Two new ways to prevent Alzheimer’s ….
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In it we post health commentary & reviews of books, eBooks, & other things that improve or protect your health or which enable you to live longer, to be more prosperous, & to be more effective.
Today's post: Friday, 1-12-2007
Two new ways to prevent Alzheimer’s ….
Today my email & the online health news reported two sets of research showing how to prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
1. Dharma Singh Khalsa, MD, author of Brain Longevity & expert in reversing, slowing, & preventing mental decline has an e-newsletter called The Healing Minute.
It’s mostly a promotion for the supplements he sells that he finds effective in his work.
But I read it regularly as every once in a while he has extremely important information I didn’t know before that I have seen nowhere else.
(He was my source for discovering Dr Sinatra & Dr Roberts’ new book, Reverse Heart Disease Now, which is far & away the best book yet written on the subject that I’ve seen. And, because of my reading his e-newsletter, I have now read & benefited from that book. If you have been reading my blog recently, you also saw my recent post recommending it & benefited also.)
Today, he reports this research: “….Co-Q10 was also shown to protect against the neuro-toxic effects of what's called amyloid beta peptides….”
He also says that older people have lower levels of CoQ10 & should supplement with at least 100 mg a day as it has heart protective effects & helps older people to maintain closer to youthful energy levels.
And, he’s found in his work that CoQ10 also boosts brain effectiveness in older people.
But this research finding is even more interesting. Beta amyloid seems to increase or be less filtered out in the brains of older people. If it begins to cause significant damage to the nerves in your brain, you get Alzheimer’s disease.
So this research literally suggests that if you are older & have some degree of excess beta amyloids in your brain & would have developed Alzheimer’s disease eventually, it may be that if you take 100 mg or more of CoQ10 daily, you will NOT develop the disease.
That is some of the best news I’ve read lately. And, I’ve not yet seen it anywhere else.
2. The other piece of news was in today’s online health news. So many of you may have seen it already.
Canadian research found that for people who speak two or more languages, if they develop senility, they do it five years later than those who only speak one.
Apparently, they theorize, by mastering two different kinds of language systems, your brain becomes more robust & flexible, possibly in its physical structure & nerve development, that it stands up to abuse far longer than people who only have mastered one.
Between community college courses, effective courses you can take or buy online, Berlitz, & travel to the country where the second language you are learning is spoken or reading articles in it online, learning a new language today is quite doable.
Also, in many parts of the United States it can be very useful to speak Spanish. So courses in Spanish are very easy to get here. And, you may well have an opportunity to hear it spoken or speak it.
Focus on Your Health:
In it we post health commentary & reviews of books, eBooks, & other things that improve or protect your health or which enable you to live longer, to be more prosperous, & to be more effective.
Today's post: Friday, 1-12-2007
Two new ways to prevent Alzheimer’s ….
Today my email & the online health news reported two sets of research showing how to prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
1. Dharma Singh Khalsa, MD, author of Brain Longevity & expert in reversing, slowing, & preventing mental decline has an e-newsletter called The Healing Minute.
It’s mostly a promotion for the supplements he sells that he finds effective in his work.
But I read it regularly as every once in a while he has extremely important information I didn’t know before that I have seen nowhere else.
(He was my source for discovering Dr Sinatra & Dr Roberts’ new book, Reverse Heart Disease Now, which is far & away the best book yet written on the subject that I’ve seen. And, because of my reading his e-newsletter, I have now read & benefited from that book. If you have been reading my blog recently, you also saw my recent post recommending it & benefited also.)
Today, he reports this research: “….Co-Q10 was also shown to protect against the neuro-toxic effects of what's called amyloid beta peptides….”
He also says that older people have lower levels of CoQ10 & should supplement with at least 100 mg a day as it has heart protective effects & helps older people to maintain closer to youthful energy levels.
And, he’s found in his work that CoQ10 also boosts brain effectiveness in older people.
But this research finding is even more interesting. Beta amyloid seems to increase or be less filtered out in the brains of older people. If it begins to cause significant damage to the nerves in your brain, you get Alzheimer’s disease.
So this research literally suggests that if you are older & have some degree of excess beta amyloids in your brain & would have developed Alzheimer’s disease eventually, it may be that if you take 100 mg or more of CoQ10 daily, you will NOT develop the disease.
That is some of the best news I’ve read lately. And, I’ve not yet seen it anywhere else.
2. The other piece of news was in today’s online health news. So many of you may have seen it already.
Canadian research found that for people who speak two or more languages, if they develop senility, they do it five years later than those who only speak one.
Apparently, they theorize, by mastering two different kinds of language systems, your brain becomes more robust & flexible, possibly in its physical structure & nerve development, that it stands up to abuse far longer than people who only have mastered one.
Between community college courses, effective courses you can take or buy online, Berlitz, & travel to the country where the second language you are learning is spoken or reading articles in it online, learning a new language today is quite doable.
Also, in many parts of the United States it can be very useful to speak Spanish. So courses in Spanish are very easy to get here. And, you may well have an opportunity to hear it spoken or speak it.
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