What are the Causes of Alzheimers?
Research Has No Answers
Perhaps We Can Find Them Together
Research has come up with no new leads to finding any of the causes of Alzheimers. This disappointing news was shared at the Alzheimer's Association 2011 Conference in my area, by the Chief Program Officer for the organization.
Hundreds of family members, cafegivers and professionals working with Alzheimer's patients attended this conference hoping to come home with better news. With such a grim picture, many of us turn to alternatives. Searching the internet, you will find many articles promoting vitamin supplements and other natural ingestants like coconut oil. While these can help, they are not reversing the illness, which would indicate healing.
In my humble opinion, we will not find the causes of Alzheimers at the same level that we see its effects. We can see this with the once believed notion that there was an
aluminum Alzheimers connection.
This connection has now been disproved.
The physical changes observed in the brain
of the person with Alzheimer's have not been explained despite the incredible amount of money poured into research. In fact, the same can be said about finding the causes for the changes that occur at the physical level for other major diseases like cancer. Their causes remain a mystery to the medical profession.
Unfortunately the statistic for serious illness keeps rising, including the diagnosis of people with Alzheimers. "Someone develops the disease every 69 seconds. Unless answers are found, as many as 16 million Americans will have Alzheimer's in 2050 and someone will develop the disease every 33 seconds" (Alzheimer's disease Facts and Figures report).
With this in mind and having watched my own mother go through the
Alzheimers stages,
I have decided to follow my intuition and do a little informal "research" here on the causes of Alzheimers, but not by looking at the physical level.
Here is my idea which requires your participation. Let's explore the problem from a different angle. Let's look at the mind (emotions included) and body connection. I work daily with this connection as an
EFT Certified Practitioner. What I would like to test is the idea that the cause of Alzheimer's is at the emotional/mind level. I saw first hand how difficult it was for my mother to express her emotions, and noticed that her "strategy" for dealing with painful events in her life was to "bury them" and do her best to forget them. I am proposing sharing our loved one's with Alzheimer's emotional and personal profiles.
As an EFT Practitioner, I have a great tool for releasing negative emotions. However by the time I learned it, my mother was in the "middle stages" of her disease and could not follow what I was saying. I was able to do some
EFT tapping
on her, but I had to use myself or my sister as the
surrogate.
I want to share my mother's life story here, to honor her and in hope that you will also share your stories. I believe that in these stories are the threads or clues as to the cause of Alheimers. I know it is not scientific research, but it is my intuition I am following. What if the answer is burried in these life stories and ready for us to access?
We Have All Wondered
What Are the Cause of of Alzheimers?
This may not be considered "official" research, but let's see what similarities or clues we find in each of the stories we share of those we know/knew with Alzheimer's disease. Write what you know about your loved one's life here!
Don't know where to start? First read the stories already submitted (see the bottom of the page). Leave comments! We love feedback!
Stories From Other Visitors
Click below to read stories from other visitors to this page...
Return Home From Causes of Alzheimers
Alzheimer's Stages
Go to Dementia vs Alzheimers
Go to EFT Tapping
Go to EFT Learning
Go to How Does EFT Work
Go to Surrogate EFT
|
