WE ARE TO AVOID STRESS BY CASTING ALL OUR CARES UPON JESUS
Here is a list of symptoms from the ASC:
Emotional: depression, tension, anxiety, anger, worry, fear
Physical: headache, fatigue, insomnia, sweating
Mental: poor concentration, memory loss, indecisiveness, confusion
Behavioural: fidgeting, overeating, alcohol and drug abuse
Alzheimer’s disease triggered by stress hormone buildup: U.S. study
Rebecca Melnyk | 13/06/26 | Last Updated: 13/06/26 4:44 PM ET
Roll out a yoga mat and meditate if you want to reduce your risk of developing late onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Vitamin B may help fend off Alzheimer’s in elderly by reducing brain shrinkage
Roll out a yoga mat and meditate if you want to reduce your risk of developing late onset Alzheimer’s disease.
The study, led by Domenico Praticò, professor of pharmacology and microbiology and immunology in Temple’s School of Medicine, looked at past research on corticosteroid — a stress response hormone found at levels two to three times higher in the blood of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Stress is known to be an environmental factor in Alzheimer’s and researchers wanted to add to this knowledge by studying what mechanisms were involved. They discovered early damage happens in the brain before the disease even occurs by finding that corticosteroid uses a brain enzyme called 5-lipoxygenase as a mechanism that damages the connection between neurons, leading to memory decline.
Scientists used triple transgenic mice — mice that contain genetic material transferred from another organism — that develop two brain abnormality signatures (amyloid beta and the tau protein) for the disease. Over the course of a week, one group of mice was injected with corticosteroid each day in order to mimic stress levels.
The mice did not suffer memory loss; however, scientists did find that the tau protein was significantly increased in the mice that received corticosteroid injections. The mice that did not contain 5-lipoxygenase seemed to show no neuronal damage. By inhibiting this 5-lipozygenase enzyme, it is believed to also block the effects of corticosteroid.
The Alzheimer Society of Canada cites stress as a risk factor in developing Alzheimer’s disease — a disease diagnosed in more than 500,000 Canadians. They suggest reducing stress through meditation, deep breathing, massage and physical exercise.
Awareness of the symptoms is key. Here is a list of symptoms from the ASC:
Emotional: depression, tension, anxiety, anger, worry, fear
Physical: headache, fatigue, insomnia, sweating
Mental: poor concentration, memory loss, indecisiveness, confusion
Behavioural: fidgeting, overeating, alcohol and drug abuse
WALTER KAMBULOW
Vitamin B may help fend off Alzheimer’s in elderly by reducing brain shrinkage
Elderly
people could stave off Alzheimer’s disease by taking supplements of B
vitamins, after they were found to reduce the brain shrinkage associated
with the disease by up to 90%, an Oxford University study has
suggested.
Vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid can lower levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to shrinkage of the brain in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Previous studies had shown that patients with mild cognitive impairment suffered 50% less brain shrinkage overall if they took B vitamins.
A new study published in the journal Aging Cell by
researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa., has found the
brain mechanisms involved that further link stress to the onset of
Alzheimer’s.Vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid can lower levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to shrinkage of the brain in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Previous studies had shown that patients with mild cognitive impairment suffered 50% less brain shrinkage overall if they took B vitamins.
The study, led by Domenico Praticò, professor of pharmacology and microbiology and immunology in Temple’s School of Medicine, looked at past research on corticosteroid — a stress response hormone found at levels two to three times higher in the blood of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Stress is known to be an environmental factor in Alzheimer’s and researchers wanted to add to this knowledge by studying what mechanisms were involved. They discovered early damage happens in the brain before the disease even occurs by finding that corticosteroid uses a brain enzyme called 5-lipoxygenase as a mechanism that damages the connection between neurons, leading to memory decline.
Scientists used triple transgenic mice — mice that contain genetic material transferred from another organism — that develop two brain abnormality signatures (amyloid beta and the tau protein) for the disease. Over the course of a week, one group of mice was injected with corticosteroid each day in order to mimic stress levels.
The mice did not suffer memory loss; however, scientists did find that the tau protein was significantly increased in the mice that received corticosteroid injections. The mice that did not contain 5-lipoxygenase seemed to show no neuronal damage. By inhibiting this 5-lipozygenase enzyme, it is believed to also block the effects of corticosteroid.
The Alzheimer Society of Canada cites stress as a risk factor in developing Alzheimer’s disease — a disease diagnosed in more than 500,000 Canadians. They suggest reducing stress through meditation, deep breathing, massage and physical exercise.
Awareness of the symptoms is key. Here is a list of symptoms from the ASC:
Emotional: depression, tension, anxiety, anger, worry, fear
Physical: headache, fatigue, insomnia, sweating
Mental: poor concentration, memory loss, indecisiveness, confusion
Behavioural: fidgeting, overeating, alcohol and drug abuse
WALTER KAMBULOW
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