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- January, 2011
Greetings from LIFESTYLE CHOICES!
OPEN HOUSE (save the date)!!!
Come join Gwen, Denise, and me for our Open House Thursday, February 10 from 5:30-7:30. Gwen and Denise are my colleagues and office mates and I’d love you to meet them! Gwen Brehm is a psychotherapist and Denise Cazes is an exercise physiologist/nutritionist. Mardi Gras will be our theme this year so come join our festivities! We’re conveniently located @ 17300 El Camino Real, Suite 107D (the corner of El Camino and Medical Center Blvd).
New Choices for the New Year
A new year is here. It’s time to review which goals I’ve met and where I need to improve. I love to see how much progress I’ve made from the previous year! [Read more…] about From My Heart- January, 2011
From My Heart- January, 2010
Greetings from LIFESTYLE CHOICES!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
“I feel immensely blessed to have a chance to get it right.” Oprah Winfrey
Generally from January until mid-February the gym is fairly crowded and then the crowd falls off their New Year’s resolutions and life becomes normal again. Oprah admitted all the things she vowed to do last year, she didn’t: more balance and time, daily workout, etc. After meeting Charla Nash, the woman who was violently attacked by a 200 lb. chimpanzee last February, and hearing her story, she stated in her magazine, “No more excuses.”
For years I didn’t make New Year’s resolutions. I thought they were “dumb.” However, what I realized was I was setting goals and accomplishing many of them but wouldn’t it be better if I actually wrote them down so I could refer to them as the years passed? Many of us are quick to judge ourselves harshly but what I’ve learned is we’re human and we just need to practice. [Read more…] about From My Heart- January, 2010