I’ve become quite a minimalist when it comes to prescription drugs myself. If I’ve got a nasty baterial infection and it’s not going away, sure, I’ll take the antibiotic. But other than that, I pretty much avoid them.

UVA processes any vitamin D near the surface of the skin into suprasterols the body doesn’t use so the favorite occupation of many elderly people, sitting by a sunny window or in a sunny conservatory will be further depleting their already low D3 status.
Low vitamin D means low calcium absorption.
The most numerous cells in our brains, astrocytes, communicate via calcium exchange.
It isn’t surprising that low vitamin D status is associated with poorer cognitive performance

I can’t remember now what comment I left under the Craft video but it was polite and evidence based.

If the science they present isn’t able to stand logical scrutiny then they have to be open to other ideas. Simply ignoring or refusing to listen to other science that shows different results is not going to solve the problem.

One if the things I noticed about the personal Alzheimer’s stories illustrated at the Alzheimer’s Project is the amount of carb eating that is shown.
One might well think that Carb addiction is a feature of Alzheimer’s.

That’s what struck my wife and me as well — Alzheimer’s patients at home, eating potatoes, noodles, cookies, cakes, pies. It was like a sugar-fest on parade.

It’s also easily available, so you can try it yourself, if you like.

I’ll check it out.

I hope that works out. Let us know.

There’s even evidence – in rats – that a ketogenic diet, combined with calorie restriction, can reduce and even reverse the progression of brain tumors. The diet in question was noted as a soybean oil-based commercial diet typically prescribed to epileptic children. Which, naturally, makes me wonder if it might be possible to get even better results if highly saturated (gasp!) fat, such as butter or coconut oil, were used as the basis of the diet instead, as PUFAs in veggie oils can aggravate cancers. Maybe they could even skip the calorie restriction part. But, sigh, we may never know because of the stupid bias nearly everyone in nutrition research has against saturated fats.

Not to mention they don’t have a lot of commercial potential.

And there we have it. It will also “expand by millions the number of dollars raked in by AstraZeneca”.

Of course insurance will pay, then rates go up to pay for it. Then rates go up to treat all of the side effects.

It sometimes saddens me to be associated with the medical industry. It’s like they told me in nursing school “healthcare is all about who lives, who dies, and who pays”.

Statins may even go over-the-counter at some point. Imagine millions of brainswashed people beating their cholesterol down because they’ve been told they should.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HeartDiseaseNews/fda-panel-oks-statins-healthy-people/story?id=9350291

Yeah, I saw that. I’m still fuming.

If this keeps up, we’ll turn into a nation of people who can’t remember anything. I guess the good news for me is that I’ll be able to do the same standup material for the same audiences over and over.

Leptin is involved in hunger signals. Low leptin, you feel hungry. Higher leptin, you feel satisfied — if your system is working correctly. Unfortunately, people can become leptin-resistant, just as they can become insulin-resistant. When that happens, even high levels of leptin don’t put the brakes on your appetite.

Now, is it leptin per se that protects against Alzheimer’s? Maybe. Or it could be an association; people with naturally high leptin may feel satisfied on less food and naturally tend to eat less, which would help keep blood sugar in check.

Good question. When I’m, say, 95 I’ll start trying out my best lines and see what happens.