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To Rubita 7: I hadn’t thought of that! Unless the cans are lined, I would think it’s a good possibility, since soft drinks usually have a low pH, which means high acidity. It would be very interesting to test the soft drinks for the presence of aluminum.
My mother's( in her 80s) temper and her patience extremely limited. She shudders in during some conversations; get frustrated over simple things like operating tv remote or using cellular phone. She always been social person and COV19 pandemic kept her isolated which only made matters far worse.
I'm a bit older and a year ago I got diagnosed with dementia and they told my kids that I would never come out of it, after ending up in the hospital they found out I had a bladder infection that went septic. Apparently older women can get severe bladder infections without having any symptoms whatsoever. I actually have a genetic predisposition to improperly formed ureter valves so the urine can back up into the kidneys and infect them. All I'm saying is if somebody tells you that you have Dementia or that your mother has dementia, make sure you have them check for a bladder infection and make sure that they don't just pigeonhole her and put her into a rest home. Since my bladder infection and kidney infection was cured I am back to 100%, absolutely no signs of dementia whatsoever.
@@Rebecca-ew9sw I know exactly how you feel 😓 The hardest part for me was to see her beautiful personality and character fade away to nothing. Seeing her become a shell of her former self.
Amen 🙏 I lost my mom to Alzheimer's and my dad to dementia/Huntingtons just a few years ago. Being there care giver its something I think about every day. The hardest thing watching your parents turned into different people is heartbreaking. To you and everyone else who has lost a loved one to this I wish you well 💞
Dr Berg, thank you for speaking on such a difficult subject. I worked as a nurse in a nursing home and had many clients suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's. I fully understand the sadness and devastation of family members who have to place a parent in a nursing home. When my mom's vascular dementia progressed to the point where we could no longer take care of her, we had to make the difficult decision of placing her. At first, she kept asking when she could go back home. Just thinking of this is absolutely heartbreaking. We visited her twice a day for 2 years and it was a blessing to both her and us. At one point, she developed severe pain, elimination and dysphagia problems, and it was decided to start a morphine protocol. She slipped into a coma for 9 long days before before she passed. To everyone who has a loved one afflicted by dementia or Alzheimer's, I wish you strength and courage ❤
I just lost my mother to Dementia as well couple of weeks ago and I am trying to judge you or anything but if you guy’s didn’t put her in a nursing home she might of lived a bit longer because in nursing homes they get abused and they don’t get the care that they deserve.
@@vintageradioman My mother had to be placed in the nursing home because she was doing things that placed her in danger, like running boiling hot water for her bath. She would wake up in the middle of the night and turn stove burners on. It gets to a point when no caregiver can supervise 24/7 because people have to work. And no, she would not have lived longer if we had not placed her. Sadly, her rapidly deteriorating health condition left us no option. But I understand that some may judge, pass comment or think we made the wrong decision. Also, I can guarantee you that not one resident was poorly taken care of or neglected in the nursing home where I worked as a nurse, and I say that with great pride.
I lost my father exactly 10 years ago today from Alzheimer’s after fighting cancer for 20 years. His diagnosis came 6 months before he passed. He was surrounded by family when the day came. We kept him at home. His mind was comparable to a 3 year old during his last days. He was pleasantly confused but he knew who we were. He became unresponsive and bed ridden on the day he passed. We were blessed we were able to keep him in the comfort of his home.
My mother had Alzheimers and she had all the symptoms it was very sad people are t themselves anymore Rip to everyone who had it And also people who are still alive God bless them all!!❤❤❤❤❤
I lost my.daughter last December. She was only 49years old I haven't been the same I.forget things alot I cry 😢 alot over her It's so hard to give up a child I miss her so much 😢
I lost my beautiful mum to dementia last Christmas, the most cruellest of diseases robbed her of everything. It broke my heart watching her slowly being destroyed, and when she passed with me by her side the only consolation was that her suffering was over. I'm now nursing my dad through the same, life can be so cruel. I miss my mum every day and hold on dearly to my dad as every day is precious ❤
The 10 WARNING Signs of Dementia/Alzheimer's: 1:51 #1 Change in language 2:40 #2 Navigation, difficulty finding yourself around town/your house 2:54 #3 Sensory: Loss of taste, smell, hearing, sight 3:01 #4 Constipation 3:19 #5 Personality changes 3:29 #6 Mood changes 4:04 #7 Memories, locating pictures and thoughts that you had before 4:13 #8 Thinking, the ability to solve problems 4:38 #9 Affected overall awareness, not being 100% there 4:55 #10 Keeping repeating yourself Natural remedies for Alzheimer's: 11:40 #1 Change the fuel that you're running on to ketones (low carb diet/intermittent fasting) 12:44 #2 Induce autophagy by fasting (regular intermittent fasting with periodic prolonged fasting) and exercise, also consume green tea and turmeric 13:39 #3 Omega-3 fatty acids, specifically the EPA and the DHA (cod liver oil) 14:03 #4 Reduce heavy metals (not the Iron Maiden kind though), also consume distilled water instead of tap water, make sure your supplements are food based not synthetic based 15:34 #5 Methylation: B12, folate 15:54 #6 Medications: talk to your doc to get you off of them 16:15 #7 Vitamins: A, D, B1 from nutritional yeast, C, E, K1 17:41 #8 Lion's mane mushroom Thank you Dr. Berg Sincerely, 11 : 11 Meditation Portal Channel
My Mother is in A Nursing Home with dementia, i cared for her for 8 yrs before placing her in a home. To this day she is a very happy resident at her NH and the staff love her because she is so happy all the time.
This list is so accurate. I lost my mom to breast cancer but she also fought a long 10 year battle with Alzheimer's. I'm pretty short 4' 10" so I guess I can look like a child. The saddest words I heard her say to me were "Where's your mom?" 💔💔 Soul crushing.
❤🫂 My heart goes out to you. My grandfather had Alzheimers too. He didn't recognize anyone anymore none of his 8 kids. But somehow he knew my grandmother was his constant not by name but he would speak with her and ask her questions. One day out of the blue during Christmas he told her she (his daughter, my mother) must be married to that guy (my dad). It was a special day, one out of many difficult one's.
I watched my great grandma suffer 10 years also before her peaceful death. On that last night she remembered me and we said goodbye Although I didn’t know it at that moment. Her death was peaceful. She raised me like a mother so it was rough.
My mother passed away in 2019 age 99 of old age. The last couple of years she lived at home with us and it was like our roles were reversed. She called me mum, and often asked where is mum.
Thank you for the kind words. My one comfort is that The Lord brought her home Jan 2020. And my dad October 2019 Only a couple months before the whole 2020 craziness! I couldn't even imagine going through all that. My heart goes out to all who had and are still enduring through that
I currently care full time for my 87 year old granny who has dementia. She's just been put on hospice (last month) and it's just so devastating as the disease has taken over everything she used to be. My heart goes out to anyone who is also going through this situation.
My husband and I took care of his dad with dementia. We would never think to put him in a nursing home. Yes, it was hard at times especially when he became bedridden and watching him slowly die but we wouldn't change anything. My aunt put my grandpa in a nursing home and it kind of traumatized me. It was such a horrible place.
My prayers are with you. My father's wish was to die at home because he built it and it was where my mother died. I moved in from out of state and was alone with him. It was hell in the end but proud to say I granted him that wish. I pray your mother and you have peace now. You and everyone around you who helped her are my heros and hers. Peace.
Treat the cause. Malnourishment is a deficiency if nutrients causing all kinds of problems where only symptoms are being treated. Vitamin deficiencies especially Vitamin B1 in high doses..R- Lipoic- Acid helps stop the demyelination of the nerves. Symptoms is telling us there’s a problem. Find the cause of the symptoms. Treat the cause. Autophagy.
I was an oncology nurse for 30 years.. I was also a home health nurse for a bit before that, and I believe that Alzheimer's is the worst disease ever! It's like the person died 10 years previously and their body is still working around😔
My heart felt condolences to your wife but she's so fortunate to have such an amazing medical knowledge encyclopaedia husband like you!! I have been watching your life saving videos for few years now and it has completely changed my life to the best it could possibly be
I lost my mother to dimentia and it broke me. It never happened to anyone we knew or family so came out of nowhere. I blamed myself because I didn’t see the signs and if I had maybe something could of been different. The last time I saw my mother was right before the pandemic hit and it was tough. I was alone with her at the hospital and I begged her to say something other than yeah because that’s all she would say and she couldn’t. I just broke down crying and I hate the fact that was our final time together. She passed about two years ago and we buried her on my birthday which was another just kick in the face. Stay strong if you have a family member with this and just love them.
Don't blame yourself. Even if you spotted the signs it wouldn't have changed her journey. It's a hellish disease for those of us witnessing it happen aswell as the person It's happening to
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My Papa passed away 5 years ago on the 18th. It still hurts like yesterday and he had all these traits you described. Before the Alzheimer's he was funny, extremely quick and very intelligent. And I keep thinking I'm going to get it so thank you for this video!
My father did from vascular dementia 8 years ago…was the worst thing …trying to connect with him but he was only the shell of the amazing man he once was. Now my mother has Alzheimer’s and we are going through the heartbreak again.
I lost my husband 2.5 years ago to Lewy Body dementia and it was the most soul crushing thing to watch him go through. I took care of him right up to his last 6 weeks which he spent in the hospital basically starving to death because he wouldn't eat or mostly couldn't. The doctors put him on IVs to keep him alive, but it was only delaying the inevitable. I knew Steve wouldn't have wanted to be kept alive that way prolonging his misery. We put him in hospice care and he was gone in 2 days. I'm still grieving the heartache of him having to go through all of that. If it wasn't for God, I wouldn't have made it through at all. Please take care of yourselves people. My husband broke every rule for good health. He just didn't care, so I became a widow at 68 years of age and his kids and grandkids really miss him. We have 7 wonderful grandchildren all under the age of 17 and he won't get to watch them grow up and have their own families. So so sad!
I love how you spoke about your wife in the beginning of this video. Makes me know I am not the only man who truly appreciates their amazing wife/friend on this challenging journey 💯👊🏻💨💨💨!
My mum (75yrs) is currently going through dementia, and it’s sad 😢 … I’m definitely sharing this video, hopefully it’ll help others going through this same pain or help them educate other people on this issue! 😭👍✨
Thank you Dr. Berg, this this information is so valuable to us those who have lost a parent. I lost my mother August 17, 2021 to Alzheimer's dementia and I must say when she was diagnosed with this horrible debilating disease I was so scared because it was very progressive. I immersed myself into everything I could find in books and on the web regarding this disease and I'm still learning. You provide so much information and I'm grateful. My mother's memory went fast, it's unbelievalbe to watch your mother the woman who raised you, cared and loved you to adulthood not even recognize you anymore. It's devasting. Thank you again for delegating your time to brining us valuable information regarding this horrible disease.
Dr Berg, you have opened my eyes to a whole lot of things. Thanks to you I am taking a step back to have a long deep look at my body. I listen to you on a daily basis. I have benefitted so much and I look forward to joining your programme as soon as I have diagnosed my problems. Keep doing great things for humanity!
My Grandma suffered from Dementia. She could talk to me from 10 years ago. She knew me but she had no clue what happened days ago. She would tell her caregivers her kids would never visit her even though all 6 of her kids visited her everyday.
My 77 year old mom got vascular dementia. Got test scored 22 out 30. Doctor told us to due certain brain exercises. Retested 6 months later. Scored 23 out 30 . She got this condition from a mild stroke. Recovered very good . With help from my brother and I.
That's amazing she recovered. My mum had a stroke but deteriorated quickly with vascular dementia and eventually died after a fall. Can I ask what the brain exercises were?
@@fidelcatsro6948 it is a slow moving death. But it slowly kills the brain. Even to the point where the affected person forgets how to even swallow food or water. Which is what happened. Your body also needs your brain to function all of your functioning systems. This video was just a reminder of all I went through over many years. And then as her caretaker for the last 3+ years
I took the Alzheimer’s test and have APOE 4. My maternal g-ma and mother both passed, my mom this past February, with Alzheimer’. This video is very helpful. Thank you, Dr. Berg
Lost my Mom to Dementia in 2020. Couldn't even visit her because of the pandemic. She was such a vibrant and sharp minded person 99% of her life. Not fun watchng the decline. Thanks for this video.
My daughter used to work for a home health care service. One of her clients was an elderly Japanese lady who told her all of these wonderful stories about her life and the profession she once worked in. My daughter is learning to spend Japanese so she was very excited when the lady agreed to study with her and help her learn it. Sadly on her next visit the lady seems slightly fearful of her and stayed in bed all day crying and refused to get up. She didn't really remember my daughter or their previous conversation. My daughter was devastated. Because most of her clients had issues like that, it was too emotionally painful for her so she quit the job.
