heart healthy?, does it or doesnt it

HEART HEALTHY?

if you look at our family tree and trace back some medical history

youll see that there is a lot of strokes and heart attacks as the 

cause of death or disability 

this is because we have high cholesterol and have a tendency to have

hypertension and yes if you look at old photos youll see some degree

of obesity 

in fact my father had high blood pressure high cholesterol and had

a bypass graft done at 68 and was slightly overweight

in his last years he developed some issues that when i look back i 

think he probably had some dementia that was probably alzheimers 

disease

knowing that vascular dementia and alzheimers disease gets intertwined

sometimes

ive thought of his health and i have the same risk factors except for the 

obesity

now that im on aricept (donepezil) for possible alzheimers disease which

slows down symptoms of the disease but not the disease itself

and i have blood pressure and weight and cholesterol and exercise and 

diet under good control 

i think sometimes well im just making myself live longer so that the 

alzheimers can just reach its full effect

although in some studies not controlling your blood pressure can increase

production of that beta amyloid that may be the cause of alzheimers disease

which can make the disease occur earlier in life

my dad died in his mid 70s of a heart attack sparing us and my mom and 

himself the last years of a demented life

which is worse i wonder

dying early with a heart attack to get it over with or 

dying later with alzheimers allowing your family to suffer with you as the

alzheimers disease takes you away 

if i could chose i would go for early heart attack every time

i always tell my wife she if you ever come home and find me lying face

down here at the country n know that i died happy and died where i 

wanted to die and the way i wanted to go  

then this week i read about how aricept (donepezil) actually may be good 

for your heart

if i have alzheimers disease i could be on aricept (donepezil) for over

15-20 years if im  lucky?

it may decrease the heart attack and death rate by 35%

thats a significant number folks

but

it does somehow seem cruel if we cant at the same time come up 

with a prevention or treatment for alzhemers disease

so for now ill just take my aricept (donepezil) and keep everything under

control but when or if i get alzheimers disease and i get more advanced

my wife she has been instructed to take me off all my medications

so everything will speed up and get it over with 

DOES IT OR DOESNT IT

im always being asked about coconut oil

does it help or not with alzheimers disease

my response had been probably not but it doesnt really hurt to 

take it 

my younger brother took it and it didnt help him any 

there is a medical food 

(thats a category thanks to good lobbying by

pharmaceutical companies to bypass the fda since their products arent

medicines but food-doesnt quite sound right does it)

thats called axona it a medium chain triglyceride that in some early studies

appeared to maybe help improve memory which have not

been able to be duplicated by followup non drug company sponsored 

research

i actually tried this for a month and decided to not take it 

i decided to put my efforts to controlling those things mentioned in the 

above section on heart healthy?

so coconut oil is similar to this stuff

the thinking is that by taking this stuff axona you get ketosis 

think acetone

which the body can use as an energy source so those alzheimers 

damaged cells can use this stuff for a food source instead of sugar which 

it cant seem to be handled well by these damaged cells

so thats the thinking

now a researcher has gotten money to do an actual 

controlled scientific study using placebos in one group and then using 

coconut oil in another group and then will follow them over time to see if 

it works

(you can go to this link also to get information to be in the study)

simple experiment thats not really ever been done

why 

you can get this stuff cheap at walmart target your grocery store health food store

so no drug company can make millions off it 

so its never been scientifically tested 

just anecdote stories

so we should know soon does it or doesnt it

folks we just need a cure dont we

the organicgreen doctor

smart powder, streaker, rangers

SMART POWDER
there is this smart powder (thats what i call it) that is a
prescription only medical food that may help some with
memory in patients with alzheimers or mild cognitive impairment
amnestic type like i have
its called axona

no its not like medical marijuana
its legal in all of our states
its fda approved for it use

the way it works is that the body takes the medium chain
triglycerides in this powder and makes ketone bodies that are
presented to the damaged nerve cells in the brain
so they can use them as a source of nutrition

in alzheimers disease the damaged cells from the deposition of
beta amyloid can not use glucose well so they starve from the
lack of nutrition
the ketone bodies formed from the axona smart powder medium
triglycerides then provide that nutrition the damaged nerve cells need

in studies the results of cognitive tests improved in the patients that
took this smart powder
so it appears that it may helps some
more research is being done

remember nothing cures alzheimers
these things just may help the symptoms some ie in this case
improves memory

so i picked up my prescription from the pharmacy
i was a little concerned when i picked it up as it
looked like i might need a refrigerator dolly to haul it
to the car

it wasnt that heavy though
it was acutually a 3 months prescription with 90 packets
they look like instant breakfast and taste like a milk shake
well not quite like one but close to one
the taste is tolerable and the axona is taken after a large meal

well after a week i dont feel smarter yet
maybe after i start taking the full packet
maybe i can beat my white on white relative in jeopordy now

STREAKER
oh i remember the streaking days
you might see a streaker anywhere
it was not unusual to see one dash across campus at college
sometimes the ones streaking were the least you would expect
to streak
many a ball game, wedding, trial, graduation, ceremonies
were disrupted by the streaker

last night during a boring pac 12 +-  game on tv a referee blew
a whistle stopping play came in and got the ball then ran towards
the end zone dropping clothes as he ran
he made the game more entertaining

so what did the players do to respond to this joke
they had a brawl
that disrupted the game more than the streaker did
thats another thing thats wrong with college football
cant even enjoy a good joke
how can you even fight in a football outfit anyway
no wonder both these teams are lousy this year

RANGERS
they pulled one out in the end
guess that game was more entertaining than the streaker
football game last night between ucla and arizona

the organicgreen doctor