Alzheimer's Updates Digest

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Dietary Choline

Biodesign researchers at the Arizona State University - Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center (NDRC) looked into whether the nu...

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Could it be the Micobiome?

More and more evidence is piling in about the effect of the microbiome on our health, and in this entry, on brain disorders. It should be no...

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Alzheimer's Research Caveats

Alzheimer's research is in the news more than ever as cultural and political factors enter the discussion. AD is such a terrible, incura...

Saturday, January 26, 2019

Gum Disease - the Root Cause of AD?

We are in EXCITING times. It is quite possible that we may now know a cause of AD. It is quite possible that we may have finally found a...

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Zombies of Alzheimer's Disease (AD)

In a previous blog post Tau vs. Amyloid - An Alzheimer's Dilemma I wrote about Tau as a mitigating factor in AD. Lately there is more ...

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Can the Eyes Have It? Can Eye Scans Predict Alzheimer's?

Here is some news hot off the press! This news was just released a few days ago. Being a retired ophthalmologist, I find these findings ar...

Monday, July 9, 2018

Metal Iron and Alzheimers

As alluded to in previous posts, amyloid protein plaques in the brain are strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). A recent ...

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Editor in Chief: I, the editor and publisher, am a retired physician with a special interest in Alzheimer's disease. My Mom has had Alzheimer's for the past 12 years. Being a son and a hands-on caregiver, I have experienced and dealt with her progression every week, from the early stages when she needed some occasional guidance, to her current residence in a nursing home. After the first few years at her home she needed the help of home care aides. For the past 6 years she has not been able to care for herself. Her illness has slowly progressed, and she is now in the final stages. Amazingly, after so many years of being afflicted, she still has flashes of insight and humor; unfortunately, these brief episodes have become too few and far between as Mom now sleeps a lot. Because of my experiences, I created an Alzheimer's home care agency which gave me real life insights into the world of Alzheimer’s. New research and findings have given me additional insights that I wish to share with others. UPDATE - I am sorry to report that Mom passed on at age 96. Other than Alzheimer's, she had no illnesses. AD has been called "The Long Goodbye" which is illustrated in Mom's life R.I.P. MOM.

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