That's awful to witness. I've had issues dealing with my mother, though after a nasty fall, where she couldn't remember things for 5~10 seconds, and each fall became worse. Then another similar scenario after she became addicted to Advil, where after throwing up she lost all sense of her place and time, and similarly to the falls, she couldn't recall anything except who I was. Took several hours the first fall, half a day the second, and a day when it triggered likely due to Advil. She's past on physically since, but those were three of the most horrible experiences I've ever had. Luckily after she recovered, she had vague to virtually no recollection of what had happened. In my mind, it's almost certainly tied to medications. You can see Alzheimer's rise exponentially as modern medicine grows and as Allopathic medication as a means of treatment becomes popular. There seems to be a very understudied (really not at all), correlation if you look into the rise of cholesterol medication for heart disease and a sharp spike in Alzheimer's. Hell, if you look at how many people in the US, since the 90's, are 50 years old with white hair, and bent over, it's not due to excessive work. It's due to the pharmaceutical industry, as all of those ancient 50 year olds tend to have at least 3 very powerful medications for various ailments, and at least 2~5 alternative medications to offset the damage done by the main medications. Nevermind super high omega-6 cooking oils, other additives to food, especially junk food (snack food used to be ok for you), and the sheer volume of sugar, which actually does correlate with plaque, not fat.
Dear Dr.Eric Berg, Sir you're doing really marvelous work in educating people at large about various aspects of human health, what causes onset of serious ailments and what can prevent such onset. May God bless you..
I cared for my mother the last five years of her life until she died three years ago with dementia/Alzheimer’s. We were very close and it was really hard, especially the day I became mother and she became my daughter, and for the first time in my life she forgot my birthday (I was first born and she always called me on my birthday). I always made sure she remembered and called the siblings on their birthdays. I became so stressed out by the time she passed that I totally broke down after, and it took a long time for me to recover myself. By far the most powerful and stressful period of my life, but I would not have missed those last years with her for anything in the world. It increased my faith in God more than anything else I can imagine. My mom was Jean (not gene).
@@OceanFrontVilla3 why did you feel the need to post that comment. People are entitled to their own beliefs and if you don't believe in it then move around, I'm pretty sure there's an atheist from for like-minded people like you.
Me too - taking care of my father, although difficult, has been in many ways a blessing. I feel that it's an honor to take care of him in the ways I can - and although it's brutal and in many ways exhausting - I know God loves us and is with us through it all. God bless you!
@@Delphi333 God bless you too. We need His blessings extra when going through challenges like that, and to remember, He never gives us more than we can bear. Although at times you may believe you are at your breaking point, He will always step in and provide a way for relief. It truly was for me an incredible faith building experience. I hope it is the same for you, in addition to being a very special daughter father relationship experience most never get to have.
I am in the middle of caring for my mother and everything you wrote is what I am going through. I am blessed to care for her but It has been by far the most stressful time in my life. I recently took a week vacation and it helped me to regain strength and emotional fortitude. I think I was close to a breakdown before then so it came at the perfect time. I appreciate what you wrote because not many people can understand the dynamic of being blessed by and wanting to care for someone who is also incredibly difficult to care for. I know that Things may change as her condition gets worse, but I am just trying to take it one day at a time. I just wanted to thank you for your thoughts because they helped me.
@@to_whom_would_we_go6285 May God bless you and keep you and strengthen you through it, and your mother too. As much as we go through caring for them, they go through much more losing so much of what was their identity and life.
I experienced a toxic exposure at work. I had pneumonias and was diagnosed after 2 years with "some kind of Alzheimers". After 20 years all the symptoms cleared, so I evidently cleared the heavy metals I took on. I lost my ability to read. I experienced dementia.Horrible.Lost all the time.Couldn't read.Had to learn all over again.Glad to be back. I took a lot of good supplements.
Ann, I went through the same thing when I was in my 40s. I was an editor, and within a matter of days, I couldn't read or understand language. Yes, it was horrible. One hospital wanted to admit me to the Psych unit because some snotty nurse thought I was being deliberately uncooperative. A simple blood test and immediate treatment with B12 would have prevented some of the brain damage that occurred. MD's never!
My diagnosis was Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.I was put on Social Security at age 59, after which I was told, you cannot be retrained.There were more than 20 of us and 3 got cancer( all the same kind of cancer, at the same time).Finally, after still denying the building was at fault, they moved to another location.Supplements do help.
It is the most horrible thing. Then to deal with the healthcare system to boot is overwhelming. My dad had vascular dementia for 5 years. To watch him deteriorate and lose quality of life was horrible and I feel like I also lost 5 years of my life. He was having anxiety in the beginning also , so that is another possible symptom. Also if they get nasty, it's part of the disease. I was in tears early on because he cursed at me( he rarely cursed normally) and basically called me a liar and he couldn't trust me which broke my heart at the time. It was hell on earth. I am glad he passed finally because he lost so much of his quality of life and it was affecting the family also, emotionally and financially. I wish he just never had it and was still with us.
Your videos are always clear and concise. Today, I was touched by the story of your mother-in-law, and your wife's relationship and journey through dementia with her. Having gone through it with my Dad, it was the most authentic introduction to core of the video & the knowledge we all need to know. It's not just science, it's life. And the people we love. Thank you.
Since I've always had some type of communications disorder and I recently had a head trauma, I'm undergoing a lot of these myself. The big difference is that I always am in tune to where I am, so that's a relief.
As a nurse l have worked with my patients that had Alzheimer’s we had to go thru a virtual tour of what it was like for them it was a great experience and easier to understand what they were going thru 💜
I've been on the Carnivore diet for a little over three years now! I'm 73 and I've never felt better. First thing that changed, besides dropping around 20 pounds around the middle immediately, was all the many skin tags I had on my neck fell off in the matter of weeks. What separates me from others on this diet is that I take a lot of high quality supplements especially because I have macular degeneration which this diet and lutein plus other supplements have seemed to halt the progression of. Also I've been working out in the gym since 1972, way before this got popular with folks and I walk 4 miles, 3 times a week for years now. Thanks to you I now take food grade diatomaceous earth every other day and my joints stopped hurting especially a chronic condition in my elbow thanks to your video on diatomaceous earth. Once I got on it, my elbow literally cleared up in a couple weeks and it had been bothering my a lot for almost a year, it was a weight lifting injury, it was really chronic. Anyways, I appreciate you and I want you to know that your channel has helped me a lot, made a difference, thanks!
As a child of a mother who died from Alzheimer's after 20 years from first diagnosis, most of this is NOT "early" signs of developing Alzheimer's but of people already with Alzheimer's. The problem is most family members are in denial for years before their loved one is checked by a doctor and get the diagnosis. The first signs are personality changes that are so subtle, people dismiss it as aging. One first sign is a subtle loss of self-assurance, a kind of dependency for your opinion when making decisions, choosing things to buy (this is one type of change in personality part, others may be the reverse, more stubbornness or irritability, fear and suspicion, its the frequency and increase that's key). Another is burning things on the stove more frequently (keep track, from a couple of times a month to more and more). Also buying things at the grocery and other places when you still have them at home. False memories, mistaking who said what to whom. End stage can also be different from person to person. My mother at 96, was in the hospital and as late as 3 days before she died, she was still bilingual in her responses though she had no idea who I was. She still swallowed liquid foods and maybe had some taste sensation, she said strong flavors tasted good. The saddest are those diagnosed early, like in their fifties, they progress a lot faster. Also, warning to family caregivers, this was predicted by another person who went through this, that children of parents with Alzheimer's tend to live shorter lives than their parents. Yes, caring for your parent can shorten your own life span from non-Alzheimer's causes, and from the underlying conditions I developed, I believe it is much more likely due to the stress for prolonged periods. This last thing is the least talked about IMO.
I can totally relate to this. My mother who has just turned 92 was diagnosed with alzheimers 3 months ago. I believe she's had it for at least 10 years but we were all in denial. I am learning more about this disease as I know, being her primary caregiver it's going to get a lot worse. I have just retired and now this. Her mood changes and developing aggression is very challenging. In some ways it feels like the world is closing in on me. I love life and want to live it while I'm still healthy and relatively young. I know I will be the last one to get help. It's an all consuming situation.
Bil. I agree that the signs Dr Berg mentions are not "early" signs. In retrospect it was buying habits that I now know were the tell with my wife. Could come under the broad umbrella of obsessive, compulsive disorder.
Yes these are definitely not 'early' signs. My mum was diagnosed a few yrs ago at 62, she was considered 'mild' stages then and she isn't exhibiting a heap of these yet..for her, her 'symptoms' in her later 50s, she was blaming on menopause-brain fog, forgetting words/numbers, mood change but mum would randomly say,'i swear ive got dementia! Then a quick googke and reassure herself its just another menopause symptom.. And her doctor said these symptoms are all related to stress/anxiety, see a pscy. Her doctor of many yrs was surprised with mums diagnosis 😕 depression and the idea of 'what's the point keeping going' is her biggest hurdle everyday now...
Now for the hardest and least talked about part of being a family caregiver. If after official diagnosis, bare in mind that leaving the patient unattended for any time in 24 hours can result in anyone from doctors, social workers, neighbors, the Alzheimer's Association caseworkers, to total strangers, to contact Elder Protective Services anonymously and the police will come to the home to inspect. They can then file a report of Neglect which is a category of Elder Abuse and a Felony charge. Even doctors and social workers can ask if the patient is being watched 24/7, the cause of a bruise, and if they suspect they are alone for even 30 minutes, they as "mandated reporters" can opt to turn the family into Elder Protective Svcs (EPS) for their own liability protection. Same if you call an ambulance, a team of paramedics and police will enter the home and go over the patient's environment to see if it is all a "safe space" from objects on the floor to handhold devices to anything that can cause an accidental fall or other injuries. Yes, while you're doing your best to help your mother, you will be looked upon as a possible source of abuse and neglect. I was a registered personal caregiver through an agency so I had training to know the seriousness and after consulting some legal sources had to put my mother in a group home for my own protection from liability. She went crazy for awhile but that's the way it is. One doctor, my doctor not hers, advised me that when it comes to Elder Abuse and family caregivers, the family is on the opposing sides of the courtroom and the patient's legal team cannot advise you because it is "conflict of interest" for their client, the patient, your mother. The statistics show that family caregivers are the primary cause of elder abuse from financial abuse, psychological abuse, neglect, and physical abuse - that a facility including hospitals and nursing homes can get away with because they have a team of legal advisors for defense. The hardest part of being a family caregiver was being constantly interrogated like a criminal by all the mandated reporters - this is a concept that I never knew about until I started seeking help for my mother. You will not find much on it because if you ask, even online, you become the suspect for trying to hide elder abuse. Even siblings can turn on each other and report. You can go for caregiver mental counseling and think patient doctor confidentiality will protect you as you talk about all the difficulties of caregiving but your therapist is a mandated reporter and obligated to report you to the police as a suspected felon. Again, this is why I put my mother in a facility even though neither of us wanted this.
Both of my parents died with dementia and other issues. It was very hard to care for them. I still struggle with guilt because I couldn't be there for them enough. I was working two jobs when they were suffering. It still really makes me very sad I couldn't help them. Thank you for teaching me ways to avoid this in my future.
Thank you Dr. Berg for another amazing video! My mom is 71 and was just diagnosed with dementia this year. We have been told her dementia was caused by a brain disease Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy due to hypertension. It has been a very stressful 1.5 years when we began seeing problems. It has been heartbreaking. She has never exercised and loves bread, pasta etc. She is not visibly overnight but according to her BMI she is obese. She has had hypertension for majority of her adult life. What we have been told is that the hypertension has caused many many brain bleeds and white matter disease causing the dementia. We are at a point where she will not change her diet. She doesn't have the ability to understand this and it just causes more aggrevation so I have left it alone. I have never had issues with weight and work out regularly however I have just started on the Keto diet for the health and brain benefits. I am only 2 weeks in but I am fully committed. Even though I am physically healthy I do have inflammation. I am doing this diet for the therapeutic effect and I believe that it will help prevent the possibility of dementia. My great grandmother and grandmother both died of dementia so I believe I likely have the gene but I have not been tested. Getting this dreaded disease is my biggest fear! Thank you for all you do for people. The information you teach us is invaluable! It is because of you that I am encouraged to stay on this diet and make it my lifestyle! ❤️
Oh Wow, I'm so sorry you are going through this. I am having these very same feelings. My mom is in her 70s and has dementia and I'm wanting to do the keto for the same reasons. I'm trying to figure out where to begin.
I have a similar situation with my mom who has liver disease from diabetes. I had a great aunt who passed away from the same thing. She had the same diet habits, sedentary lifestyle and illness progression. I used to worry about genetics but I’ve come to believe that their lifestyle similarity makes more sense than genetics. Unfortunately they both were in their prime in the 1980’s when no fat trend started and when they developed diabetes, followed doctors advice to eat carbs and take your meds instead of reverse it with no carbs. My mom was a nurse and she believed in meds.
Our long journey down this road began in 2010 after my husband became comatose from hsv encephalitis which damaged temporal lobes and frontal.There was a delay of several days before acyclovir was actually administered because the doctors thought he had a stroke.Twelve years later he now has the diagnosis of mild mixed dementia. His dad had vascular and AD. So now at the age of 65 he is facing this terminal illness. He was a brilliant architect , but his life (and mine)abruptly changed literally overnight. It Thank you for your valuable information. It has been a confusing, complicated and heartbreaking experience.
