3 new ways to prevent Alzheimer’s disease
Today's post: Monday, 1-12-2009
We’ve already posted that the following tend to prevent Alzheimer’s disease.:
Learn more than one language.
Always keep learning more interesting and useful things.
Do some kind of mental game or puzzle you like several times a week.
Socialize with people often.
Eat curried foods or add curry to foods you like &/or take curcumin or turmeric supplements.
Avoid excessive stress &/or learn some kind of physical stress relief that you use often each week.
Make sure your blood sugar stays at desirable levels.
Get both strength training and interval cardio or at least some brisk walking several days each week which we now know prevents Alzheimer’s disease 3 ways because it maintains brain circulation, grows new brain cells, and we now know it may also directly prevent the build up of the compounds that cause Alzheimer’s disease.
The 3 new ways to prevent Alzheimer’s disease are related to these effects of exercise.
1. Do NOT smoke or allow yourself to be exposed to second hand smoke.
It was in the news that smoking (& heavy exposure to second hand smoke is pretty much equal to involuntary smoking) nearly DOUBLES your risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
(This is clearly related to the harm breathing tobacco smoke does to your circulation. But there may be more to it than that as well.)
2. Keep your HDL cholesterol high (well above 50 if you can); your triglycerides normal or low (below 100); & your LDL cholesterol under 125.
And, of these, keeping your LDL cholesterol under 125 may be extra important.
Doing all three definitely helps keep your circulation what it should be which we know is protective for your brain in several ways.
3. Keep your inflammation as measured by HSCRP low.
(HS CRP stands for High Sensitivity C Reactive Protein.)
We have reason to believe that 2. & 3. are true since it was in the news recently that taking statin drugs may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Statin drugs usually help lower LDL and HS CRP. And, optimizing each of these 4 measures, HDL, triglycerides, & LDL clearly helps you to keep your circulation what it should be which we know is protective for your brain in several ways.
As readers of our blog know, we have seen evidence that is both MORE effective and far safer to get these measures where they should be WITHOUT taking statin drugs.
Statin drugs can turn off your memory and cause pain, tendon damage, muscle damage, and other kinds of heart damage. Worse, if these side effects occur, they are sometimes permanent even if you stop taking the statins.
Meanwhile, if you do all of these, regular exercise; taking niacin and sterol supplements, taking other supplements such as grape seed extract, choline, and chromium polynicotinate it will lower LDL & triglycerides & HS CRP and increase HDL for you.
You can also avoid or lower high LDL by avoiding or rarely eating fatty meats from grain fed animals -- and eating beans and lentils, nuts, beef fed only grass, wild caught fish and seafood, and nonfat and very lowfat dairy – plus eating foods high in soluble fiber such as nonstarchy vegetables, apples, beans and lentils, and regular oatmeal instead of the instant kind.
In addition, taking omega 3 supplements both lowers your triglyceride level AND your HS CRP.
And, taking omega 3 supplements and eating wild caught fish; eating onions often; eating garlic or taking deodorized garlic, NOT eating refined grain food; & going very easy on sugar AND getting regular exercise tend to lower your triglyceride level.
Lastly, taking good care of your teeth and gums by brushing right and flossing each day and seeing your dentist every 6 months; taking such antioxidants as natural vitamin E; getting regular exercise; and taking omega 3 supplements and eating wild caught fish tend to lower your HS CRP.
This set of things will prevent Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease BETTER than taking statin drugs. And they will also help prevent type 2 diabetes and keep you healthy in ways that taking statins do NOT do.
In short, it’s good to know that the good effects of taking statin drugs help prevent Alzheimer’s disease in part because a health protecting lifestyle with these components will do that better and more safely than taking statin drugs.
Today's post: Monday, 1-12-2009
We’ve already posted that the following tend to prevent Alzheimer’s disease.:
Learn more than one language.
Always keep learning more interesting and useful things.
Do some kind of mental game or puzzle you like several times a week.
Socialize with people often.
Eat curried foods or add curry to foods you like &/or take curcumin or turmeric supplements.
