Posted on 09/22/2021 10:57:37 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Aging takes a toll on the body and on the mind. For example, the tissue of aging human brains sometimes develops abnormal clumps of proteins that are the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. How can you protect your brain from these effects?
Researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found that older adults may benefit from a specific diet called the MIND diet even when they develop these protein deposits, known as amyloid plaques and tangles. Plaques and tangles are a pathology found in the brain that build up in between nerve cells and typically interfere with thinking and problem-solving skills.
Developed by the late Martha Clare Morris, ScD, who was a Rush nutritional epidemiologist, and her colleagues, the MIND diet is a hybrid of the Mediterranean and DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diets. Previous research studies have found that the MIND diet may reduce a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease dementia.
Now a study has shown that participants in the study who followed the MIND diet moderately later in life did not have cognition problems, according to a paper published on Sept. 14 in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
"Some people have enough plaques and tangles in their brains to have a postmortem diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, but they do not develop clinical dementia in their lifetime," said Klodian Dhana, MD, Ph.D., lead author of the paper.
"Some have the ability to maintain cognitive function despite the accumulation of these pathologies in the brain, and our study suggests that the MIND diet is associated with better cognitive functions independently of brain pathologies related to Alzheimer's disease.
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I know an infamous person not on the diet.
They suggest you eat like “healthy” food-crazed upper middle class folks would.
My uncle is over 100 years of age and is still mentally sharp.
He eats a healthy diet, but he also has a very low body temperature, which may be important.
I’m doomed. If I had to eat like that I’d prefer to lose my marbles. There is such a thing as a joyless existence.
New MIND diet may significantly protect against Alzheimer’s disease
by Rush University Medical Center
A new diet, appropriately known by the acronym MIND, could significantly lower a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, even if the diet is not meticulously followed, according to a paper published online for subscribers in March in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.
Rush nutritional epidemiologist Martha Clare Morris, PhD, and colleagues developed the “Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay” (MIND) diet. The study shows that the MIND diet lowered the risk of AD by as much as 53 percent in participants who adhered to the diet rigorously, and by about 35 percent in those who followed it moderately well.
Excerpted:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-03-mind-diet-significantly-alzheimer-disease.html
Stress has the strongest association with memory failure that I know of.
I heard that the elderly run lower temps than younger folk. I can’t remember the source, however.
I can hardly wait to have it FReepsplained to me why that would be a good idea.
Eat like an Italian or Greek would.
It means they have T tangles and other physical signs of Alzheimers, but no dementia.
Which suggest the signs are not the cause of Alzheimers
Is ice cream not part of that diet?
“Each day at least 3 servings of whole grains...”
They are still pushing a high-carb diet, which we now know is bad for your bring as well as your heart, & etc. Lying sacks of *bleep*. Anybody pushing a high-carb diet on you is either a quack or an enemy.
In no order, I’m animals, vegetables, fruits, nuts
& seeds.
Rare, not in the Fauci sense, dairy consumption.
They are still pushing a high-carb diet, which we now know is bad for your bring as well as your heart, & etc. Lying sacks of *bleep*. Anybody pushing a high-carb diet on you is either a quack or an enemy.
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It just goes against all common sense, doesn’t it? I’m tired of the red meat = bad, grains=healthy.
Mankind evolved eating red meat for heaven’s sake and did not start eating grains until what, around 5000BC?
Low body temp may be from a lack of inflammation.
In fact the 98.6 that we call normal was worked out over 100 years ago and may have been miscalculated because so many people had low grade infections, parasites and other causes of inflammation.
Yes but I was looking more at the clinical results.
Asymptomatic COVID....😉
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