Royane Real
Improving Memory Loss – How to Help the Aging Brain
By: Susan Nickerson
Introductory comments by Royane Real
Author of “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative”
Few words strike more fear in the minds of aging baby boomers than the words “Alzheimer’s disease”. Alzheimer’s disease is a terrible disease that ruthlessly destroys the brain cells you need in order to think and remember. As Alzheimer’s disease continues its terrible ravages, it takes away the memory and personality of the afflicted person, and then it eventually takes that person’s life.
If you have started to notice some serious problems with your memory, particularly with your ability to remember recent events, no doubt you are starting to feel quite alarmed. Every new slip of the memory is no longer a cause for embarrassment, but now it becomes a cause for fear.
As we age, we all experience some inevitable slow down in our mental abilities. For the most part, this slow down of our mental capacity is quite mild, and does not signal the early stages of a serious problem such as Alzheimer’s disease.
It’s hard to know when these occasional lapses of memory are occasions that we should simply shrug off, and when they become a cause for alarm. It’s even harder to know what we should do when these lapses of memory and losses of our brain power start to affect us.
The following article by author Susan Nickerson introduces us to some of the recommendations by Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa to help us keep our brain sharper as we age.
Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa is secretary of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine and founder of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Foundation based in Tucson, Arizona. The foundation for Dr. Khalsa’s work is that the brain is a part of the physical body. He believes that a multi-faceted approach to diseases of the brain works much better than trying to search for a single magic bullet to cure degenerative diseases of the brain.
In his programs, patients are taught to combine mental, physical and spiritual approaches on a path to renewed wellness.
Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa has treated many patients who suffered from memory problems and slowed down cognitive abilities as they reached their middle years. He claims that with his multi-faceted approach, he has been able to restore many of these patients to greatly improved mental functioning.
You can read Dr. Dharma Singh’s Khalsa’s recommended strategies for reversing mental decline due to aging, as well as many fascinating case histories in his book "Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory," (Warner Books, May 1997)
(The introductory comments which appear above are written by Royane Real, who is the author of the book “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative” Download it today and learn more ways to get the maximum use of your brainpower. It’s available at http://www.lulu.com/real )
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Improving Memory Loss – How to Help the Aging Brain
By: Susan Nickerson
Most of us assume that improving memory loss as we age is difficult, if not downright impossible. In fact, we fully expect our brains and our memories to decline in our later years.
However, the truth is that we can improve memory loss — and help our aging brains.
In this article, we’ll uncover how you can improve your memory loss – even reverse it – and see how your aging brain can actually get better with time.
So how can you improve memory loss and help your brain get better with age?
First, you must release the idea that being forgetful and having a slower mind is simply part of getting older. That just isn’t true.
Next, you must take a proactive approach to the strength and vitality of your brain.
According to Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., President and Medical Director of the non-profit Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation or ARPF: “Just as your body needs physical exercise, your brain needs mental exercise as well. You must make mental activity part of your regular exercise regimen”.
Brain aerobics are a specific example of vigorous mental exercise. And here’s some good news: brain aerobics reportedly reduce your chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease by up to 70 percent!
But what are brain aerobics? In order to be considered brain aerobics, an activity must:
1. Engage your attention
2. Involve more than one of your senses
3. Break a routine activity in an unexpected way
Brain aerobics improve your memory by regrowing brain cells, increasing the size of your brain and the number of brains cells you have.
Dr. Dharma says, “You can take it a step further by combining physical exercise with various brain aerobics. This is an innovative way to take advantage of the regenerative phenomenon of various brain aerobics”.
Here is Dr. Dharma’s weekly program that combines mental and physical exercise to improve memory loss. You can use these suggestions for the next four weeks to improve your memory loss and help your aging brain:
Week 1:
Start each day out with a crossword puzzle. Later, go for a nice walk and sing your favorite song. Volunteer some of your time.
Week 2:
Start each day with a brisker walk with a companion. While you walk, discuss current events and sing three of your favorite songs. Memorize shopping lists and shop by memory.
Week 3:
Sing the national anthem as you jog. Do a jigsaw puzzle and spend a couple hours each day on a hobby. Read a book and discuss it with a friend.
Week 4:
Read a book while riding an exercise bike. Discuss it with a friend while exercising. Work on learning something new, like using the computer, a foreign language or a musical instrument.
In just 4 weeks, you can easily improve your memory loss. According to Dr. Dharma and the ARPF, everyone should spend at least 20 minutes — three times a week — doing mental exercises.
These are simple and effective ways to make brain aerobics a regular part of your life. Using brain aerobics is a scientifically proven and fun way to strengthen your aging brain — improving memory loss.
About the Author: For more free tips, suggestions and advice on brain aerobics and other memory building tools you can use to improve memory loss now, see the Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation website at http://www.alzheimersprevention.org
Article source: http://www.articlerich.com
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Mentally Fit Forever
Boost Your Brain Power
The reality is that you can be sharper as you age, if you start now to care for that most important of all organs, your brain. And even more exciting news—if you are already experiencing memory loss, you can do what hundreds of others have already done—reverse the process!
To get more information visit
http://nightingale.directtrack.com/z/10548/CD1323/
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