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The Latest Study from the United Kingdom Can Diagnose Dementia Nearly Ten Years in Advance
The United Kingdom Biobank analyzed nearly one-half million records comparing baseline scores with several neurodegenerative syndromes. The results are promising for the earlier detection of several types of dementia. https://www.newsmax.com/health/health-news/dementia-signs-symptoms/2022/10/21/id/1092904/ Data Analyses https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.12802 The results of this study appeared recently in the Alzheimer’s and Dementia, a journal of the Alzheimer’s Association. Researchers
Fabricated Alzheimer’s Research Throws Current Treatments into Question
Science magazine conducted a half-year study that may have been flawed. A new study looks for links between heart health and Alzheimer’s The original 2006 study in Nature Magazine, https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04533, opined that the beta-amyloid protein subtype, Aβ*56, damages memory independently of plaques and neuronal loss. The 2006 Study Flaws https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1072994 Sylvain Lesné was
Can Gut Bacteria Increase Our Risk of Developing Parkinson’s Disease?
Parkinson’s disease (PD) develops when nerve cells in the substantia nigra part of the brain deteriorate over time resulting in our brain’s ability to produce dopamine. Symptoms of PD https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/parkinsons-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20376055. Most people recognize tremors or shaking of the hand or fingers as a symptom of PD. Other symptoms are slow
Can Past Performance Guarantee Future Success?
We usually hear that past performance cannot guarantee future success when the topic is finance. However, that same advice could be accurate for our health as well. What about those people who know why something happens and act accordingly to improve their current and potential future health? I have a
Brain Fog Can Be Removed When You Reverse Your Brain’s Age
Most Americans are deficient in magnesium, a mineral critical for brain health. Magnesium is also required for chemical reactions in hundreds of other body functions. Yet, resupplying the brain with the right kind of magnesium may reverse your brain’s age by up to nine years. Yes, there are many ways
Plan Your Post Pandemic Health Today
As we are running out of days in 2022, the worldwide daily new cases of COVID-19 are fluctuating around 500,000/day and have since just after Labor Day. Even daily serious and critical cases have fallen under 50,000/day since April 2022 and are trending downward. Is this a predictor of nearness
Can Gut Bacteria Increase Our Risk of Developing Parkinson’s Disease?
Parkinson’s disease (PD) develops when nerve cells in the substantia nigra part of the brain deteriorate over time resulting in our brain’s ability to produce dopamine. Symptoms of PD https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/parkinsons-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20376055. Most people recognize tremors or shaking of the hand or fingers as a symptom of PD. Other symptoms are slow
An Effective Drug-Free Option to Reduce Dementia is Available to Everyone
Dementia is a syndrome, an umbrella category, rather than a disease because it has no defining cause, distinguishing symptoms, and treatments. The term dementia encompasses many forms of cognitive decline. A syndrome is a better word to define a disease, like dementia, because scientists have not discovered the underlying cause(s)
Vitamin D Improves Health in Those with Normal Body Weight but Not Those Overweight – Why?
Last week a study was published online in the JAMA Network Open. The researchers compared the health benefits of vitamin D in two groups – normal weight and those overweight/obese. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/article-abstract/2800491 The 2019 Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial (VITAL) was the most extensive randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial focused on vitamin D
