Alzheimer’s Prevention: Reducing Your Risk
Alzheimer’s disease might well be considered an epidemic in our country. With more than 5.3 million Americans diagnosed with the disease and that number expected to double by 2030, it makes sense to ask ourselves what can be done to prevent this devastating disease. According to a recent Medscape report, the costs associated with Alzheimer’s ...
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Vitamin D: The Multiple Sclerosis Connection
Current estimates report that about 300,000 Americans have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) with an incredible 10,000 new cases being diagnosed each year. While there is a small hereditary component, by and large, most cases seem to just happen without an identifiable cause. Over the past few decades, the medical literature has focused on ...
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Alzheimer’s And Herpes Simplex Virus: A Link?
Last week an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended the approval of a diagnostic brain scan for Alzheimer’s disease. The new technology is based upon imaging and quantifying the amount of a specific protein, beta amyloid, in the brains of patients suspected of having the disease. Research has demonstrated a striking ...
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Free Radicals: How They Speed the Aging Process
Turn on the television, open a magazine or listen to the radio and in short order you will no doubt be exposed to an advertisement extolling the virtues of some newly discovered exotic fruit juice that has the highest antioxidant content on the face of the earth. You may wonder — why all the hype? ...
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Human Memory: Why Bad Memories Stick
“I’m incredibly stressed out, and this Arizona thing has really put me over the top,” complained my patient, just this week, a woman in her mid fifties. “I just can’t seem to let it go. It’s like I’m always on edge,” she lamented. Looking at her intake paperwork, I noted that her stated reason for ...
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Gluten Sensitivity and the Impact on the Brain
Several years ago, parents of a lovely nine-year-old girl, Karen, brought her to see me because she had poor memory. They indicated that she had difficulty in thinking and focusing, and because of these issues she was falling further and further behind in her school work. Interestingly, they stated that at times she was fine, ...
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Neurogenesis: How to Change Your Brain
“In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.” – Santiago Ramon Y Cajal, “Degeneration and Regeneration in the Nervous System,” 1928
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