Re: Study: Extra folic acid may protect brain


"Rita" <nitany_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 23 Jun 2005 16:28:16 -0700, "zee" <outrider@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>While small memory glitches can happen at any age, pervasive memory
>>loss is not normal in one's 40s and 50s or even 60s and 70s.
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>>Efforts to minimize the seriousness of statin induced cognitive adverse
>>effect is typical of what those taking statins and injured by them did,
>>until it was too late.
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>>Do not attribute memory problems to aging or allow your physicians to
>>do that. This is not only ageist but dangerous.
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>>Memory loss is a symptom not a joke. And brain damage from statins may
>>be irreversible.
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> The kind of memory loss we have been discussing is
> an artifact of aging for many. Obviously there are things to be
> wary about -- it can be a precursor of serious diseases if it
> worsens.
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> The American Academy of Physicians suggests:
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> Aging may affect memory by changing the way your brain stores information
> and by making it harder to recall stored information.
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> Your short-term and remote memories aren't usually affected by aging. But
> your recent memory may be affected. You may forget names of people you've
> met recently. These are normal changes.
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> So to be more accurate it is recent memory loss that is normal with
> aging.
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> Obviously, taking statins confounds the picture. I've never said it
> did not.
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> But I think when recent memory loss occurs, it gives one pause and one
> wonders if one is developing Alzheimer's disease.
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> There is a difference:
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> The wonder of the brain is that if any of these events are of particular
> interest to you, you may remember them for months, or years or even for the
> rest of your life. But if an Alzheimer's patient is among us, who is even
> in the early stages of the disease and even if he or she thinks that the
> events are very important, it's very unlikely that they will remember for
> more than a few hours and certainly not more than a few days.
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> As the disease progresses, the span over which Alzheimer's patients can
> remember things gradually shrinks--from days and hours to minutes, then to
> seconds and then to nothing. Unfortunately, this is not only a devastating
> disease but an extremely common one. We estimate that it affects six
> million people in the U.S. alone and costs 100 billion dollars a year.
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My (slight) memory problems may or may not be attributible to statins. But if
they were, I would continue with the statins.

Bill


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