Hedging against Alzheimer's
A rather disturbing truth about Alzheimer's disease is that 30% of us will develop it. That is one in 3 people.
The rest of us will not be untouched as they will have to care for those with the disease.
These are some of the scary realities of the future of this disease.
Alzheimer's apparently exists when neurons can no longer effectively communicate and thus the neuron associations which make up memories of all kinds, are no longer workable and memories are thus inaccessible.
These lost memories ultimately include biological functionality programming and therefore the brain is eventually unable to perform its tasks in management of our physiology, resulting in our demise.
In an experiment which was conducted over decades, a thousand nuns were monitored and found untouched by this disease and this led to a conclusion that the nature of their brain activity, a result of their lifestyle, resulted in their being impervious to the effects of the disease.
The way in which neurons communicate is through the production of chemicals which interact between synapses, which are essentially receptors/transmitters for facilitating communication.
One of the chemicals produced in this process tends under certain circumstances to accumulate and ultimately preclude further communication between the associating neurons.
It is believed that a mind which is more educated and which interacts more effectively with others in a greater variety of ways, effectively establishes more connections between neurons which provide a high degree of redundancy in that connections destroyed by Alzheimer's have no effect on the communication mechanism as multiple connections are in place for each set of neuron associations.
What this effectively means for us is the we can avoid the impact of this chemical malfunction by nurturing a very active mind which establishes more robust memory associations through more numerous and diverse associations.
An example of this would be associating an acquaintance not only with one incident or other person but rather developing a more complete picture of their associations with other things and people in your life.
This means that being more observant, interested in others, caring for others and thorough in establishing understanding of the world around us insulates us against the devastating effects of the physiological malfunction phenomenon which manifests as Alzheimer's disease.
Primary Source : TED TALK
My father was recently diagnosed with this horrible disease and we think it probably went undiagnosed for years before this. The early symptoms are so similar to what people consider normal age-related cognitive decline. My brother and I learned through a genetic test that we're 2.5x more likely than average to eventually contract it. Thankfully, my father has found a drug that's working for him but it will only work for a short period of time. Still, it's given us more time that he would've otherwise had.
My mother has it and so does her sister, who's husband died of it. I've done some homework and it is certainly worth ensuring if you can, that your loved one gets at least two table spoons of cononut oil which has NOT been hydrogenated, daily.
I'm sorry about your family! Thanks so much for the coconut oil tip. I told my mom about it this morning.
Same thing happened to my grandpa. It could have been diagnosed so much earlier. I wish your father all the best.
Thank you!
Horrible disease. It is awful to see a loved one have it
Nice job. Got a source for your synapse image?
Google Image search :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Complete_neuron_cell_diagram_en.svg
a user known as ladyofhats released it to the public commons back in 2007.
Thanks, I even try to cite those if possible. Just for ease of access. Wasn't accusing you of anything :)
I didn't write the post, so that's okay XD
Ugh, too early in the morning for me. :D
Hehe XP
just thought I'd save the author some time, as I quite like the post myself.
I thought it was good as well. :)
Thanks. filled the gap there. I was afk for the morning.
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Already did after reading the post.
Thanks. My image came from Pixabay and is free for commercial use.
Yep user @pbock cleared it up. Nice work with the post. :)
very interesting!
Older Article. Simple, but thought provoking into lifestyle changes.
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and-behavior/slideshows/protect-against-alzheimers?slide=7
Good stuff :) So much information we come accross and are unable to assimilate into our lives most often.
In generations to come, if we have not anihilated ourselves, this kind of information will have been filtered and included in education programs and our progeny will be raised with it and possibly 'injected' with it so that we will instictively utilize these many positive methodologies in caring for our health.
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