Alternative Medicine for AD or Dementia - Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia Message Board

Kola_bear · 08-28-2006, 03:35 AM

My 83 year old mother was recently put on an AD drug due to memory loss and mild confusion after a small stroke that affected her ability to say certain words also.

I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of treating early stage AD or dementia with supplements and/or alternative drugs such as Network Synergy and especially Ortho Mind by AOR. A description of them can be seen at [removed].

Ortho Mind seems to do a lot more than keep up the level of acetylcholine.
As far as I know that's what the main drugs do. Or should nutrient drugs such as Ortho Mind be used first and if they don't help, then try the pharmaceutical ones?

Has anyone ever delayed, stopped or even reversed the progression of Alzheimer's or dementia symptoms with products like this or know of a case?

I know her doctor would have to OK it btw.

Martha H · 08-28-2006, 05:13 AM

I am sorry about your mother. My Mom also has dementia.

I had never heard fo the above mentioned alternative medicines, but surely they are worth a try.

We had no success with the meds currently on the market, and my Mom's dementia is progessing slowly but surely. We first noticed it when she was in stage 3, now she is in stage 6.

I have never heard of any method that can stop this progression not to mention reverse it. I hope such a thing can be found. Mom took Viatmin B6, ate lots of spinach, took daily vitamins, was physically active, fit and slim, mentally active as a Board member of her senior center, swam 3x a week - did everything that supposedly prevents AD.

Well, considering that she got it in her 90s, maybe all those things did prevent it from starting in her 80s!

Good luck! Please let us know if those methods are in any way sucessful. One would think that if there were anything out there which could reverse dementia, it would be marketed like the many other (useless) drugs - with TV spots, free samples at the doctor's etc. Why have we never heard of it? Could it be a scam?

Martha