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09/07/2019

Happy Mindful Monday:

There is an elegant synergy between the brain and the body. When you address vascular risk factors like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and microvascular disease, you protect not only your heart and kidneys but also your brain.

When you work to achieve metabolic and hormonal balance to prevent diabetes, nutrient deficiencies, and immune disorders, you also decrease your risk of cognitive decline.

Health is synergistic: anything that’s good for the rest of the body is good for the brain, and vice versa.

What healthy choice did you make today?

24/06/2019

We all know the importance of aerobic exercise for the heart, but did you know it’s importance for the brain?

A powerful effect of exercise on the brain is better blood flow, or perfusion.

We all know how vital aerobic exercise is for the heart, but it’s exponentially important for the brain! The brain is the most vascular organ in our body. Anything that reduces blood flow due to damage to the walls of the arteries as a result of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, or long periods of inactivity causes cognitive decline. We see this especially in susceptible areas of the brain such as the hippocampus, where short-term memory is consolidated.

On the other hand, anything that causes the blood to circulate better will maintain the health of the brain. Many studies have shown that roughly 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week can significantly reduce the risk of dementia, and indirectly by reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, depression and obesity - all of which are risk factors for cognitive decline.

Our question to you is, what is your exercise goal?

18/06/2019

Consider this story:

When Jeanne Calment turned ninety, she decided to sell her apartment in Arles, France, figuring she only had a few years to live. The winning bid came from her forty-seven-year-old lawyer, who agreed to pay her a monthly rent
until she passed away, allowing him to acquire the apartment for a bargain.

Calment’s lawyer died of cancer thirty years later, having paid more than double the apartment’s value. To everyone’s surprise, Calment was still alive. She even lived on her own until her 110th birthday.

When Calment was 118, she underwent neuropsychological testing and a brain scan. Her cognitive scores were consistent with those of people in their eighties and nineties. Her brain showed no evidence of neurological disease.

Jeanne Calment lived 122 years and 164 days, and to this date is the world's oldest (verified) person on record.

An enduring myth about Alzheimer’s disease is that it’s a natural consequence of aging. But research has definitively shown that Alzheimer’s is a unique process of degeneration, and we have numerous examples of people living long—even extremely long—lives and never developing the beginning stages of cognitive decline.

Age is a major risk factor for Alzheimer's only because the older we get, the more likely that we have experienced the cumulative effects of our lifestyle choices.

Lifestyle equals health equals longevity.

08/04/2019

Mindful Monday:

Many of our patients are convinced that a twenty minute workout per day is "enough." They think that as long as they get their workout in, they can take it easy the rest of the day. Wrong! Did you know that extended periods of sedentary behavior negate the benefits of twenty to thirty minutes of exercise? That is, it's better for your brain if you incorporate movement throughout your day, even if you're not doing a dedicated workout.

Remember: we are designed to move!

How did you incorporate movement into your day?

12/11/2015

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