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Kappy
Member
06-28-2002
| Friday, June 19, 2020 - 6:08 am 
Maybe they just forgot that they had already bought some? 
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Monday, July 05, 2021 - 6:33 am
Hello Over 60ish TVCHers!!
Do any of you take either a prescribed or over-the-counter treatment for minor memory loss? I'm beginning to think I need something to help my brain cells keep their sharpness with the memory process.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Monday, July 05, 2021 - 6:34 am
I forget. 
Seriously, me too.
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Y2krazy
Member
09-17-2002
| Monday, July 05, 2021 - 10:16 am
I do not. I do puzzles though and they are supposed to help keep the brain sharp. I'll have to think about some kind of supplement soon though. I am sure memory or brain cells will need help, especially if and when I retire.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, July 05, 2021 - 1:50 pm
I play several online games of Scrabble and Words With Friends daily to keep my brain well oiled. Lately it feels like a losing battle.  The other day for the life of me, it took several minutes (of panicking) because I couldn't remember that 'Vowels' are the opposite of Consonants. Forgetfulness and losing words is terrifying for me, especially as a writer.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, July 05, 2021 - 2:41 pm
Um, big topic with me.
I have not tried any specific supplement, though I guess that is why I take turmeric/curcumin and I'm on a statin, which ends up being a good thing, but not sure I'd take it just for that, but I had high cholesterol
Challenging your brain by learning new things.. so if you do the NY Times crossword puzzle in ink, great, but that isn't something new.. So, challenges.
Diet (MIND diet is best)
Avoid inflammation
Cardio exercise and any exercise helps
Sleep is important as during a certain cycle, plaques are cleaned out of your brain
Community, interaction with friends and family
I am reading the book A Tattoo on My Brain by Daniel Gibbs.
He is a neurologist who started losing his sense of smell, but shrugged it off, then later began to suspect he had very early Alzheimer's.. ironic since that was part of his career. He did the 23 and Md DNA test and was shocked to find out he has two copies of APOE4 gene. His parents died early enough that it couldn't be known if they would have developed Alzheimer's but other relatives, it seems, had.
He opines that all too often people in clinical trials are farther along and perhaps too far along to be helped by the drugs that are tested. he's been in 5 clinical trials and has had PET scans for Beta Amyloid plaques and TAU tangles and yes he has them.
So he is doing everything possible to push off what is coming and at the same time, be in trials because he hopes his children and grandchildren will have treatments available.
He also did a very interesting interview with Being Patient (www.beingpatient.com)
https://www.beingpatient.com/early-alzheimers-daniel-gibbs/
He is very interesting and he is not the only expert talking about how important it is to be proactive and push off the start of cognitive loss so long that something else gets you first.
A lecturer I heard a few years ago spoke of lifestyle things and said what he was doing was learning a new language and learning to play tennis
Music is important and singing uses one side of the brain, playing an instrument, the other. But also the memory of music seems to be the last to go.
ANd.. sorry for crashing the thread.. I am well beyond 60 and any ish..
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, July 06, 2021 - 4:17 am
I meant to say MIND diet
Mediterranean is good, DASH is good but MIND is thought to be best to hold off on symptoms of Alzheimer's.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, July 06, 2021 - 1:45 pm
Intermittent fasting gives the body time to clean up damaged cells throughout the body. (Autophagy) including the brain.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Wednesday, June 01, 2022 - 10:19 pm
This could be the thread for . . . .
I recently watched 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes. Quote from character Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) fits me to a T --
"I'm too young to be old and too old to be young."
That is me.
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Deanofwords
Member
09-13-2005
| Sunday, August 28, 2022 - 12:20 pm
good quote
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Wednesday, April 02, 2025 - 5:02 am
As if we don't enough to worry about, now we are supposed to buy some new persimmon soap for 'old people smell'!
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Kappy
Member
06-28-2002
| Wednesday, April 02, 2025 - 6:21 pm
I am so sick of the commercials making everyone think they stink everywhere. If you stink that badly, take a shower!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Wednesday, April 02, 2025 - 9:42 pm
But do none of you remember being children and realizing old people smell? I remember it vividly.
I am now of stink age, and it is so official, that there is even a name for it. Look it up. It has to do with amino acids.
I live in an over-55 community now, and I cannot smell it at all, but I bet people's grandchildren do.
I don't watch television per se, therefore do not ever see commercials, but if that is where the audience is, then they are targeting baby boomers, and we probably cannot do anything about it. No wonder these child clerks in retail stores are getting so rude. We actually stink, and they just want to get away from us. Huh!
Oh well ...
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, April 02, 2025 - 9:44 pm
I could always smell it with my dad as he aged, not so much with my mom.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Thursday, April 03, 2025 - 10:03 pm
Oh, and when you go to Alaska and visit the mushing dogs, the dogs don't want anything to do with old people, but they get very excited by children, especially babies and toddlers. The handlers say that is because the babies smell so good.
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