Four strategies to prevent Alzheimer's or other senility....
Today's Post: Monday, 1-11-2010
1. Build up your brain so well it can be heavily damaged and still work pretty well.
It turns out that, in part, your brain is like the over-all internet. The more centers of information and learning you have and the more the interconnections between them, the more powerful and damage proof it becomes. If each function has 12 versions and 120 interconnections & that goes down to 4 & 40 the function may still work. But if each function only has 2 versions and 20 interconnections, and you lose a third of those you have less than one version and zero function left. That’s a huge difference. But note the amount of damage percentage wise is the same in both cases.
The even better news is that even people over 80 can learn new things and increase the power of their networks and their brain. It was once thought only children, particularly of 4 years old or less did this. They do it better to be sure. But much older people still have it too -- we now know.
a) Reading useful nonfiction and surfing for and reading useful information online works to do this.
b) Learning two or more languages well is so effective that the rate of Alzheimer's or other senility in people who have done this is a mere fraction of what it is in people who only speak one language.
c) Doing some kind of mental exercise with things like playing card games such as bridge regularly, or doing cross word puzzles or solving chess problems seems to work.
d) But one of the best ways to do this not only FEELS easy, it pays other dividends.
f you learn to relate to people well and often and regularly converse with the people you see regularly and your friends and your family, your chance of getting Alzheimer's or other senility goes down sharply. That’s partly because your life becomes much more interesting and fulfilling. And, it’s partly from the stress relief that social support network gives you & even direct help on solving your problems at times.
But the hidden and most important way this protects your brain may be the exercise it gets when you do it. It seems that your brain processes MORE information when you converse with someone than it does solving chess problems or almost anything else you do that requires concentration. We do it from such a young age, it FEELS easy. But studies of brain activity reveal it runs your brain almost full out. And, I’ve noticed you’ll often visit memories and associations that might have gone unused for many years when those topics come up in conversation.
2. Turn off the causes.
a) Mercury and lead in your bloodstream can cause Alzheimer’s like symptoms. And, if you have too much of either of these and get enough of it removed with treatment and find out how to stop getting more, your symptoms may well disappear. Dr Mark Hyman was able to reverse seeming Alzheimer’s in a patient who actually had high blood levels of mercury as his largest problem. If you or a loved one develops symptoms have this checked.
b) Get enough vitamin B12. Vegetarians who don’t take supplements, people too poor to get much animal protein in their diet, and people who due to aging or taking acid reflux drugs don’t digest their food well enough can all be deficient. So, taking a multivitamin with B12, taking an B complex supplement with B12, and taking 500 to 1,000 mcg a day directly will prevent B12 deficiency and will also help lower homocysteine levels which may also protect your brain and heart. If you or a loved one develops symptoms have this checked.
c) Grow new brain cells and get your brain adequate circulation all your life. If you fail at this, your brain will shrink, and it will malfunction from lack of incoming nutrition and lack of oxygen and lack of getting rid of CO2 and other wastes.
d)Regular exercise grows new brain cells and maintains your circulation, including in your brain, and even slows aging in your cells.
e) Getting enough choline and DHA provide two of the key building blocks your body need to build new brain cells well and to form new interconnections. Eat some egg yolks or wheat germ a few times a week. Take lecithin or choline supplements, That will not only give you choline for brain cell building but choline increases your HDL which improves your blood circulation by removing excess cholesterol. Also eat wild caught fish high in Omega 3 oils. Take purified fish oil omega 3 supplements that contain DHA. And take DHA supplements either derived from purified fish oil or the algae they get it from. The omega 3 oils also lower excess inflammation which helps prevent heart disease and keep your circulation good to your brain.
f) Get your blood lipids like HDL, LDL, & triglycerides tested and do nondrug things to see to it they are all in the desirable zone to prevent heart disease and keep your circulation good to your brain.
Regular exercise and NEVER eating trans fats or the hydrogenated oils they are in are the two most essential ways to do this. Eating right otherwise and taking niacin and sterol supplements also can give you a lot of leverage in achieving this.
Taking choline and getting it in your food and the same for DHA and other omega 3 oils also helps.
g) Avoid or reverse excess blood sugar levels. High levels damage your capillaries and cause BOTH age related vascular senility AND Alzheimer’s disease by harming the circulation to your brain.
AND, in last Friday’s Total Health Breakthroughs, Jon Herring reports that insulin resistance from not exercising and eating too much sugar and refined grains not only causes excess blood sugar but also causes damage directly in your brain as it produces excess insulin itself. This is such a direct cause some researchers believe Alzheimer’s disease is partly a form of diabetes and some call it type 3 diabetes.
