Cases of Alzheimer patients are starting to show up in the U.S. with people in their forties and fifties! How can that be? Isn’t that for people in their 70’s or older? Recent studies done by Dr. Nima Kivipelto and his colleagues from the University of Kuopio in Finland suggest that the long-term effects of stress may be the biggest cause of Alzheimer’s. It is believed that the stress hormone, cortisol, kills off brain cells when it enters the brain. Kivipelto’s research found that patients with both high blood pressure and high cortisol levels were more than three times as likely to develop Alzheimer’s as patients without these symptoms. If you have either high cortisol levels or high blood pressure, your risk is twice as high. Researchers at the University of California- Irvine say that stress hormones can rapidly accelerate the formation of the brain lesions that cause Alzheimer’s. [Read more…] about Stress and Alzheimer’s Disease
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From My Heart- September, 2010
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Gosh, I’ve never seen so many people filled with so much anger! Is it just a fad? Everywhere I go people are mad and complaining about so many things: our government, immigration, healthcare; you name it. While I am glad to see complacency disappear, I’m concerned about both the effects this is having on the people who are angry as well as the people surrounding them. Yes, many of these topics are quite volatile but just how much of your time do you spend thinking about what’s wrong with things and not what’s right?
Have you noticed that people who are happy don’t spend much time commiserating with others?
I go to the gym frequently and one particular fellow I see there is quite interesting. He works out hard and I mean he works out hard everyday. But you know what he does while he’s warming up on the bike or when he’s in between machines? [Read more…] about From My Heart- September, 2010