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Jul 7, 2023Liked by Robyn Chuter

So with only 3 weeks' use of the OCP when I was 20, NO coffee, reasonable activity level, plenty of fruits & vegetables, I shouldn't have too high a risk of dementia. Plus none of my family members had anything more than a little forgetfulness in their late 70s/early 80s.

Guess I'll see how I go, eh?! ;-)

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You seem pretty sharp to me!

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Jul 15, 2023Liked by Robyn Chuter

Never had OCP, no coffee, former marathon runner, skier and backpacker, fruits and veggies a plenty, and 72. I have been misplacing my keys for the last 45 years, so nothing new there. I'll see how I go, too, eh?

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Jul 16, 2023·edited Jul 16, 2023Author

My husband keeps misplacing his mobile phone, but I suspect that's because he secretly wants to be rid of it 😂.

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I know people who misplace their keys when they are stressed! They've been doing it their whole lives! :-D

I think there's always more to things than what we think.

Anyway, you sound like you're doing fine to me :-)

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Jul 11, 2023Liked by Robyn Chuter

In regards to the coffee study, can it be that as people begin experiencing memory loss, they turn to drinking more coffee as a response because it helps them feel more alert, or they hope it will? I feel this study has bean concocted:-)

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Boom boom! Cognitive function was normal at baseline in these people, so it's very unlikely they were leaning on coffee to increase alertness.

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My late husband died from dementia at 64 years old. He was a reformed smoker, drank lots of coffee and had reversed his type 2 diabetes. I believe the trigger for the onset was an overuse of antibiotics for bronchitis followed by lack of sleep and then food poisoning from undercooked chicken.

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I'm so sorry you lost him at such a young age. The antibiotics and food poisoning would have disrupted his gut microbiome, and sleep is vital for clearance of the toxic proteins whose build-up in the brain is associated with dementia.

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I only have have two cups a day, albeit very large cups :)

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Hmmm, that sounds like a confession 🤣.

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I wonder whether is any correlation with the hardship/deprivation/hunger that someone might have experienced say during WW2 and the incidence of Alzheimers. Only test subject is my mum whose cognition was clear as a bell until her late illness but lived through the war as a child

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Chronic stress is definitely a risk factor. But there is a disproportionate number of centenarians among Holocaust survivors, which is quite paradoxical.

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I don't find German New Medicine's explanation for illness plausible or consistent with biology.

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I've researched it quite extensively and none of its core premises withstand scrutiny.

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If you were a regular reader, you would know that I'm a careful and thorough researcher. One thing that definitely doesn't meet my standards of proof is personal anecdote.

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