How To Reduce The Risk Of Alzheimers

According to Alzheimerprevention.org, the best approach to take in order to prevent or retard the disease, is a 4 pillar one that includes diet, stress management, exercise and medication.

Diet and general lifestyle has a major impact on your health, and the correct diet with good fats like avocado and virgin olive oil, lean proteins like fish, chicken, turkey and soy and complex carbohydrates like whole grains, fresh fruit and fresh vegetables is critical to managing your healthy future. Red meats should really be avoided if you have a risk of getting the disease, but a solid dose of antioxidants like vitamins C and E will at least help, and should be taken as supplements to your diet anyway.

Stress is a key factor in many health issues; high cholesterol, high blood pressure and high cortisol for instance. Suffer from all three and you are also at risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease as they have been shown to be linked in some way. Stress can contribute negatively to all these factors so managing it becomes a very effective tool in reducing your risk of developing the disease. Stress management techniques like meditation, massages, prayer, deep breathing or even listening to classical music will help improve focus, attention and general mental performance.

Exercise and regular activity is critical in preventing any form of dementia. An active lifestyle is the key and if you are between 40 and 60 get yourself a regular fitness program as it will have a dramatic positive effect on your memory.

Exercise also includes brain aerobics which challenges the brain with new or different tasks regularly. This helps the brain function better. Brain aerobics can be recognized by 3 features:
1. It makes you give it your full attention.
2. It must involve more than one of the senses.
3. It must break a routine activity in an unexpected way.
Some examples of good mental exercise are reading, writing, playing board games and doing crossword puzzles.

Another exercise that integrates physical and mental fitness is Yoga and is an excellent dementia fighting form of fitness.

The day may come when the disease is in fact diagnosed, and medication should at that point be integrated as a part of the overall treatment to slow down the development of the disease. There are however evidence that pain killers like ibuprofen ( at a 200mg dose a day ) and aspirin ( at 81mg a day ) can reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s with around 50 % . Never take the two drugs on the same day and consult the website here for more information www.alzheimersprevention.org/pillar_4.htm

Never take medication without consulting your doctor. All of the information in this article and more can be found at the www.alzheimersprevention.org/ website.


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