Sleep, Memory Loss, and Dementia. Sleep is exceptionally important for our overall health… Maybe most importantly, our brain’s health. A recent paper in JAMA Neurology 2021, “Association of Short and Long Sleep Duration With Amyloid-β Burden and Cognition in Aging” looks at sleep duration in relation to memory loss and the development of amyloid plaques […]
What age should your child start football?
An interesting and frightening paper about youth football. We have seen in prior studies, the longer someone plays football, the greater their risk of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). A recent study looks at another factor, age the the player started playing football. It appears in this relatively small study of 211 autopsied brains with 84 […]
How To Prevent Dementia
What is Dementia? Dementia isn’t a specific disease process, but more of a syndrome that describes a group of symptoms related to a loss of brain function. Dementia occurs through different processes that ultimately are leading to groups of neurons (brain cells) dying. When enough neurons die, symptoms occur. The area(s) of cell death determine […]
How To Avoid Dementia, Starting Today
The Greatest Risk Factors that you will develop Dementia 14 Years before you get it. A recent article published on the Journal Of The American Medical Association site finds that… Elevated blood glucose is the best predictor of future dementia. Also associated were losing body mass and blood pressure dropping were associated. No association was […]
Wellness, Beyond Pain and Suffering
What Is Wellness? Wellness according to the World Health Organization is… “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” This is important because what it tells us is that if you have a disease or illness you’re not well. Most people would definitely agree […]
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