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Have MCI, sharing new intel re Lithium Orotate
Early Dementia & Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) | Last Active: 50 minutes ago | Replies (131)Comment receiving replies
@pb50
You sound discouraged.
You should be encouraged.
My understanding is that the ptau-217 tests show results decades before the symptoms occur. It, and amyloid beta, build very slowly. The best time to address it is before you have symptoms.
Shielding the Brain From Alzheimer’s | Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-breakthrough-depression-solution/202602/shielding-the-brain-from-alzheimers
The author has written several books on lithium and recommends lithium for his patients and in paid seminars. He is highly biased, but maybe his bias is justified.
My overly simplistic understanding of the brain cleaning process is that microglia, which need lithium, bag up the trash (autophagy) and the glymphatic system takes it out. So both are needed.
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@nb14 many thanks for that encouragement. I am accepting that regardless of measurement method, i have a wad of amyloid parked on my brain, that it didnt get there quickly and won’t evaporate quickly. So my beat effort will be to try and maximize the trash removal by learning how to increase my slow wave, mon-REM sleep. So that is my mission. I will of course maintain my 10-12mg of lithium/day…