I think stressful situations and depression also can create something akin to dementia…especially if you are currently suffering either of them issues..
Thank you Doc. My 97 year old grandma has been diagnosed with dementia last year but she stull has a very strong memory. I sent this video to my mama so she can be informed and start doing research together.
My mom passed at the young age of 62, of frontal lobe dementia… she was diagnosed at 57… it’s debilitating to say the least, yes the language is one of the 1 st signs also communication in general.. bless those of you going thru this 🙏💕❤️
THANK YOU!!! 🙌 I’ve been working in this field for 15 years… when I train helpers I ALWAYS tell them to never correct the person in need of help… if they say the sky is PURPLE… then agree no matter what!!!
I just recently lost my father. I had to put him in a home with people with dementia. He was having brain bleeds because of strokes. He would not know where he was at he would get behind the wheel the car I tried to live with him. But he would not stay at home so finally I had to have the police pick him up and they took him to the hospital. He was there less than 3 months and passed on in June, it's been very difficult. My mother also has been suffering from dementia. She does not try to leave the house. So she gets to live at home. But, I'm the oldest and she remembers my life mostly. But my younger sister she thinks is the cleaning lady. It's so sad. She has all kinds of stories that she tells people that come in to check on her nurses etc. And she tells the same kind of stories to me. The only time I correct her, is when I told her she was 84. Because she was telling me she wasn't going to have any more kids. Mostly I just let her believe what she wants to believe, because I know the story is going to change the next time she tells it. It's heartbreaking. And I hope and pray that I pass on before I put my children through this. I feel the pain of others that are telling about their situations and their loved ones who are dealing with this dreaded disease. Just read an article that said that Alzheimer's might be an autoimmune disease of the brain. Don't know how much is of this is true. Thank you for your information.
Dr. Eric Berg, I appreciate you! 💕 Many others' videos (etc.) are primarily precursors to a sales pitch. And/or, we have to sit through a long video only to end up being disappointed with vague info., incorrect info., or again, a self-serving sales pitch. 😢 You seem to care about HELPING others. Also, you get to the point and the videos are structured well. The info. is usually easy to confirm, and it's reliable. You don't drown out the important info. with long stories, loud music, and FX that are too flashy. I could go on and on about the production (I work in the film industry), but I won't keep gushing. Thank you for your professional, useful, helpful, caring, and intelligent presentations. 🙂 Take care... 🙏 Aloha! 🌺
God bless you and thank you for keeping us updated. My Mom has mid/advanced dementia and it's heartbreaking & frustrating. She was an intelligent CCU/ICU RN who worked in the NICU and Burn Center at Cedars, well respected by many Dr.s. Now she waves and yells at airplanes, talks about getting shanked by other residents, codes other residents if they have any alarms that goes off she thinks they are patients and talks to the bushes!
Change your mothers diet and try and get her off most of her meds. These meds they are giving these dementia patiants are causing a lot of mental/body health issues. look up dr bergs vids on Coconut oil and also kefir and raw sauerkraut. you have to take your mothers health into your own hands. the medical community is corrupt.
Any info if cbd is offering hope as a treatment for some? I don't understand the science of it. I don't believe its a cure all like some people claim however we have heard for years now and seen examples consistently how it stops seizures in *some children. I'm aware somethings do more harm than good and like you said can actually accelerate a problem or create a new one. So I would never just jump on a band wagon my mother taught me better than that. She did teach me always ask questions if you want to know something, ask more than one person from that field, read books from reputable sources and so on. Oh yes and watch out for snake oil salesmen lol. So I was just curious if there is any research being done on cannabinoids and if they help or accelerate dementia? Thanks
Great information. I visited my uncle who is in late-stage dementia. He can not go to the restroom, however, when my aunt said, “Annette is here today.” He turned and looked right at me. I guess we grasp for anything on the positive side. It was almost like he recognized my name, but then failed to recognize who I was. This is not at all the way I saw my uncle’s life ending. He had a big personality and was very extroverted.
For those with methylation deficiencies such as myself who had issues with taking folate and B-12 I found it much more beneficial to back load the methylation pathways with Tri-Methyl-Glycine and Creatine. 5 grams/day of each has made a huge difference in my overall health, especially my ability to exercise, recover and build muscle.
Can you please explain what you mean by backloading? I have the MTHFR mutation and had such severely depleted B12 when I was 45 that I forgot even my own name. I don't detox, and honestly, I'm concerned about how to manage this mess. I'm 67 now.
Thank you Dr. Berg. My mother in law, along with two of her brothers died with dementia. My husband told me that he believes that he has it, and I would have to concur as the symptoms of Lewy Body Dementia are showing up. I will watch this video over again, and take some notes. Thank you.
I lost both my dad and then my mom to Alzheimer's. My biggest regret was I didn't sit down and document our family history with them over the years before they lost the ability to recall and communicate. The long goodbye...
My mother and several of her siblings all ended up with dementia (she had 8). My mother's was attributed to a lifetime of heavy smoking constricting the blood vessels in the brain and since I worked with her at an apt. complex I'd hear her repeating stories while talking to tenants in her office (sometimes more than once in the same conversation). It was hard on the family as she would get up in the middle of the night and leave thinking she was on her way to work so eventually she was put in a place where they could keep an eye on her. Sadly, this ended up being several establishments before finding the decent one (some had very lax care, theft by employees, ect). She spent the last 10 years of her life this way but I think it started long before then. She passed away at 79 of congestive heart failure. I feel that will be my fate as well as I am now 67.
Problem is the dementia sufferer will refuse to acknowledge their condition and cooperate with their children. I diagnosed my mother over a decade ago and she simply became more toxic and belligerent to the point where she drove everyone away. She died a month ago and it was a huge relief for everyone in the family.
I'm at year three of what you describe. Although, my mother was always fairly unpleasent, it's out of control now. Her doctors(regardless of whether it's her primary, cardiologist, etc...) and their teams cringe when she walks iin the door of their office.
I lost my brother last year with vascular Dementia. 73 years old .the doctors said if you remember you have forgotten something you don't have Dementia. Because people with dementia don't no they have forgotten
My mum has dementia and it is so heartbreaking to see her go slowly. I can understand your wife. I am so sorry about her loss. I also miss my mum and even she is still alive, she isn’t the same.
I know, my Aunt is 100. Same thing as you state! Yet I fight and try to get her to come out and back the way she used to be. When she does now and then, and when she does she puts us all in our place it's amazingly heartwarming! Than, she's gone again and the "I DON'T KNOW'S" return and my heartbreak along with it too💔
My Dad has been gone seven years now after having Dementia for six years. It runs in his family but he was very lucky and fought it off and stayed in his own home and independent until he was 93! I think for him what brought it on was a knee injury and a long wait for surgery. He was extremely active before that injury and it caused him to become more housebound. Without the outside stimulation, the Dementia seemed to come on. We think if he’d gotten his knee fixed immediately and been able to continue his golfing, pool playing, cards, and all his other activities and socializing, he wouldn’t have deteriorated so quickly. He was a very busy 93 and had many relatives live past the 100 year mark. He died four months short of 100. It is such a cruel disease. I am the youngest and only girl and my Dad and I were always so close. When he didn’t know me anymore it tore my heart right out. But I had always been able to make him laugh and that didn’t change! Even later on, when I would get him laughing, there would be just the tiniest little bit of a familiar look in his eyes that let me know he was still there. That really helped me. A Lot. My brother’s and I had always thought that when the time came and he did pass away, we would feel that it was a relief. That it would be a blessing, because it would be a release for him. But it surprised us all how hard it hit us when it did finally happen. We thought we had already done our grieving for our Dad when he forgot us but his death filled us with another deep grief. Alzheimer’s/Dementia makes you lose the people you love so much, twice. I hope a cure is found soon. No one should have to go through that loss twice. Hugs and Love to you All!♥️
So sorry to hear your journey with your dad, heart breaking. Going through it with my 64 yo mum. Do you incorporate any hopeful preventative measures in your daily life, for your longevity?
@@renee3148 thank you for your kindness and I’m so terribly sorry that you have to be experiencing this now with your own Mother. I wish so much that you weren’t. I did see that they are approving a new medication so hopefully it’s something that might help her. I myself am adopted so I haven’t had to worry about the hereditary aspect of dementia but I know the brother closest to me in age does worry. I’m not sure about all of the changes he’s made but I do know that he doesn’t use any aluminum or non-stick cookware because the dementia/Alzheimer’s connection. He’s very aware of the risks so I’m sure there’s quite a few things he’s wary of. Sending you Hope and Hugs♥️
@Jackielocks yes as we know, horrible illness. I'm not sure what's worse, dementia or cancer tbh both awful demise. Ok, thanks for your response. I've been implementing a few things in hope of keeping it at bay if there is a genetic component, just curious if others are doing similar things. All the best! 🙏
My memory has been bad all my life, but I eat right, exercise , and am fairly healthy. My mom has Alzheimer’s now, but she was active, outgoing, ate healthy foods. My dad had signs of Alzheimer’s, but had a heart attack a year before turning 65 and retiring. I never remember things, really awful with names and directions. But that’s how it’s been all my life.
My mum had vascular dementia and she in the end had to go into assisted care as she couldn’t cope at home any longer. She passed 2 years ago from a heart attack and although I was devastated at the time now i think it’s the best thing that could have happened to her, the thought of end stage dementia haunted me for many years. I feel desperately sorry for anyone and their families going through this, it is a cruel nasty Illness. If I’m ever diagnosed with dementia I’m going straight to Dignitas and ending it. No way do I want to regress back to a helpless baby, confused and unable to dress or feed myself or know My loved ones faces. All memories disappeared. I’d rather die.
What is Dignitas? I have told my children and husband if I get alzheimers and get bad, I may end it before I get to the point of not even realizing I have it.
I experienced many of these symptoms due to an under-functioning thyroid, maybe genetic, malnourishment, buying calories, carbs and sugars, but not vitamins. Thanks for this video and info. Hope viewers take it serious. In our world, one can't afford to make any health mistakes and we all knowingly make mistakes.
Alzheimer's took my mom and dad, his mom, and most of his seven siblings. You'd better believe my older siblings and I have reason to be very, very concerned. It's very, very scary. Every time I forget something, it's so unsettling. There's nothing that soothes this fear, because Alzheimer's has taken so many in my family. His information is priceless, however, I don't know how and where to start.
Amazing work again, thank you for the great info! I must also add....Mediterranean diet works VERY well to get a lot of these needed vitamins. Olive oil, fish, fresh veggies, cheese, organic wheat pasta, olive tapenade. A lot of the people that live in South of France, Italy, Greece live the longest with great diets.
The first two minutes of this video expresses the worst part of this disease. The frustration and hopelessness of not being able to communicate with the afflicted person, especially a parent, about memories, questions you need answered, really anything you want or need to communicate with them. In the end you are left feeling cheated, abandoned, alone with so many unanswered questions and thoughts every day.
It's scary. My memory is so bad at 36. Has been for as long as I can recall. I get what the illness can be like. Some basic things just don't come to memory so obviously quite worried.
@@flamingpieherman9822 my gut biome is in tatters from a medical condition called epi. Not sure any part of gut/brain link is in working order 😕. I am working with a nutritionist to find solutions. I'll being these things up. Thank you.
Your list can be considered pretty generic. I've been married for 40 years and my husband was just dx. last year with mild cognitive impairment, amnesic! The first stage of Alzheimer's. Here's a few more signs to add to the list: 1)Denial of diagnosis 2)Has to be in complete control, esp, with finances 3)Makes up stories to cover up mistakes. 4)Angry if things don't go his way 5)Loss of appetite, even though he is active. 6)Impatient 7)Reckless driving 8)At times poor conversationist. He's probably in stage 2 by this time. Just had to get this out there!!
A few years ago I lost my grandmother, she also had alzheimers, completely forgot who we where, who my father was or any of his brothers, his sister, her only daughter, her husband....everyone was hurt by that, even me her first grandson, she practically raised me the first 5 years of my life, not knowing who I was hurt, but there was nothing she could do about it and one day in the retirement home she just got up keeled over and died. At the funeral i suddenly had an "Epiphany" if that is the word, just like all of the family I was sitting next to the casket, and we had a view towards the public, literally over a thousand people lined up in church for her and the funny part was I knew most of them some barely because I had seen them once or twice some better off course and then it hit me, my grandmother was one of those love above all grandmothers, it didn't matter where you came from or who you where if you visited her she would make sure you would leave with a full belly and a pocket full of candy (Yeah I know it's where I got my sugarhabit and why I now follow your diet), to her food was a way of showing love, you know these grandmothers I am sure, your belly is full you can't eat another bite and she fills your plate and says eat eat, you skinny boy.... All those people knew her like that this woman had two steel knees, a plastic hip, artritis, cataract....her body was shutting down physically and giving her all kinds of pains, but she loved us and all of those people so much she would fight the Grim reaper as hard as she couldn't because she couldn't stop loving all of us....All those people where there to say goodbye to 1 person and had eachother for comfort, she would have to say goodbye to all of them and would go through it alone, So I comfort myself with this thought, Yes Alzheimer is a B**ch, it's cruel, it's heartless but maybe it was designed (By nature, or by a higher force if you care to believe that) for people who can't stop loving, who will endure all the physical pain you can give them they won't quit on you, they can't so they have to forget, forget everyone they ever loved just so they would come quietly, I like to think that the moment she keeled over and died that she forgot about the last person she ever cared about and her body said come it's time to go, and she went. Hearing that she was not only your wifes mother but her best friend I know she was in the same category as those dear old grandmothers that won't go quietly because she has so many loved ones to lose, or just one like her daughter, maybe she had to forget. I know it's lame, not scientific and definitely there will be exceptions, but it's my comforting thought of how my grandmother left and why she forgot who we where, she died a fighting for love, fiercer than any warrior, this lioness would protect her cubs and pride making sure they are well fed (even with carbs and sugar) and ready to face the world at all times. Only Alzheimers could make her stop fighting
Dokter Eric. Your video s are so good and easy to understand , with very much information. I want to thank you for all your work to help people. Greets 🇳🇱The Netherlands.
