Interested in how Marijuana may fight dementia and possibly Alzheimers?
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I had read about this study. Maybe with enough baby-boomers coming of age, they will push the government into making marijuana legal. My mother is a baby-boomer, and she is terrified of Alzheimer's. She can't smoke it, but she's hopeful something good will come from this study.
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Considering that just this week a synthetic marijuana was approved by the federal government, they don't see any benefit!\n\nBut, I do!  Marijuana decreases depression and anxiety.  The approval to legalize would help so many people and would greatly reduce medical costs because people could grow it themselves.\n\nCannabinoids, such as marijuana and hashish, have been used to address pain, nausea, vomiting, seizures caused by epilepsy, ischemic stroke, cerebral trauma, tumors, multiple sclerosis and a host of other maladies.\n\nThere are herbal cannabinoids, which come from the cannabis plant, and the bodies of humans and animals produce endogenous cannabinoids. The substance can also be designed in the lab.\n\nI'm totally for legalization.  I don't see any negatives.  I voted for it once, and I'll do it again.  I helped my brother when he was in chronic pain from kidney failure, glaucoma, quadruple bypass, artificial hip replacement, depression, loss of toe, loss of thyroid, angina, and two, yes two, kidney transplants.  He made all the medical journals as the longest living kidney doner recipient from a cadaver.  Pot helped my brother get through pain and depression...but I still lost him in 96.
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John Hopkins did a study that showed statistically that taking an extra 250 mg vitamin C and 400 Units of E every day would reduce the incidence of Alzheimer's, if I remember correctly. :-0
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Male and female cannabis plants have equal amounts of the active biochemicals that have neurological effects in the brain. The main chemical is tetrahydrocannabinol (detlta 9). The story that only the female plants had active ingredient and the male plants had little is an urban myth. Some colleagues tested it by smoking from male and then female plants. Lest the narcotic police get upset, we had a Canadian government licence to grow the plants to collect the seeds for use in isolating certain elusive primitive water fungi that only grew on those seeds.(some Chytrids, Zygomycetes, & Oomycetes etc.)\nDoc Dan.
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Hats of my fellow well informed freedom fighting friend , most recent studies have shown that Marijuana doesnt destroy any ,,ANY , of your brain cells and in fact a harvard study shows that students who used canabis in moderation while studying for exams were more analetic and scored higher averages than those who didnt . but people are still very ill informed on the real facts . the brain cell killing lie came about without any real studyies and is a product of govermental lies .
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try googling "brain scan marijuana".\n\nbut beware, I've read that the commercial that was aired some years ago that showed this brain scan was a scam, and that they were actually showing the brain scan of a comatose patient. propaganda is a weird thing: hard to tell what's true and what's not.
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Very little is known at this point as to what causes Alzheimers.  Family history is a known risk factor.  Cheese consumption is not.
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NOt a good idea. The smoking of weed is linked with this type of mental disorder - and is a potential cause of it not a cure
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Alzheimer's disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disease, is the most common cause of dementia and characterised clinically by progressive intellectual deterioration together with declining activities of daily living and neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavioral changes. The most striking early symptom is memory loss (amnesia), usually manifest as minor forgetfulness that becomes steadily denser with illness progression, with relative preservation of older memories. As the disorder progresses, cognitive (intellectual) impairment extends to the domains of language (aphasia), coordinated movement (apraxia), recognition (agnosia) and those functions (such as decision-making and planning) closely related to the frontal lobe of the brain, reflecting extension of the underlying pathological process. This consists principally of neuronal (cell) loss (or atrophy), together with deposition of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. Genetic factors are known to be important, and polymorphisms (variations) in three different autosomal dominant genes - Presenilin 1, Presenilin 2, and Amyloid Precursor Protein - \n\nDiagnosis\n\nThe diagnosis is made primarily by clinical observation and tests of memory and intellectual functioning over a series of weeks or months, with various physical tests (blood tests and neuroimaging) being performed to rule out alternative diagnoses. No medical tests are available to conclusively diagnose Alzheimer's disease pre-mortem, however.\n\nInterviews with family members and/or caregivers can be extremely important in the early phases as well, as the sufferer him/herself may tend to minimize his symptomatology or may be being observed on a day when his/her symptoms are in temporary dormancy.\n\nInitial suspicion of dementia may be strengthened by performing the mini mental state examination, after excluding clinical depression. Psychological testing generally focuses on memory, attention, abstract thinking, the ability to name objects, and other cognitive functions. Results of psychological tests do not easily distinguish between Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia but can be helpful in establishing the presence of and severity of dementia. They can also be useful in distinguishing true dementia from temporary (and more treatable) cognitive impairment due to depression or psychosis, which has sometimes been termed "pseudodementia".\n\nWhile expert clinicians who specialize in memory disorders can now diagnose AD with an accuracy of 85-90%, a definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease must await the autopsy.