The solution is to get regular exercise each week, particularly vigorous interval cardio and strength training. Never drink soft drinks. Don’t eat refined grains or foods made from them. Never ingest high fructose corn syrup. Aim for less than 5 teaspoons a day of sugar, less than a fourth of the average unfortunately. And, take alpha lipoic acid and chromium polynicotinate supplements. Get your fasting blood sugar and HBA1C tested and keep them below 99 & 5.7.
If they aren’t, consider trying harder on all the basics and adding biotin megadoses and HCA supplements.
h) Taking NAC, n-acetyl cysteine, and PS phosphatidyl serine also seem to prevent senility by increasing your disposal of metals and toxic chemicals in NAC’s case and maintaining a flexible cell wall in your nerve cells to preserve normal function.
i) Taking CoQ10 and/or ubiquinol helps maintain the mitochondria that produce energy inside your all cells – including brain cells.
3. Prevent the causes from producing damage.
Alzheimer’s disease is caused in part by the build up of amyloid protein and plaques in your brain and the resulting damage.
a) Taking turmeric or curcumin supplements, the active ingredient in turmeric and eating foods spiced with curry in which the yellow color comes from the turmeric in it enables your body to clean our or remove the amyloid protein in your brain. Often eating curried food or spicing your food with curry spice and even taking one capsule a day of turmeric or curcumin supplements will do this. Few people in India get Alzheimer’s disease despite a diet too high in grains and sugars. Now that we know that turmeric or curcumin helps your body remove amyloid protein from your brain in at least one way and maybe more, this makes sense since most kinds of cuisine from India make heavy use of curry.
b) Taking 2,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 or more may have some of the same effects as turmeric or curcumin and taking both together may be wise.
4. Clean up the damage.
a) Taking turmeric or curcumin supplements and eating curried food or spicing your food with curry spice looks to be so effective at removing amyloid protein from your brain , particularly when combined with taking 2,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 or more, it may be possible to reverse early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
b) Heavy use of cell phones is likely not a good idea due to their possible link to brain cancer. BUT, the risk may be small. And some recent animal studies suggest that it may reverse Alzheimer’s disease.
This is a surprise but a welcome one.
So, it looks to me if you do all of the above except the heavy cell phone use unless you need it, your can reduced your odds of Alzheimer's or other senility at age 85 from 50% to well under 5% and maybe to zero.
Today's Post: Monday, 1-11-2010
1. Build up your brain so well it can be heavily damaged and still work pretty well.
It turns out that, in part, your brain is like the over-all internet. The more centers of information and learning you have and the more the interconnections between them, the more powerful and damage proof it becomes. If each function has 12 versions and 120 interconnections & that goes down to 4 & 40 the function may still work. But if each function only has 2 versions and 20 interconnections, and you lose a third of those you have less than one version and zero function left. That’s a huge difference. But note the amount of damage percentage wise is the same in both cases.
The even better news is that even people over 80 can learn new things and increase the power of their networks and their brain. It was once thought only children, particularly of 4 years old or less did this. They do it better to be sure. But much older people still have it too -- we now know.
a) Reading useful nonfiction and surfing for and reading useful information online works to do this.
b) Learning two or more languages well is so effective that the rate of Alzheimer's or other senility in people who have done this is a mere fraction of what it is in people who only speak one language.
c) Doing some kind of mental exercise with things like playing card games such as bridge regularly, or doing cross word puzzles or solving chess problems seems to work.
d) But one of the best ways to do this not only FEELS easy, it pays other dividends.
f you learn to relate to people well and often and regularly converse with the people you see regularly and your friends and your family, your chance of getting Alzheimer's or other senility goes down sharply. That’s partly because your life becomes much more interesting and fulfilling. And, it’s partly from the stress relief that social support network gives you & even direct help on solving your problems at times.
But the hidden and most important way this protects your brain may be the exercise it gets when you do it. It seems that your brain processes MORE information when you converse with someone than it does solving chess problems or almost anything else you do that requires concentration. We do it from such a young age, it FEELS easy. But studies of brain activity reveal it runs your brain almost full out. And, I’ve noticed you’ll often visit memories and associations that might have gone unused for many years when those topics come up in conversation.
