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Alzheimer’s - Learning This Halts Dementia
I don’t think there is anything
as widely faired as dementia.
Most of us would rather go fast
than have our brains wither away.
A new study from York
University therefore comes as welcomed news.
It proves that learning one
thing can help you halt, even prevent the onset of dementia.
Researchers recruited 158
people who had all been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment. They ensured that all
the subjects were similar in age, education level, and their level of cognitive function.
They tested their memories every six years over a 5-year
period.
The researchers calculated how
long it took them to progress from mild cognitive impairment to full-blown Alzheimer’s disease and compared the two
groups.
Interestingly, while it took
the monolingual people 2.6 years to convert, the bilingual people took only 1.8
years.
But does this mean that
bilingualism is a bad thing?
It’s actually the opposite!
The bilingual patients actually
had more neurological brain damage than the monolingual people had at the time
they were all diagnosed with the mild impairment.
Their cognitive function was
similar when diagnosed with mild impairment, but that does not mean their
neurological damage was the same.
Bilingual people have a larger
cognitive reserve than monolingual people.
By cognitive reserve,
researchers mean that more of our brains get used more often, building stronger
neural connections that can serve us well when parts of our brains start to
deteriorate.
Language has neuroplastic
benefits. Neuroplasticity refers to the process whereby our brains build new
physical connections and pathways between neurons and synapses in response to
our environments. These synapses can also change permanently if we continue to
learn and develop.
We use language all day long
and thereby activate regions throughout our whole brains and constantly strengthen
those connections.
If we speak and think in two or
even more languages, we multiply that benefit.
Doing puzzles or number games
can also have a similar effect.
This is why bilingual people
function as well as monolingual people do even if they have much worse
neurological damage.
In other words, their mild
cognitive impairment would have been diagnosed years earlier if they had not
built up this cognitive reserve through their bilingualism.
Prevent Dementia and
Alzheimer’s - These Delicious Foods Stop Alzheimer’s Development
Occasionally scientists stumble
onto information that is promising not only for people who suffer from
diseases, but also for those who just enjoy good food.
A recent study concluded that
some genuinely tasty foods may be able to control Alzheimer’s disease even better
than drugs.
If you enjoy researching
natural health topics and following a naturally healthy lifestyle, you have
probably heard of polyphenols, the chemicals found in red wine, red grapes,
berries, and several other food types. They are powerful antioxidants, which
explains why naturopaths recommend them so liberally.
An increasing number of
researchers have become interested in the ability of one of these polyphenols
to prevent and slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. It is called
resveratrol, and is a prominent ingredient in red wine, red grapes, pomegranate,
dark chocolate, peanuts, and soybeans.
In September 2015, Neurology distributed
an article in which a team of American researchers demonstrated that
resveratrol might be an effective Alzheimer’s disease treatment.
Researchers divided 119
Alzheimer’s patients into groups that either received resveratrol or a placebo.
The resveratrol group started with 500 mg per day, escalated by 500 mg every 13
weeks, for an eventual total of 2 g per day.
By the end of the year, the
resveratrol group had approximately the same levels of amyloid-beta40 (Abeta40)
in their blood and cerebrospinal fluid as at the beginning of the experiment.
The placebo group, on the other hand, had substantially lower levels, an effect
that usually accompanies the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
An MRI scan also revealed that
the swelling of the brains of the resveratrol subjects had diminished
considerably.
While some participants
complained of nausea, diarrhea, and weight loss, resveratrol was relatively
free of side effects.
The authors warned that they
had used a special pharmaceutical-grade resveratrol and claimed that you would
have to drink about 1,000 bottles of wine to obtain the same amount. For that
reason, together with their relatively small number of participants, they
advised that their findings should be further tested, rather than immediately
acted upon.
The way in which resveratrol manages dementia is still being researched.
A team at Oregon’s Health and
Science University reviewed the literature in the journal Brain Research Reviews, and
concluded that resveratrol activated sirtuin proteins, which also happen to be
activated by low calorie diets.
These proteins have been shown to protect the brain cells of mice with
Huntington’s disease, a disease that causes dementia and the degeneration of brain
cells.
Another study by researchers at
the Litwin-Zucker Research Center for the Study of Alzheimer’s Disease has
established that resveratrol does not inhibit the production of Abeta, but
rather promotes its intercellular degradation. In other words, resveratrol
kills the Abeta between cells, instead of allowing it to form plaque inside
them.
Pure resveratrol supplements
are available from natural health stores, and you can further stack your diet
with the foods that contain it. Who knows, altogether you might manage to
obtain enough of it to protect your brain cells from age-related decline.
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Alzheimer’s - High Blood Pressure Causes Alzheimer’s
Research continues in the field
of Alzheimer’s disease prevention, and new
information comes to light almost weekly.
While geneticists are looking
for pre-programmed links to developing the disease, other scientists have found
that lifestyle indicators bear much of the risk as well- and those can actually
be controlled.
For instance- there is a very
strong link, newly discovered, between Alzheimer’s and high blood pressure.
In a recent study out of VA San
Diego Healthcare System, researchers recently confirmed what others had
suspected but had no proof of until now. Scientists there found that high blood
pressure is directly linked to Alzheimer’s disease.
In the study, scientists looked
at health indicators for people aged 55 to 100. What they found was that for
those with hypertension in the middle-age group, (defined as age 55-70), a
specific biomarker that is tied to Alzheimer’s disease is present. As the
vascular damage increases, so does the biomarker.
The study looked at pulse
pressure, which is found by subtracting diastolic (bottom) pressure from
systolic (top). The higher the pulse pressure was in the participants, the
higher the concentration of amyloid beta or p-tau proteins in their spinal
fluid.
These are the biomarkers that
are found to be responsible for cell death in the brain that leads directly to
Alzheimer’s.
Reasons to act immediately to
reduce high blood pressure mount almost daily, as the new study reveals. There
are easy, drug-free ways to do it that don’t involve dangerous side effects or
drastic lifestyle changes.
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