Posted on 02/21/2018 1:22:19 AM PST by zeestephen
lol
medicine isn’t advanced nearly enough for that
Agree the headline is very misleading for the reason you say.
Duh, just look at Hillary
Woman to Churchill at a dinner: “if you were my husband I would poison your drink.”
Churchill: “Madame if I were husband I would drink it.”
I’ve lost the cork from my lunch!
In my unprofessional opinion it is actually stress that causes loss of memory. Stress is self-medicated and exacerbates the loss. Does he also have rheumatoid arthritis? The immune system attacks.
I see early onset dementia in alcoholics. Starts in their fifties. Used to be called Wet-Brain.
Years of damaging brain with large and consistent amounts of alcohol leads to significant brain damage.
There are other reasons for dementia besides alcohol.
moderation is the key
I would never advocate for the use of alcohol... It kills millions every year due to liver disease, mental problems, car accidents and violence caused by its use. And dementia that affects the young is a very serious problem... That being said, I know young people in their 60s and 50s who have been affected by dementia and they were not alcoholics and never drank alcohol.
This study indicates that 57% of the 57,000 respondents (interesting they come up with 57 twice) who are suffering from early onset dementia may have gotten it because they drank alcohol... 43% of the respondents apparently did not drink... So some of those 57% with early onset dementia would have gotten it regardless of their drinking. The study doesn’t seem to address that question... How many of those 57% would have gotten dementia even if they hadn’t had a drop of booze??? Add that number to the percentage who didn’t drink and it would likely be 50-50... or maybe even skewed to the point where drinking affected less than half of the respondents. So if you drink you may get dementia and if you don’t drink you may get dementia.
Like a great deal of these ‘studies’ that are reported in the media you need to take it with a massive grain of salt. Eating this or drinking that may lead to this... If you want to adjust your lifestyle every time one of these studies appears feel free to do so... Or you can just stop wasting your time worrying about the future and start living for today instead of for tomorrow.
At least that's what he told his sons his age was--his birth certificate was lost in the flood.
They’re just confusing dementia with a blackout.
And just yesterday I read upon these very walls that alcohol, not exercise, is the secret to living past 90.
Coffee drinking and moderate alcohol use, being slightly overweight versus underweight...
So.... combining the two, we get to be demented for a long time. Or is that fermented.
My non-drinking grandmother was totally demented in her final years. My grandfather, who went to the pub every day, had no such impairment.
People who drink alcohol every day are less likely to get dementia ...
www.independent.co.uk/.../dementia-risk-alcohol-drink-everyday-health-diet-san-die...
Aug 2, 2017 - Drinking alcohol three days a week ‘could reduce risk of diabetes’. Participants had their cognitive health assessed every four years over the course of the 29-year study, with a standard dementia screening test called the Mini Mental State Examination.
Again the secret is moderation in basically everything we do, eat or drink.
My father had 1 or 2 Manhattan’s a day for all of his 93 years. yes, he had dementia, came in late 80’s........
But they say a key to living long is a glass or 2 of alcohol a day.....
Only God knows. Everything they are sure of today will be disproved in 5 years......
The problem with causation is that these so-called “smart people” are always looking for the singular cause and solution.
It’s a bit more complicated than that for those who seek to live out their life expectancy absent symptoms & conditions (aka “diseases”) which compromise quality of living or life expectancy.
The solution, however, is rather simple and I hope to publish my take on that this summer.
Really well said. Thank you.
If real statistics say so...fine. I have no problem with that.
Studies have said eggs and pork are bad for you, then all of a sudden Eggs were ‘the indelible, edible egg’, and Pork was ‘the new white meat. Depends on study, and WHO did it!
Is there a link?
Thanks.
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