Brain Health and Mentally Stimulating Activities

My wife subscribed to this use it or lose it prescription and played various brain stimulating games endlessly, she took half a dozen supplements that were suppose to protect her brain. She subscribed to physical exercise as the best way to protect your brain and she was an exercise junkie. And it all bought her nothing. Coded in her DNA passed to her by her mother who died of dementia at age 63 was some mutation whose expression defeated every healthy habit. I'm not suggesting that the advice offered in these articles isn't valid. It's undoubtedly the best course you can follow, but, alas it doesn't always work.
 

You and she must have gone into shock when she got her diagnoses eh Josiah? That can happen too with some of these other diseases too can't it? Heart attacks when people are young or old, thin and active. Diabetes for people who eat well and don't carry a lot of weight and several people here can attest to that.

You know I was thinking about those DNA reports you can get now and I wondered if I would even want to know!

I was trying to learn to play the piano to keep my brain active but after five years of plodding away at it, I finally accepted that I am just not musical :(. Even at the end I could put in my 45 minutes a day of fairly consistent practise and the minute I stood up and walked away, nothing of it remained in my head! Not my thing at all I guess but as they say, I gave it the old college try. Nowadays, I'm happy to keep active in reading and researching foreign affairs stuff online and if that isn't enough to do what the article suggests is possible, well then that's just the way it is.
 
Debby said:
You and she must have gone into shock when she got her diagnoses eh Josiah? That can happen too with some of these other diseases too can't it? Heart attacks when people are young or old, thin and active. Diabetes for people who eat well and don't carry a lot of weight and several people here can attest to that.
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Sadly, so very true, Debbie and Josiah.
 
Josiah said:
My wife subscribed to this use it or lose it prescription and played various brain stimulating games endlessly, she took half a dozen supplements that were suppose to protect her brain. She subscribed to physical exercise as the best way to protect your brain and she was an exercise junkie. And it all bought her nothing. Coded in her DNA passed to her by her mother who died of dementia at age 63 was some mutation whose expression defeated every healthy habit. I'm not suggesting that the advice offered in these articles isn't valid. It's undoubtedly the best course you can follow, but, alas it doesn't always work.
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There is no recipe that will confer healthy old age on everyone. Good nutrition, exercise and mental stimulation are recommended but cannot be relied on as a panacea. I am watching myself deteriorate physically and I am becoming ever more crippled every day. I will be seeing an orthopaedic specialist soon, after I see the cardiologist, and I may be somewhat rejuvenated after an operation or two, but I'm not counting on too much. Age is catching up with me and my best course of action it to make the most of what I can do now and be happy with that. If I live long enough I will almost certainly enter the world of senile dementia, based on the family history. I do not waste any time trying to fight the inevitable.
 
Maybe I am just delusional, for I keep trying to resolve things. Vs. accepting it is all old age and inevitable. My mother lived to 89 and my grandmother a few days short of 101. So, maybe I am just foolishly expecting their longevity.
The only long term friend I have left talks constantly about her health, wanting to die, and just sits in a chair. Her children wait on her, as she bosses them around. While becoming more and more critical and crotchety. I cannot understand her mind set, and am not ready to give in, much less die. Though it is painful and I walk like I am drunk, I still exercise and push myself to function. Perhaps I am just a silly old lady....
 
ndynt said:
Maybe I am just delusional, for I keep trying to resolve things. Vs. accepting it is all old age and inevitable. My mother lived to 89 and my grandmother a few days short of 101. So, maybe I am just foolishly expecting their longevity.
The only long term friend I have left talks constantly about her health, wanting to die, and just sits in a chair. Her children wait on her, as she bosses them around. While becoming more and more critical and crotchety. I cannot understand her mind set, and am not ready to give in, much less die. Though it is painful and I walk like I am drunk, I still exercise and push myself to function. Perhaps I am just a silly old lady....
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No, Nona, you're not a silly old lady. You've got twenty good years ahead of you and you're just doing what you have to to make them enjoyable.
 

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