So he has been on a ketogenic diet?
What I am asking, is if you have high cholesterol when you * dont* eat saturated or hydrogenated fat, will you continue to have high cholesterol if you eat a ketogenic diet?
Or, can you be healthy despite high cholesterol, given that there is currently a dispute as to whether it is unhealthy.
My ratio is good, but overall #s are over 300.
More or less, not strictly 100% ketonic diet. But 90% ketonic diet, very little carbs. He doesn’t have high cholesterol but maybe borderline to start out with, he is somewhere 200 plus for cholesterol number. I don’t have the exact number. He has a fried egg and sausage or bacon every day. He has gluten free toast with marmalade, gluten free muesli every day.
So I think whatever number is you start out with, that’s the same number you have, it doesn’t increase nor decrease. My husband loves vegetables and fresh fruits more than I do, unfortunately. I should eat healthier, but I’m more of a meat eater, but not big steak, can’t stand that, and occasional some vegs and fruits but no carbs. I snack more than eat a real meal.
I found this link why googling for something else, very encouraging.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/memory-loss-associated-with-alzheimers-reversed-for-first-time
@drgoogle - @emeraldkity4 …a handy way to get the most current news about Alzheimer’s, or ldl cholesterol.
Is to customize the " google news" - app
On the top bar you can customize- so, in addition, to getting
Standard categories, top news, sports, entertainment, business, science, technology
Scroll to the right and you will see “personalization” option----- input whatever interests you
I have included “'Alzheimer’s” and “LDL cholesterol” …
Very helpful.
Thanks for the link, Dr Google!
Good tip, sjcm!
I’ve heard on radio recently a severe case of Alzheimer’s, a gene mutation, it’s very sad. The voice of a young woman about age 37, she forgot her name. Did anybody listen to that show?
HI @anxiousmom Sorry I have not visited this thread in a while. You wrote, “lbowie - back to the “hearing loss leads to dementia” thing… Right now they are showing a relationship, but nothing causative, right? I would think that it’s more likely that “dementia leads to hearing loss” - that early dementia causes the person not to be able to interpret what they are hearing… But it’ll be interesting to see what the end conclusions are.”
A loss in hearing acuity can be measured independently from cognitive decline. The threshold levels at which people hear different frequencies is measured in each ear. Cognitive decline has been measured in people with and without hearing loss over time. People with hearing loss showed a faster rate of cognitive decline than people without hearing loss. See http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/sc-health-0121-hearing-loss-dementia-20150115-story.html
I hope that if one can determine what led to the hearing loss, that would take out the dementia factor. I know my hearing loss is from jet engine noise, but I can’t see that it would make me more inclined to get dementia.
Age-related hearing loss is extremely common, more common in each advancing decade of life. By their 70s, more people have hearing loss than not (55% do in both ears). You can look at the table here to see it by decade and broken down by women, men, and also by white/black/hispanic http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3564588/?report=reader#!po=16.6667 (click on the table)
My grandmother had hearing loss severely in her early 60s but passed away in her early 90s. I don’t think my aunt said it was Alzheimer’s.
I think you are missing the point, @DrGoogle Just because a person has hearing loss does NOT mean they have Alzheimers, but may be at greater risk of developing dementia. It does not mean they will definitely develop dementia either.
Of course everything is risk, not certain.
Depending how the hearing loss was dealt with, it should come as no surprise to anyone that the person with the hearing issue could appear to be demented. If they can’t hear well enough to understand the questions posed by the person giving the dementia assessment, then they can’t respond to their own best ability.
Rather than set regular Google to pull up medical research, it is better to at least use https://scholar.google.com/
But the best choice would be http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
You will be able to get to the abstracts. If the full article is not open access, then ask a friendly librarian to find it for you.
Yes, the above happened to a friend of mine – family was very concerned about mother not responding appropriately in conversation – turned out to be hearing loss. However, Dr. Frank Lin’s research from Johns Hopkins is quite compelling about hearing loss predisposing one to dementia, hypothesizing it is due to overtaxing the brain trying to make sense of conversation and/or social isolation. There are tests for cognition and there are tests for hearing. It is not a matter of appearance of dementia. This is well done, well controlled research, and some of it is in open access journals accessible through PubMed as linked in the previous post. (People administering tests of cognition are well aware of providing instruction so that hearing difficulty does not interfere, e.g. written instructions)