Aging Well without Dementia or Alzheimers: Understanding the Difference
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The key to mastering a life of optimal health, happiness, vitality, and best quality, begins with “taking charge of your mind”. It's with the increased consumption of alcohol, processed, packaged, and sugar-laden foods that there has been an increase in heart, kidney, liver disease, and diabetes. This increases the risk of developing vascular dementia and Alzheimers.
I don’t know about you, but for me I don’t want to be one of these high risk candidates. Protecting your brain is a vital and necessary key to living a life of optimal health, happiness, and ageless aging with the best quality. Quality if everything, not to lose you dignity, identity or autonomy.
Many cases of dementia are reversible, however, this depends on the amount of damage incurred and the diligence of following up with the treatments to help these neurons to recover. I share with you 7 important, known steps that will help with prevention, restoration, and improving quality of life.
- Eliminate any detrimental habits such as excessive alcohol consumption, smoking, taking drugs, consult with a physician to decrease any prescribed medications.
- Improve nutrition: begin to introduce fresh vegetables, healthy protein such as fish and chicken, whilst including 1–2 teaspoons of turmeric and ginger into your daily diet. Use coconut oil and olive oil for cooking.
- Family connection: family members to remain close, share familiar experiences, outings, make the loved one for useful and a valued member of the family.
- Vitamin supplements: include — B12 and B Complex supplements, magnesium, fish oil and Coenzyme Q10.
- Herbal support: includes — Ginkgo biloba, Bacopa, Rosemary, Cayenne, Turmeric, Ginseng and Gotu Kola.
- Exercise: “If you don’t use it you will lose it” That goes for both your mind and your body. Join a gym, go walking, do yoga, play tennis, go dancing. All of this will also improve your brain function, cognitive skills and mobility.
- Socialization: This is a very important factor, it will help in feeling better about yourself. Join a group, connect with your family, go sit in a shopping centre, volunteer your time to something you enjoy. This will all give purpose to your life, helping to regenerate happy endorphins and brain cells. The more we cut off from people, the more we cut off from ourselves.
It's important that if you are wanting the treatment because the symptoms have already commenced that you consult a health professional so that you can plan together your recovery. As dosages and gradual implementation of these processes are vital. If you are taking medication, it's important for you to find a doctor and naturopathic health professional to work with, as they will assist, guiding you with the necessary changes.
Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease aren’t the same. Dementia is an overall term used to describe symptoms that impact memory, performance of daily activities, and communication abilities. It could be thought that Dementia as being the precursor to Alzheimers and if diagnosed early enough, prevention of further deterioration maybe prevented and even improved depending on the cause and extent of the damage incurred
