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Alzheimer's/Dementia, (https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about…
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You can make small changes in your diet that can reduce your the risk of developing alzheimers by almost 53%. Somethings you can change in your diet is reducing your read meat intake to only 4 times a week. Having at-least 3 servings of whole grains each day. Eating beans more than three times a week. Limiting yourself to less than one tablespoon of butter day day. And lastly add more leafy greens in your diet.
Age is the biggest risk for Alzheimer's/dimentia. It is most common in people over 65. A person's risk to developing alzheimers double's every 5 years
- Depression is a factor that can increase risk to getting alzheimer's. Untreated depression can lead to a higher risk of getting alzheimer's/dimentia, so detecting and treating depression can help.
- Increasing exercise and physical activity not only keeps your body healthy, but keeps your brain function healthy and therefore reduces risk to alzheimer's.
- Keeping your mind fully learning more often and having formal learning in your daily life can help create what scientists call "cognitive reserve" and making your brain less likely to develop alzheimer's.
Some symtoms you might develop while facing alzheimers are memory loss, trouble planning or solving tasks, confusion with place and time, trouble remembering newly learned information, and lastly impaired judgement.
One of the main Alzheimer's symptoms is losing your ability to understand or do anything for yourself. This could go as far as you forgetting how to breathe, meaning you would suffocate. You could forget how to chew and eat food and choke. Many other complications are linked to how Alzheimer's affects and what it does to you. Alzheimer's could increase the risk of you getting COVID-19 if you refuse to wear a mask because you don't understand why, if you go outside because you don't know you're not supposed to, etc. This leads to you getting more exposure to the virus.
There is currently no cure for Alzheimers but there are some medicines that can help. Those medications include Donepezil and Rivastigmine.
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