Genetics can have a influence on being afflicted with dementia but a healthy diet and lifestyle will have a major impact on preventing and mitigating its terrible consequences. Of course it takes a strong commitment.
I am referencing this article in part because our medical system primarily focuses on pills, surgery or any other treatment that is financially profitable.
Preventing Alzheimer’s: Our Most Urgent Health Care
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The prevalence of dementia is 1 in 10 individuals older than 65 years and increases to 50% of all individuals older than 85 years.
We now know that complex real-life activities around one’s passion and purpose, such as challenging jobs, learning musical instruments, and speaking multiple languages, are most effective in optimizing mental processes and building cognitive reserve and brain capacity.
Sleep has a critical role in promoting brain health. Research over the past decade has documented that sleep disturbances have a powerful influence on the risk for developing neurodegenerative disease.
The most important factor of all for brain health and resilience as we age appears to be cognitive reserve. Cognitive reserve represents the redundancy of neuronal connections achieved through cognitively challenging activities that force the neurons to make significantly more axonal connections than when not challenged
Everything we consume has an energy coefficient because it produces a certain amount of energy in our body. The quality of food based on its nutrient density can profoundly affect the brain at the cellular and genetic levels.
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