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Dana Carpender - 30 Apr 2006 23:10 GMT

What does anyone know about the research into nicotine and neurological
diseases, especially Alzheimer's and Parkinson's? I've read a few
things that indicate modest improvements in Alzheimer's patients with
nicotine patches, but haven't heard anything recent.

I wouldn't start smoking again for anything, but it's occurred to me how
ironic it would be if eventually we all started wearing low-dose
nicotine patches for our health...

Dana

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Evelyn Ruut - 01 May 2006 00:20 GMT

> What does anyone know about the research into nicotine and neurological
> diseases, especially Alzheimer's and Parkinson's? I've read a few things
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> Dana

Hi Dana,

I haven't heard anything about it, but maybe someone else has.

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Evelyn
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Beth Cole - 01 May 2006 03:31 GMT

> I wouldn't start smoking again for anything, but it's occurred to me how
> ironic it would be if eventually we all started wearing low-dose
> nicotine patches for our health...

My MIL's physician authorized use of nicotine patches for her, under the
theory that nicotine is a stimulant. It helped somewhat, but given that
she was already in the most advanced stages, the effect was essentially
negligible. (Thanksgiving was 4 years in the nursing home; mid-May will
mark 2 years in hospice care.)

It is ironic ... Doris is still, after everything, in good physical health.

Beth

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Evolution takes no prisoners. -- Mandy, "The Grim Adventures of Billy &
Mandy"

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Dana Carpender - 01 May 2006 06:12 GMT

> It is ironic ... Doris is still, after everything, in good physical health.

This is my fear. My mother is -- except for her deteriorating brain --
in terrific shape for a woman of 76. It makes me contemplate baking her
a batch of really nutritionally evil cookies on a weekly basis. Surely
a regular dose of sugar, white flour, and hydrogenated vegetable oil
could help overcome the family's history of women living to heroic ages?

That history has never before included Alzheimer's, however. Mom
sustained a head injury at 69, as the result of a hit-and-run, and I'm
convinced that's what did it. May he rot in hell.

Dana

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Beth Cole - 01 May 2006 14:51 GMT

>> It is ironic ... Doris is still, after everything, in good physical
>> health.
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> sustained a head injury at 69, as the result of a hit-and-run, and I'm
> convinced that's what did it. May he rot in hell.

My MIL survived tuberculosis in the 1950's, the traumatic birth of a
child who died a few weeks later in the late 1960's, and a ruptured
spleen in the early 1970's. It was almost 30 years from the surgery for
the spleen before she was back in a hospital, with the stroke that made
the Alzheimer's apparent to everyone around her.

Beth

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nothing. It was here first. ~Mark Twain

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