It’s easy and fun, and could add decades of healthy, happy life
1 simple thing that can slash your risk for dementia
Matt Cook here, and there is no denying that for most people, the idea that they might get dementia as they get older is terrifying.
Dementias are a debilitating neurological condition that can cause loss of memory, the ability to think, problem solve or reason. Mild cognitive impairment is an early stage of memory loss or thinking problems that is not as severe as dementia.
If you’ve ever had a loved one with dementia or Alziehmer’s, then you know just how scary it can be.
Personally, I’m doing everything I can to prevent dementia in myself.
It’s not something that I want to have to live with and it’s not something I want to burden my wife with.
The good news is that whether you are in your 30s or 40s now…
…or if you are in your 60s, 70s, or 80s…
…there are easy steps you can take to avoid dementia and cognitive decline.
One of the things that’s really important to understand about dementia is that prevention is key.
If you are a younger person, you can take steps right now that will help you prevent dementia as you get older.
That’s because dementia problems start to form up to 20 years before symptoms begin to show.
“Given that the onset of dementia begins 20 years or more before symptoms show, the early intervention for delaying or preventing cognitive decline and dementia among older adults is essential,” said senior author Andrea LaCroix, Ph.D., M.P.H., Distinguished Professor at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at UC San Diego.
In research coming out of the University of California in San Diego, scientists are showing that a bit more daily walking can help people stave off mild cognitive problems.
Senior women were less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment or dementia if they did more daily walking and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, according to a new study led by the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at University of California San Diego.
This particular study was done on women, but I’ve seen similar results in studies done on men.
What the researchers found was that walking an extra 31 minutes a day lowers dementia risk by 21%.
In the Jan. 25, 2023 online edition of Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, the team reported that, among women aged 65 or older, each additional 31 minutes per day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity was associated with a 21 percent lower risk of developing mild cognitive impairment or dementia. Risk was also 33 percent lower with each additional 1,865 daily steps.
I’m not recommending that you go to the gym and walk on the treadmill…
If you enjoy that, then go ahead and do it…
I’ve found that for most people — building physical activity into their daily lifestyles is what works the best.
I take long walks outside on the beach when I’m in Florida.
I pace when I’m on the phone.
My colleague, Heather, intentionally bought a house with 3 floors so she’d walk steps more often and she got a dog to encourage her to get out and walk.
Getting more physical activity can dramatically improve your health over time.
It’s worth doing, and it’s important to build habits that support that physical activity rather than trying to use willpower alone.
—-Important Message For Men—-
Beware the killer lipid lurking in the U.S. food supply — creates amyloid plaques in the brain that lead to Alzheimer’s
Nearly 100 years ago, manufacturing companies started contaminating food with a toxic killer chemical…
And now today, it’s in almost every single food item we eat.
It’s in fast food, organic food, so-called “healthy” foods — every single food at the grocery store is full of this toxic chemical.
And it’s doing terrible things to men’s bodies…like forming amyloid plaques that lead to Alzheimer’s and dementia…
And unfortunately, there’s no easy way to avoid eating this killer lipid nowadays because it’s in too much of the food supply!
BUT — I have discovered a way to safely destroy this killer lipid once it enters our bodies — BEFORE it gets in the bloodstream and wreaks havoc in our cells and organs.
This is how to destroy the killer lipid before it causes Alzheimer’s
———-
