It’s Never Too Late to Make a Change

Picture this: your grandfather, in his late nineties and suffering from advanced stages of dementia, isn't showing much interest in the world around him. Day after day he sits in his chair, barely perking up for food and interacting little with his family, and barely recognising even those he sees on most days of the week. This is a man with a rich past, having served in the Irish army during the Second World War, and founded one of Ireland's biggest 3 law firms from a one-man office over 50 years ago. This is my grandfather, Dermot Mason. Diagnosed a coeliac in his mid-eighties, he had suffered without complaint for many years with digestive issues that would have seen most of us crying tears of pain.

With such a life under his belt and having overcome such adversity, his downward cruise over the last few years would be only normal- a body and mind simply bowing out after more than 95 years living – a very full life by most standards! However just last week as a new dietary experiment, dairy was cut out of his diet and in the words of my aunt,
"It's reversed the dementia by 6 months. He walks to the living room easily, even to the kitchen, in the morning and is so responsive and making good sense."
​A lesson to all of us that it's never too late to make a change!!