Over 6 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease. Julia, one of my patients, was one of them.
With her, it started as small glitches. Mental fogging. Difficulty focusing. She’d lose stuff all the time. She repeated the same questions. You know how stressful that is for you, the daughter, son, significant other, or caregiver.
Then the dreaded diagnosis came. The disease tensed its grip.
She became combative, argumentative– Julia became someone else.
Friends and even family stopped dropping in. They couldn’t bear to see her losing her mind. They feared seeing her lose her dignity.
Her family did their best to accept her in spite of her anger, her outbursts, her illness. But if Julia wasn’t wife, mother, granny anymore, who was she?
Alzheimer’s robbed her of everything that made her the woman she was.
Despite billions spent on R&D, Big Pharma doesn’t have a cure for Alzheimer’s. It may never find one. But we already have something much better. A way to prevent Alzheimer’s.
