Do you remember the first day you were given a bike? How did you feel when you make a wish in front of the birthday candle lights? Where did you celebrate your graduation with family? What day did you get proposed? When was your first baby born? How difficult for you to put your daughter on school bus and pretend that you didn’t hear her crying and calling her mom? -- Don’t let Alzheimer deprive these precious moments!
Alzheimer's disease is a group disorders involving the parts of the brain that control thought, memory, and language. As the disease develops, a person loses the ability to carry out familiar tasks, to reason, and to exercise judgment. Moods, personality, and ability to communicate may also be affected. People with Alzheimer's disease typically die within eight years of their diagnosis. Some individuals may die within a year of diagnosis; others may live as long as twenty years.
The exact causes of Alzheimer disease, however, are currently not known. There are many assumption about Alzheimer's is caused such as a loss of brain cells, free radicals, heredity, hypothyroidism, head injuries and environmental factors.
With today medical technology the Alzheimer's disease is no have an exact treatment and if you are Alzheimer’s, it is very suffer for you and all others around you, the best way we can deal with the disease is prevention. To prevent yourself from suffering of Alzheimer's disease, you have to consider significantly on two factors; Lifestyle and Diet.
A healthy lifestyle may be useful for preventing Alzheimer's disease. Physical aspect such as exercise can reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Exercise keeps the brain healthy. Regular physical activity increases the blood flow to the brain and provides the nutrients necessary to render its tissues resistant to Alzheimer’s. Exercise also increases the number of connections among the millions of brain cells needed for normal mental function. Get into the habit of walking for thirty or sixty minutes a day as briskly as possible.
Not just physical aspect, you have to concern Mind aspect to prevent Alzheimer's disease risk. Enjoy activities which require mental exercise which means stay away from television. Like physical exercise, ongoing intellectual challenges stimulate the formation since you were young of nerve connections which can help to less the damage for Alzheimer's disease, if you are destined to develop Alzheimer’s. However, the longer you continue your education at any age, or keep your mind busy in some other way, the more likely your neurons are to connect with each other later on.
To keep low stress also can reduce brain destroy because chronic stress raises your body to produce high levels a chemical which can lead to memory impairment and atrophy of memory centers in the brain. Stress reduction techniques such as exercise, meditation, yoga, Tai Chi and biofeedback may help to combat chronic stress.
Diet, on the other hand, is the important factors to risk or prevent Alzheimer's disease. You should mange your eating habits to avoid unhealthy fats and also limit consumption of meat. Eat as little animal fat as possible to reduce your vulnerability to Alzheimer’s. Hold off on heavy metals also should start. Heavy metals such as mercury and lead are known to cause brain injury that may not be reversible. Sources of heavy metals include large fish (such as swordfish, tuna steaks, tilefish, king mackerel, shark, halibut and mahi-mahi), which are high in mercury and “silver” dental fillings. Lead exposure may occur from old paint and some calcium supplements, which have recently found to be contaminated with lead.
Conversely, you should eat lots of fruits, vegetables, & whole grains. Fruits and vegetables may be helpful in preventing Alzheimer's. These include: alfalfa, beets, bell peppers, blueberries, Brazil nuts, brown rice, coffee, dandelion, flaxseed, ginkgo, rosemary, sage, shave grass, Siberian ginseng, stinging nettle, turmeric, and willow. Also helpful may be supplements, or foods rich in: B complex, B1, B3, B6, B12, C, calcium, E, folic acid, magnesium, and Selenium.
Some researchers believe there is a link between aluminum intake and Alzheimer's, but recent studies seem to disprove this theory. Toxic levels of aluminum in the body, however, aren't going to do anyone any good, so why take the chance. To reduce the risk of becoming aluminum toxic, consume foods high in calcium as it reduces absorption of aluminum. A high fiber diet, such as whole grains, is also helpful.
It is much easier to prevent or reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease than you wait until the problem of the disease occurs to you or your company. Just changing your lifestyle and eating habit, you can save your and your loving one life from Alzheimer's disease suffering.