Doctors on religious channels.
My mother was watching TBN this morning. It is a religious station. This morning a host had a doctor on the show. He was talking about several things, including reversing dementia. He mentioned some of the dementias and recommended unmentioned vitamins and nutrients to take. The more I listened, the more I realized the quackery. Many of the things he said did not line up with research done. Then he said that Alzheimer's could be cured by eating 6-8 eggs a day. He said that it would take a while, but that the damage in the brain would stop, then start to resolve. I wondered where he got such an idea, especially since Alzheimer's can be difficult to diagnose and is often mixed with vascular dementia.
My mother perked up when she heard the egg cure. Personally I know that her cholesterol is sitting around 268 right now and the last thing we want is for her to be eating half a dozen eggs a day. I told her not to listen to him, that he was a quack.
But imagine all the people out there watching these religious channels who don't have someone to say No. Should these religious channels get by with being this irresponsible? No one asks questions and no other-side viewpoint is given. Anyone watching that show this morning may be cooking eggs right now, hoping that it helps with their cognitive problems. The doctor this morning didn't quote research, only what he had done in his own patients. I certainly wouldn't want this quack working on me or my family.
This evening I learned that each cell can also make its own cholesterol if it needs to. That was interesting. All the research seems to say that being cholesterol deficient would not be a problem if someone is not starving.
But this is probably about as true as many other messages on the religious channels.
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"A team led by Dr. Howard Federoff of the Georgetown University School of Medicine has developed a test based on measuring the levels of ten fatty chemicals -- commonly called lipids -- in the blood. As membranes of the brain cells affected by Alzheimer's begin to break down, the levels of the lipids decrease.
The Georgetown team analyzed blood samples from 525 volunteers, all of whom were over the age of 70. Halfway through a five-year period, the team compared blood samples from 53 patients who were already affected by either Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) with samples from 53 patients who were "cognitively normal." They found that analyzing the lipid levels could predict with 90 percent accuracy whether patients went on develop MCI or Alzheimer's within three years.
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It maybe related to where he got the notion, not that there is any research indicating that eating certain lipids or a certain quantity of lipids would have any effect on Alz., but there is a movement away from grains and other carbs towards including the right balance of dietary lipids - less omega 6's and more omega 3's as in salmon, walnuts, grass fed animals and milk from grass fed animals, flax and more.
On a different note, it is not just the religious stations who feature people claiming quick fixes for one thing or another.
just one fun jab at religion, then ill be nice.
did it ever occur to anyone besides myself why some cat with gold paved streets needs your money? whats he going to buy with your money, more jewels for his gateposts? meh. i suspect hes buying drugs to keep elvis and MJ singing for him..