Dr..Berg, my grandma got it at 94 and it devastated me. I've seen people die from heart disease, both were equally precious to me, but to see someone lose every memory of their life and loves was another level of loss. With heart disease, we see it bit by bit, organ failure shut down , bit by bit till finally the brain goes. But Alzheimer is so heartbreaking. Also, I worked with the elderly and I have seen that when the adult children learn the diagnosis of their parents with Alzheimer's, what I have seen is immideatly the adult children and family stop talking to their parent..it's like they write them off once they get diagnosed..my instinct tells me that being shut out like this will cause the disease to advance faster, and make them float away that much quicker. My grandma got it at age 94. Until then she was so sharp. I was always testing her memory..My mom, her daughter, got it 12 years younger. But, my mom was an habitual liar all her life. God says not to lie..I believe it's for another reason..My instinct tells me that when one does, it builds unhealthy patterns in the brain. If it's anti God than it's anti life. We love you, thanks for all you do. God bless you doctor.. .
I was balling my eyes out just this morning. My mom was my best friend. I took care of her for 10 years with a caregiver at her home. I was with her in bed with her for 4 days before she passed.
Rings true to me! Our mom did SO much better getting off her several meds, which gave her some mental recovery for a few years. We also added back Estrogen and vitamins, which helped maintain her thinking. But after more falls involving head injury, she had an accelerated decline. She's lately been refusing vitamins that she desperately needs.
I took took my brother off the ton of useless medication and replaced them with vitamins and minerals with extra B vitamins and saw a lot of improvements. Sadly once he was better he didn't want to take the vitamins anymore and he went down hill fast. This July was the second year anniversary of his death 😞
I find it interesting to answer the constant stream of the same questions, by saying the same answer but in a different way each time, it makes the conversation more fun and less repetitive.
I have brain damage in every lobe and thalmus from not being diagnosed with Lyme Fisease for ten years! Even though I was told, this was my "wheelchair" but I knew things weren't truly gone, because when I juiced and fasted with a bad cold, parts of my sense of smell would return temporarily. Two weeks into Intermittent Fasting ranging from 17-23, and I had a day of significantly clearer vision. This is so encouraging for chronic Lyme patients! Question- how long of a cold shower? 🥶 Another question- I developed a late allergy to finish, so will molecularly distilled products work as well for supportive nutrition like cod liver oil? All of these practices make sense to incorporate into healthy lifestyle. Thanks for interpreting and applying these latest data for our health!!!
I took care of my husband whose memory was going. He worked in oil fields and I had to direct his way using a map from my end and trying to steer him to the right road ! It only got worse and was then diagnosed w Alzheimer’s at age 45 !!! Later told that it was Lewy body ?? My heart still cries for him 🥲🥲. He must have gone through hell !! Now it’s 30 yrs later and I’m having memory problems. So scared. . Have seen the terrible care in nursing homes but don’t want to end up being a burden
My husband displays all these signs. Changes started in his early 60s. At the time, he said he was just stressed and burned out at work. He's now 72 and its seriously affecting day to day living and I'm at wits end. He saw a neurologist (b/c I begged him to); a brain scan showed some deep vascular changes. Doc said it was MCI. Doc did no further diagnostics. His PCP said to him, "Of course you're forgetful, you're OLD!" Thanks doc, SO helpful. It's more than MCI. Much more. Guess they don't take in consideration, a spouse's perspective. I see tremendous changes in him and my husband is starting to mess up our finances. I've insisted on taking over all financials, like tax prep and bill paying and he allowed me to do so on a couple of occasions, but then he starts making phone calls, undoing what I've done and it messes everything up. He's forgotten how to do the basic things he has always done. Executive functions are nil. I'm very anxious now and concerned for him. He says, "My memory's not THAT bad". Family and friends have also noticed the changes in him. He pisses people off too. Multiple phone calls to the same person or businesses(he says he called their number 'by mistake'); he's frustrating those around him. He blames others for making things so complicated or confusing. My husband has had an unexplainable weight loss of 15 pounds in less than a year. He's got an appetite like I've never seen before in him. He asked me the other day how to write out a check. I'm a retired RN. I see what's happening. My husband is quite content with my constant reminders and guidance throughout the day. Still, he insists that he's not that bad. I don't know what to do to get him the appropriate evaluation needed. There needs to be a diagnosis made. Precious time is being lost. Sorry to vent here. I just don't know where to go from here since he is not motivated to get a full workup and seems to be content not doing anything about it. Essentially, he doesn't believe what I'm observing in him.
I’m so sorry. This is the exact same story with my Grandpa and Grandma now. His Dr. Said the same thing: you are just old. 😢 So frustrating. We need help.
Can you contact social worker thru your medical facility? (Dr. Office or Hospital) Are you members of AARP, maybe they can advise you!!! Good luck, and God bless you both ❣️
OMG! You have just described my life! My husband retired in 2021 at 77 yrs old and has steadily gotten more and more crabby, Short tempered and forgetful. Repeatedly tells me things and denies he has already told me. Also tries to manage everything I do? And seems to make everything all about him, even a tv shoe he will turn it into something about him. Even the kids and grandkids have noticed. And why do our primary care providers blow off family members when we voice our concerns? I noticed he is good at seemingly holding it together around our doctor. It's like they think it's a family / martial matter and don't want to get involved.
@@sharronwhite128 I'm sad its happening to you as well. I often question myself. I started writing a journal of the more obvious or concerning things that have happened. I started this after we were driving somewhere and our small dog slipped off the front seat onto the floor on my side. My husband literally let go of the steering wheel to retrieve her from the floor as he was driving. I started screaming at him, "Grab the steering wheel! The steering wheel! I got her!" (our car was headed for the median). I was not only shocked by what had just happened, but incredibly angry at him for doing something so stupid. He just copped an attitude and yelled, "What is your problem!!". He said he didn't do anything wrong. The journal is necessary to document the incidences but sometimes I need to reread it to remind myself that this is really happening, to journal progression and to have documentation when he does get evaluated (I pray!). We recently moved across the country and I feel so alone in all this. ALL my family, kids, grandkids and our long time friends are so far away. I'm trying to find primary care doctors for both of us. Bottom line, he needs to be evaluated by a clinician who will take the situation seriously and do a workup.
@@catbee1452 OMG! I bet that was terrifing for you, and yep, there is that defensive attitude like you are in the wrong. Driving is scary with my husband too, we went to Rural King a few months ago and he decided the car in front of us was taking too long to turn, so he whipped around him! It could have been a bad accident!!! Then when we parked the other guy told him he was a jerk....I was so scared all over again. I told him that you can't do that crap, especially now days! And of course I was in the wrong 🙄 so I know exactly what you mean by the dog incident. Keeping a journal is a good thing, I'm going to try it if nothing else for my peace of mind that I am not over reacting.
My mom is going through this right now, she doesn't want to leave home and wont give medical directive authority to anyone, last night she wandered over to the neighbors at 2AM, thank God she didn't get lost. We have tough decisions ahead... advice appreciated.
You are right, this is a hard place, especially if she’s already wandering. Do you have a doctor she’ll go to? Often a doctor’s request works better and the doc can usually be matter-of-fact about it. We were lucky; all that was taken care of when we did basic “financial planning” with a pro. The advance care directives were included,not a big deal, just part of everything else. It’s also often a part of the Alzheimer’s diagnosis, when they rule out all those other symptoms that can be caused by other things.
My father and grandfather had dementia when they died. I am 61 years old and struggle with recalling names of familiar people and famous people. The scariest problem that I currently have is linked to my love of films: I can watch a film from start to finish without a single thing in the film being familiar. When I tell my daughter I have watched a good film she would enjoy, she then tells me we watched the film together a month or two before. How can no part of a film be remembered? I don’t know if I have dementia or not or what the cause is, I do know as a kid my father regularly hit me around the head.
My Father too had Vascular Dementia that expanded into Alzheimer’s Disease. So sad watching a very intelligent man no longer able to dress and/or feed himself… My Mother was his Caregiver and I was her backup. She visited him every afternoon to make sure he was fed lunch and then together we fed him dinner then staying till nighttime to put him to bed as he was in a Nursing Facility for almost two and one half years before his death..
My Grandmother had Alzheimer's. This is why, I one of my specialties was Alzheimer's. After her passing, I went into another specialty, subacute/post surgery care. Dementia and Alzheimer's hits hard for the family.
Va((ines have aluminum in them. Our elderly population is heavily va((inated with the flu va((ine, multiple doses a year, every year. I wish everyone would see this video!
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The Vitamin Deficiency that Mimics Dementia - Dr. Berg
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To Rubita 7: I hadn’t thought of that! Unless the cans are lined, I would think it’s a good possibility, since soft drinks usually have a low pH, which means high acidity. It would be very interesting to test the soft drinks for the presence of aluminum.
My mother's( in her 80s) temper and her patience extremely limited. She shudders in during some conversations; get frustrated over simple things like operating tv remote or using cellular phone. She always been social person and COV19 pandemic kept her isolated which only made matters far worse.
Very good to see that you are discussing causes rooted in methylation and other areas of epigenetics (APOE, etc.) Great video!
How about milk thistle to clear the toxins from the body through the liver
I'm a bit older and a year ago I got diagnosed with dementia and they told my kids that I would never come out of it, after ending up in the hospital they found out I had a bladder infection that went septic. Apparently older women can get severe bladder infections without having any symptoms whatsoever. I actually have a genetic predisposition to improperly formed ureter valves so the urine can back up into the kidneys and infect them. All I'm saying is if somebody tells you that you have Dementia or that your mother has dementia, make sure you have them check for a bladder infection and make sure that they don't just pigeonhole her and put her into a rest home. Since my bladder infection and kidney infection was cured I am back to 100%, absolutely no signs of dementia whatsoever.
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Wow, wow! Good to know!!!
There are also other physical reasons a person might present as “dementia” and yet it’s a simple fix.
I an so happy for you. Thanks for the information. Best wishes from Sweden.
Thanks for sharing
I lost my mom to vascular dementia. There are no words to express the heartbreak of seeing a loved one afflicted by dementia or Alzheimer's 😓
My mom just got diagnosed with the same thing. I'm so stressed out. God bless you and your family 🙏🏼
@@bennyphilip2601 I'm so sorry to hear this. My thoughts are with you and your family 🙏
My Mom too was diagnosed with Vascular Dementia and it has been a struggle to see her go through this it hurts.
@@Rebecca-ew9sw I know exactly how you feel 😓 The hardest part for me was to see her beautiful personality and character fade away to nothing. Seeing her become a shell of her former self.
Amen 🙏 I lost my mom to Alzheimer's and my dad to dementia/Huntingtons just a few years ago. Being there care giver its something I think about every day. The hardest thing watching your parents turned into different people is heartbreaking. To you and everyone else who has lost a loved one to this I wish you well 💞
Dr Berg, thank you for speaking on such a difficult subject. I worked as a nurse in a nursing home and had many clients suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's. I fully understand the sadness and devastation of family members who have to place a parent in a nursing home. When my mom's vascular dementia progressed to the point where we could no longer take care of her, we had to make the difficult decision of placing her. At first, she kept asking when she could go back home. Just thinking of this is absolutely heartbreaking. We visited her twice a day for 2 years and it was a blessing to both her and us. At one point, she developed severe pain, elimination and dysphagia problems, and it was decided to start a morphine protocol. She slipped into a coma for 9 long days before before she passed. To everyone who has a loved one afflicted by dementia or Alzheimer's, I wish you strength and courage ❤
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I just lost my mother to Dementia as well couple of weeks ago and I am trying to judge you or anything but if you guy’s didn’t put her in a nursing home she might of lived a bit longer because in nursing homes they get abused and they don’t get the care that they deserve.
