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Alzheimer - In search of the truth

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Alzheimer's is a distressing disease that causes numerous fears and difficulties for those affected and their relatives. At the same time, it poses a great mystery to medicine and raises questions that have not yet been answered unequivocally. Although Alzheimer's tends to be regarded in our population as a disease of the older generation, Thomas Meier was already affected by the symptoms at a young age. He struggles with health problems that cause, among other things, memory difficulties. After a number of unsuccessful visits to various doctors, he begins to search for solutions against the mental decline himself in a lengthy process. He presents his experiences and the results of his research in detail in this book.mehr
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KlappentextAlzheimer's is a distressing disease that causes numerous fears and difficulties for those affected and their relatives. At the same time, it poses a great mystery to medicine and raises questions that have not yet been answered unequivocally. Although Alzheimer's tends to be regarded in our population as a disease of the older generation, Thomas Meier was already affected by the symptoms at a young age. He struggles with health problems that cause, among other things, memory difficulties. After a number of unsuccessful visits to various doctors, he begins to search for solutions against the mental decline himself in a lengthy process. He presents his experiences and the results of his research in detail in this book.
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Introduction


 

In a total of 99.9 percent of the time that mankind has inhabited this planet, the average life expectancy has been only 30 years. Even though this is hardly conceivable for all of us in this day and age, this was reality for a long time and growing old was the absolute exception. If our ancestors were not eaten by lions for breakfast, they often died at a young age as a result of a bacterial infection or a viral disease. Nowadays it is hard to imagine that even at the beginning of the 20th century a simple wound infection could mean death. But in fact, only those who had the strongest immune system survived back then. Today, on the other hand, even people with weak immune systems can live to a respectable age. Medicine, technology, hygiene and all that man has come up with over time to combat plague, cholera and other diseases have given mankind additional decades. We are getting older and older. In the past one hundred years, statistically speaking, our life expectancy has almost doubled. But we are paying a high price for it. Our efficiency decreases with every year of life gained and everything becomes harder for us. Everyday things that came naturally to us in our younger years eventually become impossible or very difficult to do. Also the mind fades with increasing age more and more and suddenly it does not work any more. The human being - nursing case. This phenomenon is undoubtedly one of the greatest horrors for each of us and therefore it is not surprising that we like to push it far away from us.

My mother first developed Parkinson's disease, and later Alzheimer's disease. Anyone who has ever accompanied a relative with dementia knows what this diagnosis means. The language of those with the disease is usually limited to only a few words or dries up completely. Dementia patients are dependent on help from other people for most of the tasks of daily life. Preparing meals, combing hair or taking a bath are often no longer possible independently. This can be compounded by other limitations such as difficulty chewing, swallowing and breathing, as well as stiffening of the limbs. These are all typical Alzheimer's symptoms that occur in the late stages.

Particularly in the last phase of the disease, those affected are in great need of care. They regress to the state of a baby and have to wear diapers again, for example. For those persons who assist the affected persons during this time, it is difficult to accept what happens to the relatives.

 

Statistically, the probability of developing dementia doubles every five years after the age of 60. 90 percent of dementia patients are older than 75. This suggests that age is the greatest risk factor for dementia. However, even though the number of dementia cases increases steadily with age, there are definitely people who develop dementia at a young age. Between 20,000 and 24,000 people in Germany are already affected by this disease between the ages of 45 and 65. According to Wikipedia, the youngest Alzheimer's patient fell ill at the age of 27 and died a few years later at the age of 33. In fact, however, even children are affected. In Germany, about 700 boys and girls are said to suffer from childhood dementia.

 

Dr. Richard Taylor was a psychology professor and 58 years old when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2001. In 2011, four years before his death, he said of his disease, "For the past ten years, I have lived with a diagnosis of dementia, probably of the Alzheimer's type. At least that's what a doctor told me ten years ago. And although neither my wife, nor my brother, nor myself can remember to this day what else he said besides those life-changing words, I'm pretty sure he didn't tell me that his words would mark the beginning of long life for me. I'm also pretty sure he didn't say that Alzheimer's disease will steal my soul. I'm pretty sure he didn't say I was going to die twice. I'm pretty sure he didn't say I'll become a shell of my former self as I near the end of my life. I'm pretty sure he didn't say I would turn into a turtle that was burned and whose shell was left to dry, safely tucked away in a wheelchair, waiting for the winds of time to turn my shell into a pile of dust so it could be buried." 1

 

Alzheimer's disease is a disease that leads to death. The time span between diagnosis and death can range from three to twenty years. In general, the later in life the disease occurs, the shorter the Alzheimer's course.

