Dementia is a hard battle to fight, not just for the patients but for the family and health care providers, too. However, this becomes harder when misdiagnosis enters the scene, and time, money, and resources have been wasted. Today, in the first episode of the Healthy Brain Podcast, Carrie Miller gets down to the essentials about how you can find the right choices in terms of treating dementia and similar brain diseases. Sharing her own mother’s dementia journey, she validates the importance of not immediately accepting diagnosis labels and seeking other valid opinions. She also highlights how unconventional methods by doctors or health practitioners are gaining attention as people turn to them instead of standard dementia or Alzheimer’s medication.
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Why You Seek Unconventional Medicine to Battle Dementia
Welcome to the first episode of the Healthy Brain Podcast. I’m your host, Carrie Miller, a nutrition coach, Founder of My Texas Table and a recovering addict of chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, homemade biscuits, and white gravy, with that additional side of pie. If that’s not a recipe for pure Southern, I don’t know what is. All kidding aside, I’ve been researching brain health and following some of the world’s top experts in reference to one of the most devastating diseases of our time, and definitely one of the most swept under the rug topics out there. I’m talking about the brain disease, Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. If you or a loved one had been labeled with dementia of any kind or any other chronic disease for that matter, then you’re in the right place, because the purpose here is to bring you hope, a view of optimism.
I want to encourage you to keep your mind open and develop a new mindset to seek all the alternative approaches to brain health that are available to us. I want to give you a toolbox of knowledge that our family didn’t have years ago, so you can make the best decisions for you and your loved ones. This whole journey of starting the Healthy Brain Podcast is personal for me. I have multiple friends and family members who’ve been diagnosed with some form of dementia, and that includes my own mama. She was diagnosed years ago. Maybe you can relate to this story.
Years ago, mom was heading to the nail salon, to something she looked forward to every couple of weeks to get those shiny red nails fixed. She was traveling down the mountain in her little red Mustang car. She loved driving that car with the top down. She was proud of it because daddy had bought her that car. He was always spoiling her. When mama started down the mountain towards the salon, she took a few wrong turns and she got lost. She pulled over the side of the road and she called daddy and told him, “Honey.” She always called him honey. She said, “I’m lost. I can’t find the nail salon.” Daddy asked her, “Where are you, Charlotte?” She said, “I don’t know.” She had no clue. Daddy got in the car and he drove all around the mountain. He finally found her.
The next day, dad did what most of us would do and he called the doctor and scheduled an appointment. The doctor referred him to a neurologist. When they went to the neurologist, after about two hours of testing, daddy was told that mama failed a verbal test. They’re in the office. She was immediately diagnosed with dementia of some kind and prescribed the dementia patch, like everybody else back then. It seemed like that was the protocol, “You’ve got memory problems, then you must have Alzheimer’s and some form of dementia. Let’s give you a drug.” Mama and daddy were told that the patch would help slow down the progression of her dementia and they trusted their doctor like we all do.