Weird DIET Causes DEMENTIA: Medical Mystery Solved

A construction worker in his 40s begins to experience strange, unexplained symptoms that turn his life upside down. Is it stress? An infection? Something more sinister? Follow David's medical mystery, whose limited diet and financial struggles set the stage for a shocking medical discovery. This gripping story dives into the intersection of nutrition, health, and revealing how everyday choices can have unexpected consequences.

This video is made for educational purposes only and should not be viewed as medical advice. Speak to your doctor if you have any concerns about your health.

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[IlPinnacolo]

He ate primarily oatmeal, white rice with margarine, and sometimes rice noodles. This led to a niacin deficiency and his health declined dramatically. Saved you 13 minutes.

[Mahrimae]

This is why we need to assess mental health conditions for nutritional deficiencies. You’d think it would be easy to do this but through my whole rotation through nursing school I never saw one doc who assessed for B, C, or D deficiencies. It’s maddening to watch our country succumb to preventable illness associated with poverty.

[madelinemcdonald]

Thank goodness his coworker noticed him and cared enough to call the police

[GreenThea]

I've suffered from chronic tiredness, no motivation to do sports, depressed since I was 8, but no doctor cared and my family was poor and working constantly, so they didn't make us good food.
Finally after reseraching myself for decades and insisting to get B12 injections all of the symptoms are gone.
Thank you for bringing light on it.

[ronkemperful]

In 1980 I was a brand new nurse graduate, I was working on a medical floor of a large hospital. I cared for a patient admitted to die of a condition called Multi-infart Dementia. CT-Scans were not available in this hospital but I noticed that going through the chart that in the labs no thyroid levels had been ordered. So I called the doctor and ask if a level could be checked. It turned out that the patient had a critically low thyroid level. Injectable thyroxine was ordered and the patient like Sleeping Beauty woke up. So in your video this reminded me of this patient so long ago.

[jenniferwilson]

It never ceases to amaze me that nutritional state is the LAST thing doctors ever consider.

[SunriseLAW]

I worked with a man who was an expert at his detail-ordered job. He started to make mistakes and began to get angry for no apparent reason. He insisted nothing was wrong with him and did not seek treatment or go to a doctor. Physically, he seemed just fine. A lot of people figured he got into drugs or something. His behavior and error rate got so bad they had to fire him. About 6 months later, we got the news he died of a brain tumor. :(

[Vaejovis]

I hope you’re a professor. During four years at Yale School of Medicine, I never met a doctor with such a natural gift for teaching.

[terrym]

I'm pretty sure this is what my great-grandmother had. My grandmother described this exact scenario about her mother. They were very, very poor and malnourished and her mother descended into some type of delirium for quite a while. My grandmother explained the only thing that her mom would consume was coffee and cigarettes. She kept the food for the kids; five small daughters. This was an especially hard time in their lives. Economically the area was experiencing a great depression. And she did get better later. So my grandmother always thought that her mother was mentally ill. I truly believe it was Pellagra.

[TK.]

Hard to believe a doctor actually took the time to diagnose him. But love your stories!

[Christopher-bp]

As a scientist, I have found several of your videos to be informative. They have definitely increased my knowledge!

[danawildman]

I haven’t heard the word pellagra since nursing school 40+ years ago!Thank you for brushing me up on it. 😊

[maiskitty]

"he could go home" - did he still have a home?
Feel like I need a follow up. I'm invested in David's story now!

[lakshperam]

I am an internal medicine specialist, I watched some of your videos. They are simply amazing both for the common people as well as professionals.
This video is top class, you have reminded many medical professionals the oft forgotten cause of disease ie nutritional deficiencies! Great job!
Also I cant praise you enough for highlighting the history behind the discovery of the cause of pellagra, hats off VMD!!!

[loh]

It breaks my heart to think this man was working every day and yet was living on such a poor diet. It makes me wonder, how many people in our day to day lives may need help and we can't tell by looking at them and most wouldn't let us know. If I or anyone I know ever has a weird medical thing happening, I sure wished you would be around, I doubt you would make assumptions, but because you love figuring things out, you would check things other doctors would miss. I LOVE your enthusiasm and how much you love what you do. Siobhan, YOU'RE AWESOME! Thanks for the great information.

[royalpitamamma]

This is why we always ate rice and beans with vegetables from the garden and fresh eggs from the chickens. It covered all the basics. I bought the rice and beans in bulk, grew the veggies and eggs. We also bought popcorn and peanuts in bulk for snacks. It was a "poor" diet, but it was healthy for a normal gluten sensitive person.

[afhb]

As a french, it was shocking to realise how poor knowledge can be about balanced diet in some rich countries.
In France, around 9 years old, we usually have classes about that. Teacher train children to recognise type of food (slow sugar, vegetables, dairy product... ) and why vitamins and fibers matters, where we usually find them ... Even at school we have to eat when we don't want sometimes until we enter middle school, cause balance is very important. If a child struggle too much, doctors can give some complement to avoid deficiency. People are aware that we can die if we lack some elements too much, so if you love your children, you learn them to eat everything, not just what they want and explain to them why.

[markkussJid]

Med professional here, what an amazing channel!!!!

Love the detective work, and goes to show how just one element can either shed light or obscure the entire picture

[WLBarton]

Happened to poor southerners during the civil war, WW1, Great Depression.
Anytime poverty causes cutbacks in foods with niacin.

[SteveIacobbo]

How many people are misdiagnosed because doctors don't understand nutrition and the importance of it. "Eat a balanced diet" is the most info I've ever gotten from a doctor.