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- This Nut Halts Dementia
We know nuts are good for the health.
They are packed with
nutritional fiber, a plethora of healthy antioxidants, and numerous anti-inflammatory substances.
But maybe most importantly, a
new study published in the American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition has found this one nut to slow
down the progression of dementia in at-risk seniors.
Researchers used 636
participants aged between 63 and 79 from California and Barcelona. At the
beginning of the study they were declared cognitively healthy.
The researchers divided them
into two groups – one received between 30 and 60 grams of walnuts per day – the
other consumed none.
They administered
neurocognitive tests before the study and then again after two years. The 108
participants in Barcelona were also given frequent brain MRI scans.
When they compared the
groups, they found no difference between the cognitive functions.
But their findings revealed
some other interesting things.
Smokers in the walnut-eating
group displayed a slower cognitive decline than smokers in the non-eating
walnut group.
In addition, people who
started the study with lower than average neuropsychological test scores also
benefited from walnut consumption.
This implies that walnuts
make little difference to people who are cognitively normal or healthy, but it
shows they can help those who are most at risk of developing dementia.
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Dementia and Memory Loss - These Easy Mental Games Bring Dementia to a Halt
Scientists from the Kumon
Institute of Education and Tokyo’s Keio University have just revealed that a
specific learning therapy can stop the progression of dementia in its tracks.
Unlike other “preventing”
methods, this one seems to work even after the onset of dementia.
Their subjects were 57
seniors housed in nursing and care facilities in Japan.
Between July 2015 and July
2016, they gave 30 of these people a course of learning therapy, consisting of
the answering of easy reading and mathematical calculation questions for five
days a week.
The other 27, called the
control group, received no therapy at all.
To track their progress, the
researchers used the standard Japanese scale that is used to rate seniors from
one to five according to the amount of nursing care they require.
By the end of the year, the
condition of the participants who received the learning therapy showed almost
no change, while the condition of those who received nothing deteriorated at
the expected rate.
The leading researcher in the
study described this type of brain stimulation as an example of a
non-pharmaceutical treatment that worked.
He also expressed his
satisfaction at discovering a dementia treatment that was substantially
cheaper than drugs.
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Dementia and Memory Loss - One Cause of Memory Loss (and how to cure it)
The January 2016 edition of
the journal Current
Opinion in Psychiatry included an interesting, but alarming,
article on the cause of Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia.
It seems like a simple
activity, most of us just take as a normal part of life slowly and sneakily
kills your brain function until nothing is left.
The good news is, this can be
reversed if caught in time.
Scientists at the Rotman
Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences, conducted a review of previously
published studies and found that most of them backed the idea that stress could lead to depression and dementia.
According to scientists,
stress affects the same parts of the brain as short-term fear and anxiety do.
It causes the amygdala to become overactive while simultaneously suppressing
the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex.
What does this
mean?
The amygdala is the part of
your brain that is most strongly associated with emotions. This is the part
that becomes active when you are afraid or, as we are now learning, when you
are stressed for a long period of time.
Your hippocampus and
prefrontal cortex are the parts of your brain where most of your logical
thinking takes place. When you are extremely emotional, these thinking centers
become under active and take a back seat to the amygdala.
The problem during long
lasting stress periods is that your hippocampus and
prefrontal cortex are under active for years.
This causes the cells to
degrade, making them less capable of the thinking operations for which they are
responsible.
Think of your muscles. If you
want them to be strong, you have to use them. The same holds for your
hippocampus and your prefrontal cortex.
The new review of existing
studies revealed that these thinking centers in the brains of people who suffer
from chronic stress are smaller and physically different from those in the
brains of people who live without such stress.
The biggest problem is that
long-lasting stress in the past can affect your brain today. So if you were
under a lot of stress in your 40s that’s now gone, your brain is still
suffering.
The good news is you can
workout your brain today to reverse this process. Doing word-puzzles, Sudoku,
learn a language or juggle balls have all been shown to boost brain health.
For more ideas to stop and reverse dementia and memory loss,
watch this video - Preventing Cognitive Decline and
Dementia: A Way Forward
This post is from the Brain Booster Exercise Program
created for the purpose of helping to reverse Alzheimer’s, boost memory. It was made by
Christian Goodman Blue Heron health news that has been recognized as one of the
top-quality national health information websites. This is an all-natural system that utilizes
the power of exercises to slow down, prevent, or even reverse memory loss and
boost your brain with energy and power. These exercises work to deliver as much
nutrition and oxygen to your starving brain as possible and begin the restoring
of the damaged brain cells.
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