Mystery Ingredient in Coffee Wards Off Alzheimer's

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This article is 3 trs old but news to me. Apologies if its noise to you.
SOURCE URL: http://www.livescience.com/14715-coffee-mystery-compound-protects-alzheimers.html


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  • Posted by $ Stormi 9 years, 5 months ago
    The senior section at our McD's, where we meet in the morning for coffee, has been dubbed the "Wall of Wisdom", as so many discussions go on and so many ideas exchanged - not a liberal in the bunch, so we must be holding our own.
    Alzheimers is a tough one, as so much confusion exists over true Alzheimers and drunk induced Alzheimers. Too many doctors and nursing homes over medicate until the person can't think or remember. We had a friend 87, put in for two weeks for physical therapy, given narcotics and told she had Alzheimers. When her doctor found out what the nursing home physician had done, he ordered her out and on home care to detox her. At 87 is is once again mentally sharp as a tack, "peruses" the paper as she calls it, and calls me to discuss what is going on! They wanted to lock her away in a med-induced stupor!
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  • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 5 months ago
    My intent is not to sound sarcastic but it seems that for every study that says something is good, there is another that contradicts it. Of course it is a study done by our government that cost millions more than it should have.
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  • Posted by eilinel 9 years, 5 months ago
    My dad was a lifelong coffee drinker, and he got Alzheimer's at the age of 80, just like his mom and older sister. Also, there are lots of mouse studies that don't pan out when studied in humans.
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    • Posted by 9 years, 5 months ago
      Sorry to hear that, eliniel. My best mate in Australia's wife is a coffee drinker, too, and she was afflicted with dementia starting at age 58. It's obviously a more complex problem.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 5 months ago
        My mother started each day with at least one cup of coffee. She died in 2006 at the age of 83 all but completely out of it due to Alzheimer's. She kept refusing to use a walker and was repeatedly falling down.
        On the other hand, my dad is alive at 97. He's just a bit senile and repeats himself a lot when I visit. I don't know if that retirement home gives him coffee in the morning or if he wants any anymore.
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  • Posted by scojohnson 9 years, 5 months ago
    Might be the sugar in other caffeine drinks that outweighs the positive effects of caffeine. Good to know though, I drink a cup or two every day to keep myself regular, but there is an extra bonus.

    Personally, I think it's lifestyle, having coffee in the morning might be indicative of getting up and doing things. Inactivity in the brain is the easiest lead to Alzheimer's. If you get up and have a cup and face the day, you are stimulating your mind.

    I think future generations will have much lower rates of Alzheimer's since so many more people work in high mental capacities than was the case before and of current elderly.

    On the other hand, obesity is up...
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    • Posted by 9 years, 5 months ago
      Lots of toxins and multiple pharmaceutical drug use are up, too. Effects of long term exposure is unknown at present. Time will provide more clarity on that, but perhaps not in time for many of us.
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  • Posted by wiggys1 9 years, 5 months ago
    thanks for the article, as I told a friend last night that I read something about coffee being good for us. he drinks between 1 and 2 pots a day, so he may increase it now.
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    • Posted by 9 years, 5 months ago
      Ha-ha. Perhaps he should read the studies and consider that more isn't often better contrary to most advertising. And he may not get much sleep either, which is arguably much more important to health. <grin>
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      • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 5 months ago
        Yeah, some decades ago, I got up to about seven cups of 'hi-test' a day. Then I suddenly began to have horrible headaches EVERY Saturday afternoon... the difference between weekdays and Saturdays? 7 cups every weekday, nothing on Saturday.

        I became hypersensitized to caffeine and today can get a 'caffeine withdrawal headache' from a good slug of coffee ice cream or an excess of chocolate (similar chemical, but not caffeine.)

        Know anyone who gets 'mysterious, random headaches' especially above the right eye? Ask them if they'd missed their regular cup o' Joe or their morning Coca-Cola... if the answer is yes, tell them to slug down a cola or coffee and 'report back in about 45 minutes to verify that their headache has miraculously disappeared.'

        If there's a natural resistance to Alzheimer's in coffee, I hope it's not the caffeine!
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        • Posted by 9 years, 5 months ago
          One of the first results of fasting for regular coffee drinkers is the coffee withdrawal headache, which usually occurs the 2nd day of the fast and lasts off and on for 24 hours. In my limited experience, that was the hardest part of a 2-3 week fast, with culinary boredom coming in 2nd.
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          • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 5 months ago
            Back when I first realized what was going on with my body, I read reports that sometimes the 'withdrawal symptoms' last for a week or several! I was lucky. Mine are usually over by about 6pm the following day. But when they were bad, they were VERY bad... looked like I had the DT's... nausea, sweating, clenched hands and fingers, trembling and, of course, a horribly painful headache...
            It was a painful lesson in 'getting to know my body,' but an effective one.
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            • Posted by 9 years, 5 months ago
              My coffee habit at the time of fasting was only about a cup a day, so withdrawal was relatively mild. Sorry to hear of your experience, plusaf. Do you think it was worthwhile?
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              • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 5 months ago
                Do I think _what_ was 'worthwhile'? Getting off coffee/caffeine?
                If that's the question, the answer is a definite yes, but with added necessary information... I discovered that I could not REGULATE my caffeine intake in such a way to AVOID the next-day-headaches.
                Although over the ensuing decades, my love of the flavor of coffee led me to partake very carefully (and rarely) of the pleasure while avoiding dosages high enough to cause the next-day pain.
                I still love the fragrance of coffee, although even when I was a 'heavy user,' you could have said that I was really drinking a "coffee-flavored sugar/cream mixture." :)
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