Gonna try one more time.

[JRL]

My posts keep dissapearing. Whats up with that?? Someone?

Let me try once again: I've been having some scary memory issues. My doc said "I got good news and bad news. it's perfectly normal" at 50 12 I am losing brain cells every day. So I started doin brain training and eating ginko. Any other ideas?

[laughingwillow]

You OK, mon?

Are the disappearing posts and scary memory issues one topic or two?

[JRL]

Oh I'm fine, but stuff keeps slipping down the old memory whole. Mostly short term, I remember 1968 but don't ask me why i went into the kitchen. Hasnt effected the music thus far, in fact I remember that better than ever.

[Stonehenge]

Piracetam along with a choline source helps a lot. Wait until you go into a room and can't remember why you went there.

[judih]

wow.
try studying.
there's research showing a group of nuns who went to a library daily to study something new kept their memory up even though they tested positively for alzheimer's.
so, symptoms can be battled!

link here: http://www.alzheimermonterrey.com/estudios/estudios/Estudio-Monjas-I.pdf

[JRL]

I'm constantly working on music, which i seem to have no trouble remembering. Also i remember 50 years ago better than say why I went into the kitchen right now. We've been doing luminosity brain training which seems like it has help everything but memory.

Piracetam, if I remember right, kind of fed my depression.

[Stonehenge]

St john's is good for depression or a little snort of ket if its available. The st johns takes a few days to work, usually about 4 caps a day. Piracetam needs a choline source with it for it to work. Could be eating eggs, or taking choline bitratrate, lecithin, lots of things. Do a google on it, its very good for memory and fluency, being able to think of words and so on. It takes a little while to work, they recommend 2 to 4 gm a day to start then perhaps less. I take about 700 mg per day. It used to be dirt cheap but the fda is cracking down, wants to call it a drug and so on.

[JRL]

Wellbutrin and time has kind of put the worst of the depression behind me. Tell you what, aging is fraught with peril! Brain Training seems to be helping everything but memory. It's a very specific memory loss, short term more than anything. Like i was in a bookstore looking at book I liked thinking i could find it online for a much better price(I hate buying new books). But as soon as I left the store and was down the road i could not for the life of my remember what the book was. But I do remember the day in 1965 that  I met this guitar player, never seen him again but rmember everything about the encounter.

The mind is a strange place.

[laughingwillow]

And a strange place is a terrible thing to waste....

[Stonehenge]

Do a google on piracetam and see what you think. Its legal and totally non toxic. No one has ever died from it that i know of, even with a massive overdose. You can't say that about aspirin.

[JRL]

Piracetam made me feel drained, kind of like i felt after MDMA. At any rate, the memory issues are more the problem now than depression. What do you know about the aluminum/alzheimers connection?

[Stonehenge]

Piracetam will do that if you aren't taking a choline source with it. It uses up your choline. Good sources are lecithin, eggs, choline supplements. Ginkgo biloba may help with memory.

The aluminum- alzheimers link has not been established. Not as cause and effect anyway.

[judih]

Piracetam made me feel drained, kind of like i felt after MDMA. At any rate, the memory issues are more the problem now than depression. What do you know about the aluminum/alzheimers connection?

dietary changes
utensil changes
always a good step

cook in stainless steel. throw away any scratched teflon. aluminum is especially dangerous with acidic cooking (like tomato sauce).

There's a good deal of research and testing going on for treatment of Alzheimer's. Check out this link:
http://israel21c.org/health/top-10-israeli-advances-against-alzheimers-disease/

[LizJah]

Choline sucks...IMO...

Want some unwanted weird while seeking a lattice to stick your substrate to?  Try Choline!