Strong correlations between patients with glaucoma and certain vitamin deficits (C, E, B3, B6, B12, possibly also E and magnesium). Amount of the effect could be be sex-dependent, data on that seems to not be consistent, however. In males, deficits in B1 and B2 seem to have no effect of probability for forming a glaucoma, while in females it maybe is the case.

Correlations between patients with glaucoma and carbohydrate-intense diet habits. A very strong link of carbohydrate- intense diet to metabolic syndrome or even diabetes should be kept on mind.

Omega 3 reduces the inner eye pressure.

There even might be a positive benefit of consuming nitrates (!!) on reducing probability for declining eyesight and glaucoma. This is not yet fully established, however.

As described in my PM, functional links between high heart rate (thus your beta blockers...) and low salt intake.

High heart rates can also be triggered by a diet that is saturated in potassium. (Low potassium again is also a danger, but its like this with evertyhing we eat: there can be too much and there can be too little).

Forgot to tell you something:

I'm glad I have an electric shaver-I would cut myself severe if I used an old shaver.

Markus

An EKG (or ECG, as more US doctors seem to now call it) is actually very common in neuro cases, as I found out; my neurologist referred me to a cardiologist and, when I asked why, the cardiologist said the referral was to see if there were any cardio/circulatory issues that may have affected or caused my strokes; poor circulation can cause problems in the brain and some issues, such as plaque particles in the veins and arteries, can cause blockages in thr brain which, in turn, can cause conditions such as strokes, neurological impairment, etc. My cardiologist has found that I have a partial blockage in a vein on my right side neck and a two week monitoring of my heart turned up an anomaly in my heart beat that an ordinary EKG/ECG would not have likely found; as a result, like you, I am also now on beta blockers; as with most medications, it can take some time before actual benefits become apparent, so a bit of patience is needed; it is usually more important to keep note of any detrimental effects that may occur after you first start taking a new medication, which I learned the hard way; I was put on a new statin a while back and started to experience some rather unpleasant and severe reactions and, when I brought the situation up to the primary care MD, his response was "the benefits of the new statin outweigh the downsides of the reactions; I was in a rather miserable state until I had a change of primary MD who took one look at my then medication list and said the statin I had been prescribed was too harsh for someone in my condition; he put me on a different statin and, after a couple of weeks, almost all my issues resolved themselves...

Give your medications a bit of time to see what effects they have, good or bad, and, by all means, be vocal and as persistent as necessary with your MDs regarding your concerns; as ET2SN advised, work with your neurologist, give your meds a chance to see what good or ill they may cause, and try to not stress over the maybes until you have more certainties to work with; I know it's hard to do, but adding to your stress won't help your condition...


BTW, I also had experienced some severe tremors and outright violent hand shaking, but they have become significantly less severe after the changes in medication and also finally knowing for sure what the sources my conditions are/were; it is indeed possible the severity of some of my symptoms had their roots more in stress than in actual illness...






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I have now received the results of the MRI scan. It showed age-related changes in the brain. However, there was no trace of a brain infarction, blood clots or brain hemorrhage.

Whatever this age-related changes mean it must have something to do with my tremors, maybe not Parkinson.

Markus

Did they say what specific things they summarize under "age related"? Related to biological age and related to long term habit (namely food and phyiscla activity/excercise)are two very different things. The latter can be changed to see whether that makes a difference, the first cannot be changed.

If something is generally related to age, than one would need to assume that many, most, all people of that age show the same symptoms. Because we all grow old. But obviously this is not the case.

I received the message in a mail and it only said Age-related changes in the brain and the other thing.

I've tried to google it to see if I could find anything on the matter. Found pages about demens

Markus

I would rate such an unspecific diagnosis as completely unsatisfactory. It says nothing and is an excuse to also do nothing becasue "you cant help it, its age, so live with it".


In my understanding many aspects of age-related demens and dementia is - consequece of life-long or at least long lasting malnutrition and undersupply with specific nutrients, and oversupply with the wrong "nutrients" (toxines). That also relates to plaques of various types and kinds in arteries and along neurons (glycaemification).


Positive effects might be possible by the consumption of



- Omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA and DPA,
- foods raising - yes, raising, I am absolutely serious!! - cholesterol (animal food sources),
- coconut oil and MCT oil,
- base your energy production not on carbohydrates but fatty acids and especially - yes I know, but again I am serious - unsaturated fatty acids,
- and reduced co-encyme Q10 Ubiquinol,
- make sure you hgave a sioldi supply with all Vitamin Bs.



You maybe think I sing the old song of Carnivore again, but no, not necessarly so, I think more in terms of autophagy-triggering intermittend fasting combined with the ketogenic diet.



Of course bad habits like plant seed oils and sugars should be left out.


