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Can this Nutrition
reverse Alzheimer’s,
boost memory?
This Nutrition
Reverses Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias
Natural
health advocates have praised this nutrition for a long time, but it has fallen
on the deaf ears of traditional medical practitioners.
But
doctors are probably going to wake up soon, as a new study published in the
journal Molecular Psychiatry revealed the
amazing benefits of this nutrition for Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia.
Not
only will it help those who take it, it will also benefit generations down the
road.
Choline
is a substance that resembles a vitamin. It is water soluble and, while your
liver produces it in small amounts, you consume most of it through your diet.
That is why it is called an essential nutrient.
Researchers
have known for some time that high homocysteine levels in your body can
contribute to Alzheimer’s disease. It has also been scientifically established
that choline can reduce your homocysteine levels.
This
made scientists wonder whether choline supplementation could be used to combat
Alzheimer’s disease.
To
investigate this, they bred mice to show symptoms of Alzheimer’s, after of
which they put them on a regime of choline supplementation.
They
then encouraged these mice to breed with each other, producing the first
generation of new mice. The new mice did not receive any choline supplements
aside from that which they received through their mothers’ intake inside the
womb and during lactation.
Still,
their brains displayed certain characteristics that make Alzheimer’s unlikely.
The
researchers then encouraged them to breed with each other, thereby creating a
second generation who never received any form of choline supplementation, not even
through their mothers’ diets in the womb.
Surprisingly,
even this generation enjoyed the structural brain benefits that reduced the
risk of Alzheimer’s.
The
researchers concluded that their mothers’ and grandmothers’ intake of choline
supplements made the necessary modifications to their genes.
Choline
makes two important changes.
Firstly,
as mentioned earlier, homocysteine is an amino acid that causes
Alzheimer’s-related changes in our brains, such as the formation of amyloid
plaques. Choline reduces our homocysteine levels and thus prevents these brain
changes.
Secondly,
Alzheimer’s sufferers have overactive microglia, which are cells that clean up
dead cells and other waste products from our brains. When these become
overactive, they cause inflammation
and the death of neurons in our brains.
Choline
can reduce the overactivity of these microglia and can thus prevent the brain
damage that they might cause.
According
to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey statistics that was released
by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, the choline intake of Americans is far below the recommended
daily intake, but due to the fact that choline deficiency does not have any
immediate symptoms in the short term, it is generally not recognized as a
problem.
If
you would rather obtain it from food than from supplements, then you have lots
of options.
You
can find Choline in liver, eggs, milk, beef, chicken, salmon, shrimp, soybeans,
tofu, other beans, wheat germ, spinach, cauliflower, broccoli, almonds,
peanuts, and sunflower seeds.
So,
it is ideal that healthy varied diet should include enough Choline.
I’m often asked: “If I can only do one
thing, and one thing only to improve my health, what should I do?”
My answer is always the same.
There is one simple thing that
drastically improves or cures almost all diseases plaguing the Western world
today. It lowers blood pressure, improves type 2 diabetes and arthritis,
prevents stroke and heart attack, and could completely eliminate ED in men.
And best of all, it doesn’t cost you a
dime and is extremely pleasurable.
Now, you might tell me that you are not
stressed at all. And I’ll reply that you’re wrong.
Or you could say that yes, there is
stress but you can’t get rid of those factors that are causing it. And I’ll
tell you, these factors are irrelevant as to how stress affects your health.
You see, a stress reaction is nothing
more than an overload of stress hormones in your body. Cortisol and adrenaline
are the best-known agents of this, but other hormones also play a key role.
So, there may not be any major stress
in your life, but if you live close to a highway, get the flu, run a marathon
(or other intense exercises), or even watch a thriller on TV, your stress
hormone level is going to spike.
And even if you’re under a huge amount
of stress, there is a simple way you can guide your body to lower your stress
hormone level, even with these pre-existing stress factors in place.
I’ll explain this clearly in a second but first; how does stress
affect your health?
There are four types of stress you’re
faced with:
1) Emotional Stress – the
most prevalent sources include divorce and the death of a loved one.
