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To reduce heart disease and stroke risks, regulate stress and improve brain health

January 16, 2017 by SharpBrains

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How stress may increase risk of heart dis­ease and stroke (Sci­enceDai­ly):

“Height­ened activ­i­ty in the amyg­dala — a region of the brain involved in stress — is asso­ci­at­ed with a greater risk of heart dis­ease and stroke, accord­ing to a study pub­lished in The Lancet that pro­vides new insights into [Read more…] about To reduce heart dis­ease and stroke risks, reg­u­late stress and improve brain health

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: amygdala, bone marrow, Brain-health, cardiovascular disease, chronic-stress, heart-disease, improve-brain-health, PET/CT scan, psychosocial stress, regulate stress, Stress, stroke

To address the upcoming Alzheimer’s “epidemic”, let’s approach 2016 with these 4 Pillars of Alzheimer’s Prevention

December 28, 2015 by Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa @ Alzheimer's Research & Prevention Foundation

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As you prob­a­bly know, we are in a health care cri­sis. The num­ber of peo­ple with Alzheimer’s dis­ease con­tin­ues to sky-rock­et as peo­ple age and may reach cri­sis pro­por­tions.  A nation­al goal has been set to pre­vent and cure Alzheimer’s by 2020 or no lat­er than 2025, with a lion’s share of this mon­ey going into drug research, which, while ongo­ing, has thus far has been elusive.

This focus entire­ly on drugs may be chang­ing how­ev­er, as the [Read more…] about To address the upcom­ing Alzheimer’s “epi­dem­ic”, let’s approach 2016 with these 4 Pil­lars of Alzheimer’s Prevention

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: aging, Alzheimer-disease, Alzheimers-Prevention, brain, Brain-health, cognitive, cognitive-function, Cognitive-impairment, Cognitive-Training, diabetes, diet, health care, heart-disease, High-blood-pressure, meditation, mental-fitness, Physical-Fitness, slow cognitive decline, spiritual fitness, stress-management

Alzheimer’s Disease: New Survey and Research Study on Awareness, Testing and Prevention

July 21, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

Very inter­est­ing new data rein­forc­ing two main themes we have been ana­lyz­ing for a while:
1) We bet­ter start pay­ing seri­ous atten­tion (and R&D dol­lars) to lifestyle-based and non-inva­sive cog­ni­tive and emo­tion­al health inter­ven­tions, which are most­ly ignored in favor of inva­sive, drug-based options
2) Inter­ven­tions will need to be per­son­al­ized. The study below ana­lyzes data at the coun­try lev­el, but the same log­ic applies to the indi­vid­ual level

Many fear Alzheimer’s, want to be test­ed: sur­vey (Reuters):

- “The tele­phone sur­vey of 2,678 adults aged 18 and old­er in the Unit­ed States, France, Ger­many, Spain and Poland was con­duct­ed by researchers at the Har­vard School of Pub­lic Health and [Read more…] about Alzheimer’s Dis­ease: New Sur­vey and Research Study on Aware­ness, Test­ing and Prevention

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Alzheimer Europe, Alzheimer's Epidemic, Alzheimers-disease, Alzheimers-symptoms, anxiety, Bayer AG, cancer, cognitive-health, depression, diabetes, drugs, Education & Lifelong Learning, emotional-health, Harvard, heart-disease, hypertension, Modifying Risk Factors, obesity, physical inactivity, Physical-activity, public-health, risk factors, smoking, stroke

Ever heard of the Longevity Dividend? Perhaps Gray is the New Gold

May 27, 2009 by Kronos Longevity Research Institute

The Longevi­ty Div­i­dend is a the­o­ry that says we hope to inter­vene sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly to slow the aging process, which will also delay the onset of age-relat­ed dis­eases. Delay­ing aging just sev­en years would slash rates of con­di­tions like can­cer, dia­betes, Alzheimer’s dis­ease and heart dis­ease in half. That’s the longevi­ty part.

The div­i­dend comes from the social, eco­nom­ic, and health bonus­es that would then be avail­able to spend on schools, ener­gy, jobs, infra­struc­ture tril­lions of dol­lars that today we spend on health­care ser­vices. In fact, at the rate we’re going, by the year 2020 one out of every $5 spent in this coun­try will be spent on health­care. Obvi­ous­ly, some­thing has to change.

Enter the Longevi­ty Div­i­dend. The Longevi­ty Div­i­dend does­n’t sug­gest that we live longer; instead, it calls for liv­ing bet­ter. The idea is that if we use sci­ence to increase healthspan, not lifes­pan. In oth­er words, tomor­rows 50-year-old would have the health pro­file of a 43-year-old.

It might sound like sci­ence fic­tion, but, in fact, it’s quite pos­si­ble. We’re already doing it in some ani­mal mod­els using genet­ic and dietary inter­ven­tions, tech­niques relat­ed to what sci­en­tists call “the biol­o­gy of aging.”

Get­ting there in humans, how­ev­er, means embrac­ing an entire­ly new approach to our think­ing about dis­ease and aging, and how we con­duct sci­en­tif­ic research into the two.

Get­ting Sci­en­tists’ Attention 

A group of emi­nent researchers first pro­posed the Longevi­ty Div­i­dend in a 2006 arti­cle pub­lished in The Sci­en­tist. The authors, S. Jay Olshan­sky, PhD, pro­fes­sor of epi­demi­ol­o­gy and bio­sta­t­ics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois in Chica­go, Daniel P. Per­ry, exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Alliance for Aging Research in Wash­ing­ton, DC, Richard A. Miller, MD, PhD, pro­fes­sor of pathol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan in Ann Arbor, and Robert N. But­ler, MD, pres­i­dent and CEO of the Inter­na­tion­al Longevi­ty Cen­ter in New York, intend­ed their essay to be a “gen­er­al state­ment to sci­en­tists about the need for a par­a­digm shift in the way we think about aging and disease.

The researchers also met with U.S. sen­a­tors who served on the Sen­ate com­mit­tee that over­saw the bud­get for the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health (NIH). “We told them we believed [Read more…] about Ever heard of the Longevi­ty Div­i­dend? Per­haps Gray is the New Gold

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: aging-society, Alzheimer’s-disease, cancer, Daniel-Perry, diabetes, healthcare, healthcare-services, healthspan, heart-disease, Jay-Olshansky, KLRI, Kronos-Longevity-Research-Institute, longevity, Longevity-Dividend, National-Institute-on-Aging, National-Institutes-of-Health, neurocognitive, prevention, Richard-Miller, Robert-Butler, The-Scientist, vitality

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