Bring out yer dead!

**ladymuck** · 2 March 2018, 14:14

I have a theory, opinion, whatever, that dementia is a side effect of living too long. The advances of medicine and higher standards of living mean that our brains are giving out when disease would have done for us much earlier.

Not saying that applies to all cases of dementia, of course, because for every tenuous correlation there's something completely the opposite which confounds it. We're complicated creatures and don't all react in the same way to the same stimuli.

**vwdan** · 2 March 2018, 15:05

Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

I have a theory, opinion, whatever, that dementia is a side effect of living too long. The advances of medicine and higher standards of living mean that our brains are giving out when disease would have done for us much earlier.

Not saying that applies to all cases of dementia, of course, because for every tenuous correlation there's something completely the opposite which confounds it. We're complicated creatures and don't all react in the same way to the same stimuli.

Like built in obsolescence?

**vetran** · 2 March 2018, 15:16

what will happen is that we will fix more late life afflictions as we become more used to them.

Prostate cancer survival statistics | Cancer Research UK

survival rates have tripled in the last 40 years.

Breast cancer statistics | Cancer Research UK

Doubled in 40 years.

Bring out yer dead!