3 more ways to prevent Alzheimer's disease....
Today's post: Thursday, 1-15-2009
On Monday, we posted about 8 ways to prevent Alzheimer's disease in a post we titled, “3 new ways to prevent Alzheimer’s disease” which we also included.
This post revisits one of the 8 in that post which many people don’t know yet and tells of the book where it is best covered.
And, it has two more ways that are relatively easy to do & one of which you may already do & one of which some of you already do.
1. All of us have been stressed enough to be flustered, distracted, and occasionally forget to do things or where we put things when we are temporarily stressed. Then a doctor saw research that explained how and why being too stressed all the time tended to make this kind of impairment more permanent by damaging the part of your brain that manages your memories.
The book is Brain Longevity by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
In addition to the information about stress and his meditations to relieve it, he also lists a large group of supplements he found research showing they are protective for your brain.
2. Since he published that book, he has begun selling many of those supplements and has a related email to which I subscribe. Yesterday, he sent such an email quoting two research reports: one showing that people who took DHA & ate fish 3 times a week were 50% less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease & another showing that people with Alzheimer’s disease test low for having DHA and other omega 3 oils at adequate levels in their blood.
He was knowledgeable and careful enough to say that starting to take DHA and eating the right kind of fish 3 times a week has not yet been tested ahead of time as preventing Alzheimer’s disease. But it’s clear that he believes as I do that when it’s so tested it will get similar results.
For one thing, taking DHA and eating the right kind of fish 3 times a week has been shown to lower triglycerides and HS CRP inflammation which HAVE been shown to help prevent cardiovascular disease and the reduced blood flow to the brain it causes. Since that IS known to produce both age related mental decline AND Alzheimer’s disease, it seems extremely likely that starting to take DHA and eating the right kind of fish 3 times a week WILL help you prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
3. Yesterday and today it was in the online health news that a study found that drinking 3 to 5 cups of coffee a day tends to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. The author of this study noted that studies have also shown that coffee helps protects the nervous system likely because of the antioxidants it contains, which can also protect against dementia. She also noted that other studies found that coffee helps protect against diabetes, which we posted about causing Alzheimer’s disease in two ways on Monday.
There are 3 other ways this effect might occur that also may prove to be involved.
a. People who are more interested in life are more likely to use coffee to allow them to do more of the things they find of interest or want to do. Such people are also more likely to socialize or learn interesting things both of which tend to protect against Alzheimer’s and other illnesses.
b. Coffee works by removing a substance that tends to make you sleepy. Perhaps doing this in some way also helps remove the compounds that cause Alzheimer’s disease.
c) People who drink coffee tend to be more alert and have faster reaction times. This may mean that their nerve to nerve transmissions are stronger and that these connections or thought tracks are therefore stronger and harder to disrupt by the build up of the compounds that cause Alzheimer’s disease. This may be similar to increasing the voltage in an electrical system doing better at overcoming resistance.
Since drinking 3 cups of coffee apparently works, costs less, and is less likely to cause sleeplessness or a feeling of anxiety, my suggestion is to stop at 3 most days and drink tea or green tea if you need more lift instead of coffee.
(Dr Dean Edell once pointed out that there is research showing that if you drink more than 3 cups of coffee, the additional cups you drink cause you to lose sleep at night which causes you to need more the next day. This suggests to me that you get the best results with the least cost and fewest side effects drinking just 3 cups of coffee a day.)
Today's post: Thursday, 1-15-2009
On Monday, we posted about 8 ways to prevent Alzheimer's disease in a post we titled, “3 new ways to prevent Alzheimer’s disease” which we also included.
This post revisits one of the 8 in that post which many people don’t know yet and tells of the book where it is best covered.
And, it has two more ways that are relatively easy to do & one of which you may already do & one of which some of you already do.
1. All of us have been stressed enough to be flustered, distracted, and occasionally forget to do things or where we put things when we are temporarily stressed. Then a doctor saw research that explained how and why being too stressed all the time tended to make this kind of impairment more permanent by damaging the part of your brain that manages your memories.
The book is Brain Longevity by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
In addition to the information about stress and his meditations to relieve it, he also lists a large group of supplements he found research showing they are protective for your brain.
2. Since he published that book, he has begun selling many of those supplements and has a related email to which I subscribe. Yesterday, he sent such an email quoting two research reports: one showing that people who took DHA & ate fish 3 times a week were 50% less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease & another showing that people with Alzheimer’s disease test low for having DHA and other omega 3 oils at adequate levels in their blood.
He was knowledgeable and careful enough to say that starting to take DHA and eating the right kind of fish 3 times a week has not yet been tested ahead of time as preventing Alzheimer’s disease. But it’s clear that he believes as I do that when it’s so tested it will get similar results.
For one thing, taking DHA and eating the right kind of fish 3 times a week has been shown to lower triglycerides and HS CRP inflammation which HAVE been shown to help prevent cardiovascular disease and the reduced blood flow to the brain it causes. Since that IS known to produce both age related mental decline AND Alzheimer’s disease, it seems extremely likely that starting to take DHA and eating the right kind of fish 3 times a week WILL help you prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
3. Yesterday and today it was in the online health news that a study found that drinking 3 to 5 cups of coffee a day tends to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. The author of this study noted that studies have also shown that coffee helps protects the nervous system likely because of the antioxidants it contains, which can also protect against dementia. She also noted that other studies found that coffee helps protect against diabetes, which we posted about causing Alzheimer’s disease in two ways on Monday.
There are 3 other ways this effect might occur that also may prove to be involved.
a. People who are more interested in life are more likely to use coffee to allow them to do more of the things they find of interest or want to do. Such people are also more likely to socialize or learn interesting things both of which tend to protect against Alzheimer’s and other illnesses.
b. Coffee works by removing a substance that tends to make you sleepy. Perhaps doing this in some way also helps remove the compounds that cause Alzheimer’s disease.
c) People who drink coffee tend to be more alert and have faster reaction times. This may mean that their nerve to nerve transmissions are stronger and that these connections or thought tracks are therefore stronger and harder to disrupt by the build up of the compounds that cause Alzheimer’s disease. This may be similar to increasing the voltage in an electrical system doing better at overcoming resistance.
Since drinking 3 cups of coffee apparently works, costs less, and is less likely to cause sleeplessness or a feeling of anxiety, my suggestion is to stop at 3 most days and drink tea or green tea if you need more lift instead of coffee.
(Dr Dean Edell once pointed out that there is research showing that if you drink more than 3 cups of coffee, the additional cups you drink cause you to lose sleep at night which causes you to need more the next day. This suggests to me that you get the best results with the least cost and fewest side effects drinking just 3 cups of coffee a day.)
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