Alzheimer''s Disease

Alzheimer''s Disease (AD) is a terrible disease. It destroys your mind, leaving your family to suffer with your slowly dying body. Whatever your life expectancy at the time, a diagnosis of AD cuts it in half. The average patient spends the last 8 years of his "life" in a care facility and dies not knowing his own name...

There is no cure, but we are learning more and more about AD. There is a genetic link, but it is not absolute, only a predisposition to the disease, as it is with diabetes and heart disease. If AD hit someone in your family, it is more likely to someday hit you, but environmental elements make a huge difference...

So much so that while one sibling (even a twin) may contract AD, another, with a different lifestyle, may not. The evidence strongly suggests that by taking proper steps for Alzheimer's prevention you have an excellent chance of avoiding the disease completely, whatever your genetic factors.

It is still not known for sure whether the beta amyloid plaques and tau protein tangles in the brain, the hallmark of AD, are causes of the disease or results of it. But we do know that they start to form years, decades, before the first symptoms appear. So any Alzheimer's prevention steps you take should start early.

Alzheimer's disease researchers are working feverishly to develop a cure for AD. But it is likely that any "cure" for AD will be found in Alzheimer's prevention. No cure is likely to restore dead brain cells or the memories they contained. The most that can be hoped for is to stop the progression of AD. If an eventual cure is going to help you, you will need to have enough viable brain cells left, when the cure becomes available, to be salvageable! Thus Alzheimer's prevention now becomes critical.

O.K. So what can you do? How can you make Alzheimer's prevention work for you?
First off, look to your circulation and general health. What's good for your heart is generally also good for your brain. So watch your diet, control your weight, control your blood pressure and cholesterol levels and exercise regularly.

Secondly, get good nutrition and plenty of the nutrients needed. We used to think (many still do) that vitamins, etc. are only needed in low levels to prevent disease. Now we are beginning to understand that long-term low levels may constitute a chronic deprivation of these essential nutrients.

This chronic deprivation seems to lead to slower developing ailments such as heart disease, diabetes and AD. For example, high levels of the toxic protein homocystein in the blood is strongly linked to both heart disease and AD. Homocystein levels can be reduced easily with enough B-vitamins and cofactors.

The cost of enough B-vitamins, etc. to control the homocystein concentration is trivial. A few cents a day. No one tells you about it because they don't know. Or maybe because they can't make any money selling you such a cheap solution to Alzheimer's prevention!

Third (and most important), make it a point to be well informed. It's your body, it's your life. No one else cares as much as you do. As the owner and operator of one human body (that comes with a lifetime guarantee but no operator's manual!) its maintenance and care are up to you.

This matter is much too important to be left in the hands of others. Others who, while they may be sympathetic, have their own different concerns and different agendas. For them it's a living. For you, it's a matter of life and death! Alzheimer's prevention for your body is your responsibility.

For more information About Alzheimer's prevention and what you can do about it, follow the links below...
For more information about Alzheimers disease research and Alzheimers prevention, visit: Alzheimers Prevention
To learn more about Alzheimer's and how to prevent it, visit: Alzheimers Disease Research