Re: Study: Extra folic acid may protect brain



Rita wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:54:35 GMT, "Bill" <xxx@xxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Study: Extra folic acid may protect brain
> >
> > WASHINGTON (AP) -- High-dose folic acid pills -- providing as much of
> >the nutrient as 2.5 pounds of strawberries -- might help slow the cognitive
> >decline of aging.
> >
> > So says a Dutch study that's the first to show a vitamin could really
> >improve memory.
> >
> I wonder if the study addresed short term memory loss, the
> phenomenum those of us who experience it call "senior moments"?
>
> I don't believe my reasoning powers have begun to fail, nor my
> ability to read and absorb fairly challenging material.
>
> But I do momentarily forget names of people and books and other
> facts I know well. In a converation I find myself stumbling to
> recall a name -- sometimes I have to menally recite the alphabet
> to see if coming across the letter with which the name begins will
> "job" my memory. I am age 75 and this has been going on for
> a few years now. Usually, even if I do nothing to stimulate
> memory, the name pops up in my mind a bit later. This happens
> to me far more often when talking to someone than when writing.
> Although I do make use of Google to give me clues sometimes as to
> the name or term I want to recall:)
>
> My daughter once worked in a nursing home and tells me, when I once
> got dressed to go off to church on a Saturday, that she will put up
> a big board that says "Today is Tuesday. The President is George
> Bush. You live in New York City."



People who experienced statin induced memory loss describe such
incidents, and say they put up with it for a long time thinking, and
being told, it was due to aging, or Alzheimer's, or 'going crazy'. It
was only when they stopped the drug and began to recover that they and
their families realized incidents such as you describe are not normal.


It is this, not some boogeyman mental illness, that we mean when we
speak of statin induced cognitive adverse effects.

Statin induced cognitive adverse effects including memory loss,
confusion, disorientation, forgetting how to do things one has always
done, such as drive a car, aphasia and more are described here:

http://www.spacedoc.com

Zee

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