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Fighting Memory Loss and Reducing Fatigue with Elderly Parents Nutrition is generally a foremost issue with elderly parents. It seems that after they gain in years and or lose their partners, they gravitate to toward adolescent eating behaviors. For my mother it was fruit and tasty carbohydrates in the form of cookies and ice cream. She never was a fan of vegetables. The idea of salad is something you feed rabbits. >Eventually her regression to these eating behaviors over the span of twenty years resulted in memory loss and fatigue. Her diet contributed to development of Candida Albicans, the symptoms in advanced stages are also memory loss and fatigue. The challenge was to locate a doctor that acknowledged the existence of Candida Albicans and then that it could be normal" health issue To further complicate life, she then contracted Lyme disease which accelerated her physical symptoms. It seemed that every time we found a nutritionist or a doctor who knew his stuff, something would happen he'd move away; get in an auto accident or something else. Fortunately she has always taken a good multivitamin otherwise the symptoms of memory loss and fatigue may have come much earlier in her life.

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Once we found a doctor who didn't know his stuff who after running tons of diagnostic tests found nothing and eventually diagnosed her with depression-well who wouldn't get depressed with a doctor who didn't know his stuff? Fortunately we eventually found a doctor who was nutritionally oriented and with a whole host of nutritional supplements (Neuro Replete being he main one), but overall too many to remember th4e dosage and times of day to take them. We had to make a list with times and amounts. Along with some dietary adjustments within months she was back to her relative normal self. I was wishing there there was a cap for the supplements that would have an audio chip which upon touch play and audio of the dosage and times of the day. Later I found that one had been invented but it was very expensive and not easily available. What I observed is that (at age 82) as her fatigue increased, she also experienced brain fog and experienced significant memory loss. The worse her diet, the greater the memory loss became. She had difficulty remembering anything for more than two minutes. I began fearing senility as the next stop and that I'd soon be looking for a nursing home. No matter how I prodded her to eat more protein and vegetables, she was hooked on her cookies, tasty crackers, and ice cream. As a child having a temper tantrum she would not budge and what was more frustrating she forgot everything I had said about adjusting her diet within minutes of the conversation. As we shopped in the grocery store, she actually wobbled and I thanked God she was holding onto the grocery cart. She constantly complained of feeling drunk although she has never had a drink of alcohol in her life. Her symptoms became so bad that I took her to emergency services at the hospital for extreme abdominal pains. She was certain she had the same mortal infection (cancer) from which her mother passed. A multitude of tests were run, they checked her it to run more tests and all tests came back negative. Her doctor was at wits end. Fortunately I suggested a stool analysis and it was positive for candida albicans. With her doctor's support, she reluctantly she began a shift in her diet. It was ironic that she could remember what he said about a diet shift but not my previous urgings. Nevertheless, it was too little and too late. He added supplements and she forgot to take them. Every two or three days she called me begging me to make an appointment with her doctor. She was hoping for that magic pill and wouldn't accept the possibility it was all diet connected. In desperation I took matters into my hands, ordered a Vita Mix and began adding Xooma coral calcium to her bottled 5 gal drinking water--something I should have done years ago. The Xooma Coral Calcium is a blend of over seventy balanced minerals in ionic form that is added to daily drinking water. It promotes memory and reduction of fatigue among many other benefits. Each day I processed a clove of garlic, a carrot, stalk of celery and a small red beet along with Pro Biotics, Intestinal Support with L-Glutamine (nutrients for the intestinal track), and Fruitein (a blend of protein, fruits, vegetables, and green foods). You must add a cup of water otherwise the blend will be too stiff. Fortunately she found the drink tasty and somehow remembered to drink it throughout the day. For three weeks there was no improvement and then she began showing gradual improvement. It was so good to have her memory return. She stopped wobbling, had a surge of energy, and I was able to convince her to accept a reward system, i.e. she could only reward herself with cookies after she ate meat or some from of protein. She even stopped bugging me about making appointments with the doctor, in fact she doesn't want to see him anymore because at her last appointment he asked her how she was feeling and she responded that she's always tired-her main complaint. And he responded by saying, “You're always tired.” I guess it was his way of saying, “I really don't believe you're that tired.” So if you don't feel that you're elderly parents are doing as well as they might, may I suggest investing in: 1. A vita mix for the juice drink--no need to remove the pulp. 2. Add Xooma coral calcium to their drinking water 3. A multivitamin such as the Complete Nutritional System by Rainbow Light.

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Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E. NGH certified, a prominent figure in the personal change field. His aim is to make it possible for anyone needing to relax while taking care of elderly parents to do so.
For more information please visit http://www.DStressDoc.com/Learn_to_Relax.html 
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How to Build and Improve Self Worth at http://www.SelfEsteemCure.com
Stop Binging and Comfort Eating at http://www.EmotionalEatingCure.com
Over come panic disorder with agoraphobia at http://www.PanicBusters.com
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