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Eva Jones's avatar

Stop taking allergy meds. They all deplete the acetyl-choline in your brain and start dementia. Use stinging nettle extract for allergies unless you have life-threatening ones.

nancy knox-bierman's avatar

I take nothing other than raw honey, turmeric, or herbal teas and sauna for just about everything that may come my way. I wish I had started this 30 years ago, when I was popping aspirin and washing it down with a diet coke.

Mac's avatar

Thank you, Lily

Don't take statins if you want your brain to work well. And consider doing a detox from metals, especially aluminum.

Shagey's avatar

Can you recommend metal detox? Sooo much info out there, exhausting

Mac's avatar

Not yet, Shagey. Still drilling down on that question

Shagey's avatar

I get it….

Riff Raffer's avatar

This is a really good read, Lily-Rose. I’m sorry about your grandparents. I, too, wish I had known what I know now, so that I could have advised my own grandparents. All these excellent habits you list, they can absolutely be overwhelming for someone starting out. So yes - treat them like the layers of an onion & keeping adding more layers over time, as each one becomes a habit. Walk more, eat whole foods. Then add some floor sprints or skip rope. Get early morning sunlight & keep working on establishing your circadian rhythm. Build on your habits over time. I started in my twenties. Our youngest daughter - in her twenties now - exercises & walks, cooks her own meals from whole organic foods, can afford said organic because she passes on what society considers “entertainment” & doesn’t drink. I know she’ll imbue the same learnings in her own children one day. It’s one of the most rewarding things a parent can know.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

Drugs are horrible. They have no benefit. I second what everyone says. Drugs have no benefit and are poison and fund the $4 trillion industry:

https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/modern-medicine-as-poison

https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/healthcare-the-4-trillion-empire

Tom Starkweather's avatar

Demonizing cholesterol (which is created by the body along with what we eat) and maintaining the statin market is one of the most evil or irresponsible areas of modern allopathic crap medicine. My Mom is in her 80s and did all the things her fat general practice pharma schill doc told her to do. Avoid saturated fats, the sun, wear toxic sunscreen everyday. Take these shots that have heavy metals in them. Now she is a resident in a memory care section of a facility that itself displays greed in the corners cut to service while increasing the rent. My Dad also listens to doctors that would rather perform procedures than explain what he is eating is harmful and overprocessed.

Pastor Mike's avatar

Thank you for sharing your heart and your thoughts. Saw my own mom go slowly too. Sad times. Does seem we take a lot of things that do more harm than good. My cardiologist is beside himself I haven't been taking cholesterol meds. But I wonder what those meds do to the brain. And are those low numbers really as important as we think today.

Sebastian's avatar

I love the comments and they can all be summed up with one word:

Stop 🛑 consuming sorcery (pills) "prescribed" by far you see (Pharisee) physicians. Who in the Bible took daily chemicals to keep them alive? Noone. Food is also a drug. Caffiene is a drug. Sugar is a drug and they all have serious effects within your temple of God.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

Wrote something very similar to that! Same page man!

Tammy G.'s avatar

Great Article!

marcomeneses's avatar

You are totally correct! That is the reason Lifestyle Medicine and Health Coaching is so imoportant!

--health coaching- lifestyle medicine- is more effective than routine care--

Peter Williams's avatar

Diving in the Salish sea , in mid winter without a wetsuit each day , has changed my brain completely

Robert's avatar

Think if people move to the rural areas they will get all the exercise they need as a regular course of their day's activities. No treadmills, no gym memberships, etc. And if you live on a slope/incline/hill well you can bet you'll get plenty of exercise whether you want to... or not.

Also: But when Jesus heard this, He said, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do..." Basically our Creator Jesus said, you don't need wellness visits. He would know yes?

I've found the more modern we are the further we are away from our Creators intent. Modern life is actually bad for everyone all around - simple as that. Get closer to our Creators initial design to the extent we can in this sinful world and the better our lives will be in all aspects. Funny part is we can get closer to that ideal where we are at by turning off TV's and going outside. If you're watching TV during the day it's a loser's game and it will cost you. Find something else to do such as tackling the errands list, the repairs list, helping a neighbor out, volunteering to help youth, etc.

At the end of day no matter what you do, this will occur because our Creator said it would, “Behold, all souls are Mine; The soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine; The soul who sins shall die." We all have our appointment with our Creator upcoming, no matter what the clowns of the world with their billions and trillions think or do.

Nikster's avatar

Thanks good words for people. Raw foods are excellent way to recover health. Nuts, are good protein as well as veggies have good protein. Eat

Garlic with to balance yeast.

Wayne Burden's avatar

Great article! As you pointed out INFLAMMATION starts this whole process of brain (and overall body) decline. What my wife and I have found out is SUGAR (Glucose), which is found in almost every pre-packaged food in America, is the GREATEST contributor to inflammation. Start cutting out SUGAR as much as you can and see how much better you feel!

The HIIT is taught by Dr. Brewer of PrevMed Health… check out his numerous videos on his website and YouTube. His team’s approach to health is to treat things “upstream”, the cause, instead of “downstream”, the symptoms. Most physicians have been trained to treat illness by dealing with the symptoms instead of addressing the underlying cause(s). They love to write scripts and send you to the pharmacy… big money making machine for the pharmaceutical companies.

Learn how to take control of your health by doing research. Watch his videos… take notes… as Lily said get up off the couch and get some exercise! We’re both in our early 70’s, work out at Planet Fitness five days a week, and do our own yard work and gardening. We had to get active to stay healthy! It’s not easy but the feeling of accomplishment and well being is worth it!

Wayne Burden's avatar

BTW, if you can afford it, a good place to start is to get a full body composition DexaScan. It’s not just a bone density scan, but a full body composition scan… different machine and hard to find. The cost was $135 each as we both had one done. Gives you five pages of where you are and what needs to be done to achieve your fitness goals. Well worth the time and money in my opinion.

Kathryn R Titus's avatar

There are a lot of videos on YouTube from experts and doctors who don't buy into the mainstream narratives who tell you how to reverse or prevent the progress of dementia.

Most people don't know that diphenhydramine AKA Benadryl AKA sleeping pills is a major factor in bringing on dementia. That's one of the only drugs I ever use, to help me sleep and to keep my wind by mucus free while I'm sleeping.

But I've already exceeded the amount that anybody should use to avoid dementia. Generally if you use it 1000 times you've already crossed the line between the mansion and possibly avoiding dementia.

I've had early warning signs of dementia for a while, mostly for getting names or trying to remember a word that I know almost as well as I know my own name. And then an hour later or two days later all of a sudden I'll remember the name or the word.

Shagey's avatar

Great article! Thank you. Shared with family and friends. I also sit with a lady with early dementia. I sent it to her daughter:)