Alzheimer’S Media Coverage: Who To Believe? What To Believe?
Like then many people, I’d been proverb for years that at that topographic point was a lack of data when it came to Alzheimer’s disease. My constant drumbeat was, ‘We yell for a spotlight on this terrible disease!’
By Nancy Wurtzel
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The media seems to live on saturated alongside stories well-nigh Alzheimer’s together with other dementias – from newspapers to boob tube to blogs together with more.
However, the data is ofttimes either the same data beingness rehashed fourth dimension together with again, or it is startling novel finding that tin dismiss sometimes appear dubious.
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For instance, concluding calendar month a New York Times article reported dementia rates inwards England together with Wales get got plummeted past times every bit much every bit 25 pct over the concluding 2 decades. This lead contradicts The Rush Study, published inwards March, which extrapolates the Alzheimer’s numbers inwards our ain province together with comes to the determination the numbers are growing faster than nosotros thought.
Which study is right?
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Texas physician proclaims inwards the Dallas Morning News he believes a cure for Alzheimer’s illness is only approximately the corner, fifty-fifty when most experts tell nosotros are non whatsoever closer than nosotros were v years ago.
One recent even out inwards USA Today outlines v keys to warding off dementia -- exercise, sleep, nutrition, challenging your encephalon together with limiting stress. This same data has been reported over together with over for several years, together with I experience every bit though I could recite it past times heart.
Yet, I guess at that topographic point are nonetheless people they yell for to reach.
Dr. Andrew Weil, together with many others who promote holistic medicine, says the role of turmeric, a culinary spice, helps block the formation of plaques inwards the brain. However, at that topographic point are an equal number of skeptics inwards the medical globe who tell it in all likelihood does nothing.
Is turmeric the existent bargain or volition it show to live on only some other ginkgo biloba?
An online search for the crusade of Alzheimer’s shows many results claiming the illness stems from plaques together with tangles inwards the brain, patch other sites yell for the crusade is unknown together with nonetheless others proclaim inflammation is at the root of the disease.
For many years, researchers had their hopes pinned mainly on those plaques together with tangles. Now, they are less certain.
NBC Nightly News together with countless other media reported a few weeks agone that people should right away trust their instincts when it comes to cognitive decline. In other words, if someone believes he or she has retentiveness problems, that somebody is in all likelihood right.
If this is true, it totally upends what nosotros get got been told for decades.
Nancy Wurtzel writes Dating Dementia -- slightly twisted together with humorous spider web log -- well-nigh making large changes at midlife. Read well-nigh Nancy's journeying through divorce, restarting a career, empty nest challenges, moving home, babe boomer issues together with caring for an aging raise alongside Alzheimer’s disease. Visit Dating Dementia.
Although I am self-educated, I consider myself to live on knowledgeable well-nigh the issues surrounding Alzheimer’s illness together with other dementias. However, these days I acknowledge I’m ofttimes confused well-nigh the conflicting media coverage.
Feeling adrift, I no longer know just who to believe, what to believe or how to sift through the data beingness disseminated.
Should I get got turmeric or not?
If I religiously create all the things on the oft-published, brain-health list, volition I actually dodge retentiveness loss? I never yell back where I’ve parked my auto – create I already get got the beginnings of Alzheimer’s?
Like then many people, I’d been proverb for years that at that topographic point was a lack of data when it came to Alzheimer’s disease. My constant drumbeat was, ‘We yell for a spotlight on this terrible disease!’
Well, right away nosotros get got that spotlight.
Yes, I’m real grateful the media is focusing on cognitive business office together with loss issues. Yet, I only wishing it was easier to figure out what together with who to believe.
Your comments, insight together with reactions are welcome below.
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