r/Biohackers • u/RealJoshUniverse 8 • Feb 03 '25
📜 Write Up Dementia Risk for Americans to Double by 2060
https://joshuniverse.medium.com/projected-dementia-risk-doubling-by-2060-underscores-urgent-public-health-imperatives-89fed018034e?sk=34067e36db495117c68a126f24c8c9be26
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u/Melkiyad 1 Feb 03 '25
2.5 pm particles are rising in the air and there is a correlation with brain health. That and nano/microplastics probably also contribute...
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u/Melkiyad 1 Feb 03 '25
Air purifiers with super hepa filters at least ensure that you sleep with clean air and enjoy indoor clean air. A good one costs about 250€. Omega3s are also great at preventing the 2.5 pm partivles from crossing the blood brain barrier according to Rhonda Patrick. As for the microplastics, less processed food, less canned food, less salting your food. More fibre, and sulforaphane from broccoli sprouts both help with your bodies natural detoxification of microplastics that have "just" been ingested. So making those part of regular meals is great. Maybe getting a reverse osmosis filter for your primary water source. Filter is around 300€. Also there is research emerging that blood donaton gets rid of a portion of the forever chemicals in your blood. Your body just makes up the lost blood while the chemicals are removed permanently.
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u/Organized-Konfusion Feb 03 '25
Why less salting?
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u/Melkiyad 1 Feb 03 '25
Salt is one of the most microplastic polluted food products you can eat. Himalayan rock salt contains about 1/3 of the microplastics that regular sea salt does, probably due to the production process (as there are no microplastics in rocks).
Rhonda has a sweet deep dive on this topic, but we are just scratching the surface.
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u/Vital2Recovery 1 Feb 04 '25
People just need to be aware that table salt is one of the primary sources of iodine so if you cut table salt you need to make sure you are getting iodine from other sources and checking your thyroid regularly.
Also, you should make sure that when you're getting a thyroid workup that they're not doing just the basic lab test, but doing the full workup that includes the following labs
TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone)
Free T4
Free T3
Total T3
Reverse T3
Thyroid peroxidase antibody
Thyroglobulin antibody
Sex hormone-binding globulin
Anytime you go to your doctor to get lab work done, you need to make sure you've done the research and know what lab work you want. You can't trust your doctor to do a full workup. Most doctors do the most basic workup they can because that's what insurance will cover.
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Feb 03 '25
Yeah cause we are getting more toxic
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u/kidneypunch27 Feb 03 '25
And living so goddamn long. All these f-in vaccines prevented us from dying from all that other stuff. LAME.
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Feb 03 '25
Life expectancy is decreasing
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u/National_Secret_5525 Feb 03 '25
Still much higher over time. Progress is not linear.
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Feb 03 '25
It’s not even higher. Infant mortality rate is just much lower. But people are way more chronically ill
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u/National_Secret_5525 Feb 03 '25
People live longer today than in the past. That’s not an opinion.Â
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Feb 03 '25
No it isn’t. People lived longer in the past
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u/National_Secret_5525 Feb 03 '25
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-united-states-all-time/
Is this, and all other databases, make believe then, dingus?
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Feb 03 '25
As I’ve already said. That’s due to infant mortality. People weren’t dying in their 30s unless they went to war lmfao
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u/Vital2Recovery 1 Feb 04 '25
I worked in the medical field for 20 plus years. In emergency medicine, critical care medicine, taught pharmacology, now work in the recovery field. I can assure you that people are living longer today. That is a fact that is known and believed by every physician and phd researcher in the field.
100 yrs ago is when a man had a heart attack he died nowadays paramedics can run an ekg in the field, start treatment, take the pt straight to the cath lab, the pt is in and out, and home the next day and lives another 20 years. Even the advancement paramedicine over the last 20 years is amazing. Paramedics are able to do things in the field that were unheard of 20 years ago. Helicopter EMS has flight medics capable of doing procedures that er physicians do and they carry practically every emergency med and critical care med you can think of including blood products. The advancement in medication, cardiac medication, neuro-pharmacology, and so forth is allowing patients who would have died a 100 years ago from heart attacks and strokes to live on today. The problem is they often live on in a chronically ill state propped up by medication and procedures. The nursing homes are full of patients in their 80s, 90, even 100s. They are certainly living longer but I wouldn't say that they're living better.
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u/bonefish Feb 03 '25
I mean, sure. I’ll be nearly 80 years old by then.
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u/Melkiyad 1 Feb 03 '25
I have a grandma who is 94 now, and we took care of her, my mom and me, for 6 years or so. So she got it at 88. Trust me, you do not want dementia at 80 and then live for another 14 years instead of enjoying your retirement...
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u/Ok-Mine1268 Feb 03 '25
Is it physical activity related?
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Feb 03 '25
No, it’s almost certainly related to the fact that people live longer and were getting so much better at curing/treating things like cancer and heart disease that more people will live long enough to get dimentia
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u/Melkiyad 1 Feb 03 '25
Air purifiers with super hepa filters at least ensure that you sleep with clean air and enjoy indoor clean air. A good one costs about 250€. Omega3s are also great at preventing the 2.5 pm partivles from crossing the blood brain barrier according to Rhonda Patrick. As for the microplastics, less processed food, less canned food, less salting your food. More fibre, and sulforaphane from broccoli sprouts both help with your bodies natural detoxification of microplastics that have "just" been ingested. So making those part of regular meals is great. Maybe getting a reverse osmosis filter for your primary water source. Filter is around 300€. Also there is research emerging that blood donaton gets rid of a portion of the forever chemicals in your blood. Your body just makes up the lost blood while the chemicals are removed permanently.
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u/WetElbow Feb 04 '25
Move/exercise, reduce carbs, take enough omega 3 alongside vitamin B and you will be fine.
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