My mother has recently been diagnosed with the early stages of dementia and, needless to say, this is causing me concern and I’m losing sleep as a result. I’ve tried to get a good eight hours before I have to get up and start work by 9.00 – fortunately I work from home as a writer/digital typist for the real estate industry so I don’t HAVE to be up before 8.30, but even if I go to bed at midnight and read or listen to dreamy classical music on the radio for half an hour, I still find myself tossing and turning well before the end of my eight hour sleep!

I often publish health articles based around children, women or just humankind in general but I came across an interesting news article for all you men out there, particularly those who are in a mid life crisis and looking to change their lives before they hit their twilight years!

Two new scientific articles offer outside-the-box ideas on how Alzheimer’s disease may begin and what those ideas might mean in terms of finding a cure. It has been known for a long time that both cholesterol abnormalities and inflammatory reactions in the brain are common in the Alzheimer’s disease brains. Now, scientists from Loma Linda University and from the University of Zurich have proposed models of neurodegeneration in which either cholesterol abnormalities or inflammation may explain why and how people may develop Alzheimer’s disease.