 

Auguste Deter was the first Alzheimer's patient. She was only 51 years old. Her husband took her to the insane asylum in 1901 because of mysterious symptoms. In 1906, she died miserably of emaciation. When her brain was examined after her death, protein deposits were discovered there. These protein deposits are characteristic of the "disease of forgetfulness" to this day.

I have been dealing with the topic of memory loss for over 20 years, at first occasionally and now intensively for 10 years. Since I myself had problems with my memory as a child and in my early 30s my memory performance declined rapidly, I began to investigate this topic. Like probably everyone, I first went the way of conventional medicine. Since they could not (would not) help me, I became active myself. Among other things, I looked into brain-relevant nutrition and took all kinds of nutritional supplements. I made experiences in particular with hormones, whose effect was amazing. Hormones are known to run out in humans with increasing age. Therefore, it is these little helpers that ultimately cause us to "wilt" when they are missing. This was already proven in 1990 by Dr. Rudman. By administering growth hormone to older men, he was able to show that this hormone has an absolutely rejuvenating effect.

 

What are hormones? They are the generals in metabolism and the key to everything that happens in our body. They are chemical messengers that give orders. They go to a cell, log into its receptor and tell the cell what to do. The term hormone comes from the Greek and means to drive or excite.

 

Hormones have a performance-enhancing effect. Ask professional cyclists, cross-country skiers or professional swimmers about this - they know exactly. And why do you think it is becoming increasingly difficult for older people to climb stairs? The older generation in particular likes to talk about how their old bones don't want to go up the stairs the way they used to.

I have experienced lack of strength so many times in my life that I can say quite clearly that it is not only age itself that lowers our performance.

 

Our life begins with a single cell, the fertilized egg cell. Through constantly repeated cell division, nearly 100 trillion body cells are eventually created. Cells organize themselves into specific tissues, organs and body systems. Regardless of how long we have been alive, our body cells are on average no older than ten years. After only three to four years, almost the entire cell stock of a human being has been renewed once. Consequently, a - at least molecularly - renewed human being is created. How can one speak of being old in this context?

 

Every second, the organism builds 10 million new cells from the building materials of food. Every five days, for example, the stomach lining is completely renewed by this process. Fatty tissue is replaced every three weeks. Red blood cells last for three months and a skin cell lives for a maximum of 14 days. Bone cells, on the other hand, take a little longer. They need a full 25 - 30 years for their renewal. Our muscle cells never get older than 15 years. 2

 

A muscle cell does what it can throughout its life, it contracts. It doesn't matter how old it is. To function, cells need energy from food, oxygen and a command (stimulus). In order for our cells to do their job, they need messenger substances called neurotransmitters or hormones. Without them, nothing works.

Messenger substances are involved in the formation of our feelings.

According to current knowledge, whether we feel joy or are happy or unhappy is largely dependent on four messenger substances: Serotonin, adrenaline, noradrenaline and dopamine.

 

I certainly haven't found the "Holy Grail of Youth" through my research and experiences over the years, but I have experienced that we are by no means hopelessly at the mercy of physical and mental decline.

 

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The brain

Our brain contains about 100 billion brain cells. These brain cells are linked to each other via about 100 trillion contact points - the so-called synapses.

The basic principle: A nerve cell (neuron) consists of three basic elements. The first is the cell body. It forms the "control center" of the neuron. There are two types of projections on the cell body, the dendrites and the axon. A neuron has many dendrites, but only a single axon. The dendrites receive electrical impulses from other nerve cells and transmit them to the cell body. The impulses contain information that is processed in the cell. The cell body then generates output signals, which are transmitted via the often widely branched "output cable", the axon. Along its entire length, the axon functions mainly as a kind of electrical cable with the function of relaying the signal. Once the electrical signal reaches the end of the axon, the synapse, neurotransmitters are released. Neurotransmitters are the messenger substances of the nervous system. They dock onto receptors of other neurons and have either an excitatory...
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