Why Viagra Might Be the Unexpected Cure for Alzheimer’s!
Can Viagra Really Save Your Memory?
Think for a minute….you wake up in the morning and leave home to go to the office. You look for the key to lock the door of the house but you can’t remember where you put the key.
Now, a few days later..you are going to the office, the same office where you have spent many years of your life but suddenly you feel that you can’t remember the way to the office.
Even after a few days, he does not even remember where the bathroom is at home.
Suddenly a girl comes and says that she is your daughter but you can’t remember if you have any children?
This kind of thought is scarier than watching a horror movie. The idea that we gradually forget everything may be imaginary, but this illness is not imaginary.
We know this disease as Alzheimer’s.
‘World Alzheimer’s Day’ is observed on 21 September every year. This day is celebrated in the name of Alzheimer’s disease so that people can be aware of it. In this disease, the patient forgets things.
Like keeping something in a place and forgetting it, forgetting something that happened some time ago, etc.
But people take it for granted and become oblivious. This disease occurs in people after an age at which people cannot remember things. Mostly old people are victims of this disease.
We have 7.40 percent of people over 60 years of age having Alzheimer’s problem in some way. According to an estimate, 4 million people in India are victims of Alzheimer’s.
India has the third highest number of Alzheimer’s patients after China and America.
This is why it is so important to take Alzheimer’s seriously. As with increasing age, we consider memory loss as a part of life but in fact, it is a disease.
What is Alzheimer’s disease?
What are its symptoms?
How did this disease get its name?
Today we will talk about various things like the importance of Viagra in its medicine.
A.D. In 1901, a 51-year-old female patient, Auguste Deter, was brought to the German neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer’s Asylum.
The patient suddenly began to lose amnesia and was unable to recognize relatives, especially friends, and behaved strangely towards them.
Even for 37-year-old Alois Alzheimer, this type of case was new and the most challenging of his career.
He studied this woman’s behavior for hours every day. Dater died in April 1906. Alois Alzheimer decided to perform an autopsy on this woman’s brain.
They came across that this woman had pieces of tissue stuck in her brain, which are now called neurofibrillary tangles.
Along with this, they also found in the research that the main reason was the lack of communication between the neurons and the brain.
In 1907, Alois Alzheimer presented a paper that gave a comprehensive understanding of the disease.
In 1910, this disease of amnesia began to be known by the name of its researcher, Alzheimer’s.
The causes of Alzheimer’s disease may involve a combination of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors along with age-related changes in the brain.
The importance of any one of these factors in increasing or decreasing the risk of developing Alzheimer’s may vary from person to person.
According to recent medical reports, mental stress or stressful lifestyle, no exercise, vitamin M12, M6, folic acid, and G3 deficiency are strongly associated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
The exact causes of Alzheimer’s disease are not fully understood but at a basic level, proteins responsible for the normal functions of neurons in the brain are made incorrectly or stop being made and fail to function.
This disrupts the functioning of brain cells, also called neurons, and sets off a series of events.
Neurons are damaged and lose connections with each other. In less than 1% of cases, Alzheimer’s is caused by specific genetic changes.
Most people develop Alzheimer’s disease when they are 65 or older, with less than 10% of cases occurring earlier.
Genetic factors are responsible for 40 percent of Alzheimer’s cases. This means that if one of the parents has Alzheimer’s, their child is more likely to develop Alzheimer’s later on.
But how does one ultimately know if someone has Alzheimer’s? ‘Main kaun hu? (who I am ) What did I say? Aap sab kaun hai?’ (who are you) One such thing happens in a Hindi movie, not in real life.
There are different stages of Alzheimer’s.
In which the patient starts to forget daily things at first.
He remembers something from years ago, but he will not remember what he ate 10 minutes ago, or who he went to meet a week ago.
Old things are gradually forgotten. One starts to forget the way home, where the bathroom one’s room-kitchen is inside the house, and how to wear clothes.
Even recognizing people starts having great difficulty.
When the disease enters the next stage, the patient also loses control over his body.
Which includes stiffening of hands and feet, and lethargy. In the final stage, the whole body seems to be stiff.
Excessive forgetfulness does not necessarily mean you have dementia.
To make an accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, clinicians use diagnostic tools along with other information, including medical history and neurological exams, cognitive and functional evaluations, MRI, and cerebrospinal fluid or blood tests.
If you have blood pressure, keeping it under control, eating a nutritious diet, driving, and regular exercise can prevent Alzheimer’s.
Now, about the connection between Alzheimer’s and Viagra. A study conducted this year revealed that Viagra not only helps fight erectile dysfunction but also helps fight Alzheimer’s.
The study claimed that men who were given Viagra had an 18 percent lower risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer’s.
During this study, people who consumed Viagra 20–50 times had a 44 percent lower risk of Alzheimer’s.
According to Tara Spears Jones, president of the British Neuroscience Association, ‘There is no evidence yet that this erectile dysfunction drug reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s. But it has seen a ray of hope.
This type of medicine should be studied in the future…’
Hollywood movies like ‘The Father’ in 2020, ‘Notebook’ in 2004 and ‘Black’ in 2005, ‘You, Me Our Hum’ in 2008 talk about Alzheimer’s patients.
Lastly, our leaders also have dementia issues. Because they forgot the promise made at the time of the election for five years.
In the same way, we may be giving heaps and heaps to the system for bad roads, and accidents, but in a short time, we will forget everything.
