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If you worry that you will have Alzheimer's symptoms in later life just because your mother or father or grandparent or whomever in your lineage did...take heart! Remember that you receive two sets of chromosomes. If one parent had symptoms, and you worry there is a genetic component, recall that the other parent's chromosomes could just as likely either make up for it or prevent it. Not saying that it is genetic, but IF it is, there is still a likelihood that you will escape the 'curse'.
My mom has had bipolar disorder, which she denies and has fought treatment for, for decades. She now has dementia and is living in a memory care center. She still denies any sort of issue at all, though it would be impossible for her to live on her own or in someone else's home.
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.
Good observation. The few philologists I've read about have had a long life, and their way of thinking is sharp but difficult to understand. However, I wouldn't advise people with memory problems reading philology, just like I wouldn't advise weak/sick people lift weights. In fact, I would say avoid as much as possible listening or reading intellectual material and read more fairy tales, legends, the bible, or mythology (like you mentioned).
Scientists will never find the cause of dementia because they are looking at the wrong places and for the wrong reasons. They want to be able to find a cure to cash in at the end; meanwhile the problem of thinking and memory [storing in the brain] and the way we are taught is fundamentally wrong.
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
My mother has vascular dementia. She has good days and bad.
She can remember my 3rd grade teacher and tell me all about the parent/teacher conference she had with her a million years ago, but doesn't recognize the 5th grade picture of her oldest son
My mother has vascular dementia. She has good days and bad.
She can remember my 3rd grade teacher and tell me all about the parent/teacher conference she had with her a million years ago, but doesn't recognize the 5th grade picture of her oldest son
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