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Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive degenerative illness
that results in the destruction of a person’s cognitive skills and
abilities, including thinking, reasoning, learning and retention,
communication, and sometimes even motor. While much of the research
currently being done on Alzheimer’s disease is on finding a cure and
treatment for the symptoms, considerable progress has also been made in
Alzheimer prevention.
As the president and medical director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention
Foundation International in Tucson, Arizona, Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., is
one of the physicians at the forefront of Alzheimer prevention. He contends
that the current research on the disease serves only to confirm the idea
that Alzheimer prevention is the only practical way of dealing with it.
“We have to realize that the era of the magic bullet – drugs for the
treatment of Alzheimer’s disease – is over,” asserts Dr. Khalsa. According
to him, there is a need to take an integrative approach as what has been
done for heart disease. “What works for the heart, works for the head,” he
further adds.
Dr. Khalsa’s Alzheimer prevention principle is based on the concept that
while the disease progression may be slowed down with medications and drugs,
to prevent the disease from developing in the first place, certain steps
ought to be taken. Foremost among these steps is to recognize and reduce the
factors that lead to Alzheimer’s disease.
Alzheimer’s – a Multi-factorial Disease
Many scientists agree with Dr. Khalsa that Alzheimer’s is actually a
multi-factorial disease. That is, its development is dependent upon several
variables, including but not exclusive to nutrition, chronic stress, and
lifestyle choices. However, Dr. Khalsa believes that out of these risk
factors, the most probable cause of Alzheimer’s are chronic, unrelenting
stress and free radical damage and oxidative stress, all of which occur at a
certain point in our lives as we age.
Studies show that there are people who appear to be able to protect
themselves against memory loss even though their brains show significant
damage from Alzheimer’s disease. It has been observed that these people are
usually the ones who are mentally engaged or physically active.
Additionally, there are also many Alzheimer’s patients who reach 80 and
beyond with their memory intact, thus, suggesting that the disease is not a
normal part of aging. All these findings further suggest that those who
remain mentally active in their later years have a better chance at
Alzheimer prevention that those who are not.
The notion is that if people remain mentally engaged, this would result in
the establishment of more synaptic connections between neurons in response
to new learning. As observed in children’s brains, new synaptic connection
is an integral part of learning and is a process that continues for the
person’s entire biological life. Thus, as you grow older, your synaptic
connection should grow denser as well.
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