Tilt the Alzheimer's Odds In Your Favor

If you’re over 40, you may already be on the road to Alzheimer’s Disease. Scientists say that damage to the brain starts 20 years or more before first symptoms appear. During this preclinical stage of Alzheimer’s, you may be symptom-free, but toxic changes are already taking place in your brain.

Not me, you say? Well, today’s statistics say 1-in-3 seniors will get Alzheimer’s and these odds are quickly declining to 1-in-2 seniors. That means that by the time we all hit age 85, half of us will have Alzheimer’s — that’s half of everyone reading this article! And, two-thirds will be women. Pretty poor odds.

What is Alzheimer’s Disease?

Alzheimer’s disease is a type of brain disease, just as coronary artery disease is a type of heart disease. It is also a degenerative disease, meaning that it becomes worse with time. Alzheimer’s disease starts early -- 20 years or more before the first symptoms.

Scientists continue to unravel the complex brain changes involved in Alzheimer’s disease. Current science thinks that:

(1) there is an accumulation of a protein fragment called beta-amyloid which forms plaques outside of brain neurons which interferes with neuron-to-neuron communication, and

(2) there’s an accumulation of an abnormal form of protein called tau creating tangles inside brain neurons, blocking the transport of nutrients and other essential molecules.

These small changes in the brain are unnoticeable to you. But, as you age and the amount of beta-amyloid increases, a tipping point will be reached, triggering a molecular cascade that lets abnormal tau spread throughout your brain. Brain inflammation flares and brain shrinkage follows.

That tipping point is when first symptoms appear — forgetting what you just said, repeating yourself, trouble finding the right words, forgetting dates and events, difficulty concentrating and misplacing items.

Experts don’t fully understand the causes for most people. There is a genetic component. Other suspected contributors include being female, Hispanic or African-American, heart disease, diabetes or insulin resistance, obesity, depression, concussion or head injury, viruses like Epstein-Barr, mononucleosis and herpes (cold sores), Lyme disease, periodontal infection, fungal infection, and a very long laundry list of environmental exposures and lifestyle factors.

As of now, there is no cure. No magic pill. And the drugs approved by the FDA don’t stop or slow the disease down. They are supposed to help memory while you still have enough neurons working, but they don’t help everyone and only help for a limited time.

How Do I Improve My Alzheimer’s Odds?

If you’re over 40, then you can bet that already have beta-amyloid and tau building in your brain. I do, too. We just can’t see it or feel it. Testing for it is currently too invasive and cost prohibitive. So, what CAN we do? We can do everything in our power to stop it from getting to that tipping point.

We can’t do anything about the DNA that we’ve inherited from Mom & Dad, but we can influence how those genes are expressed. How we live CAN affect the genes we’ve inherited. And, there are simple things we CAN do to actively tip the scale towards protective.

In traditional medicine, we only seem to look at health from the neck down. We go to the doctor to have our blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar levels checked. We expect to be told to lose weight, change our diet, exercise more, control our stress and come back in 6 months. We fully accept that these steps might just prevent a heart attack or diabetes down the road. We’re used to ‘staying healthy’ this way, but only from the neck down.

We need to work on staying healthy from the neck up! There are simple, inexpensive ways we can improve the health of your brains and reduce our risk of Alzheimer’s disease. (There’s no 100% guarantee of course, but I’ll take a reduced risk over the alternative.)

So, How Do I tilt the Odds in My Favor?

You just need to take ownership of your brain health NOW. You wouldn’t want to treat cancer at Stage 4, you’d want to knock it out at Stage 1. You wouldn’t wait for a heart attack to take steps to lower your blood pressure, you’d want early prevention. The only way to take control of Alzheimer’s is to live a brain-healthy, preventative lifestyle NOW -- so when you’re in your 70’s and 80’s, your odds might be more favorable. 

The solution is not super-sexy or high-tech, but it but it can be transformative.

Simple, lifestyle improvements work!

• A brain-healthy eating program will lower inflammation and fuel your brain.
• Moderate, brain-healthy exercise will increase vascular function and spur cell turnover.
• Deep slow-wave sleep will properly clear-away the metabolic by-products that accumulate in your brain each day.
• Relaxation and stress management will lower your cortisol and improve brain function.
• And, there are so many ways to super-charge your brain, such as challenging your brain with new learning, living with purpose, serving in a community, and socializing for group support or just for the fun of it.

Where do you start? Right here.

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