Here is the thing that no one tells you in the fifteen-minute appointment with the GP who has a queue of other patients waiting: the pathology of Alzheimer’s begins, in many cases, twenty years before a single symptom surfaces.
Twenty years!
The amyloid plaques, the tau tangles, the slow strangulation of neural circuitry - this starts happening while you are busy doing other things entirely. While you are competent and confident and completely unaware.
Which means that the period in which intervention does its most meaningful work, is not old age. It is NOW. It is the ordinary middle of your life, which feels like the wrong time to be thinking about this and is, in fact, precisely the right time.
Neurological decline does not pause while you get around to it. It does not wait while you read the rest of this article and decide whether you believe it.
Every month of continued cellular inflammation, of metabolic disorganisation, of the brain quietly eating itself without intervention, is time that cannot be fully reclaimed. That is not a threat. It is simply the way biology works, with or without your cooperation.
The question, and the only question that actually matters, is whether you would rather act during the window or explain, later, to yourself or to someone you love, why you didn’t.
Graeme & Phylipa Dinnen
ResourcesForLife.net
