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Dementia and Boosting Brain Health - Dementia Triggered by Popular Supplement
Vitamin
and mineral supplements can be great and are often highly regarded alternative
health treatments recommended by doctors.
But
sometimes supplements can do more harm than good.
This,
according to a research team from University of Gothenburg, is true for one of
the world’s most popular and recommended supplements on the market.
In
fact, this one supplement can double your risk of dementia!
In
2001, 700 dementia-free women aged 70-92 were recruited, 98 of whom had been
taking calcium supplements.
Comprehensive
physical and neuropsychiatric examinations were carried out at the beginning of
the study in 2001 and then at the end in 2006.
By
the end of the study, 14.3 percent of the supplement takers had developed dementia, compared to only 7.5 percent of
non-takers.
Alarmingly,
this seems to suggest that calcium supplements could double your risk of developing dementia.
However,
when they analyzed their data further, they realized this applied only to women
who had previously had a stroke, and to women who had some other
cerebrovascular disease.
Cerebrovascular
diseases include all conditions that affect blood flow to the brain,
including high cholesterol and high
blood pressure.
So,
instead of reaching for supplements, you can increase your calcium intake by
consuming calcium-rich food (such as vegetables)
and beverages.
Together
with these foods, make sure you have a good supply of vitamin D, as your body
needs it to absorb the calcium.
Reversing
Dementia and Boosting Brain Health - Does This Legalized Drug cause Alzheimer’s
Disease?
Many
recent studies have indicated that chemical compounds in marijuana are able to
reduce our risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and
other forms of dementia.
Now,
just to remind us that medical science is an ongoing conversation and thereby a
work in progress, a new study in the journal Alzheimer’s Disease suggests that marijuana may
actually affect the brain in ways that may cause Alzheimer’s disease.
But
the real finding wasn’t about Marijuana at all. It may carry the cure for Alzheimer’s.
Scientists
from the Amen Clinic did functional neuroimaging scans on the brains of 982
marijuana users and 92 non-users to compare the amount of blood that flows
through them both while performing a concentration task and while at rest.
Several
areas of the brains of the marijuana users, most notably the hippocampus,
showed markedly less blood flow than the brains of the non-users.
The
hippocampus is one of the most important parts of your brain. It is responsible
for both short-term and long-term memory, and for spatial coding, which refers
to your ability to map and remember physical spaces like your home or street
or, mind you, the shapes of letters or buttonholes on your clothes. These are
the first areas of the brains of Alzheimer’s sufferers that start to shrink.
That
is why people afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease have such poor
memories, become easily disoriented, and need help to dress and feed
themselves.
In
this new study, the right hippocampus suffered the worst reduction in blood
flow.
Interestingly,
many of the study participants were former marijuana smokers who had given it
up years before the brain scans. In other words, if these researchers are
right, marijuana does permanent damage to cerebral blood flow that does not
reverse when you stop smoking it.
Reversing
Dementia and Boosting Brain Health - New High Blood Pressure and Dementia
Connection Discovered
High blood pressure has long been a prime suspect as one
of the causes of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.
But
a recent discovery has shed a new light on this issue. And it’s scarier than
most doctors were led to believe.
The
good news is that this discovery also reveals a way to completely reverse dementia, even after
some damage is done.
But
you must act fast, or it may be too late.
In
a recent edition of the journal Hypertension, the
American Heart Association released a statement that linked high blood pressure during middle age to
dementia in senior years.
Scientists
have long suspected that dementia is a condition that only starts to display
symptoms once it has been developing for around 30 years.
This
is primarily because our brains can adjust to gradual damage by relocating its
important functions from the damaged to the undamaged bits of brain tissue.
When
the destruction becomes too great, however, there is no longer enough undamaged
tissue to operate brain functions, and that is when dementia kicks in.
After
pulling together a large team of their researchers who all reviewed the
scientific literature in their areas of specialization, the American Heart
Association released a statement that claims that high blood pressure during your 40s and 50s
makes it much more likely that you will suffer from dementia when you are
older.
Over
time, high blood Pressure compromises the brain in several ways:
It
damages and hardens the large arteries that take oxygen-rich blood from your
heart to your brain. These are situated to the sides of your throat where you
can feel your pulse. Without receiving fresh blood, your brain cells die.
It
compromises the ability of the small blood vessels inside your brain to
distribute the blood properly.
Reduced
blood flow damages the white matter that your brain needs to think, feel, and
control other operations in your body.
Reduced
blood flow may also lead to Alzheimer’s disease by ruining your brain’s ability
to control the amount of beta amyloid that is present. Excess beta amyloid then
forms plaques and tangles, which are the chief characteristics of Alzheimer’s
disease.
It’s
therefore essential not to wait. Take actions today to lower your blood pressure and prevent
dementia down the road.
But
the most important message from this study for me was that it confirmed what
I’ve been preaching for years: that the main cause of Alzheimer’s and other
types of dementia is the lack of oxygen reaching your brain cells.
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