Illness
Navigating health concerns can be a lot. Here in our Illness category, we gather and share news and personal stories about common conditions and health journeys. Our aim is to provide a space where you can read about others’ experiences and stay informed on general topics, helping you to feel more in control of your well-being.
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Insulin Relieves Alzheimer’s Symptoms
Insulin Given By Spray Through Nose Helps Alzheimer’s Researchers from the University of Washington have reported that insulin given by spray through the nose could help with memory and functioning in Alzheimer’s patients. Using nasal pathways allows the insulin to reach effected brain areas. To be effective, the treatment needs to be administered twice a day. Alzheimer’s…
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Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s
Immunotherapy is a medical treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or to enhance resistance by the immune system. In other words, it coaxes our bodies to fight off a disease. Examples would be polio or chicken box vaccine. In response to immunotherapy, we develop immunity by producing antibodies that guard against invading organisms.…
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Inflammation and Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s actually causes inflammation. Researchers have long known that the presence of amyloid plaques in the brain stimulate an inflammatory response. Some of this news is good and some of it is bad. There is a delicate balance. I’ll explain. I will explain! Amyloid plaques stimulate a type of immune cell called microglia. This cell…
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Diet and Alzheimer’s Disease
Can we choose foods to prevent or correct Alzheimer’s Disease? Do supplements like fish oil and vitamins help? Maybe. Read on for recent discoveries. The Secret Is In Combining The Right Foods Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center studied the dietary patterns 2,148 older adults and assessed them for the development of Alzheimer’s. One pattern stood…
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Is High Cholesterol Linked to Alzheimer’s?
Bruce Reed is a professor and Associate Director of the University of California Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Dr. Reed says, “One of the important themes emerging from dementia research over the past 15 years is that there are intriguing connections between vascular disease and Alzheimer’s disease.” Researching This Problem For Many Years Dr. Reed…
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What Is Available Now To Treat Alzheimer’s?
Different Treatments for Body and for Mind Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease are broken into two categories described as cognitive and behavioral. Cognitive symptoms involve memory, language, paying attention, and judgment. Behavioral symptoms include emotional expressions like temper outbursts, suspiciousness, or withdrawal. Diazoxide A drug called “Diazoside” was developed decades ago to treat high blood pressure…
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What Is It Like To Have Alzheimer’s
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. (Ecclesiastes 1:15) My best friend has Alzheimer’s Disease and this is what he told me, word for word: “I admit, at first I thought it was a mistake. I was often annoyed with the darling person who shares my…
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10 Signs of Alzheimer’s
We all forget things, our grocery list, people’s names at the moment of introduction, or why we walked into a room. Of course we remember later and slap our heads. This type of forgetting is probably due to just plain having too many other things to think about. This is normal forgetting. It’s not Alzheimer’s.…
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Older People Pretend to Hear
Senior Hearing Loss (Deafness) By age 85, more than half of us will have some hearing loss. People with hearing loss find it difficult to talk with friends and family because they have difficulty understanding what others say. They also have trouble hearing doorbells and alarms. The greatest affects of hearing loss in seniors are…
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