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- Are Your Genetics Keeping You Fat? (1 tip to change fast)
- How Brain Workouts Can Prevent Aging?
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How Brain Workouts Can Prevent Aging?
Dear Reader,
When it comes to interventions the help you hold onto brainpower, there's just one, mental exercise, that has consistently shown itself to make a difference according to a review of published randomized controlled trials (the gold standard of research) that appears in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. How this applies to daily living or overall dementia risk remains unclear. What we do know is that you'll do better on some cognitive testing, though if this has a lasting impact has also yet to be demonstrated.
There are many products and programs that suggest they can slow mental decline, but there is no solid proof that any preserve brainpower. So beware of claims and keep up on the research in the area. Most doctors, your own included, will tell you there isn't anything out there now that's shown strong evidence of helping or holding onto memory. If there had been, we'd all be hearing more about it.
Conditions like mild cognitive impairment might impact as many as one quarter of those over the age of 70. Mild cognitive impairment is the name used to describe a condition of reduced memory, judgment and ability to make decisions when compared to another person of a similar age, but these defects are not severe enough to impact daily living. About 10% of these patients go on to have more serious dementia.
The subjects in all the published trials examined by the experts were 65 or over and had no signs of mental decline at the beginning of the study. Drugs, hormone therapy, vitamins like B6 and supplements such as gingko and omega-3s were found to offer no benefits. Most of the trials centered around estrogen replacement therapy for women found there was actually greater cognitive decline for the women taking the hormones.
Another study involving the brand name drug Aricept (donepezil) saw some improvement in subjects' ability to recall facts. Experiments using other medications showed no such benefit. Another study involved physical activity, and this yielded mixed results. The benefits here appear to be not in terms of memory, but rather in an area known as executive function.
Physical exercise, like strength training, also had weak evidence that it had any impact on cognitive function. That's not to say being active in your older years does not bring many other, equally valuable, benefits to the body.
None of the medications or therapies have any evidence to back their use according to study lead author Dr. Raza Naqvi, a researcher at the University of Toronto. He encourages researchers to keep pressing forward, but at present finds little evidence to recommend a lot of medications or other therapies.
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How Brain Workouts Can Prevent Aging? Continued...
Only mental training, an intervention where there were three studies to review, appeared to bring positive results every time. The mental training options studied included computerized training as well as intensive one-on-one personal cognitive training in memory, reasoning or processing speed. In one trial that was part of the review, the subjects who'd been randomly assigned to the memory group went through 10 hour long training sessions that showed them methods for remembering written things, like a list of words. Two years later those who participated in mental exercise did better on related tasks than did those who hadn't gotten the training.
When looking at how the mental training program impacted daily life... things like cooking a meal or looking up a phone number, the work also found signs that people who'd gotten the mental training did better.
It's still too early to say that mental exercise is a way to prevent or delay dementia. The trouble is, it's hard to compare the mental exercises that were used in the research to what's available to most people. Clearly it's smart to stay mentally and cognitively active as long as you can. Use any way that is stimulating to you and you're probably doing yourself, and your brain, a big favor.
To your good health,
Kirsten Whittaker
Daily Health Bulletin Editor
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Sources:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/coffee/
More on mental training for cognitive decline:
http://www.cognifit.com/science/mental-training
Research review, Canadian Medial Association Journal, online April 15, 2013:
http://www.cmaj.ca/content/early/2013/04/15/cmaj.121448
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