Much of Alzheimer’s Information Creates Hope

While many skeptics believe there is no hope for curing or reversing Alzheimer’s disease, I’m here to tell you there is much hope. It’s believed that approximately 10 million American baby boomers will develop Alzheimer’s disease in their lifetime. If this is true, it will place tremendous strain on the U.S. health care system. At present at least 5.2 million Americans currently suffer from Alzheimer’s. By 2010 it’s expected there will be 500,000 new cases each year, and nearly one million new cases annually by 2050. This disease is now the seventh deadliest illness in the U.S. What is Alzheimer’s? The disease is a chronic form of dementia that results in severe memory loss and eventually death. The average life span of someone with Alzheimer’s is about eight years. However some may survive up to 20 years with proper care.

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The Cause of Alzheimer’s It’s not entirely clear what’s the cause of Alzheimer’s disease, but it is related to thyroid hormone dysfunction, intracellular T3 (immune system cells) deficiency and diabetes. The risk factors for the disease include generic, environmental and dietary factors. Certain diseases also heighten your risk. Diabetics have up to 65 percent higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The primary dietary risk factors include fatty acids that are found in so many processed foods. It’s also found that homocysteine levels are elevated when you are deficient in vitamin B6, foliate and vitamin B12. Drugs are not the answer to slow Alzheimer’s. It has been suggested that anti-inflammatory drugs may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease but a study of two such drugs found that they did not slow the disease’s progression. Neither the arthritis drug rofecoxib, sold by Merck as Vioxx, nor the over the counter painkiller naproxedm, sold by Bayer as Aleve, was able to slow mental decline either. Besides the lack of benefits to slow Alzheimer’s, these types of drugs also carry a risk of side effects. What was found in the study that those participants who took the drugs were more likely to experience high blood pressure, dizziness, fatigue and dry mouth than those who took a placebo. Other side effects included stomach upset, ulcers and bleeding. Alzheimer’s disease occurs when deposits known as amyloid plaques accumulate in the brain. These deposits can begin to form years before symptoms appear. So it is thought that inflammatory mechanisms contribute to the buildup of the plaques, although research findings have not been conclusive. So here’s is how to prevent Alzheimer’s: * Eat a nutritious meal with plenty of vegetables and avoid sugar. * Take plenty of fish oil daily. Avoid most fish. The smallest of fish are the healthiest ones. * Avoid Aluminum, such as antiperspirants, cookware, etc. * Challenge your mind daily. Mental stimulation in many forms, such as doing crossword puzzles, learning to play an instrument or doing anything challenging can stimulate the mind and help decrease the risk of Alzheimer’s. It is rather disheartening when I see or hear of my relatives and friends who have Alzheimer’s disease. They are usually admitted to a nursing home or some kind of senior center and treated with prescription drugs. Here again is one of my frustrations with the medical community, Big Pharma and even the government. These parties never educate victims of the disease the correct way to prevent, cure or reverse it. Hopefully if enough of us who encourage people to take personal charge of their health and learn the benefits of natural healing methods, maybe we can change all this. My website provides the information to implement the correct methods for how to live healthy and ways to stay healthy. Visit my website now at: http://www.sonnyjulius.com.

by SONNY JULIUS

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