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In another threat I mentioned that dementia may have to do with our current education system, and people thought I was crazy. I could give you a piece of advise; I don't even know if this works but it might help, and since scientists have no clue you may want to try it for a few months and see if that helps. Before bed read fairy tales, legends or the bible.
I won't mention how this might relate to memory, people will just dismiss it as non sense. Take it for what it's worth.
If you had just said to read the bible, I would have dismissed it, but mentioning legends and fairy tales makes it rather different. Perhaps startlingly, I must add philology to the list. I'm aware that anecdotal evidence has little use, but I've noticed that men who are involved in certain sorts of scholarly research, much of which involves mythology as well as folk legends, do tend to enjoy longer than average life spans. Further, they more often than not remain intellectually active until they are seriously failing.
The following men all published works during their lifetimes that are in print today. The last Ovid, published long before the invention of movable type when publishing meant keeping a scriptorium busy. He was one of the first authors printed, however, and has been continuously in print as have the first four. Take a look at their short biographies if you will. There are many intellectual and scholarly similarities.
I believe there is some evidence that music/rhythm is one of the last perceptions to deteriorate. For instance, people cannot remember what they had for breakfast, but can sing the words to a familiar song. I saw a similar takeaway for people whose mobility was affected by MS. Of course, anecdotal, but interesting. Sure wouldn't hurt to make sure you sing and dance a lot!
We are living longer. Back when the average life expectancy was your mid to late 30's dementia caused by old age wasn't really an issue.
I don't know about men, but women are living as much as 50 years beyond menopause. HRT, bioidentical or not, can help women stave off dementia/ALZ.
I suspect men could also benefit from HRT, but, I'm not a man nor an expert on HRT, so, I don't know. It just stands to reason that the cause and benefits for both sexes could lie in hormones.
Yes, people are living longer but not decades longer overall. I know this has been discussed before but if you were a woman back int the 1800s and you survived your childhood and child bearing years, you had a good chance of living to a ripe old age.
Most people didn't die of old age in their 40s and 50s. That's a myth.
Many of my older friends and relatives who are or who lived into their 90s, shared one daily habit. Crossword puzzles. Hard ones, not the ones in TV Guide, but NY Times and Washington Post and LA Times Sunday and daily puzzles. A few got into even more maniacal Xwords....Cryptics, often from British newspapers.
Posted a link to article about sleep patterns being suggested as reason older adults have problems with thinking--fuzzy brained--
There is way too much still not know about how the brain really functions psychologically (like the power to create memories that are more "real" than those you actually experienced) and physically--as in diseases like dementia, Alzheimer's, autism...
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