Ever
walk into the kitchen and wonder why you walked into the kitchen? Did you
started thinking, “Gee, is this the beginning of Alzheimer’s? Or, do you have a
friend or relative that has Alzheimer’s and they no longer recognize their
friends or relatives?
Maybe,
you’re just a worrywart and don’t know what Alzheimer’s is, but it sounds
terrible and you want to know how to avoid it?
First,
according to the Alzheimer’s Association, “Alzheimer's is the most common form
of dementia, a general term for memory loss and other intellectual abilities
serious enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer's disease accounts for
60 to 80 percent of dementia cases.”
Scarred?
If you’re not, you haven’t thought about this enough.
Here’s
the good news, an article by Nicole Ostrow in Bloomberg reports that “People
genetically prone to Alzheimer’s who went to college, worked in complex fields
and stayed engaged intellectually held off the disease almost a decade longer
than others, a study found.
Lifelong
intellectual activities such as playing music or reading kept the mind fit as
people aged and also delayed Alzheimer’s by years for those at risk of the
disease who weren’t college educated or worked at challenging jobs, the
researchers said in the study published today in JAMA Neurology.
More
than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of
dementia, and the number is expected to triple by 2050, according to the
Alzheimer’s Association. Today’s findings show that intellectual enrichment
pursued over a lifetime may help reduce the number of people who will develop
the disease...”
My
net takeaway? Keep doing Lumosity.
I originally
read about this on the SharpBrains website: http://sharpbrains.com/blog/2014/06/25/mental-stimulation-over-genetics-how-to-hold-off-alzheimers-disease-8-years-even-apoe4-carriers/
They
picked it up from Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-23/feeding-the-brain-s-curiousity-helps-delay-alzheimer-s.html
I
haven’t found the JAMA Neurology
article that they reference. If you find it, please send me a link to the abstract.
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