Essential Tips to Lower Your Risk of Dementia

What can you do to lower your risk of dementia?

Let’s talk about it. 

A recent study has revealed 14 factors that contribute to dementia:

• Education
• Hearing loss
• Depression
• Head trauma
• Lack of physical activity
• Smoking
• Hypertension
• Obesity
• Type two diabetes
• Drinking alcohol excessively
• Social isolation
• Air pollution
• Vision loss
• High LDL levels

If all of these 14 factors were fully addressed, for instance:

• Providing higher education
• Eradicating obesity
• Making helmet use mandatory for youth
• Eliminating air pollution
• Helping people get their blood pressure and LDL levels controlled
• Helping them reduce their type two diabetes
• Increasing social interactions
• Especially as people get older
• Helping people quit smoking and drinking
• Encouraging physical activity throughout life
• Providing mental health support for depression
• Making sure people get adequate vision and auditory care

… then dementia would fall by 45% worldwide.

Almost 7% of dementia risk can be attributed to high LDL which can cause [loss of] oxygen and nutrition to the brain.

You can lower high LDL with increased physical activity, decreased carbohydrate consumption following a Mediterranean Diet Plan. If lifestyle changes are not enough, talk to your health care provider about statin medications or more natural LDL suppression through supplementation.

Untreated hearing loss, social isolation and low education came in second in increasing the risk for dementia. Providing access to higher education for all children, providing hearing screens throughout life, and helping people engage with their society and community especially as they get older can greatly reduce the risk of dementia. 

Although the rest of the factors were 3% or less in contributing to dementia risk, if all of them were addressed – your risk of dementia will significantly drop.

So what can you do right now?

• Get your vision and hearing checked
• Increase your physical activity
• Stop smoking
• Limit your alcohol intake
• Get your blood pressure and LDL under control
• Work on losing extra belly fat
• Make sure your blood sugar is under control

One of the easiest ways to improve brain health, especially after traumatic brain injury is to support your hypothalamus. Extra Sacred Seven® amino acids are incredibly important for my patients with a history of traumatic brain injury.

If you have any questions about dementia risk, please join us in our Hormone Reboot Training.

Resources:

https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/dementia-prevention-intervention-care