2) Mental Stress – when
faced with difficult mental tasks. Playing chess or Sudoku are mild versions of
mental stress.
3) Sensory Stress – Living
near a feedlot (smells) or a railroad crossing (noise).
4) Physical Stress – working
out or having high blood pressure are types of physical stress that could spike your
stress hormone level. Eating unhealthy food that causes inflammation in your
body could also lead to physical stress.
Moderate amounts of stress are
essential for our health. When we workout, our bodies release adrenaline to
boost our nervous system. Afterward, the adrenaline quickly drops when we
relax.
But when you’re under a longer period
of stress, like working long hours for a few weeks, your mind orders the
release of cortisol. This is the long-term stress hormone and the effects are
devastating.
Since cortisol is supposed to be used
for dealing with things like starvation or long-lasting attacks by predators,
it triggers our fight-or-flight response.
Any function that is not essential at
the moment is shut down so that your body can survive on the least amount of energy,
and with fight a threat or run away.
One thing that also is drastically
reduced in this process is blood flow to the brain. The brain usually takes
25-40% of all your blood but rational thinking is not presumed to be needed to
fight a predator. This is the reason that long-term stress is believed to
cause Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia.
Another system that is shut down is
your digestive system. No wonder many people who are highly stressed suffer
frequent heartburn.
Another digestive disease often caused
by stress is IBS or Irritable Bowel Syndrome, as it is presumed that you don’t need to digest your food
while fighting off being eaten by a lion.
Ironically, cortisol makes sure that
the food you do digest is turned straight into fat. After all, since you need
to be able to survive harsh conditions, you will need body fat. That’s why in
order to lose weight, you absolutely must tackle stress hormones.
Cortisol also shuts down a big part of
your immune system, making you extremely vulnerable to the common flu, cancers,
and other diseases.
This also causes a drastic rise in free
radicals that boost your inflammation – leading to long-term inflammatory
diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and
all types of arthritis.
The deadliest of all diseases caused by
stress is, of course, high blood pressure. Having chronic, dramatic spikes in blood pressure almost inevitably leads to either stroke or heart attack.
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Now that was the bad news, here is the good news:
It is relatively easy to reduce the
amount of cortisol in your body. You see, your own brain is the organ that
orders the release of stress hormones. Nothing else. As such, your brain can
stop its release on the spot. All you have to do is ask it…nicely.
The release of cortisol comes from the
oldest, most primal part of your brain. It reacts to either the real or the
imaginary threat that you perceive you’re under. The roar of a lion or a roar
of a Jeep Wrangler is going to be processed in a very similar way.
The good news is that your logical
brain is the commander-in-chief. The primal brain will at least somewhat obey
its commands. So, if you consciously think and act in a way a relaxed
animal/person would do, your stress hormone level will go down.
For example, when under stress, most
people stop breathing or breathe rapidly and shallow. So, close your eyes and
consciously take ten deep breaths while thinking about something beautiful and
you’ll be more relaxed afterwards.
I really like using high blood pressure as a measure of stress hormone level. It almost
always goes hand in hand and it’s amazing how quickly blood pressure drops when your stress hormone level goes down.
So, let’s look at a few concrete examples:
1) One study revealed that listening to
relaxing classical music for just 10 minutes per day lowers blood pressure by
10 points (systolic) on the average.
2) Repeated studies have shown that
going for a walk in nature has amazing relaxing and health benefits, along with
drastically lowering blood pressure level.
3) A light workout several times a day
has been proven to be more effective in lowering blood pressure than an intense
workout a few times a week. That’s because intense workouts can boost cortisol
levels, as opposed to the relaxing effect of a light workout.
One thing to keep in mind is that
cortisol takes a while to leave your body. You’ll therefore probably not
experience great improvements until after at least 24 hours, and since habits
are hard to kill, we’re most likely talking a few days or weeks needed to cure
any disease permanently.
But there is one method that works
better than anything else in lowering blood pressure, reduce stress hormone
levels, and improve or cure almost all other diseases.
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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