Memory Matters.

It was in the afternoon when I first noticed outside the post office where I worked stood a smartly dressed gentleman. As the time drew to closing I could still see the same gentleman looking a little lost. Before locking the door I asked if I could do anything for him. He slowly replied “It's gone.” By that time he looked a little shaky on his feet so I asked him in and quickly got a chair for him. He clearly was lost and after several more questions it became evident that he did not know his name or address. I was a little at a loss myself as to what to do, apart from ensuring he was as all right as could be, there were not any practices of protocol for such a situation. Sometimes you have to judge by instinct and when just at that time one of my regular customers was passing she seemed to be the exact needed relief as she realised something was wrong and came up to the gentleman. It so happened that she worked as a carer and suggested looking inside his jacket which was a brilliant idea as when my wife did this she found a name of a nursing home and telephone number printed on a label discretely located within his clothing. The telephone number was called and the mystery of who the gentleman was solved. On returning safely back to his nursing home we found out the why of his being outside where I worked. He had at one time lived in a bungalow with his wife and this was in a location nearby to the post office. The gentleman had difficulty recalling recent information but could relive past events without hardly any hesitation.

This experience was sadly one of several as dementia can be a constant shadow over particular people in life's progress and in some customers this was an obstacle that had to be lived alongside. The most prevalent talked of condition for a lot of people has now has become Alzheimer's and at the moment there is no known cure. Certain actions can exacerbate the condition but by stopping the use of a particular drug or vitamin, could the condition be returned to a previous state? I have great hope that the realisation of a particular action can make an improvement to the known of methods and that then the solution may be found for this very distressing ailment.

Several Universities are conducting experiments for a drug, that if successful, will not be available for at least five years. Could there be a hidden weapon in a Keto diet? It has been observed that patients with Alzheimer's generally have very low cholesterol. Cholesterol if found in a positive form can be important to the function of the brain. In this case a lack of certain type of fat could be a trigger to the vulnerability of the brain.

Alzheimer's disease is a terrible trauma to have to endure, it is a debilitating situation for both the sufferer and those around them. Memory matters for our sense of perspective, priority and our purpose in life. What is an identity if there is not those important and integral memories to back it up? To someone who loses their memory, people lose their positions in a life where once they may have been almost everything. If memories merge and blur then so too can many aspects of what is considered vital to a life. Knowledge is power and I think that along with our ability to improve in areas, so our capability will increase. If our knowledge improves then we will see an influx of interpretations on what we can do with important, biology based information. No longer will the distress of someone losing certain memories but being able to exactly recall historical events from their past be a complexity and instead of managing medical mysteries there will be an ability to improve on such vital issues.