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Today, here's a quick test you can do to check how your memory is performing. Look at these words for about 10 seconds: Then, go and do something else for 2 minutes - read this blog post, for example, which is relevant. After 2 minutes, write down all the words you can recall from the …
Useful article here today, suggesting that high levels of certain antioxidants in the blood of trial participants may be protective against dementia onset. Best Antioxidants to Prevent Age-Related Dementia Identified? Higher levels of specific carotenoid antioxidants in blood may help guard against age-related dementia, new research suggests.Investigators found that individuals with the highest serum levels …
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I keep seeing reports that Long Covid sufferers are having cognitive issues like brain fog and neurological/brain/nervous system issues like anxiety, depression and PTSD. Here's one for a start: More Evidence COVID 'Brain Fog' IsBiologically Based (which basically says it is neuroinflammation in many cases) Treating Long Covid Trauma & PTSD The PTSD is totally …
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Diet and exercise can influence the risk of cognitive decline (CD) and dementia long before their onset, according to new research from King’s College London. In the study, published in  Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association,  the researchers established that 12 years prior to diagnosis, both CD and Alzheimer’s were associated with levels of …
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One of the things you absolutely have to do when you are working with a patient who has cognitive decline is assess insulin resistance. It must be managed and reversed if you’re going to have any success at improving their cognitive function and lowering their risk for developing further dementia or neurodegenerative patterns.Dr Datis Kharrazian …
I think I said right at the start of this in my Covid factsheet that I would be tempted to make sure there was no blood brain barrier (BBB) breach or neuroinflammation (NI) ongoing after Covid infections. I was worried that some people were having hallucinations etc. Ongoing NI can cause all sorts of problems …
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When I did my neuroinflammation course last year, I learned something. It never occurred to me that if a patient is not getting well, no matter every intervention I and others tried, that it might be the result of a brain injury years before causing ongoing inflammation throughout the nervous system. I started regularly asking …
Great little tip from Dr Glenville this morning on research suggesting which foods might help you keep your brain sharp. These foods will protect your brain Adding flavonoid-rich foods like berries, apples and tea could make you two to four times less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. Research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition investigated …
Great piece from Dr Kharrazian today on email which gives me my latest gut tip for you. (If you missed any, you can catch up here). Is your chronic gut problem really a brain problem? Read on... How could the gut possibly affect mood? While they may be far apart on an anatomy diagram, the …
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Great tip here today from Dr Marilyn Glenville - try this cognitive impairment test to see how your brain is working: The Six Item Cognitive Impairment Test Taken from my book Natural Solutions for Dementia and Alzheimer’s This test is used to screen those individuals who are thought to be at risk of dementia. You can …