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Category Archives for dementia
Deep Sleep Dementia
Does my lack of deep sleep increase my risk of dementia? I am a long-term cancer survivor. I developed a l0ng-term side effect called chemobrain years ago. While my chemobrain has improved significantly,
Continue readingDementia Prevention, Heal Chemo brain-
Dementia? Mild Cognitive Impairment? Chemo brain? All these diagnoses have similarities. I am a cancer survivor with chemo brain. From what I have read my chemo brain symptoms are pretty similar to those
Continue readingDementia Risk Reduction-
“Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, and it generally affects the elderly. It has been suggested that diet is an intensively modifiable lifestyle factor that might reduce
Continue readingAfib- Blood Pressure- Dementia Risk
Blood pressure control <130mmHG was shown to lower the dementia risk with similar benefits for patients aged 50-59 and 60-69 with initially uncontrolled blood pressure at the time of AF diagnosis…” I
Continue readingAlzheimer’s, Cognitive Function, Mind-Body Therapy
“These changes also linked directly to improvements in subjective assessments of cognitive function, mood, sleep, and quality of life.” Though Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common type
Continue readingDementia, Alzheimer’s Therapy-
All outcome measures revealed improvement: statistically significant improvement in MoCA scores, CNS Vital Signs Neurocognitive Index, and Alzheimer’s Questionnaire Change score were documented. No serious
Continue readingAlzheimer’s Disease – Non-Toxic Therapies
“Alzheimer’s disease constitutes a growing cause of cognitive impairment in aging population. Given that current treatments do not produce the desired therapeutic effects, the need for finding
Continue readingBrain Health, Plasticity, Neurogenesis Therapies
“Specific pathologies, aging or some inadequate life habits can deteriorate cognitive functionality…However, there are cognitive stimulation techniques that help us prevent this deterioration
Continue readingI Don’t Buy It-“Algorithm Accurately Predicts Cognitive Decline in Parkinson’s Disease”
Cognitive decline is one of the long-term outcomes of PD that has been largely unmanageable, and clinical trials are hampered by the highly varied rates of progression to cognitive clinical endpoints.
Continue readingAntioxidants Enhance Brain Health, Reduce Risk of Dementia
Antioxidants may help protect the brain from oxidative stress, which can cause cell damage… Potentially reducing the risk of dementia No, I don’t think we can take a pill (s) to completely
Continue readingLife Purpose = Brain Health, Dementia, Mild Cog. Impair. Therapy
“The results indicate that having purpose and meaning in life is significantly associated with a 19% reduced risk for dementia.” One of many long-term side effect sustained from my high-dose
Continue readingFolate/B12, Vitamin D3, Magnesium Deficiency = Dementia
I blog about both brain health and dementia. I believe that optimizing brain health is the best therapy to prevent Alzheimer’s Disease. I am stating this at the beginning of this post because the studies
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