When you have this much at stake, you need a professional familiar with the most up-to-date research in dementia. But Where Drugs Fail, Precision Medicine May Succeed A one-size-fits-all drug approach can never work to solve the multifactorial brain disease we call dementia. The problem most researchers have failed to acknowledge is that each person has a unique set of causes for their brain issues. But dementia doesn’t have just one cause. The medical community throughout the 20th century made tremendous advancements by finding single drug agents to treat each diagnosis. The pharmaceutical industry has spent billions on one failed drug approach after another in their pursuit of a pill to stop Alzheimer’s disease. Why You Should Never Expect an Effective Drug For Alzheimer’s
Research has uncovered dozens of factors that drive this process of cutting back and dozens of other factors that can make those neurons grow again–so much growth that it can be measured on an MRI, something neurologists thought was impossible just a few years ago! If you’re noticing these things, your brain is actively in the process of cutting the number of neurons it’s supporting. DON’T BELIEVE IT–BRAIN DYSFUNCTION IS NOT A NORMAL PART OF AGING and there’s so much you can do to stop the decline. Mention it to a doctor, and they’ll check a few labs and say it’s just part of aging.
We hide and deny and apologize for these lapses in brain function because we don’t think there’s anything anyone can do. Half of all 85-year-olds have Dementia-But Warnings Start Years Earlier We use more post-it notes and we write things down. Initially, it’s easy to hide these deficits. A momentary sense of disorientation, not being able to calculate a tip, read a map, or recall a friend’s name. It starts out with that “senior moment” when you can’t recall a detail you know that you should have easily thought of. Thankfully, our brains give us a good deal of warning when they are in the process of decline. Now, maybe you or someone you love is the one having these “senior moments.” Your body and your brain were at their peak and you wondered about the obvious “dumb mistakes” of people in the older generations.
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