Alcohol, Chocolate Could Prevent Memory Loss, Dementia!

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Alcohol, Chocolate Could Prevent Memory Loss, Dementia! Alcohol and chocolate may help prevent memory loss, dementia two research show. Researchers find that drinking a moderate amount of alcohol might preserve cognitive functioning, while a natural compound in cocoa can reverse age-related memory loss. Findings published in the American Journal of Alzheimer‰Ûªs Disease & Other Dementias show that alcohol consumption in late life, but not midlife, is associated with episodic memory and larger hippocampal volume. The hippocampus is a part of the brain that plays an important role in short-term and long-term memory, as well as spatial navigation. Another study, published in the Nature Neuroscience journal,åÊfinds that naturally occurring flavanols in cocoa reverse mild memory loss in older adults. This study also looks to the hippocampus as a measure of the ‰ÛÏtreatment‰Ûªs‰Û success. The dentate gyrus (DG) is a region in the hippocampal region whose function declines in association with human aging and is thus considered to be a possible source of age-related memory decline. Researches tested the effect of cocoa in a controlled randomized trial of healthy 50- to 69-year-olds who consumed either a high or low cocoa-containing diet for three months. And they found that those with a high cocoa-containing, or high-flavanol, diet enhanced DG function, as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and by cognitive testing.  

Walnuts May Reducing Risk, Delay Onset or Slow Progression of Alzheimer‰Ûªs

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Who can forget the Dick Van Dyke “Walnut” Episode. Hey kids look it up!

Walnuts May Reducing Risk, Delay Onset or Slow Progression of Alzheimer‰Ûªs A study published in the Journal of Alzheimer‰Ûªs Disease indicates that a diet including walnuts may have a beneficial effect in reducing the risk, delaying the onset, slowing the progression of, or preventing Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease. Research led by Abha Chauhan, PhD, head of the Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory at the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities (IBR), found significant improvement in learning skills, memory, reducing anxiety, and motor development in mice fed a walnut-enriched diet. The researchers suggest that the high antioxidant content of walnuts may have been a contributing factor in protecting the mouse brain from the degeneration typically seen in Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease. Oxidative stress and inflammation are prominent features in this disease. ‰ÛÏThese findings are very promising and help lay the groundwork for future human studies on walnuts and Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease ‰ÛÒ a disease for which there is no known cure,‰Û said lead researcher Dr. Abha Chauhan, PhD. ‰ÛÏOur study adds to the growing body of research that demonstrates the protective effects of walnuts on cognitive functioning.‰Û The research group examined the effects of dietary supplementation on mice with 6 percent or 9 percent walnuts, which are equivalent to 1 ounce and 1.5 ounces per day, respectively, of walnuts in humans. This research stemmed from a previous cell culture study led by Dr. Chauhan that highlighted the protective effects of walnut extract against the oxidative damage caused by amyloid beta protein. This protein is the major component of amyloid plaques that form in the brains of those with Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease. Walnuts have other nutritional benefits as they contain numerous vitamins and minerals and are the only nut that contains a significant source of alpha-linolenic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid with heart and brain-health benefits. The researchers also suggest that ALA may have played a role in improving the behavioral symptoms seen in the study. An article detailing these findings, ‰ÛÏDietary Supplementation of Walnuts Improves Memory Deficits and Learning Skills in Transgenic Mouse Model of Alzheimer‰Ûªs Disease,‰Û was published in the Journal of Alzheimer‰Ûªs Disease. The study was supported in part by funds from the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities and the California Walnut Commission.

Exposure to Aluminum May Contribute to Alzheimer’s

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Maybe we need to be hit over the head with an aluminum frying pan to understand its potential toxic effects!

Exposure to Aluminum May Contribute to Alzheimer’s Professor Christopher Exley of Keele University, UK, a world authority on the link between human exposure to aluminum in everyday life and its likely contribution to Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease, says in a new report that it may be inevitable thatåÊaluminum plays some role in the disease. He says the human brain is both a target and a sink for aluminum on entry into the body ‰ÛÒ ‰ÛÏthe presence of aluminum in the human brain should be a red flag alerting us all to the potential dangers of the aluminum age. We are all accumulating a known neurotoxin in our brain from our conception to our death.” Exley writes in Frontiers in Neurology about the ‰Û÷Aluminum Age‰Ûª and its role in the ‰Û÷contamination‰Ûª of humans by aluminum. He says a burgeoning body burden of aluminum is an inevitable consequence of modern living and this can be thought of as ‰Û÷contamination‰Ûª, as the aluminum in our bodies is of no benefit to us it can only be benign or toxic. Professor Exley argues that the accumulation of aluminum in the brain inevitably leads to it contributing negatively to brain physiology and therefore exacerbating on-going conditions such as Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease. Professor Exley adds: ‰ÛÏThere are neither cures nor effective treatments for Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease. The role of aluminum in Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease can be prevented by reducing human exposure to aluminum and by removing aluminum from the body by non-invasive means. The link for the paper is: http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2014.00212/abstract

More Active = Less Depressed

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Physical activity is good no matter what. But when depressed you can use it as a tool to fight through the depression.

More Active = Less Depressed Physical activity can reduce the risk of death, stroke and some cancers, and some studies suggest activity can also lower the risk for depressive symptoms. A new study in JAMA looked at the correlation. Snehal M. Pinto Pereira, Ph.D., of the University College London, England, and colleagues found that on average, more frequent physical activity was associated with fewer depressive symptoms for adults between the ages of 23 and 50 years, while a higher level of depressive symptoms was linked to less frequent physical activity. The authors examined whether depressive symptoms are concurrent with physical activity levels, as well as whether activity influences the level of symptoms and if the level of symptoms influences activity. More activity frequency predicted a lower number of depressive symptoms. Among those inactive at any age, increasing activity from 0 to 3 times per week five years later reduced the odds of depression by 19 percent. Higher levels of depressive symptoms were related to less frequent physical activity. Across all ages, those participants with depression were less active. For example, among 23 year old participants who were not depressed, their average increase in activity five years later was 0.63 times per week but 0.36 times per week for those with depression. The authors conclude that: ‰ÛÏFindings suggest that activity may alleviate depressive symptoms in the general population and, in turn, depressive symptoms in early adulthood may be a barrier to activity.‰Û To me it seems that you use activity to fight through the depression.

Neurotic Middle-Age Women More Prone to Alzheimer’s

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Neurotic Middle-Age Women More Prone to Alzheimer’s The Washington Post reports that middle-aged women who worry a lot may have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease later in life, citing a studyåÊ in the American Academy of Neurology‰Ûªs journal, Neurology. The paper notes that researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden ‰ÛÏfollowed a group of women in their 40s, whose disposition made them prone to anxiety, moodiness and psychological distress, to see how many developed dementia over the next 38 years.‰Û They found that women ‰ÛÏwho were the most easily upset by stress ‰ÛÓ as determined by a commonly used personality test ‰ÛÓ were two times more likely to develop Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease than women who were least prone to neuroticism.‰Û

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