Alanna Shaikh: "How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's"

Three years ago my grandmother has been diagnosed with Dementia, and she was told that she may get Alzheimer in the future. Since then her brain activity has decreased enormously.
However, we brought her to one of the most advanced hospital, in Switzerland, in which she was given a set of tablets that do not give improvements but decrease the progression of the disease.

As soon as she begun taking the treatments she improved drastically. However, after a year, she had an ictus that hit her left brain. The treatments has been suspended as she went into a deep coma. We asked the hospital if the treatments could have been the cause of this 'disaster', but we did not get any answer. My mother did not want to proceed with knowing what exactly was the cause due to the fact my grandmother's brain already had little strokes in small areas of her brain.

Being interested in brain activity and in Ted's talks, the talk given by Mrs Shaikh had an effect on me. Instead of saying what should be done to prevent Alzheimer, she talked about what to do to get ready for it. The probability of getting this disease has  increased with the years, therefore she proposed to get actions in order to be ready for these brain diseases.

She lists 3 things that should be done or satisfied:
1) To have Hobbies:
    It is not important to succeed in every activity, it is imperative to be happy with what we are doing.          
    Our soul will be satisfied and so our brain. Therefore, no matter what we do and how we do it as    
    long as it makes us happy.;
2) To do Sport:
     These diseases make our body weak so we need to have a strong body in order to be ready to
      undertake the changes our body will have.
3) To be Loved:
     Once we get the disease we will forget who we were, what we did in our life and the only thing we
     will keep is People. We will need their love, attention and caring. So be a nice person to everyone
      every day of our life.


How life can easily change in one second make us weak, but she pointed out that at least we can be ready, we MUST be ready to undertake this monster.