I know that some progessive doctors think of age.ralted emewns symptoms as inflammations of the brain and/or nutrient-malsupply form bad diet.



The following videos are just random smaples of the material available.


I promise nothing, but to try this stuff out costs you nothing and is practically risk-free. Neither this post nor the videos are a complete coverage of all what to be said on diet, demens and dementia (not the same, but might be close in functional correlations due to the affected and included organ being the brain).





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-WC0LxQbA0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXX4iMuwaVQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmkvmRW0yVc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FsuO_dOR4M


I want to illustrate by these exmaples that it is always the same important things being brought up.

Hope you’re doing well, mapuc.

Thank you for your concern I'm doing fine despite these shakings.
Since some day back my mouth have started to vibrate especially when I lay down it is my lower jaw who is vibrating/shaking.

Markus

Had a talk with my doctor yesterday and he said there are two possibility to my tremor and what this MRI have shown.

Parkinson
Dewey's Dementia

Both are due to age-related changes in the brain.

Markus

Sorry to hear that. The problem is that a certain form of protein, the so-called Alpha-Synoclein, forms plaques along neurons and neural cells. These plaques are so far not known to be removable, but there is much research going on in this direction. Further progression of the symptoms maybe can be influenced by nutrition indeed.

Often mentioned are:

- antioxidants and inflammation-inhibiting foods,
- Omega-3s,
- vitamine E,
- D,
- and certain vitamins of the B-complex (conflicting data on the Bs).

Recommended are:

- ketogenic or
- so-called mediterranean diet styles,
- means: avoid carbohydrates, the less carbs, the better. Of course, that includes refined sugar. Carbohydrates are a top inflammator.
- Avoid plant seed oils at all cost, these things should be banned in general. They too are a top inflammator. Maybe even worse than sugars.
- Use healthy fats like olive oil, animal fats, butter, MCTs, avocado oil, coconut oil.

- Avoid ultra-processed industrial "food".
- And finally EAT WELL! Both these demntia cna be heavily caused and worstend both by under-eating at higher age, which is quite common in elder people, or malnutrition in younger years, putting stuff into your body that trigger and pamper the development of these plaques. Eat good stuff, and eat well, sufficient (meaning quantity).


Coconut oil holds potential to really impact positively on neural degeneration symptoms, as long as the neuron is not completely dead already. The studies rejecting this and came to my knowledge used hilariously low and thus therapeutically inefficient doses. Its worth a try, I say.

You will probably not be able to stop the progression of both deseases, but maybe you find you can slow it down. A try is worth it since it costs you nothing and includes no additional risk.

A Lewy Body Dementia shares symptoms with Alzheimer, thus both get often misdiagnosed, the one taken for the other.

I say again, the attempt of trying this is free and costs you practically nothing. The risks are in my view non existent. Success is not guaranteed, but then: you also have nothing to lose when trying it.

Have courage, stay committed!

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A question

I'm also suffering from Diabetic 2 and I have seen the word
diabetic ketoacidosis.

In a KETO-Diet your body enter this Ketosis.

Is Ketosis the same as Ketoacidosis ?

Edit
While waiting for an answer I made a search and found this
"Ketosis is a metabolic process that occurs when the body breaks down fat for energy if it's not getting enough carbohydrates. Ketoacidosis, meanwhile, is typically a life-threatening complication of diabetes. It happens when insulin levels drop dangerously low, causing a buildup of ketones and acid in the blood."
End edit

Markus

No! Not by a huge margin! Lets go through it in the right order, since many people over and over again mistake these two things.

First things first. As a late fetus, baby, child in the first years of its life, we are in ketosis, as long as we do not get put on carbohydrates. Ketosis is our most natural and our first energetic metabolic state, our bodies must not learn it as an adult, it just needs to remember it. Ketosis means our body "refines" fats in the liver and forms ketone bodies or ketones, these are the carriers of the needed energy that get shuttled around in the body and used in place of glucose/glucagon. When we get no longer mothermilk, but get taught to eat fruits and veggies and cereals, our body switches to glucose as its primary energy source, and it does so easily, unfortunately. Glucose gets further "refined" in Glucagon, which is stored and used as needed. It takes time to form glucagon, like it does take time to form ketones, but ketone-production nevertheless is faster in a system in ketosis. And since all your body fat serves as an energy reserve, if need be, you have 12-15 times more energy available, potentially, than you have energy in form of glucagon. Thats why it is much harder for you to tire out while being in ketosis, than if you were in a state of glucose-based energy production. Glucagon reserves get eaten up quickly and then take long time to refill, but since only rarely they get depleted (since we do not hunt, fight, run and survival that much anymore), our body prefers to make body energy from Glucose, its easier, less complex. Fat-metabolism on the other hand means you have a much longer reach in physical stamina/duration, and you do not have all the negative side effects of a carbohydrate-based metabolism. The body makes the very little glucose it indeed needs itself, there is non reason to fill glucose in from outside via food. Glucose energy cycle is a backup system for times of need and emergency, when meat and fish and fats from animals are not available, but it comes at a price. It should not be our normal standard energy production mode. Ketosis should be. We are designed to be ketogenic. The lion'S share if not all of modern civilizational diseases comes from us insisting that we know better than millions of years of evolutionary biological development and that we should make the backup system our primary operational mode - while the primary one nevertheless is absolutely functional and unbroken. The seocndary system is not mean to do the long run, it is meant to step in as a temporary fix and improvised solution, to be switched off again once the primary system is back on duty. It also helps to stgore some reserves inanutumn, when we sneak throguzn theb forest and occaisoanlly may stumble over a handful of soar wild berries with some carbs in them. There glucise gets stored in the fat cells sicne we are in ketosis, and form there they add to our chance that we survive winter. Isn't it wonderful how everything in nature falls into its right place - if only you let it?!

