Did they investigate 4x a year?

I'm a former heavy drinker, and Dad had dementia (also a former heavy drinker)...so I guess I get to look forward to being as bad as he was. Then again, I'm sober earlier in life, and NO smoking/drinking at all now. AND I am still working and teaching and writinig so I think I am using my brain every day

Shit, I told my kids if I ever got a terminal diagnosis, I'd just rent a Mustang supercharger, get a gas can in the back seat, and Thelma& Louise into the Grand Canyon!

A big oily soot smear on the canyon is no good legacy.

I am myself looking forward to a long walk into the winter woods.

It just sounds good in hyperbole...

I have booked a shallow hole in a conservation trust burial ground.

Last Will & Testicle that I want to be cremated, and my ashes spread on our icy driveway in the winter. I've already fallen on the ice and spent more hours laying there than I can remember. So my ashes will feel comfortable, I think,

I also plan to hold my calling hours while still alive. I practice my corpse position X3 per week. I want to hear what people are saying. Then pop up.

Careful you don’t give your caller a heart attack - you pop up and they pop off.

Obese brain plaque syndrome leads to Alzheimers too.

They think it’s tau tangles, but no single cause for those. Not a drinker, healthy outdoors active lifestyle and a pretty hideous few years of decline.

along those lines.

Research like this looks at one thing at a time.

I said “ So I can’t eat food high in fats?”
He said “ No….don’t eat, Fatty.”

Took care, never drank, smoked, or ate heavily, moderately active until the pandemic....she had a heart attack @50 but is otherwise without major issues, no dementia...and no life.
She has few interests, no hobbies, isn't sick enough to die but isn't really living, either. I don't want to go like that. Slainte!

You're gonna die of something. I'd rather enjoy life.

factors/life style are also 50%. So it's a 50/50 thing.

You make a good point. More studies would be helpful.

Plus there are probably more factors they could adjust for, like daily mental agility activity (be it job or recreation), social connectedness.

If a person derives pleasure from 5 drinks a week it might be healthier than someone who gets morose from 3 drinks a week.

Pretty sure a bullet to the noggin will make it 100% environmental, or something like Huntington's when your mother also passed from it is 100% genetic. Just sayin

Electing a convicted felon president, so drink heavily.

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Also they have changed the standards now for what is considered moderate and heavy drinking etc. - I think more than 3 drinks a week is considered moderate... that is what I found when I looked it up.

Some doc's offices now interrogate you about this, the nurses on a physical do it. Next time I will tell them to myob etc. I'm so sick of these idiots. I rarely drink, maybe a glass of wine or champaign a few times a year. Sometimes it might be more often for me near holidays so I told them I don't fit into your categories etc.

Now, if women drink 8 drinks per week it is considered heavy drinking, which is crazy to me.

Kind of like when they changed all the cholesterol standards so they could try to force everyone onto statins.

Granted, there is way too much drug prescription writing in the US, and that probably is part of lower life expectancy despite paying twice as much per capita than healthier longer lived nations.

But you might benefit seeing someone re your conspiracy theory about "changing the standards" to "force" everyone on to some medication.

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Thought I should really be on them, for reals. I told him my doctor didn't agree, so I wasn't going to get more pills I don't need. Why the hell is this pharmacist privy to my medical results anyway? I didn't agree to that.

It's bad enough I'm having to shoot myself up with insulin every night now. And on four pills. I'm going to be working to get rid of that stuff, too, whether they like it or not. Already lost fifteen pounds in a month, just from getting back to low carb.

It started at age 64.

Combination of abuse of prescribed medication for sleep coupled with heavy wine-drinking for years. She can remember some past personal history, not so much recent events. She knows her family and me.

It's disconcerting for us as she has a different personality along with the memory issues. She seems to be searching for words. And she's easily irritated.

One of my best friends from high school has terrible short-term memory. I think it's mainly from 50 years of alcohol and drug abuse. It's really sad to witness.

very similar to what it feels like when one is dying. I am 60 and I’ve kept it pretty chill over the years with alcohol because I cannot stand hangovers. I rarely drink now.