Turmeric plus pepper may strongly prevent Alzheimer’s disease....
Today's Post: Friday, 10-21-2011
Alzheimer’s disease may be a particular kind of brain nerve destruction that tends to feed on itself and get worse once a certain threshold is reached.
Enough restriction of blood flow the brain or damage to the blood vessels and capillaries in your brain causes nerve destruction. Then, nerves destroyed in this way may begin the process of Alzheimer’s disease. And, even before that, this often produces vascular dementia.
And, the net damage to your ability to think and remember also depends on how robust the size of your brain is to begin with and the number and complexity of the interconnections.
It’s like the internet in that way. In a set of 100,000 servers, if 15,000 go down, the network may still function. But if a set of servers is 15,500 and loses 15,000 and many of the remaining 500 aren’t directly connected, the network may be toast!
It may also make a difference if brain cells and interconnecting nerves die off but more nerves and interconnections are added each week than die off.
Simply put, that means if you can stop the process of Alzheimer’s disease in some direct way and act in these other areas as well, you have a real shot at preventing both Alzheimer’s disease and other kinds of mental decline.
The news is that we may already know how to do just that.
I found out last week that eating or taking turmeric and black pepper together may do this last preventive action.
In an email on Tuesday this week, Dr Al Sears lists a study on mice fed turmeric and black pepper that found an 80% drop in the tau protein that is thought to be a direct cause of Alzheimer’s disease. And, it found a 40% drop in the amyloid plaques that either help cause the disease process continue or keep the nerves near them from working.
Other spices may work as well or better than black pepper to make this desired effect of turmeric or the curcumin in it in having this effect. So, it’s no surprise that people who eat curried food often each week have been found to have very low risk to no risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease. Most curries have a combination of turmeric with one or more “hot” spices—pepper, red pepper, and others.
So, true, people aren’t mice. But we found the effect in people first! So, it looks quite likely turmeric plus black pepper does in fact directly help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
There is separate research that the optimum intake of vitamin D3 has a comparable effect. We now know that a daily intake from supplements, foods, or sunshine of 4,000 to 10,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 boosts the effectiveness of your immune system so much that this may work because your immune system is then able to clean up the damage faster than it is created.
The combination of addressing these other factors and the turmeric plus back pepper may prevent the process while the vitamin D3 acts like a janitor that cleans up what still gets through.
Going back to the original list, everything you do to support your body in giving all parts of you good blood flow and preventing damage to your capillaries and blood vessels is extremely valuable.
All of you including your brain, your heart, your legs, and your sexual parts stays healthy when you do that.
So, get regular exercise including interval cardio and a milder exercise such as tai chi or walking each week.
Totally avoid tobacco smoke.
Eat only real sugar and not a lot nor every day.
Use extra virgin olive oil almost exclusively while almost never using soy, corn, or canola oil; take omega 3 supplements; eat wild caught fish high in omega 3 and low in mercury; eat meat from only 100 % naturally fed animals or eat the leanest most fat trimmed meat from grain fed animals and not often; use lowfat dairy products if the cows were grain fed; eat beans and lentils; and use garlic, onions, ginger, turmeric, and curries to spice your food; eat nuts and avocados if you aren’t allergic to them. And, brush and floss your teeth well every day!
These actions each help to lower inflammation, keep your blood vessels health and free of plaque. They also help keep your blood sugar from getting so high the sugars on your LDL cholesterol destroy the surface of your blood vessels and capillaries.
All of you, including your brain, your heart, your legs, and your sexual parts, stays healthy when you do that.
And, in your brain, that both prevents mental decline from other causes and removes several of the triggers for Alzheimer’s disease.
Better yet, the exercise, including any strength training you also do, grows new brain cells. Separate research shows that the brains of people who do no exercise shrink while those of exercisers tend to stay the same. So this effect is significant!
People who actively use their brains and learn new things every day or who learn new skills get double protection.
Their more robust and interconnect brains can sustain more damage without impairing their ability to think and remember. AND, they grow new brain cells and interconnections to replace those that are damaged.
(Work done at the University of California at Berkeley found that this process goes on still in people who are over 80 years old!)
That’s in addition to building up a robust network that can sustain a lot of damage and still work well!
So, it’s no surprise to learn that people who socialize often have fewer signs of Alzheimer’s and any kind of mental decline.
(We now know socializing uses so many brain cells images of your brain activity show most of it is lit up when you speak and listen to conversation. It feels easy because you grew up doing it; but it’s as challenging brainwise as competing in an athletic event!)
Similarly, educated people get less Alzheimer’s disease, get it in later in life if they do, and progress more slowly than people who aren’t.
And, people who speak more than one language are known too for being very resistant to Alzheimer’s and mental decline.
Doing all these things may be a lot of work, particularly at first for those you haven’t yet been doing them.
But it looks increasingly as if we can prevent well over 95% of Alzheimer’s disease and all other kinds of mental decline with these methods!