Avoid excessive stress &/or learn some kind of physical stress relief that you use often each week.
Make sure your blood sugar stays at desirable levels.
Get both strength training and interval cardio or at least some brisk walking several days each week which we now know prevents Alzheimer’s disease 3 ways because it maintains brain circulation, grows new brain cells, and we now know it may also directly prevent the build up of the compounds that cause Alzheimer’s disease.
The 3 new ways to prevent Alzheimer’s disease are related to these effects of exercise.
1. Do NOT smoke or allow yourself to be exposed to second hand smoke.
It was in the news that smoking (& heavy exposure to second hand smoke is pretty much equal to involuntary smoking) nearly DOUBLES your risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
(This is clearly related to the harm breathing tobacco smoke does to your circulation. But there may be more to it than that as well.)
2. Keep your HDL cholesterol high (well above 50 if you can); your triglycerides normal or low (below 100); & your LDL cholesterol under 125.
And, of these, keeping your LDL cholesterol under 125 may be extra important.
Doing all three definitely helps keep your circulation what it should be which we know is protective for your brain in several ways.
3. Keep your inflammation as measured by HSCRP low.
(HS CRP stands for High Sensitivity C Reactive Protein.)
We have reason to believe that 2. & 3. are true since it was in the news recently that taking statin drugs may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Statin drugs usually help lower LDL and HS CRP. And, optimizing each of these 4 measures, HDL, triglycerides, & LDL clearly helps you to keep your circulation what it should be which we know is protective for your brain in several ways.
As readers of our blog know, we have seen evidence that is both MORE effective and far safer to get these measures where they should be WITHOUT taking statin drugs.
Statin drugs can turn off your memory and cause pain, tendon damage, muscle damage, and other kinds of heart damage. Worse, if these side effects occur, they are sometimes permanent even if you stop taking the statins.
Meanwhile, if you do all of these, regular exercise; taking niacin and sterol supplements, taking other supplements such as grape seed extract, choline, and chromium polynicotinate it will lower LDL & triglycerides & HS CRP and increase HDL for you.
You can also avoid or lower high LDL by avoiding or rarely eating fatty meats from grain fed animals -- and eating beans and lentils, nuts, beef fed only grass, wild caught fish and seafood, and nonfat and very lowfat dairy – plus eating foods high in soluble fiber such as nonstarchy vegetables, apples, beans and lentils, and regular oatmeal instead of the instant kind.
In addition, taking omega 3 supplements both lowers your triglyceride level AND your HS CRP.
And, taking omega 3 supplements and eating wild caught fish; eating onions often; eating garlic or taking deodorized garlic, NOT eating refined grain food; & going very easy on sugar AND getting regular exercise tend to lower your triglyceride level.
Lastly, taking good care of your teeth and gums by brushing right and flossing each day and seeing your dentist every 6 months; taking such antioxidants as natural vitamin E; getting regular exercise; and taking omega 3 supplements and eating wild caught fish tend to lower your HS CRP.
This set of things will prevent Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease BETTER than taking statin drugs. And they will also help prevent type 2 diabetes and keep you healthy in ways that taking statins do NOT do.
In short, it’s good to know that the good effects of taking statin drugs help prevent Alzheimer’s disease in part because a health protecting lifestyle with these components will do that better and more safely than taking statin drugs.
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posted by David at 1:52 PM
2 Comments:
This is not quite a relevant comment to this post. And, while some of these "natural dysfunction cures" can be helpful, such as taking the amino acid arginine, some are dangerous.
However, anyone who has erectile dysfunction not caused by stress or nerve damage, DOES have cardiovascular disease and would be well advised to have their HDL, triglycerides, LDL, & HS CRP checked AND use the methods that ARE in this post to improve those readings.
That can help make erectile dysfunction better and will help prevent it from getting worse. It can also help prevent Alzheimer's, heart attacks, and strokes. So, if you have ED, you will be well served to use the info in this post.
Our post we just posted for Thursday, 1-15-2009 has 3 more ways to prevent Alzheimer's disease.
So, if the subject is of interest, check out that post also.
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