoms which harm.

Fix the cause with diet/lifestyle and remove the medication.

In fact instead of gloom/doom ‘you have the gene nothing you can do’, 

empower yourself with tools available to you to BETTER your life

with this gene. Half Empty vs Half Full. It’s a choice. It’s all connected. 

🌼💛

[cherry]

I believe in science not in shills

[sidsmom]

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@cherry wrote:

I believe in science not in shills

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I totally agree.

Thank goodness I present common sense science. 

[cherry]

No you don't, you regurgitate junk science..@Laura has a degree to back up what she says,,you just run around looking for things you agree with