Memory Protection Plan

Memory Protection Plan and Brain Brightening with neurofeedback.  You or someone you want to help can have a brain map QEEG and learn the neurological status and find out if the brain is still trainable.  Read the following on Dementia and Baby Boomers.  You can be proactive about your memory and optimize your mental health.  Schedule a brain map with Dr. Vicki by phoning 260.432.8777. 

     Dementia takes 15 to 20 years to develop and begins with MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment.)  It begins in the 30s and 40s.  By 80-85 over 50% of Americans are demented.  Dementia may be an accelerated form of brain aging (Mondrego, 2007.)  By age 65  1/100 people will have symptoms of dementia (confusion, severe forgetfulness, and an inability to manage on their own.)  By 75  it is 1/10   and 1/2  by age 85.  Mild Cognitive Impairment is a mild or moderate cognitive impairment that is a heterogenous disorder (affects different people in different ways.)  Some turn into Alzheimers, some stay mildly impaired and some reverse.

     High blood pressure has been linked to dementia.  Insulin resistance has been linked to dementia.  How many people with insulin/blood sugar problems do you know?  The British Journal of Nutrition  says Astaxanthin supplementation may help dementia.  Over 100 million people in the US are prescribed benzodiazepines for anxiety and insomnia.  This class of drugs has been linked to a 50% greater chance of developing dementia.  Dementia is from the loss of brain cells.  It takes 20 to 30 years and begins in your 30s.  Dementia is accelerated by head trauma.  The best predictor of low T is head trauma.

     Dementia is now being called Type 3 Diabetes.  Hormones that may contribute to cognitive decline:  androstenedione, calcitonin, DHEA, DHEA-5, Erythropoletin, Estriol, Estrone, HGH, Hydroxcycortisol/aldosterone, IGF, incretin, Insulin, melatonin, parathyroid hormone, pregnenolone, progesterone, testosterone, T3 and T4, it D2 and D3, oxytocin and DDAVP.

     Cole and Frautschy out of UCLA found both curcumin and DHA each reversed cognitive deficits in laboratory animals.  Cournal et al., in 2006 in Neurology found there is a relationship between BMI and cognitive function in healthy middle-aged men and women.  The higher the BMI, the lower the word recall.  The study involved 2,223 people.  Mayo Clinic in the Archives of Neurology in 2006 found Celiac Disease was associated with cognitive impairment.