For yourself, why not aim for 100%?
Today's Post: Friday, 10-21-2011
Alzheimer’s disease may be a particular kind of brain nerve destruction that tends to feed on itself and get worse once a certain threshold is reached.
Enough restriction of blood flow the brain or damage to the blood vessels and capillaries in your brain causes nerve destruction. Then, nerves destroyed in this way may begin the process of Alzheimer’s disease. And, even before that, this often produces vascular dementia.
And, the net damage to your ability to think and remember also depends on how robust the size of your brain is to begin with and the number and complexity of the interconnections.
It’s like the internet in that way. In a set of 100,000 servers, if 15,000 go down, the network may still function. But if a set of servers is 15,500 and loses 15,000 and many of the remaining 500 aren’t directly connected, the network may be toast!
It may also make a difference if brain cells and interconnecting nerves die off but more nerves and interconnections are added each week than die off.
Simply put, that means if you can stop the process of Alzheimer’s disease in some direct way and act in these other areas as well, you have a real shot at preventing both Alzheimer’s disease and other kinds of mental decline.
The news is that we may already know how to do just that.
I found out last week that eating or taking turmeric and black pepper together may do this last preventive action.
In an email on Tuesday this week, Dr Al Sears lists a study on mice fed turmeric and black pepper that found an 80% drop in the tau protein that is thought to be a direct cause of Alzheimer’s disease. And, it found a 40% drop in the amyloid plaques that either help cause the disease process continue or keep the nerves near them from working.
Other spices may work as well or better than black pepper to make this desired effect of turmeric or the curcumin in it in having this effect. So, it’s no surprise that people who eat curried food often each week have been found to have very low risk to no risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease. Most curries have a combination of turmeric with one or more “hot” spices—pepper, red pepper, and others.
So, true, people aren’t mice. But we found the effect in people first! So, it looks quite likely turmeric plus black pepper does in fact directly help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
There is separate research that the optimum intake of vitamin D3 has a comparable effect. We now know that a daily intake from supplements, foods, or sunshine of 4,000 to 10,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 boosts the effectiveness of your immune system so much that this may work because your immune system is then able to clean up the damage faster than it is created.
The combination of addressing these other factors and the turmeric plus back pepper may prevent the process while the vitamin D3 acts like a janitor that cleans up what still gets through.
Going back to the original list, everything you do to support your body in giving all parts of you good blood flow and preventing damage to your capillaries and blood vessels is extremely valuable.
All of you including your brain, your heart, your legs, and your sexual parts stays healthy when you do that.
So, get regular exercise including interval cardio and a milder exercise such as tai chi or walking each week.
Totally avoid tobacco smoke.
Eat only real sugar and not a lot nor every day.
Use extra virgin olive oil almost exclusively while almost never using soy, corn, or canola oil; take omega 3 supplements; eat wild caught fish high in omega 3 and low in mercury; eat meat from only 100 % naturally fed animals or eat the leanest most fat trimmed meat from grain fed animals and not often; use lowfat dairy products if the cows were grain fed; eat beans and lentils; and use garlic, onions, ginger, turmeric, and curries to spice your food; eat nuts and avocados if you aren’t allergic to them. And, brush and floss your teeth well every day!
These actions each help to lower inflammation, keep your blood vessels health and free of plaque. They also help keep your blood sugar from getting so high the sugars on your LDL cholesterol destroy the surface of your blood vessels and capillaries.
All of you, including your brain, your heart, your legs, and your sexual parts, stays healthy when you do that.
And, in your brain, that both prevents mental decline from other causes and removes several of the triggers for Alzheimer’s disease.
Better yet, the exercise, including any strength training you also do, grows new brain cells. Separate research shows that the brains of people who do no exercise shrink while those of exercisers tend to stay the same. So this effect is significant!
People who actively use their brains and learn new things every day or who learn new skills get double protection.
Their more robust and interconnect brains can sustain more damage without impairing their ability to think and remember. AND, they grow new brain cells and interconnections to replace those that are damaged.
(Work done at the University of California at Berkeley found that this process goes on still in people who are over 80 years old!)
That’s in addition to building up a robust network that can sustain a lot of damage and still work well!
So, it’s no surprise to learn that people who socialize often have fewer signs of Alzheimer’s and any kind of mental decline.
(We now know socializing uses so many brain cells images of your brain activity show most of it is lit up when you speak and listen to conversation. It feels easy because you grew up doing it; but it’s as challenging brainwise as competing in an athletic event!)
Similarly, educated people get less Alzheimer’s disease, get it in later in life if they do, and progress more slowly than people who aren’t.
And, people who speak more than one language are known too for being very resistant to Alzheimer’s and mental decline.
Doing all these things may be a lot of work, particularly at first for those you haven’t yet been doing them.
But it looks increasingly as if we can prevent well over 95% of Alzheimer’s disease and all other kinds of mental decline with these methods!
For yourself, why not aim for 100%?
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