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There's not enough awareness of how bad the problem is," warns Piot, a global health expert and director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
"One in three of us will develop the disease – 135 million people by 2050, according to Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI)– while its worldwide health and social-care cost in 2010 was estimated at £400bn.
Our ageing population means it will get worse, yet no one is ready for the impact of dementia, he says. "We're on a very bad trajectory … one of the achievements of civilisation, society and technology is that we live a longer and healthier life."
Could dementia be caused in part by toxins in food, the environment, industrial processes and products, etc.? Its a question many in industry do not want investigated too closely. Yet if one in three will experience dementia, don't we owe it to ourselves to find out what exactly is in the food, water, and products we consume? There are millions of chemical compounds that didn't even exist 50 years ago, which have now become part of our lives and, quite literally, our bodies. Very little is known about their long-term effects and their interactions with each other.
Dementia is pandemic - few countries are untouched. Now, MRI imaging with mathematical modeling can predict when and how a person's dementia will progress, simply by modeling "prion-like" toxic proteins' spread from neuron to neuron. Disease progression involves "speech impediments, memory loss, behavioral peculiarities, and so on."
Ideally, this technology will allow personalized treatments tailored to each individual - as well as let people make their own choices in planning ahead.
Worst case scenario, the information will be used for eugenics-flavored Minority Report-styled interventions - and provide a rationale for depopulation culling.
Research shows that many people who show significant physical degeneration in the brain on autopsy DID NOT HAVE DEMENTIA SYMPTOMS in life. It's all about "cognitive reserve."
It's time to have a real conversation about voluntary suicide when things get bad enough, take the 'sin' aspect out of it (thanks, church) and realize that sometimes, life isn't worth living anymore.
Never Despise
His warning on the ravages of mass dementia comes at a time when there is still opportunity to tackle the problem. As lifespans increase in developed nations and old diseases that took down people at earlier ages are eliminated, there is a greater "window of opportunity" for as-yet-uncured maladies such as dementia to spread. In "ageing societies" such as much of Europe and East Asia where the old will soon come to occupy a much greater percentage of the population, the problem of mass dementia has the potential to blindside entire nations.
Dementia is complex disease regarding which much is unknown. More research is necessary, and a deeper understanding of the relationships among the social, cognitive, and neurological aspects of the malady. Could dementia be caused in part by toxins in food, the environment, industrial processes and products, etc.? Its a question many in industry do not want investigated too closely. Yet if one in three will experience dementia, don't we owe it to ourselves to find out what exactly is in the food, water, and products we consume? There are millions of chemical compounds that didn't even exist 50 years ago, which have now become part of our lives and, quite literally, our bodies. Very little is known about their long-term effects and their interactions with each other.
marg6043
reply to post by snarky412
Statin drugs reduce cholesterol but also cholesterol is one of the most important substance that the brain needs for proper function.
Satins are a 30 billion industry soon to become with the new guidelines set last month a 70 billion dollar profit since statin has been given away like candy Alzheimer has increased.
There's loads of stuff out there that just 'drip feeds' to cause this, hence the so many variations in dementia in my view.
...leeched into the waterways and water supply by people dumping extras down the commode and of course, nature running it's course.
...even at trace or low levels..who even wants to imagine the cumultive lifetime exposure impact and, interactions in tiny ways, all the time. Things never meant to interact, even in the lowest amounts.
...KEEP READING.. if you don't stimulate your minds they will rot away...
...the FACT is... IF you don't use it, you will lose it...
Research shows that many people who show significant physical degeneration in the brain on autopsy DID NOT HAVE DEMENTIA SYMPTOMS in life. It's all about "cognitive reserve."
Akragon
Everyone do yourself a favor...
KEEP READING.. if you don't stimulate your minds they will rot away...
Most of my residents that have continuously had some sort of mental stimulation are far better off then those that spent years staring at the TV
the FACT is... IF you don't use it, you will lose it...
snarky412
reply to post by Never Despise
Could dementia be caused in part by toxins in food, the environment, industrial processes and products, etc.? Its a question many in industry do not want investigated too closely. Yet if one in three will experience dementia, don't we owe it to ourselves to find out what exactly is in the food, water, and products we consume? There are millions of chemical compounds that didn't even exist 50 years ago, which have now become part of our lives and, quite literally, our bodies. Very little is known about their long-term effects and their interactions with each other.
This is what bothers me.....what the hell is in our food and what is the long term effect on us.
They seem to be able to give a fairly excuseable reason for the increase in Dementia, at least for some, it might pacify them.
But what if........what if it has nothing to do with their so-called excuses and more to do with our environment, the air we breath, the water we drink.
Our food supply.... what cattle, chicken, etc. are fed , the processes they go through to get them to the markets.
Some might inject GMO's long term effects into this scenario
It's a scary idea but a possibility
edit on 12-12-2013 by snarky412 because: (no reason given)