Why taking vitamin D & curcumin together DOES prevent Alzheimer's disease....
Today's Post: Friday, 12-10-2010
Yesterday, Reuters had a story reporting research published in the journal Science recently that verified that normal brains and the brains of Alzheimer’s victims produce the same amount of beta amyloid protein.
The problem is that the people who get Alzheimer’s disease clear out beta amyloid at least 30% less efficiently and effectively. Over time, the beta amyloid then builds up to over 100 times the normal amount -- which then begins the damage that causes Alzheimer’s disease.
OK. What if there was an inexpensive and safe way to ensure that your brain does a good job of removing this stuff?
If you started soon enough, you wouldn’t get Alzheimer’s disease.
This DOES exist and you can begin to use it right away.
I’d heard that taking curcumin, the active ingredient in the spice, turmeric, that gives mustard and curries their yellow color and taking vitamin D3 together might do this job according to some research done at UCLA.
Also, taking curcumin and eating curried food may also prevent many cancers. (Doing both may be the most effective way to go. The other spices in curries apparently cause the curcumin to be more effective. But you can take the supplement curcumin everyday while you may only want to eat curried food a few times a week.)
Plus taking vitamin D3 has recently been found to have multiple health benefits including preventing about 40 % of flu people would get otherwise and keeping their bones strong, so I’ve been taking both for some time. (The evidence suggests you need to take 2,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 or more for best results.)
Today, I got some great news. Not only does taking D3 and curcumin work to make sure your brain removes the beta amyloid proteins from your brain, the UCLA research found out why this works!
Today, in the email I get from NHD, Natural Health Dossier, I got this information.:
Dr. Milan Fiala and his researchers at UCLA are doing some of the most important research in the field of Alzheimer's.
His earlier work also found that when the protein, beta amyloid accumulates in a person’s brain, plaque builds up over time. This gradually destroys mental function and causes Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Fiala was the first to show that curcumin can combat this. He found that the macrophages, the "cleanup crew" of the human immune system, normally remove abnormal and/or too much beta amyloid from brain cells.
He found that this didn’t happen or work at well if it did in Alzheimer's patients.
But, when he treated these macrophages with curcumin they did far better at beta amyloid removal -- but in only 50% of people with Alzheimer's.
Dr. Fiala and his team recently did a new study to see if adding vitamin D3 would make this work better and in everyone instead of only half of the people.
They found that curcumin helps bind the beta amyloid to the macrophages. AND taking Vitamin D3 increased absorption of the beta amyloid by the macrophages - & in all patients.
That enables the macrophages to remove the beta amyloid in the people who would have gotten Alzheimer’s disease just as they do in people who do not get Alzheimer’s disease.
There are other causes of mental decline and senility and many other ways to prevent them.
The two inclusive strategies that these other methods fit into are
1. Practice every part of the lifestyle that produces and keeps good health.
The most important one is to get regular moderate and vigorous exercise. This slows aging, keeps the circulation of blood and nutrients to your brain high enough to do the job, AND it specifically grows new brain cells.
Following the lifestyle that produces good heart health in other ways also ensures good blood circulation.
And, taking key nutrients and supplements that protect the brain in other ways also helps. DHA and other omega 3 oils and NOT taking in excessive omega 6 oils also tends to prevent mental decline.
So does taking extra folic acid, B6, & B12. The recent research suggests that the homocysteine this prevents from building up, may prevent your macrophages from becoming ineffective in the first place.
Taking extra of other B vitamins also helps. And, a supplement called PS, phosphatidyl serine also helps. So does taking the antioxidant alpha lipoic acid and eating organic blueberries.
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2. Build so many functional interconnections in your brain that you can lose a great many of them without having the system go down.
Learn a new language or two. People who speak more than one language tend to die of something else before any Alzheimer’s symptoms show up.
Getting a lot of education and continuously learning new things has similar effects.
So does playing games of strategy such as bridge or chess.
And, because it improves your quality of life, lowers stress, and – researchers recently found – it causes your brain to work surprisingly hard, make it a point to have good conversations and socialize often – on most days of the week if you can manage it.