2. Turn off the causes.
a) Mercury and lead in your bloodstream can cause Alzheimer’s like symptoms. And, if you have too much of either of these and get enough of it removed with treatment and find out how to stop getting more, your symptoms may well disappear. Dr Mark Hyman was able to reverse seeming Alzheimer’s in a patient who actually had high blood levels of mercury as his largest problem. If you or a loved one develops symptoms have this checked.
b) Get enough vitamin B12. Vegetarians who don’t take supplements, people too poor to get much animal protein in their diet, and people who due to aging or taking acid reflux drugs don’t digest their food well enough can all be deficient. So, taking a multivitamin with B12, taking an B complex supplement with B12, and taking 500 to 1,000 mcg a day directly will prevent B12 deficiency and will also help lower homocysteine levels which may also protect your brain and heart. If you or a loved one develops symptoms have this checked.
c) Grow new brain cells and get your brain adequate circulation all your life. If you fail at this, your brain will shrink, and it will malfunction from lack of incoming nutrition and lack of oxygen and lack of getting rid of CO2 and other wastes.
d)Regular exercise grows new brain cells and maintains your circulation, including in your brain, and even slows aging in your cells.
e) Getting enough choline and DHA provide two of the key building blocks your body need to build new brain cells well and to form new interconnections. Eat some egg yolks or wheat germ a few times a week. Take lecithin or choline supplements, That will not only give you choline for brain cell building but choline increases your HDL which improves your blood circulation by removing excess cholesterol. Also eat wild caught fish high in Omega 3 oils. Take purified fish oil omega 3 supplements that contain DHA. And take DHA supplements either derived from purified fish oil or the algae they get it from. The omega 3 oils also lower excess inflammation which helps prevent heart disease and keep your circulation good to your brain.
f) Get your blood lipids like HDL, LDL, & triglycerides tested and do nondrug things to see to it they are all in the desirable zone to prevent heart disease and keep your circulation good to your brain.
Regular exercise and NEVER eating trans fats or the hydrogenated oils they are in are the two most essential ways to do this. Eating right otherwise and taking niacin and sterol supplements also can give you a lot of leverage in achieving this.
Taking choline and getting it in your food and the same for DHA and other omega 3 oils also helps.
g) Avoid or reverse excess blood sugar levels. High levels damage your capillaries and cause BOTH age related vascular senility AND Alzheimer’s disease by harming the circulation to your brain.
AND, in last Friday’s Total Health Breakthroughs, Jon Herring reports that insulin resistance from not exercising and eating too much sugar and refined grains not only causes excess blood sugar but also causes damage directly in your brain as it produces excess insulin itself. This is such a direct cause some researchers believe Alzheimer’s disease is partly a form of diabetes and some call it type 3 diabetes.
The solution is to get regular exercise each week, particularly vigorous interval cardio and strength training. Never drink soft drinks. Don’t eat refined grains or foods made from them. Never ingest high fructose corn syrup. Aim for less than 5 teaspoons a day of sugar, less than a fourth of the average unfortunately. And, take alpha lipoic acid and chromium polynicotinate supplements. Get your fasting blood sugar and HBA1C tested and keep them below 99 & 5.7.
If they aren’t, consider trying harder on all the basics and adding biotin megadoses and HCA supplements.
h) Taking NAC, n-acetyl cysteine, and PS phosphatidyl serine also seem to prevent senility by increasing your disposal of metals and toxic chemicals in NAC’s case and maintaining a flexible cell wall in your nerve cells to preserve normal function.
i) Taking CoQ10 and/or ubiquinol helps maintain the mitochondria that produce energy inside your all cells – including brain cells.
3. Prevent the causes from producing damage.
Alzheimer’s disease is caused in part by the build up of amyloid protein and plaques in your brain and the resulting damage.
a) Taking turmeric or curcumin supplements, the active ingredient in turmeric and eating foods spiced with curry in which the yellow color comes from the turmeric in it enables your body to clean our or remove the amyloid protein in your brain. Often eating curried food or spicing your food with curry spice and even taking one capsule a day of turmeric or curcumin supplements will do this. Few people in India get Alzheimer’s disease despite a diet too high in grains and sugars. Now that we know that turmeric or curcumin helps your body remove amyloid protein from your brain in at least one way and maybe more, this makes sense since most kinds of cuisine from India make heavy use of curry.
b) Taking 2,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 or more may have some of the same effects as turmeric or curcumin and taking both together may be wise.
4. Clean up the damage.
a) Taking turmeric or curcumin supplements and eating curried food or spicing your food with curry spice looks to be so effective at removing amyloid protein from your brain , particularly when combined with taking 2,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 or more, it may be possible to reverse early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
b) Heavy use of cell phones is likely not a good idea due to their possible link to brain cancer. BUT, the risk may be small. And some recent animal studies suggest that it may reverse Alzheimer’s disease.
This is a surprise but a welcome one.
So, it looks to me if you do all of the above except the heavy cell phone use unless you need it, your can reduced your odds of Alzheimer's or other senility at age 85 from 50% to well under 5% and maybe to zero.
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