Posted by friend on September 20, 2000 at 04:41:00:

In Reply to: Re: Alzheimer's Disease and alchohol posted by Falcon on September 15, 2000 at 18:14:16:

Alcohol kills brain cells, but seldom does anyone attend to this fact.
My mother never drank a drop in her lifetime, though and I think her dementia was from hypothyroidism. There can be other factors too such as exposure to chemicals that destroy brain cells.