@@vintageradioman My mother had to be placed in the nursing home because she was doing things that placed her in danger, like running boiling hot water for her bath. She would wake up in the middle of the night and turn stove burners on. It gets to a point when no caregiver can supervise 24/7 because people have to work. And no, she would not have lived longer if we had not placed her. Sadly, her rapidly deteriorating health condition left us no option. But I understand that some may judge, pass comment or think we made the wrong decision. Also, I can guarantee you that not one resident was poorly taken care of or neglected in the nursing home where I worked as a nurse, and I say that with great pride.
@@clairehachey2189 God bless you! ❤🙏
I'm right here with you because I lost my mom to Dementia 3 years ago. I wish you well. 😇
I lost my father exactly 10 years ago today from Alzheimer’s after fighting cancer for 20 years. His diagnosis came 6 months before he passed. He was surrounded by family when the day came. We kept him at home. His mind was comparable to a 3 year old during his last days. He was pleasantly confused but he knew who we were. He became unresponsive and bed ridden on the day he passed. We were blessed we were able to keep him in the comfort of his home.
My mother had Alzheimers and she had all the symptoms it was very sad people are t themselves anymore Rip to everyone who had it And also people who are still alive God bless them all!!❤❤❤❤❤
I lost my.daughter last December. She was only 49years old I haven't been the same I.forget things alot I cry 😢 alot over her It's so hard to give up a child I miss her so much 😢
Talk to Jesus, the Lord and He will comfort you.
I lost my beautiful mum to dementia last Christmas, the most cruellest of diseases robbed her of everything. It broke my heart watching her slowly being destroyed, and when she passed with me by her side the only consolation was that her suffering was over. I'm now nursing my dad through the same, life can be so cruel. I miss my mum every day and hold on dearly to my dad as every day is precious ❤
The 10 WARNING Signs of Dementia/Alzheimer's:
1:51 #1 Change in language
2:40 #2 Navigation, difficulty finding yourself around town/your house
2:54 #3 Sensory: Loss of taste, smell, hearing, sight
3:01 #4 Constipation
3:19 #5 Personality changes
3:29 #6 Mood changes
4:04 #7 Memories, locating pictures and thoughts that you had before
4:13 #8 Thinking, the ability to solve problems
4:38 #9 Affected overall awareness, not being 100% there
4:55 #10 Keeping repeating yourself
Natural remedies for Alzheimer's:
11:40 #1 Change the fuel that you're running on to ketones (low carb diet/intermittent fasting)
12:44 #2 Induce autophagy by fasting (regular intermittent fasting with periodic prolonged fasting) and exercise, also consume green tea and turmeric
13:39 #3 Omega-3 fatty acids, specifically the EPA and the DHA (cod liver oil)
14:03 #4 Reduce heavy metals (not the Iron Maiden kind though), also consume distilled water instead of tap water, make sure your supplements are food based not synthetic based
15:34 #5 Methylation: B12, folate
15:54 #6 Medications: talk to your doc to get you off of them
16:15 #7 Vitamins: A, D, B1 from nutritional yeast, C, E, K1
17:41 #8 Lion's mane mushroom
Thank you Dr. Berg
Sincerely, 11 : 11 Meditation Portal Channel
THANK YOU SO MUCH 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
TY... 👍
thank you
Joe Biden suffer from most of these,
🤣 "Not the Iron Maiden kind"!! Love it. Thank you!! 😊
My Mother is in A Nursing Home with dementia, i cared for her for 8 yrs before placing her in a home.
To this day she is a very happy resident at her NH and the staff love her because she is so happy all the time.
This list is so accurate. I lost my mom to breast cancer but she also fought a long 10 year battle with Alzheimer's. I'm pretty short 4' 10" so I guess I can look like a child. The saddest words I heard her say to me were "Where's your mom?" 💔💔 Soul crushing.
❤🫂 My heart goes out to you. My grandfather had Alzheimers too. He didn't recognize anyone anymore none of his 8 kids. But somehow he knew my grandmother was his constant not by name but he would speak with her and ask her questions. One day out of the blue during Christmas he told her she (his daughter, my mother) must be married to that guy (my dad). It was a special day, one out of many difficult one's.
I watched my great grandma suffer 10 years also before her peaceful death. On that last night she remembered me and we said goodbye Although I didn’t know it at that moment. Her death was peaceful. She raised me like a mother so it was rough.
My mother passed away in 2019 age 99 of old age. The last couple of years she lived at home with us and it was like our roles were reversed. She called me mum, and often asked where is mum.
Thank you for the kind words. My one comfort is that The Lord brought her home Jan 2020. And my dad October 2019
Only a couple months before the whole 2020 craziness! I couldn't even imagine going through all that. My heart goes out to all who had and are still enduring through that
@@harrodsfan Full respect to you for caring for your mother at you house. You have a kind heart.
I currently care full time for my 87 year old granny who has dementia. She's just been put on hospice (last month) and it's just so devastating as the disease has taken over everything she used to be. My heart goes out to anyone who is also going through this situation.
My husband and I took care of his dad with dementia. We would never think to put him in a nursing home. Yes, it was hard at times especially when he became bedridden and watching him slowly die but we wouldn't change anything. My aunt put my grandpa in a nursing home and it kind of traumatized me. It was such a horrible place.
My prayers are with you. My father's wish was to die at home because he built it and it was where my mother died. I moved in from out of state and was alone with him. It was hell in the end but proud to say I granted him that wish. I pray your mother and you have peace now. You and everyone around you who helped her are my heros and hers. Peace.
Treat the cause. Malnourishment is a deficiency if nutrients causing all kinds of problems where only symptoms are being treated. Vitamin deficiencies especially Vitamin B1 in high doses..R- Lipoic- Acid helps stop the demyelination of the nerves. Symptoms is telling us there’s a problem. Find the cause of the symptoms. Treat the cause. Autophagy.
I was an oncology nurse for 30 years.. I was also a home health nurse for a bit before that, and I believe that Alzheimer's is the worst disease ever! It's like the person died 10 years previously and their body is still working around😔
I can tell you I was grieving for the loss of my mother 3 years before her body passed. Your comment is on point and hit home for me.
I agree
I am going through this now with my mother. Heartbreaking 💔
@@verborgenewahrheit1594 me too. It's brutal.
It cnt be the worst...
This man is worth his weight in GOLD!!! Thank you Dr. Berg! 💜💜👏🙏
My heart felt condolences to your wife but she's so fortunate to have such an amazing medical knowledge encyclopaedia husband like you!! I have been watching your life saving videos for few years now and it has completely changed my life to the best it could possibly be
I lost my mother to dimentia and it broke me. It never happened to anyone we knew or family so came out of nowhere. I blamed myself because I didn’t see the signs and if I had maybe something could of been different. The last time I saw my mother was right before the pandemic hit and it was tough. I was alone with her at the hospital and I begged her to say something other than yeah because that’s all she would say and she couldn’t. I just broke down crying and I hate the fact that was our final time together. She passed about two years ago and we buried her on my birthday which was another just kick in the face. Stay strong if you have a family member with this and just love them.
Don't blame yourself. Even if you spotted the signs it wouldn't have changed her journey. It's a hellish disease for those of us witnessing it happen aswell as the person It's happening to
Also I think I’ll start making videos to my 4 sons now. I have a lot to tell them. I don’t want to forget. I’m not feeling scared just sad. ❤
The fact that we get free videos on UA-cam by Dr. Berg is truly a gift. 👍👍👍
Yep..!! Thank you Dr Berg.. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
He makes $350K on UA-cam and even more with the supplements he sells. And wait he sells books also….just like any other UA-camr….he’s gonna tell you what you will believe…
1. Change in language/changing words/communication.
2 navigation around home/town
3 sensory
4 constipation
5 personality changes
6 mood changes
7 memories
8 solving problems
9 awareness/attention
10 repeating
#4 - Constipation, not conception.
Every one of these I had when I was 20 years old after a brain injury I'm 64 an now and little has changed😮
My Papa passed away 5 years ago on the 18th. It still hurts like yesterday and he had all these traits you described. Before the Alzheimer's he was funny, extremely quick and very intelligent. And I keep thinking I'm going to get it so thank you for this video!
My father did from vascular dementia 8 years ago…was the worst thing …trying to connect with him but he was only the shell of the amazing man he once was.
Now my mother has Alzheimer’s and we are going through the heartbreak again.
I lost my husband 2.5 years ago to Lewy Body dementia and it was the most soul crushing thing to watch him go through. I took care of him right up to his last 6 weeks which he spent in the hospital basically starving to death because he wouldn't eat or mostly couldn't. The doctors put him on IVs to keep him alive, but it was only delaying the inevitable. I knew Steve wouldn't have wanted to be kept alive that way prolonging his misery. We put him in hospice care and he was gone in 2 days. I'm still grieving the heartache of him having to go through all of that. If it wasn't for God, I wouldn't have made it through at all. Please take care of yourselves people. My husband broke every rule for good health. He just didn't care, so I became a widow at 68 years of age and his kids and grandkids really miss him. We have 7 wonderful grandchildren all under the age of 17 and he won't get to watch them grow up and have their own families. So so sad!
I love how you spoke about your wife in the beginning of this video. Makes me know I am not the only man who truly appreciates their amazing wife/friend on this challenging journey 💯👊🏻💨💨💨!
My mum (75yrs) is currently going through dementia, and it’s sad 😢 … I’m definitely sharing this video, hopefully it’ll help others going through this same pain or help them educate other people on this issue! 😭👍✨
It would be a good thing to start giving your mom sauerkraut daily and keifer daily along with your B vitamins nutritional yeast
taking tablespoon of virgin coconut oil every 8 hours might help the brain function again on fats instead of using glucose
@@worstalentscout yes Dr Berg has a vido on coconut oil and dementia.
Change your mothers diet to to a keto diet or carnivore diet asap!!!
@worstalentscout cut sugar and sweets cut out meat white flour cut out all form of soda I pray the true and living GOD help you and your Mom.
Thank you Dr. Berg, this this information is so valuable to us those who have lost a parent. I lost my mother August 17, 2021 to Alzheimer's dementia and I must say when she was diagnosed with this horrible debilating disease I was so scared because it was very progressive. I immersed myself into everything I could find in books and on the web regarding this disease and I'm still learning. You provide so much information and I'm grateful. My mother's memory went fast, it's unbelievalbe to watch your mother the woman who raised you, cared and loved you to adulthood not even recognize you anymore. It's devasting. Thank you again for delegating your time to brining us valuable information regarding this horrible disease.
Dr Berg, you have opened my eyes to a whole lot of things. Thanks to you I am taking a step back to have a long deep look at my body. I listen to you on a daily basis. I have benefitted so much and I look forward to joining your programme as soon as I have diagnosed my problems. Keep doing great things for humanity!
My Grandma suffered from Dementia. She could talk to me from 10 years ago. She knew me but she had no clue what happened days ago. She would tell her caregivers her kids would never visit her even though all 6 of her kids visited her everyday.
My 77 year old mom got vascular dementia. Got test scored 22 out 30. Doctor told us to due certain brain exercises. Retested 6 months later. Scored 23 out 30 . She got this condition from a mild stroke. Recovered very good . With help from my brother and I.
That's amazing she recovered. My mum had a stroke but deteriorated quickly with vascular dementia and eventually died after a fall. Can I ask what the brain exercises were?
She reads out loud newspapers. Does word searches. Lots of seniors one partner died. The other has no one to talk . That's bad .
My wife passed away from this horrible sickness last December. And as you talk about this, I'm like just wow!
my condolences.. i didnt know alzheimers could cause death
I'm sorry, Donald. I watched my Dad go through this with my Mum. It's heartbreaking xxx
@@fidelcatsro6948 it is a slow moving death. But it slowly kills the brain. Even to the point where the affected person forgets how to even swallow food or water. Which is what happened. Your body also needs your brain to function all of your functioning systems.
This video was just a reminder of all I went through over many years. And then as her caretaker for the last 3+ years
This happened to my mom😭😭😭I miss you mom. Thank you Dr berg
condolences..if it helps to console you, i lost mine to heart attack in 1995
Dr Berg. You are a blessing to humanity..I have a huge problem with memory loss at 77 yearsold. Your video is a gift for me.
I took the Alzheimer’s test and have APOE 4. My maternal g-ma and mother both passed, my mom this past February, with Alzheimer’.
This video is very helpful. Thank you, Dr. Berg
Lost my Mom to Dementia in 2020. Couldn't even visit her because of the pandemic. She was such a vibrant and sharp minded person 99% of her life. Not fun watchng the decline. Thanks for this video.
I had to look at my dad through the flower bed window in his convelesant home . Covid was brutal and he had a stroke
My daughter used to work for a home health care service. One of her clients was an elderly Japanese lady who told her all of these wonderful stories about her life and the profession she once worked in. My daughter is learning to spend Japanese so she was very excited when the lady agreed to study with her and help her learn it. Sadly on her next visit the lady seems slightly fearful of her and stayed in bed all day crying and refused to get up. She didn't really remember my daughter or their previous conversation. My daughter was devastated. Because most of her clients had issues like that, it was too emotionally painful for her so she quit the job.