Now, ketoacedosis. Thats a state that mostly is found in type 1 diabetics, can also be triggered by alcohol abuse, could show up in pregnancy, or as a result from using certain medications.

The problem is the low supply in insulin, may it be that the pancreas does not make enough insuline, may it be that the artifical supply via syringe is dosed too low. This state triggers a sudden overreduction of fat in the fat reseves, and the liver gets practically overflooded with fat. It then creates ketones like crazy, but there is a problem in this specific situation: since there is no insuline in the blood, there is plenty of sugar in the blood. And this prevents that the ketones can get burned in the mitochondria inside the cells. The raising levels of unused ketones make the blood more acidic.

In healthy people, a too huge rise in ketone production can trigger a mild insuline reaction (where consumming fat in normal ammounts does not do that). You have a feedback mechanism here that serves the purpose of a security valve. In diabetics, this obviously can fail, they have no or too low insuline reactions already at the beginning of this process, and wont make any more insuline. I dont know for certain, but I would assume that as long as he does not need to take insulin, even a type 2 diabetic still is relatively safe. And even if he must take it, the better chances are that ketoacidosis does not become a problem. It happens. But not to most of those likely candidates.

Since ketones raise the pH level of the blood and make it more acidic, this is dangerous since the ph-level of blood must remain within extremely tight upper and lower levels, I think it was between 7.35 and 7.45 pH. In a ketoacedosis, ketones in the blood reach levels of 15+ mmol/l, which is very much, and dangerous, such acidic blood will practically always cause the person feeling very ill - you really will feel it if you are in a ketoacidosis! Normal levels of ketones in the blood of people in a solid good state of healthy ketosis are 5-7 mmol/l. Many people report even levels of just 2-4 mmol/l when being in ketosis.

Test strips for ketones where you pee on them and then read a colour grade against a scale and can estimate your ketone numbers this way, are primarily meant for diabetics right to test for their risk to approach a state of ketoacedosis. You cna fereely buy them at for exmaple Amazon. For normal people on a ketogenic diet, they only make sense at the beginning of their journey, since the more their body is remembering how to use ketones for energy needs, the less it is willing to excrete ketones with the urine anymore. So they may be in a deep and solid ketosis, but find that over time the test strip says that their number of ketones in the urine is dropping. Quite some confusion can come from this! If you want to monitor your kjetones, you need to scan your blood. There are small devices like those used for measuring sugar in the blood, you need a drop of blood, put it into the sensor, and read the number. 30-40 Euros. There are even such devices that allow both ketone and blood sugar measurment.

I would say that for both type 1 and 2 diabetics, carbohadrate avoiding diet is the diet of choice, may it be ketogenic, may it be carnivore, or whatever. Leave out those carbs, also in cereals. Cereals are not healthy, cereals ARE carbs! Sugar, that means. Almost completely.

A state of ketoacedosis is utmost dangerous and life threatening, immediate emergency care by a doctor or hospital crew is absolutely necessary.

So, Markus, if you fear your health problems are due to a creeping-in ketoacedosis, I think I am on the safe side when I tell you: you must not worry. First, you are type 2 and not type 1 diabetic, and second, if you were in a ketoacedosis all these days and no doctor treating it (those you met recently obviously also did not recognise it), you most likely by now would already be dead. :03: I see even less risk for you if you, as a Diabetic type 2, also must not yet take insulin.

Thank you so much for your in-deep answers.

I've decided to start on the Carnivore diet next month.

Markus

The best thing is always to advice what doctors say.
Or let them check you out. Doctors always know better.

Goodluck! Hope everything keeps well Mapuc.