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Examine the animal kingdom, and what causes animals to time out, to die.
If a species has no natural enemies, they can live out their lives. Only
the lack of food, such as a severe drought might bring, or an accident,
such as being struck by lightning, or a confrontation within the pride or
pack, such as a battle for supremacy, prevents them from simply dying of
old age. What does that mean? In some cases it is a slowdown of all the
natural processes, the functioning of each vital organ such as heart or
liver or lungs, such that a domino effect starts. Each failing organ
affects the other, the creature first getting tired, then exhausted and
unable to move, then slipping into coma, then death. All painless, what
humans call dying in one's sleep, the preferred way to go, most certainly.
This assumes, of course, a healthy lifestyle, and no disease.
Man is such a creature, with no natural enemies, in that he has
intelligence and has not only developed defenses but actively hunts other
creatures, and is rapidly destroying species and habitats around the
globe. Yet man seems to die not of old age, but disease, routinely. Why is
this so? The answer lies in the lifestyle, as man can choose his
lifestyle, his diet, and tends to choose rich and highly refined foods, a
slothful and indolent exercise pattern, and is shocked when disease pulls
him down as a result. Man feeds his livestock and pets a healthy diet,
himself not. Man tends to his machines well, maintaining and oiling them,
so they do not break down, but ignores his own body. Man places himself
exposed to substances that poison, smokes cigarettes, and lives in cities
with air so polluted it makes his eyes smart.
So in all of this abuse, what causes Alzheimer's? We have stated that
cancer happens regularly, even to healthy creatures, during mutations that
are inherent in a living creature composed of many cells that must divide.
Cancer cells are simply cleaned up by a healthy immune system. When cancer
takes hold to bring the body down, this is because the body has given up,
and seeks the release that death brings. One's psychology can affect the
health, as any doctor puzzling over why one patient, certain to die, lives
on while another sinks daily into a death march when expected to recover.
The will to live prevails, often. Are there other bodily functions
affected by mood? It should be noted that Alzheimer's seems to come on
with age, among the aged, though not in every case. The aged of course are
often losing their edge, find themselves in binds, no longer listened to
with respect and anticipating more aches and pains and less pleasure. Old
age, the natural way, seems a long, long way off, and the mind nudges the
body to find an earlier out.
The cause and cure for Alzheimer's has been a search without results, as
the true cause is not being taken into consideration. As with cancer that
evades all attempts to combat it, compared to spontaneous remission, the
true cause of the body's decision to slip into death, early, is not being
noted. How can the psychology of the Alzheimer's patient create lesions in
the brain? We point to the known documentation on brain health and
function in oldsters, that the active brain stays healthy and does
not lose brain cells as an inactive brain does. What is this
process? Just what triggers the brain of an oldster, not actively solving
puzzles or enthusiastically engaged in life, to wash away? If this can
happen in a limited way, could it not happen in a major way, and
why would it not? The exact physiology of brain wasting, the washing away
of brain cells, is not understood, so no surprise that Alzheimer's is
likewise not understood.
It is not something eaten, something in the air, though an unhealthy
lifestyle can make for a body struggling to feel well, affecting the will
to live, certainly. Given that hunger is a strong urge, even the body of
one deciding to die will continue to eat. Thus, the out for any creature
feeling trapped and wanting an out lies in disease, like cancer or
senility. In cancer the body functions are finally attacked, despite the
intake of food on a regular basis so that life otherwise would go on. In
Alzheimer's the cancer out has been frustrated by an immune system that
refuses to be sidetracked, but the genetics for closing out the brain is
amenable. Thus, Alzheimer's seems to run in families, as does cancer. If
the body wants to eat, giving in to the natural urge to put hunger pains
aside, the brain washes away to the point of not sustaining breathing, or
heart function. At last, a death from old age, come early!