That's awful to witness. I've had issues dealing with my mother, though after a nasty fall, where she couldn't remember things for 5~10 seconds, and each fall became worse. Then another similar scenario after she became addicted to Advil, where after throwing up she lost all sense of her place and time, and similarly to the falls, she couldn't recall anything except who I was. Took several hours the first fall, half a day the second, and a day when it triggered likely due to Advil. She's past on physically since, but those were three of the most horrible experiences I've ever had. Luckily after she recovered, she had vague to virtually no recollection of what had happened.
In my mind, it's almost certainly tied to medications. You can see Alzheimer's rise exponentially as modern medicine grows and as Allopathic medication as a means of treatment becomes popular. There seems to be a very understudied (really not at all), correlation if you look into the rise of cholesterol medication for heart disease and a sharp spike in Alzheimer's.
Hell, if you look at how many people in the US, since the 90's, are 50 years old with white hair, and bent over, it's not due to excessive work. It's due to the pharmaceutical industry, as all of those ancient 50 year olds tend to have at least 3 very powerful medications for various ailments, and at least 2~5 alternative medications to offset the damage done by the main medications.
Nevermind super high omega-6 cooking oils, other additives to food, especially junk food (snack food used to be ok for you), and the sheer volume of sugar, which actually does correlate with plaque, not fat.
Seeing your loved one/s disappear is beyond heart breaking. Thankyou for this post ❤
Dear Dr.Eric Berg,
Sir you're doing really marvelous work in educating people at large about various aspects of human health, what causes onset of serious ailments and what can prevent such onset.
May God bless you..
I cared for my mother the last five years of her life until she died three years ago with dementia/Alzheimer’s. We were very close and it was really hard, especially the day I became mother and she became my daughter, and for the first time in my life she forgot my birthday (I was first born and she always called me on my birthday). I always made sure she remembered and called the siblings on their birthdays. I became so stressed out by the time she passed that I totally broke down after, and it took a long time for me to recover myself. By far the most powerful and stressful period of my life, but I would not have missed those last years with her for anything in the world. It increased my faith in God more than anything else I can imagine. My mom was Jean (not gene).
@@OceanFrontVilla3 why did you feel the need to post that comment. People are entitled to their own beliefs and if you don't believe in it then move around, I'm pretty sure there's an atheist from for like-minded people like you.
Me too - taking care of my father, although difficult, has been in many ways a blessing. I feel that it's an honor to take care of him in the ways I can - and although it's brutal and in many ways exhausting - I know God loves us and is with us through it all. God bless you!
@@Delphi333 God bless you too. We need His blessings extra when going through challenges like that, and to remember, He never gives us more than we can bear. Although at times you may believe you are at your breaking point, He will always step in and provide a way for relief. It truly was for me an incredible faith building experience. I hope it is the same for you, in addition to being a very special daughter father relationship experience most never get to have.
I am in the middle of caring for my mother and everything you wrote is what I am going through. I am blessed to care for her but It has been by far the most stressful time in my life. I recently took a week vacation and it helped me to regain strength and emotional fortitude. I think I was close to a breakdown before then so it came at the perfect time. I appreciate what you wrote because not many people can understand the dynamic of being blessed by and wanting to care for someone who is also incredibly difficult to care for. I know that Things may change as her condition gets worse, but I am just trying to take it one day at a time. I just wanted to thank you for your thoughts because they helped me.
@@to_whom_would_we_go6285 May God bless you and keep you and strengthen you through it, and your mother too. As much as we go through caring for them, they go through much more losing so much of what was their identity and life.
I experienced a toxic exposure at work. I had pneumonias and was diagnosed after 2 years with "some kind of Alzheimers". After 20 years all the symptoms cleared, so I evidently cleared the heavy metals I took on. I lost my ability to read. I experienced dementia.Horrible.Lost all the time.Couldn't read.Had to learn all over again.Glad to be back. I took a lot of good supplements.
How did you clear the heavy metals if you don't mind me asking.
Ann, I went through the same thing when I was in my 40s. I was an editor, and within a matter of days, I couldn't read or understand language. Yes, it was horrible. One hospital wanted to admit me to the Psych unit because some snotty nurse thought I was being deliberately uncooperative. A simple blood test and immediate treatment with B12 would have prevented some of the brain damage that occurred. MD's never!
My diagnosis was Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.I was put on Social Security at age 59, after which I was told, you cannot be retrained.There were more than 20 of us and 3 got cancer( all the same kind of cancer, at the same time).Finally, after still denying the building was at fault, they moved to another location.Supplements do help.
Nobody gets back to normal after having dementia/Alzheimer’s,so you even know what dementia/ ALZ is? Stop lying through your teeth for attention.
It is the most horrible thing. Then to deal with the healthcare system to boot is overwhelming. My dad had vascular dementia for 5 years. To watch him deteriorate and lose quality of life was horrible and I feel like I also lost 5 years of my life. He was having anxiety in the beginning also , so that is another possible symptom. Also if they get nasty, it's part of the disease. I was in tears early on because he cursed at me( he rarely cursed normally) and basically called me a liar and he couldn't trust me which broke my heart at the time. It was hell on earth. I am glad he passed finally because he lost so much of his quality of life and it was affecting the family also, emotionally and financially. I wish he just never had it and was still with us.
Your videos are always clear and concise. Today, I was touched by the story of your mother-in-law, and your wife's relationship and journey through dementia with her. Having gone through it with my Dad, it was the most authentic introduction to core of the video & the knowledge we all need to know. It's not just science, it's life. And the people we love. Thank you.
Dr berg works tirelessly to bring us information that big pharma would never want us to know.
Since I've always had some type of communications disorder and I recently had a head trauma, I'm undergoing a lot of these myself. The big difference is that I always am in tune to where I am, so that's a relief.
As a nurse l have worked with my patients that had Alzheimer’s we had to go thru a virtual tour of what it was like for them it was a great experience and easier to understand what they were going thru 💜
I think phone towers have great deal in this matter 😢
I've been on the Carnivore diet for a little over three years now! I'm 73 and I've never felt better. First thing that changed, besides dropping around 20 pounds around the middle immediately, was all the many skin tags I had on my neck fell off in the matter of weeks. What separates me from others on this diet is that I take a lot of high quality supplements especially because I have macular degeneration which this diet and lutein plus other supplements have seemed to halt the progression of. Also I've been working out in the gym since 1972, way before this got popular with folks and I walk 4 miles, 3 times a week for years now. Thanks to you I now take food grade diatomaceous earth every other day and my joints stopped hurting especially a chronic condition in my elbow thanks to your video on diatomaceous earth. Once I got on it, my elbow literally cleared up in a couple weeks and it had been bothering my a lot for almost a year, it was a weight lifting injury, it was really chronic. Anyways, I appreciate you and I want you to know that your channel has helped me a lot, made a difference, thanks!
Im just wondering how you prevent constipation on the carnivore diet?
You are a wonder woman. Be happy
@@OceanFrontVilla3 the Carnivore diet doesn't allow veg and greens as far as I can tell which is why I asked how to prevent consitpation.
As a child of a mother who died from Alzheimer's after 20 years from first diagnosis, most of this is NOT "early" signs of developing Alzheimer's but of people already with Alzheimer's. The problem is most family members are in denial for years before their loved one is checked by a doctor and get the diagnosis. The first signs are personality changes that are so subtle, people dismiss it as aging. One first sign is a subtle loss of self-assurance, a kind of dependency for your opinion when making decisions, choosing things to buy (this is one type of change in personality part, others may be the reverse, more stubbornness or irritability, fear and suspicion, its the frequency and increase that's key). Another is burning things on the stove more frequently (keep track, from a couple of times a month to more and more). Also buying things at the grocery and other places when you still have them at home. False memories, mistaking who said what to whom.
End stage can also be different from person to person. My mother at 96, was in the hospital and as late as 3 days before she died, she was still bilingual in her responses though she had no idea who I was. She still swallowed liquid foods and maybe had some taste sensation, she said strong flavors tasted good. The saddest are those diagnosed early, like in their fifties, they progress a lot faster.
Also, warning to family caregivers, this was predicted by another person who went through this, that children of parents with Alzheimer's tend to live shorter lives than their parents. Yes, caring for your parent can shorten your own life span from non-Alzheimer's causes, and from the underlying conditions I developed, I believe it is much more likely due to the stress for prolonged periods. This last thing is the least talked about IMO.
I can totally relate to this. My mother who has just turned 92 was diagnosed with alzheimers 3 months ago. I believe she's had it for at least 10 years but we were all in denial. I am learning more about this disease as I know, being her primary caregiver it's going to get a lot worse. I have just retired and now this. Her mood changes and developing aggression is very challenging. In some ways it feels like the world is closing in on me. I love life and want to live it while I'm still healthy and relatively young. I know I will be the last one to get help. It's an all consuming situation.
Bil. I agree that the signs Dr Berg mentions are not "early" signs. In retrospect it was buying habits that I now know were the tell with my wife. Could come under the broad umbrella of obsessive, compulsive disorder.
THIS 100%
Yes these are definitely not 'early' signs.
My mum was diagnosed a few yrs ago at 62, she was considered 'mild' stages then and she isn't exhibiting a heap of these yet..for her, her 'symptoms' in her later 50s, she was blaming on menopause-brain fog, forgetting words/numbers, mood change but mum would randomly say,'i swear ive got dementia! Then a quick googke and reassure herself its just another menopause symptom.. And her doctor said these symptoms are all related to stress/anxiety, see a pscy. Her doctor of many yrs was surprised with mums diagnosis 😕 depression and the idea of 'what's the point keeping going' is her biggest hurdle everyday now...
Now for the hardest and least talked about part of being a family caregiver.
If after official diagnosis, bare in mind that leaving the patient unattended for any time in 24 hours can result in anyone from doctors, social workers, neighbors, the Alzheimer's Association caseworkers, to total strangers, to contact Elder Protective Services anonymously and the police will come to the home to inspect. They can then file a report of Neglect which is a category of Elder Abuse and a Felony charge. Even doctors and social workers can ask if the patient is being watched 24/7, the cause of a bruise, and if they suspect they are alone for even 30 minutes, they as "mandated reporters" can opt to turn the family into Elder Protective Svcs (EPS) for their own liability protection. Same if you call an ambulance, a team of paramedics and police will enter the home and go over the patient's environment to see if it is all a "safe space" from objects on the floor to handhold devices to anything that can cause an accidental fall or other injuries. Yes, while you're doing your best to help your mother, you will be looked upon as a possible source of abuse and neglect. I was a registered personal caregiver through an agency so I had training to know the seriousness and after consulting some legal sources had to put my mother in a group home for my own protection from liability. She went crazy for awhile but that's the way it is. One doctor, my doctor not hers, advised me that when it comes to Elder Abuse and family caregivers, the family is on the opposing sides of the courtroom and the patient's legal team cannot advise you because it is "conflict of interest" for their client, the patient, your mother. The statistics show that family caregivers are the primary cause of elder abuse from financial abuse, psychological abuse, neglect, and physical abuse - that a facility including hospitals and nursing homes can get away with because they have a team of legal advisors for defense. The hardest part of being a family caregiver was being constantly interrogated like a criminal by all the mandated reporters - this is a concept that I never knew about until I started seeking help for my mother. You will not find much on it because if you ask, even online, you become the suspect for trying to hide elder abuse. Even siblings can turn on each other and report. You can go for caregiver mental counseling and think patient doctor confidentiality will protect you as you talk about all the difficulties of caregiving but your therapist is a mandated reporter and obligated to report you to the police as a suspected felon. Again, this is why I put my mother in a facility even though neither of us wanted this.
Both of my parents died with dementia and other issues. It was very hard to care for them. I still struggle with guilt because I couldn't be there for them enough. I was working two jobs when they were suffering. It still really makes me very sad I couldn't help them. Thank you for teaching me ways to avoid this in my future.
Thank you Dr. Berg for another amazing video! My mom is 71 and was just diagnosed with dementia this year. We have been told her dementia was caused by a brain disease Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy due to hypertension. It has been a very stressful 1.5 years when we began seeing problems. It has been heartbreaking. She has never exercised and loves bread, pasta etc. She is not visibly overnight but according to her BMI she is obese. She has had hypertension for majority of her adult life. What we have been told is that the hypertension has caused many many brain bleeds and white matter disease causing the dementia. We are at a point where she will not change her diet. She doesn't have the ability to understand this and it just causes more aggrevation so I have left it alone.
I have never had issues with weight and work out regularly however I have just started on the Keto diet for the health and brain benefits. I am only 2 weeks in but I am fully committed. Even though I am physically healthy I do have inflammation. I am doing this diet for the therapeutic effect and I believe that it will help prevent the possibility of dementia. My great grandmother and grandmother both died of dementia so I believe I likely have the gene but I have not been tested. Getting this dreaded disease is my biggest fear!
Thank you for all you do for people. The information you teach us is invaluable! It is because of you that I am encouraged to stay on this diet and make it my lifestyle! ❤️
Oh Wow, I'm so sorry you are going through this. I am having these very same feelings. My mom is in her 70s and has dementia and I'm wanting to do the keto for the same reasons. I'm trying to figure out where to begin.
