Colour Matters When It Comes to Alzheimer's Disease.
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encoded: Alzheimer’s and Dementia are diseases close to me. Mum is not the Mum I knew most of my life. My wife and I spent years caring for her Mum before she passed. Her long term GP wrote “cause of death – dementia” on the last document relating to her life. It’s difficult to care for those you love when they change into people who are so different from what you’ve always known; Alzheimer’s and Dementia are terrible diseases. Of the age related chronic diseases Alzheimer’s and Dementia stand out relative to the others. More material is published offering advice for carers, than is published about Alzheimer’s or how to cure it. We can take steps to prevent Alzheimer’s. I became aware of one such step when watching a documentary about the traditional Okinawan population. THE OKINAWAN’S Okinawa is the southern most large island of Japan. Okinawan’s following their traditional lifestyle have an exceptional life expectancy; this is well known. It is also well known that as we age, our brain shrinks. It is also a fact that as we live longer the risk of Alzheimer’s increases. Traditional Okinawan’s, (while living to very old ages) have virtually no incidence of Alzheimer’s disease. According to the documentary, this was helped by the fact that their staple food was a purple sweet potato. The purple colour was a chemical called Anthocyanin, and this chemical prevented, or slowed the onset of Alzheimer’s. Never having heard the word before I went to Wikipedia to get the spelling right, there it was Anthocyanin, a flavonoid that causes the purple and blue colours in plants. THE RESEARCH I searched the NIH Pubmed database for “Anthocyanin & Alzheimer’s” and found numerous articles on the subject, most dealing with experimentation on genetically modified mice designed to express Alzheimer like brain abnormalities. These experiments demonstrated that supplementation with Anthocyanin did indeed slow the progress of the disease, and also partially reversed established disease; WOW! Next …
content: Alzheimer’s and Dementia are diseases close to me. Mum is not the Mum I knew most of my life. My wife and I spent years caring for her Mum before she passed. Her long term GP wrote “cause of death – dementia” on the last document relating to her life. It’s difficult to care for those you love when they change into people who are so different from what you’ve always known; Alzheimer’s and Dementia are terrible diseases. Of the age related chronic diseases Alzheimer’s and Dementia stand out relative to the others. More material is published offering advice for carers, than is published about Alzheimer’s or how to cure it. We can take steps to prevent Alzheimer’s. I became aware of one such step when watching a documentary about the traditional Okinawan population. THE OKINAWAN’S Okinawa is the southern most large island of Japan. Okinawan’s following their traditional lifestyle have an exceptional life expectancy; this is well known. It is also well known that as we age, our brain shrinks. It is also a fact that as we live longer the risk of Alzheimer’s increases. Traditional Okinawan’s, (while living to very old ages) have virtually no incidence of Alzheimer’s disease. According to the documentary, this was helped by the fact that their staple food was a purple sweet potato. The purple colour was a chemical called Anthocyanin, and this chemical prevented, or slowed the onset of Alzheimer’s. Never having heard the word before I went to Wikipedia to get the spelling right, there it was Anthocyanin, a flavonoid that causes the purple and blue colours in plants. THE RESEARCH I searched the NIH Pubmed database for “Anthocyanin & Alzheimer’s” and found numerous articles on the subject, most dealing with experimentation on genetically modified mice designed to express Alzheimer like brain abnormalities. These experiments demonstrated that supplementation with Anthocyanin did indeed slow the progress of the disease, and also partially reversed established disease; WOW! Next …
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