Dementia – the shocking truth

@stormygirl1704 says:

Good information! TYFS, Melissa.

@msjp3751 says:

Thx Melissa. Also a recent study mentioned that not taking care of any hearing loss (wearing hearing aids if needed) also substantially increases your chances of dementia and I’ve personally/sadly seen it to be true.

@naduellab says:

I care for a parent with alzheimers and I worry that I may suffer from it one day. It is such a great burden that I wouldn’t want to put on someone else. I’m always researching ways to prevent it. Thanks for the info, Melissa.🤩

@1stAmbientGrl says:

Two things I want share based on my experience of caring for my mother during the final two and a half years of her life because she had dementia.

1. She started showing the early symptoms about a year or two after she had her gallbladder removed. After the gallbladder is removed, the patient is supposed to avoid eating fatty foods. She continued to eat fatty foods like ice cream every night, cheese, mayonnaise, etc. I have not found any studies investigating such a link between this and dementia risk, but I highly suspect that this is what triggered her dementia.

2. I discovered that sugar and other carbohydrates such as sweet potatoes temporarily exacerbated her dementia symptoms.