I have a similar situation with my mom who has liver disease from diabetes. I had a great aunt who passed away from the same thing. She had the same diet habits, sedentary lifestyle and illness progression. I used to worry about genetics but I’ve come to believe that their lifestyle similarity makes more sense than genetics. Unfortunately they both were in their prime in the 1980’s when no fat trend started and when they developed diabetes, followed doctors advice to eat carbs and take your meds instead of reverse it with no carbs.
My mom was a nurse and she believed in meds.
Our long journey down this road began in 2010 after my husband became comatose from hsv encephalitis which damaged temporal lobes and frontal.There was a delay of several days before acyclovir was actually administered because the doctors thought he had a stroke.Twelve years later he now has the diagnosis of mild mixed dementia. His dad had vascular and AD. So now at the age of 65 he is facing this terminal illness. He was a brilliant architect , but his life (and mine)abruptly changed literally overnight. It Thank you for your valuable information. It has been a confusing, complicated and heartbreaking experience.
I think stressful situations and depression also can create something akin to dementia…especially if you are currently suffering either of them issues..
My dad has dementia too...it's a mixed dementia....it's heartbreaking to watch him like that!...
Thank you Doc. My 97 year old grandma has been diagnosed with dementia last year but she stull has a very strong memory. I sent this video to my mama so she can be informed and start doing research together.
My mom passed at the young age of 62, of frontal lobe dementia… she was diagnosed at 57… it’s debilitating to say the least, yes the language is one of the 1 st signs also communication in general.. bless those of you going thru this 🙏💕❤️
THANK YOU!!! 🙌
I’ve been working in this field for 15 years… when I train helpers I ALWAYS tell them to never correct the person in need of help… if they say the sky is PURPLE… then agree no matter what!!!
I just recently lost my father. I had to put him in a home with people with dementia. He was having brain bleeds because of strokes. He would not know where he was at he would get behind the wheel the car I tried to live with him. But he would not stay at home so finally I had to have the police pick him up and they took him to the hospital. He was there less than 3 months and passed on in June, it's been very difficult. My mother also has been suffering from dementia. She does not try to leave the house. So she gets to live at home. But, I'm the oldest and she remembers my life mostly. But my younger sister she thinks is the cleaning lady. It's so sad. She has all kinds of stories that she tells people that come in to check on her nurses etc. And she tells the same kind of stories to me. The only time I correct her, is when I told her she was 84. Because she was telling me she wasn't going to have any more kids. Mostly I just let her believe what she wants to believe, because I know the story is going to change the next time she tells it. It's heartbreaking. And I hope and pray that I pass on before I put my children through this. I feel the pain of others that are telling about their situations and their loved ones who are dealing with this dreaded disease. Just read an article that said that Alzheimer's might be an autoimmune disease of the brain. Don't know how much is of this is true. Thank you for your information.
Dr. Eric Berg, I appreciate you! 💕
Many others' videos (etc.) are primarily precursors to a sales pitch. And/or, we have to sit through a long video only to end up being disappointed with vague info., incorrect info., or again, a self-serving sales pitch. 😢
You seem to care about HELPING others. Also, you get to the point and the videos are structured well. The info. is usually easy to confirm, and it's reliable. You don't drown out the important info. with long stories, loud music, and FX that are too flashy. I could go on and on about the production (I work in the film industry), but I won't keep gushing.
Thank you for your professional, useful, helpful, caring, and intelligent presentations. 🙂
Take care... 🙏 Aloha! 🌺
God bless you and thank you for keeping us updated. My Mom has mid/advanced dementia and it's heartbreaking & frustrating. She was an intelligent CCU/ICU RN who worked in the NICU and Burn Center at Cedars, well respected by many Dr.s. Now she waves and yells at airplanes, talks about getting shanked by other residents, codes other residents if they have any alarms that goes off she thinks they are patients and talks to the bushes!
Change your mothers diet and try and get her off most of her meds. These meds they are giving these dementia patiants are causing a lot of mental/body health issues.
look up dr bergs vids on Coconut oil and also kefir and raw sauerkraut.
you have to take your mothers health into your own hands. the medical community is corrupt.
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Any info if cbd is offering hope as a treatment for some? I don't understand the science of it. I don't believe its a cure all like some people claim however we have heard for years now and seen examples consistently how it stops seizures in *some children. I'm aware somethings do more harm than good and like you said can actually accelerate a problem or create a new one. So I would never just jump on a band wagon my mother taught me better than that. She did teach me always ask questions if you want to know something, ask more than one person from that field, read books from reputable sources and so on. Oh yes and watch out for snake oil salesmen lol. So I was just curious if there is any research being done on cannabinoids and if they help or accelerate dementia? Thanks
It’s rough I know my mom was 82 and had Lewy body. She repeated a lot and said any car with black wheels was a drug dealer ?
Great information. I visited my uncle who is in late-stage dementia. He can not go to the restroom, however, when my aunt said, “Annette is here today.” He turned and looked right at me. I guess we grasp for anything on the positive side. It was almost like he recognized my name, but then failed to recognize who I was. This is not at all the way I saw my uncle’s life ending. He had a big personality and was very extroverted.
For those with methylation deficiencies such as myself who had issues with taking folate and B-12 I found it much more beneficial to back load the methylation pathways with Tri-Methyl-Glycine and Creatine. 5 grams/day of each has made a huge difference in my overall health, especially my ability to exercise, recover and build muscle.
Can you please explain what you mean by backloading? I have the MTHFR mutation and had such severely depleted B12 when I was 45 that I forgot even my own name. I don't detox, and honestly, I'm concerned about how to manage this mess. I'm 67 now.
Dr Berg what you said about your wife and her mom made me cry. 😢❤ God bless the both of you.
Thank you Dr. Berg. My mother in law, along with two of her brothers died with dementia. My husband told me that he believes that he has it, and I would have to concur as the symptoms of Lewy Body Dementia are showing up. I will watch this video over again, and take some notes. Thank you.
Hugs. My MIL died of it. My husband did, too.
I lost both my dad and then my mom to Alzheimer's. My biggest regret was I didn't sit down and document our family history with them over the years before they lost the ability to recall and communicate. The long goodbye...
My mother and several of her siblings all ended up with dementia (she had 8). My mother's was attributed to a lifetime of heavy smoking constricting the blood vessels in the brain and since I worked with her at an apt. complex I'd hear her repeating stories while talking to tenants in her office (sometimes more than once in the same conversation). It was hard on the family as she would get up in the middle of the night and leave thinking she was on her way to work so eventually she was put in a place where they could keep an eye on her. Sadly, this ended up being several establishments before finding the decent one (some had very lax care, theft by employees, ect). She spent the last 10 years of her life this way but I think it started long before then. She passed away at 79 of congestive heart failure. I feel that will be my fate as well as I am now 67.
Problem is the dementia sufferer will refuse to acknowledge their condition and cooperate with their children. I diagnosed my mother over a decade ago and she simply became more toxic and belligerent to the point where she drove everyone away. She died a month ago and it was a huge relief for everyone in the family.
I'm at year three of what you describe. Although, my mother was always fairly unpleasent, it's out of control now. Her doctors(regardless of whether it's her primary, cardiologist, etc...) and their teams cringe when she walks iin the door of their office.
I lost my brother last year with vascular Dementia. 73 years old .the doctors said if you remember you have forgotten something you don't have Dementia. Because people with dementia don't no they have forgotten
My mum has dementia and it is so heartbreaking to see her go slowly. I can understand your wife. I am so sorry about her loss. I also miss my mum and even she is still alive, she isn’t the same.
I know, my Aunt is 100. Same thing as you state! Yet I fight and try to get her to come out and back the way she used to be. When she does now and then, and when she does she puts us all in our place it's amazingly heartwarming! Than, she's gone again and the "I DON'T KNOW'S"
return and my heartbreak along with it too💔
My Dad has been gone seven years now after having Dementia for six years. It runs in his family but he was very lucky and fought it off and stayed in his own home and independent until he was 93! I think for him what brought it on was a knee injury and a long wait for surgery. He was extremely active before that injury and it caused him to become more housebound. Without the outside stimulation, the Dementia seemed to come on. We think if he’d gotten his knee fixed immediately and been able to continue his golfing, pool playing, cards, and all his other activities and socializing, he wouldn’t have deteriorated so quickly. He was a very busy 93 and had many relatives live past the 100 year mark. He died four months short of 100.
It is such a cruel disease. I am the youngest and only girl and my Dad and I were always so close. When he didn’t know me anymore it tore my heart right out. But I had always been able to make him laugh and that didn’t change! Even later on, when I would get him laughing, there would be just the tiniest little bit of a familiar look in his eyes that let me know he was still there. That really helped me. A Lot. My brother’s and I had always thought that when the time came and he did pass away, we would feel that it was a relief. That it would be a blessing, because it would be a release for him. But it surprised us all how hard it hit us when it did finally happen. We thought we had already done our grieving for our Dad when he forgot us but his death filled us with another deep grief. Alzheimer’s/Dementia makes you lose the people you love so much, twice. I hope a cure is found soon. No one should have to go through that loss twice. Hugs and Love to you All!♥️
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So sorry to hear your journey with your dad, heart breaking. Going through it with my 64 yo mum.
Do you incorporate any hopeful preventative measures in your daily life, for your longevity?
@@renee3148 thank you for your kindness and I’m so terribly sorry that you have to be experiencing this now with your own Mother. I wish so much that you weren’t. I did see that they are approving a new medication so hopefully it’s something that might help her. I myself am adopted so I haven’t had to worry about the hereditary aspect of dementia but I know the brother closest to me in age does worry. I’m not sure about all of the changes he’s made but I do know that he doesn’t use any aluminum or non-stick cookware because the dementia/Alzheimer’s connection. He’s very aware of the risks so I’m sure there’s quite a few things he’s wary of. Sending you Hope and Hugs♥️
@Jackielocks yes as we know, horrible illness. I'm not sure what's worse, dementia or cancer tbh both awful demise.
Ok, thanks for your response. I've been implementing a few things in hope of keeping it at bay if there is a genetic component, just curious if others are doing similar things.
All the best! 🙏
My memory has been bad all my life, but I eat right, exercise , and am fairly healthy. My mom has Alzheimer’s now, but she was active, outgoing, ate healthy foods. My dad had signs of Alzheimer’s, but had a heart attack a year before turning 65 and retiring. I never remember things, really awful with names and directions. But that’s how it’s been all my life.
My mum had vascular dementia and she in the end had to go into assisted care as she couldn’t cope at home any longer.
She passed 2 years ago from a heart attack and although I was devastated at the time now i think it’s the best thing that could have happened to her, the thought of end stage dementia haunted me for many years.
I feel desperately sorry for anyone and their families going through this, it is a cruel nasty Illness.
If I’m ever diagnosed with dementia I’m going straight to Dignitas and ending it. No way do I want to regress back to a helpless baby, confused and unable to dress or feed myself or know My loved ones faces. All memories disappeared. I’d rather die.
What is Dignitas? I have told my children and husband if I get alzheimers and get bad, I may end it before I get to the point of not even realizing I have it.
@@deebell8727 It is a organisation in Switzerland that provides assistance with suicide.
I experienced many of these symptoms due to an under-functioning thyroid, maybe genetic, malnourishment, buying calories, carbs and sugars, but not vitamins. Thanks for this video and info. Hope viewers take it serious. In our world, one can't afford to make any health mistakes and we all knowingly make mistakes.
Alzheimer's took my mom and dad, his mom, and most of his seven siblings. You'd better believe my older siblings and I have reason to be very, very concerned. It's very, very scary. Every time I forget something, it's so unsettling. There's nothing that soothes this fear, because Alzheimer's has taken so many in my family. His information is priceless, however, I don't know how and where to start.
Amazing work again, thank you for the great info! I must also add....Mediterranean diet works VERY well to get a lot of these needed vitamins. Olive oil, fish, fresh veggies, cheese, organic wheat pasta, olive tapenade. A lot of the people that live in South of France, Italy, Greece live the longest with great diets.
It’s heart warming to see you give a shout-out to Lions Mane! Thank you Dr Berg. It’s a remarkable mushroom.
The first two minutes of this video expresses the worst part of this disease. The frustration and hopelessness of not being able to communicate with the afflicted person, especially a parent, about memories, questions you need answered, really anything you want or need to communicate with them. In the end you are left feeling cheated, abandoned, alone with so many unanswered questions and thoughts every day.
It's scary. My memory is so bad at 36. Has been for as long as I can recall. I get what the illness can be like. Some basic things just don't come to memory so obviously quite worried.
get better soon amigo!
Try a hot cup of bovril. It's honestly amazing - sorts my brain right out!!
You need to start taking Kefir daily and you need to start taking sauerkraut daily to fix your gut biome. This will help significantly
@@flamingpieherman9822 my gut biome is in tatters from a medical condition called epi. Not sure any part of gut/brain link is in working order 😕. I am working with a nutritionist to find solutions. I'll being these things up. Thank you.
if you had these experimental covid vx you MUST detox the mercury, graphine, parasites out of your body. look up Dr Pierre kory vids on this (free).