Today's Post: Friday, 12-10-2010
Yesterday, Reuters had a story reporting research published in the journal Science recently that verified that normal brains and the brains of Alzheimer’s victims produce the same amount of beta amyloid protein.
The problem is that the people who get Alzheimer’s disease clear out beta amyloid at least 30% less efficiently and effectively. Over time, the beta amyloid then builds up to over 100 times the normal amount -- which then begins the damage that causes Alzheimer’s disease.
OK. What if there was an inexpensive and safe way to ensure that your brain does a good job of removing this stuff?
If you started soon enough, you wouldn’t get Alzheimer’s disease.
This DOES exist and you can begin to use it right away.
I’d heard that taking curcumin, the active ingredient in the spice, turmeric, that gives mustard and curries their yellow color and taking vitamin D3 together might do this job according to some research done at UCLA.
Also, taking curcumin and eating curried food may also prevent many cancers. (Doing both may be the most effective way to go. The other spices in curries apparently cause the curcumin to be more effective. But you can take the supplement curcumin everyday while you may only want to eat curried food a few times a week.)
Plus taking vitamin D3 has recently been found to have multiple health benefits including preventing about 40 % of flu people would get otherwise and keeping their bones strong, so I’ve been taking both for some time. (The evidence suggests you need to take 2,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 or more for best results.)
Today, I got some great news. Not only does taking D3 and curcumin work to make sure your brain removes the beta amyloid proteins from your brain, the UCLA research found out why this works!
Today, in the email I get from NHD, Natural Health Dossier, I got this information.:
Dr. Milan Fiala and his researchers at UCLA are doing some of the most important research in the field of Alzheimer's.
His earlier work also found that when the protein, beta amyloid accumulates in a person’s brain, plaque builds up over time. This gradually destroys mental function and causes Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Fiala was the first to show that curcumin can combat this. He found that the macrophages, the "cleanup crew" of the human immune system, normally remove abnormal and/or too much beta amyloid from brain cells.
He found that this didn’t happen or work at well if it did in Alzheimer's patients.
But, when he treated these macrophages with curcumin they did far better at beta amyloid removal -- but in only 50% of people with Alzheimer's.
Dr. Fiala and his team recently did a new study to see if adding vitamin D3 would make this work better and in everyone instead of only half of the people.
They found that curcumin helps bind the beta amyloid to the macrophages. AND taking Vitamin D3 increased absorption of the beta amyloid by the macrophages - & in all patients.
That enables the macrophages to remove the beta amyloid in the people who would have gotten Alzheimer’s disease just as they do in people who do not get Alzheimer’s disease.
There are other causes of mental decline and senility and many other ways to prevent them.
The two inclusive strategies that these other methods fit into are
1. Practice every part of the lifestyle that produces and keeps good health.
The most important one is to get regular moderate and vigorous exercise. This slows aging, keeps the circulation of blood and nutrients to your brain high enough to do the job, AND it specifically grows new brain cells.
Following the lifestyle that produces good heart health in other ways also ensures good blood circulation.
And, taking key nutrients and supplements that protect the brain in other ways also helps. DHA and other omega 3 oils and NOT taking in excessive omega 6 oils also tends to prevent mental decline.
So does taking extra folic acid, B6, & B12. The recent research suggests that the homocysteine this prevents from building up, may prevent your macrophages from becoming ineffective in the first place.
Taking extra of other B vitamins also helps. And, a supplement called PS, phosphatidyl serine also helps. So does taking the antioxidant alpha lipoic acid and eating organic blueberries.
&
2. Build so many functional interconnections in your brain that you can lose a great many of them without having the system go down.
Learn a new language or two. People who speak more than one language tend to die of something else before any Alzheimer’s symptoms show up.
Getting a lot of education and continuously learning new things has similar effects.
So does playing games of strategy such as bridge or chess.
And, because it improves your quality of life, lowers stress, and – researchers recently found – it causes your brain to work surprisingly hard, make it a point to have good conversations and socialize often – on most days of the week if you can manage it.
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