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Marijuana won't cause lung cancer I think is what you are looking for. There is a recent study that proved it. The scientist doing the study were a little shocked at the result. \n\nThere is a theory that that is true because one of the chemicals in marijuana might kill damaged lung cells before they become cancerous. But they really aren't sure.\n\nI wish I had a link to the study. I'm just saying what I remember.
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god made pot..... man made cigs and alcohol.... make your decision...\n\n\nwhat the other person said is true.. brain cells are reduced.. you wont be able to pass a drug test and get a decent job, and if you keep on.. your chance at ever having kids will be very slim.\nhowver on the other side of that.. it is a natural herb, doctors perscribe it to cancer patients for the pain... and if a dr perscribes it.. it cant be all bad.. right?
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dont follow lay people dude, yes cross word puzzles and or high brain situlated things would work, but lets face it. it all comes done to your nutrition, if you increase antioxidants and phytochemmicals food mostly in veggies and fruits, whole grains lean meats non or low fat milk, and the omega 3 fatty acid (your brain is 60% fat) the DHA is the best compent of omega 3 for the brain, (get it mosyly from fish/fish oil, and to a lesser extent flaxseeds and flaxseed oil (some people cant convert the flax to the DHA) for antioxidants try eating healthy so your internal antioxidant enxymes function better and your mictrocodra in the cells produce maxuim energy, then you'll learn fairly rapidly (alpha lopic acid is an all purpose diverse antioxidant protecting like all of the cell and regenerating all ther anti oxidants from its free radical forms back to its functional form. with out comprmising itself shit like that dude, study nutrition and antioxidants, it might pervent the  degerative diseases that 85% of us will get
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Alzheimers striking before the age of 60 is generally considered to be due to a genetic abnormality, and is larger unavoidable.  Other than that, it is generally true that the best way to prevent dementia is to be as smart, educated, creative, well read, and open to new things as possible.  The better the brain is wired to make connections, the less dependent it is on individual connections.  Even doing things like avoiding habitual behavior (ie take a different route home from work from time to time, and try new things regualrly) will help decrease your risks.\n\nKeep you brain strong, limber, and adaptable!
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I am bipolar. I quit taking my effexor xr and other meds some time ago. Marijuana does have it's medicinal value, but with long term use, you will have other side effects. As for me, I haven't smoked for a while now, but if i didn't have a job like the one I do now, i would smoke. There hasn't been any prescribed medicine out there that didn't calm me and let me focus. But, That was with taking 1-2 drags of pot. Not smoking a quarter ounce in a day. Smoking that much is what the dr's are talking about when they tell you the serious side effect. Smoke too much, end up dumb. As with any drug, use responsibly. But...Pot is illegal. (boooo)
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THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU NEED TO ASK THE DOCTOR.  I WOULD ONLY ASSUME THAT ANY INTAKE OF ALCOHOL WOULD JUST MAKE THE SITUATION (DEMENTIA) WORSE.  THIS IS A MEDICATION GIVEN TO PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING WITH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.  ALCOHOL SHOULD NOT BE INGESTED .. THIS IS JUST MY OPINION.. BUT I THINK THAT THE DOCTOR WOULD PROBABLY HAVE THE SAME ANSWER...
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Our family is dealing with this issue at the moment. My father in law exhibits dimensia, which might be alzheimers, or it could be related to depression or some other factor. In any case, exercising the mind is the key to avoiding dimensias. \n\nLearning to read music, or doing crosswork puzzles flexes the mind. Drinking Gensing or Ginko does little or nothing for the mind.\n\nHard work, exercising the mind is the only way to slow the onset of senility.
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I have the same problem.  I don't think there is anything that you can do.  Maybe get some vitamins (there are ones that are supposed to help with memory and over all mental health).  Without knowing much more about you that is all that I would say.  I think my problem is from smoking too much weed when I was younger.