Glad you clarified that Dr Berg. I always wondered about this Plac theory. But you make so much sense! I am listening.
Your list can be considered pretty generic. I've been married for 40 years and my husband was just dx. last year with mild cognitive impairment, amnesic! The first stage of Alzheimer's.
Here's a few more signs to add to the list:
1)Denial of diagnosis
2)Has to be in complete control, esp, with finances
3)Makes up stories to cover up mistakes.
4)Angry if things don't go his way
5)Loss of appetite, even though he is active.
6)Impatient
7)Reckless driving
8)At times poor conversationist.
He's probably in stage 2 by this time. Just had to get this out there!!
Stay safe mamita!
My Husband was Diagnosed a bit over a Year Ago of Early Onset Alzimers Dementia he is 63. I Love him and I'm Sad and Scared of the Progression.
A few years ago I lost my grandmother, she also had alzheimers, completely forgot who we where, who my father was or any of his brothers, his sister, her only daughter, her husband....everyone was hurt by that, even me her first grandson, she practically raised me the first 5 years of my life, not knowing who I was hurt, but there was nothing she could do about it and one day in the retirement home she just got up keeled over and died. At the funeral i suddenly had an "Epiphany" if that is the word, just like all of the family I was sitting next to the casket, and we had a view towards the public, literally over a thousand people lined up in church for her and the funny part was I knew most of them some barely because I had seen them once or twice some better off course and then it hit me, my grandmother was one of those love above all grandmothers, it didn't matter where you came from or who you where if you visited her she would make sure you would leave with a full belly and a pocket full of candy (Yeah I know it's where I got my sugarhabit and why I now follow your diet), to her food was a way of showing love, you know these grandmothers I am sure, your belly is full you can't eat another bite and she fills your plate and says eat eat, you skinny boy.... All those people knew her like that this woman had two steel knees, a plastic hip, artritis, cataract....her body was shutting down physically and giving her all kinds of pains, but she loved us and all of those people so much she would fight the Grim reaper as hard as she couldn't because she couldn't stop loving all of us....All those people where there to say goodbye to 1 person and had eachother for comfort, she would have to say goodbye to all of them and would go through it alone,
So I comfort myself with this thought, Yes Alzheimer is a B**ch, it's cruel, it's heartless but maybe it was designed (By nature, or by a higher force if you care to believe that) for people who can't stop loving, who will endure all the physical pain you can give them they won't quit on you, they can't so they have to forget, forget everyone they ever loved just so they would come quietly, I like to think that the moment she keeled over and died that she forgot about the last person she ever cared about and her body said come it's time to go, and she went.
Hearing that she was not only your wifes mother but her best friend I know she was in the same category as those dear old grandmothers that won't go quietly because she has so many loved ones to lose, or just one like her daughter, maybe she had to forget.
I know it's lame, not scientific and definitely there will be exceptions, but it's my comforting thought of how my grandmother left and why she forgot who we where, she died a fighting for love, fiercer than any warrior, this lioness would protect her cubs and pride making sure they are well fed (even with carbs and sugar) and ready to face the world at all times. Only Alzheimers could make her stop fighting
Dokter Eric. Your video s are so good and easy to understand , with very much information. I want to thank you for all your work to help people. Greets 🇳🇱The Netherlands.
Dr..Berg, my grandma got it at 94 and it devastated me. I've seen people die from heart disease, both were equally precious to me, but to see someone lose every memory of their life and loves was another level of loss. With heart disease, we see it bit by bit, organ failure shut down , bit by bit till finally the brain goes. But Alzheimer is so heartbreaking. Also, I worked with the elderly and I have seen that when the adult children learn the diagnosis of their parents with Alzheimer's, what I have seen is immideatly the adult children and family stop talking to their parent..it's like they write them off once they get diagnosed..my instinct tells me that being shut out like this will cause the disease to advance faster, and make them float away that much quicker. My grandma got it at age 94. Until then she was so sharp. I was always testing her memory..My mom, her daughter, got it 12 years younger. But, my mom was an habitual liar all her life. God says not to lie..I believe it's for another reason..My instinct tells me that when one does, it builds unhealthy patterns in the brain. If it's anti God than it's anti life. We love you, thanks for all you do. God bless you doctor..
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I was balling my eyes out just this morning. My mom was my best friend. I took care of her for 10 years with a caregiver at her home. I was with her in bed with her for 4 days before she passed.
Thanks for helping.
Rings true to me! Our mom did SO much better getting off her several meds, which gave her some mental recovery for a few years. We also added back Estrogen and vitamins, which helped maintain her thinking. But after more falls involving head injury, she had an accelerated decline. She's lately been refusing vitamins that she desperately needs.
I took took my brother off the ton of useless medication and replaced them with vitamins and minerals with extra B vitamins and saw a lot of improvements. Sadly once he was better he didn't want to take the vitamins anymore and he went down hill fast. This July was the second year anniversary of his death 😞
gummy vits aew dwlicious
Glad I watched this because my 85 yr.old uncle is having memory loss and I have been correcting them. I will stop and ignore it. Thank you Doctor
Dr. Eric, you're improving my life/health one video at a time. Thank yoy.
Glad to hear that! You're very welcome.
I find it interesting to answer the constant stream of the same questions, by saying the same answer but in a different way each time, it makes the conversation more fun and less repetitive.
Thank you very muchly for sharing this important information with us all.
Take care too everyone. ♥️🙂🐶
Very glad to be of help.
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I have brain damage in every lobe and thalmus from not being diagnosed with Lyme Fisease for ten years! Even though I was told, this was my "wheelchair" but I knew things weren't truly gone, because when I juiced and fasted with a bad cold, parts of my sense of smell would return temporarily. Two weeks into Intermittent Fasting ranging from 17-23, and I had a day of significantly clearer vision. This is so encouraging for chronic Lyme patients! Question- how long of a cold shower? 🥶 Another question- I developed a late allergy to finish, so will molecularly distilled products work as well for supportive nutrition like cod liver oil? All of these practices make sense to incorporate into healthy lifestyle. Thanks for interpreting and applying these latest data for our health!!!
I forgot to leave a like, I'm scared now
you need immediate icy glass of pepsi cola therapy..
I took care of my husband whose memory was going. He worked in oil fields and I had to direct his way using a map from my end and trying to steer him to the right road ! It only got worse and was then diagnosed w Alzheimer’s at age 45 !!! Later told that it was Lewy body ?? My heart still cries for him 🥲🥲. He must have gone through hell !! Now it’s 30 yrs later and I’m having memory problems. So scared. . Have seen the terrible care in nursing homes but don’t want to end up being a burden
I'm concerned about many people amongst us. Friends family and neighbors. Be aware and pro active prevention with healthy changes.
It's an epidemic
@@John-Nada fear and mind control is the epidemic.
Living alone. I have some symptoms. But I do eat a fare amount of healthy fats. Do fasting . Processed food is not a big part of my life
My husband displays all these signs. Changes started in his early 60s. At the time, he said he was just stressed and burned out at work. He's now 72 and its seriously affecting day to day living and I'm at wits end.
He saw a neurologist (b/c I begged him to); a brain scan showed some deep vascular changes. Doc said it was MCI. Doc did no further diagnostics. His PCP said to him, "Of course you're forgetful, you're OLD!" Thanks doc, SO helpful.
It's more than MCI. Much more. Guess they don't take in consideration, a spouse's perspective. I see tremendous changes in him and my husband is starting to mess up our finances. I've insisted on taking over all financials, like tax prep and bill paying and he allowed me to do so on a couple of occasions, but then he starts making phone calls, undoing what I've done and it messes everything up. He's forgotten how to do the basic things he has always done. Executive functions are nil. I'm very anxious now and concerned for him.
He says, "My memory's not THAT bad". Family and friends have also noticed the changes in him. He pisses people off too. Multiple phone calls to the same person or businesses(he says he called their number 'by mistake'); he's frustrating those around him. He blames others for making things so complicated or confusing.
My husband has had an unexplainable weight loss of 15 pounds in less than a year. He's got an appetite like I've never seen before in him.
He asked me the other day how to write out a check. I'm a retired RN. I see what's happening. My husband is quite content with my constant reminders and guidance throughout the day. Still, he insists that he's not that bad.
I don't know what to do to get him the appropriate evaluation needed. There needs to be a diagnosis made. Precious time is being lost.
Sorry to vent here. I just don't know where to go from here since he is not motivated to get a full workup and seems to be content not doing anything about it. Essentially, he doesn't believe what I'm observing in him.
I’m so sorry. This is the exact same story with my Grandpa and Grandma now. His Dr. Said the same thing: you are just old. 😢 So frustrating. We need help.
Can you contact social worker thru your medical facility? (Dr. Office or Hospital)
Are you members of AARP, maybe they can advise you!!! Good luck, and God bless you both ❣️
OMG! You have just described my life! My husband retired in 2021 at 77 yrs old and has steadily gotten more and more crabby, Short tempered and forgetful. Repeatedly tells me things and denies he has already told me. Also tries to manage everything I do? And seems to make everything all about him, even a tv shoe he will turn it into something about him.
Even the kids and grandkids have noticed.
And why do our primary care providers blow off family members when we voice our concerns? I noticed he is good at seemingly holding it together around our doctor. It's like they think it's a family / martial matter and don't want to get involved.
@@sharronwhite128 I'm sad its happening to you as well. I often question myself. I started writing a journal of the more obvious or concerning things that have happened. I started this after we were driving somewhere and our small dog slipped off the front seat onto the floor on my side. My husband literally let go of the steering wheel to retrieve her from the floor as he was driving. I started screaming at him, "Grab the steering wheel! The steering wheel! I got her!" (our car was headed for the median). I was not only shocked by what had just happened, but incredibly angry at him for doing something so stupid. He just copped an attitude and yelled, "What is your problem!!". He said he didn't do anything wrong.
The journal is necessary to document the incidences but sometimes I need to reread it to remind myself that this is really happening, to journal progression and to have documentation when he does get evaluated (I pray!).
We recently moved across the country and I feel so alone in all this. ALL my family, kids, grandkids and our long time friends are so far away. I'm trying to find primary care doctors for both of us. Bottom line, he needs to be evaluated by a clinician who will take the situation seriously and do a workup.
@@catbee1452 OMG! I bet that was terrifing for you, and yep, there is that defensive attitude like you are in the wrong. Driving is scary with my husband too, we went to Rural King a few months ago and he decided the car in front of us was taking too long to turn, so he whipped around him! It could have been a bad accident!!! Then when we parked the other guy told him he was a jerk....I was so scared all over again. I told him that you can't do that crap, especially now days! And of course I was in the wrong 🙄 so I know exactly what you mean by the dog incident. Keeping a journal is a good thing, I'm going to try it if nothing else for my peace of mind that I am not over reacting.
My mom is going through this right now, she doesn't want to leave home and wont give medical directive authority to anyone, last night she wandered over to the neighbors at 2AM, thank God she didn't get lost. We have tough decisions ahead... advice appreciated.
You are right, this is a hard place, especially if she’s already wandering. Do you have a doctor she’ll go to? Often a doctor’s request works better and the doc can usually be matter-of-fact about it. We were lucky; all that was taken care of when we did basic “financial planning” with a pro. The advance care directives were included,not a big deal, just part of everything else. It’s also often a part of the Alzheimer’s diagnosis, when they rule out all those other symptoms that can be caused by other things.
My father and grandfather had dementia when they died. I am 61 years old and struggle with recalling names of familiar people and famous people. The scariest problem that I currently have is linked to my love of films: I can watch a film from start to finish without a single thing in the film being familiar. When I tell my daughter I have watched a good film she would enjoy, she then tells me we watched the film together a month or two before. How can no part of a film be remembered? I don’t know if I have dementia or not or what the cause is, I do know as a kid my father regularly hit me around the head.
Just get tested man! Don’t believe anybody except for actually educated experts with multiple credentials
My Father too had Vascular Dementia that expanded into Alzheimer’s Disease. So sad watching a very intelligent man no longer able to dress and/or feed himself… My Mother was his Caregiver and I was her backup. She visited him every afternoon to make sure he was fed lunch and then together we fed him dinner then staying till nighttime to put him to bed as he was in a Nursing Facility for almost two and one half years before his death..
The most tragic part is not having the funds to care for a parent suffering from dementia.
Oh, MAN.
I was 45 minutes too late meeting my Seniors Center driver today.
I had no idea that I was lagging.
He was MAD
Took care of my Mom until the end. Dementia is horrible. I do worry about myself and my siblings
My Grandmother had Alzheimer's. This is why, I one of my specialties was Alzheimer's. After her passing, I went into another specialty, subacute/post surgery care. Dementia and Alzheimer's hits hard for the family.
Va((ines have aluminum in them. Our elderly population is heavily va((inated with the flu va((ine, multiple doses a year, every year. I wish everyone would see this video!
Nobody likes to talk about it. But you are 100 percent right
They should take the nasal flu vaccine instead, that one doesn’t contain mercury or aluminum
Dr Berg
You come across as a very good and caring person who wants to help mankind.
A great ambassador of a human being .