from web: Ways to improve memory

Mari · 08-05-2008, 04:43 AM

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/60455.php

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. . . .Following these tips may help you keep your mind active and alert by protecting and strengthening your synapses:

1. Reduce stress: Make time for leisure activities. Learn relaxation techniques such as meditation. Cut down on unnecessary responsibilities and avoid over-scheduling.

2. Stimulate your brain: Avoid routine. Enjoy new sensory experiences. Challenge your mind and body with new situations.

3. Exercise: A brisk walk or other cardiovascular workout oxygenates the brain and promotes brain growth factors.

4. Challenge your mind: Tackle puzzles, games and demanding intellectual tasks. Make an effort to learn new information through classes or reading

5. Stay healthy: Eat a nutritious diet, get adequate sleep, avoid smoking, and if you use alcohol, drink in moderation. . . .

also

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Ron6.html

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Step #1: Use your imagination

Use your imagination when you face something that you want to memorize. When reading a book, imagine the things you are reading about. Imagine objects, people, situations, sounds, motion and more.

Imagination keeps you interested in a topic, makes it more fun, and gets you involved. This way your mind concentrates on what you are reading or listening and you're much more likely to remember it later

Step #2: Motivate yourself to learn

It's much easier to memorize something that you're learning with interest and motivation. It's also important to have a purpose why you want to learn something.

Understand why are you learning something and what benefits does the new information give you. Be involved in what you are learning as much as possible because then you have a purpose and more motivation to learn it.

Step #3: Have some spacing between learning sessions

You don't have to learn all information at once when you can learn everything much better by taking breaks between learning sessions. . . . .

Step #4: Learn with a clear mind

Try to be relaxed when learning. It is harder to learn something when you are stressed, tired, anxious or angry. You learn more, better and faster when your mind is not occupied by thoughts that distract you.

Also eliminate distractions like clutter, and other things that can distract you. Learn in stimulating, light and positive environment. . . . .

Step #5: Always educate yourself about memory

Your memory is one of the most important assets that you have and learning how to improve your memory is very important. . . . . .

An excellent website where you can learn how to improve your memory is
http://www.memory-improvement-guide.com/

and this
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-roc...y_b_83792.html

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Dr. Fotuhi suggests working out your brain by:

--trying a new route home,
--playing crosswords or Sudoku;
--learning a new hobby,
--or taking dance lessons.

"Dancing is one of the best ways to "cross-train" your brain," says Dr. Fotuhi. "The attention required for you to plan your steps, keep your space, maintain balance and move in coordination with your partner engages and strengthens all the different lobes of the brain."

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A diet rich in the following foods can rejuvenate your brain:
--omega-3 fatty acids, such as those found in seafood, canola and walnut oils;
--the anti-oxidants found in fruit, such as blueberries, cranberries, and purple grapes,
--and in vegetables, such as avocados, broccoli, beets, kale and red peppers;
--foods that act as anti inflammatory agents, such as curcumin--the spice that gives Chicken Curry its yellow color.

"India's incidence of Alzheimer's disease is 75% lower than in the U.S.," says Dr. Fotuhi, a fact he attributes, in part, to diet.

bizi · 08-05-2008, 09:28 AM

thank you mari, I will read this in depth tonight, must get moving...behind at work...did not sleep last night

Vowel Lady · 08-05-2008, 10:08 AM

If you go to www.iherb.com and put in "memory" or "ADD" in the search engine, you will find all sorts of supplements that might help with memory issues.

Fish Oil is said to be helpful, as well as the B vitamins. Same with exercise, good nutrition and plenty of sleep. Another supplement that might help is: Phosphatidylserine.

bizi · 08-06-2008, 08:13 PM

Vitamin B12 and Folate Deficiency / Alzheimers
Vitamin B12 deficiency can cause a dementia that is similiar to Alzheimer's Disease. Vitamin B12 deficiency often goes undetected because the low range lab values are set too low, and one can have B12 deficiency in the absence of other hematologic findings. More info in B12 Diagnostics. This is an easy base to cover, and I hope everyone with dementia or early Alzheimers diagnosis cover these simple bases because of the possibility of diagnostic confusion.

High-dose vitamin B12 for at-home prevention and reversal of Alzheimer's disease and other diseases - Townsend Letter May 2006

Familial Alzheimer's disease and vitamin B12 deficiency - Age and Ageing July 1994

Vitamin B12: Suprising New Findings - LE Magazine Dec 2000
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B12-deficiency can cause a dementia that looks exactly like Alzheimer’s disease. And Alzheimer’s disease itself is characterized by brain deficiencies of both vitamin B12 and the methylating factor, S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe). A new study from Germany correlates B12 deficiency in Alzheimer’s patients with two personality changes—irritability and disturbed behavior.

Relation of Higher Folate Intake to Lower Risk of Alzheimer Disease in the Elderly
http://archneur.ama-assn.org/cgi/con...stract/64/1/86

Nutrtional Healing on Dementia/Alzheimers:
http://www.nutritional-healing.com.a...FAlzheimer%27s

PubMed abstracts:

It was possible to detect, both in patients with MCI (1.5% and in patients with dementia (3.5%, a non-significant difference), abnormal metabolic values, indicating poorly controlled diabetes, renal failure, hyponatremia, folate or vitamin B12 deficiency and hyperthyroidism, which correction led to clinical improvement. The majority (62.5% of these alterations were previously unknown.
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
The use of laboratory tests in patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment. PMID: 16988482 Nov 2006

Depending on the biochemical criterion that is used, 5% to more than 20% of older adults have marginal or frank vitamin B12 deficiency.
What is an adequate dose of oral vitamin B12 in older people with poor vitamin B12 status?
PMID: 16958314 Aug 2006

Clinical relevance of low serum vitamin B12 concentrations in older people: the Banbury B12 study. PMID: 16709605 July 2006

These findings suggest that cobalamin deficiency may cause a reversible dementia in elderly patients. This dementia may be differentiated from that of Alzheimer's disease by a thorough neuropsychological evaluation.
Neuropsychology of vitamin B12 deficiency in elderly dementia patients and control subjects. PMID: 15681626 March 2005

Depression, B12 deficiency, and hypothyroidism should be screened for and treated in patients with dementia.
A synopsis of the practice parameters on dementia from the american academy of neurology on the diagnosis of dementia. PMID: 16553467 Jan 2004
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bizi · 08-06-2008, 08:19 PM

"Most cases of Alzheimer's dementia are actually missed B12 deficiency cases, because of the too-low normal range for B12," wrote John V. Dommisse, MD in 1991 in Medical Hypotheses. (3) Dommisse, who practices medicine in Tucson, Arizona, has confirmed (7,8,9) that Alzheimer's disease appears to result from too-low serum vitamin B12, and repletion of the vitamin succeeds despite other risk factors. Repleting B12, according to Dommisse, can reverse 75% of B12 deficiency dementias when the condition is discovered early enough. (10)
Other aspects of the therapy should be noted: The neurological and cerebral manifestations of B12 deficiency require dosages larger, (11) and extending over a longer time, (12) than to those needed to reverse hematologic effects. (13) B12 therapy appears to be perfectly safe; in other words, the risk of overdose is virtually nil. Patients of Dr. H.L. Newbold in New York City injected themselves three times daily with triple-strength doses of B12 (9,000 ug/micrograms/per day) indefinitely. Their serum B12 levels reached 200,000 pg/ml (100 times the normal level found in newborn babies and higher), but none had any significant side effects. (3)

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