Not Acting Your Age Can Be Healthy
Have you ever seen a 65 year old man with graying head driving with the top down in his brand new red Corvette? Or how about the 80 year old great grandmother who thinks her jet black hair is fooling anybody? Well these otherwise refusing-to-act-their age folks might just be on to something.
God bless my grandmother, Mary, 86 years young. She lives with me and my family and we just got back from a Christmas Holiday cruise. And that was her second cruise in 6 months! We call her the energizer bunny for obvious reasons.
Therapies that can keep us younger longer might also push back the clock on Alzheimer's disease, suggests a new study of mice in the December 11th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.
Reduction of insulin signaling is known to extend life span, but now Dillin and colleagues report that this strategy can also work to mitigate and forestall the affects of Alzheimer's disease in a mouse model.
Most cases of Alzheimer's disease (AD) exhibit sporadic onset during the seventh decade of life or later, whereas the fewer mutation-linked, familial cases typically manifest during the fifth decade. These temporal features, common to numerous neurodegenerative diseases, define aging as the major risk factor for the development of these maladies (Amaducci and Tesco, 1994).
Alzheimers is also referred to as "Type III Diabetes" because it is very much related to sugar metabolism in the brain as well as with brain insulin. That's why the same dietary and lifestyle factors that increase the risk of Type II diabetes also increase the risk of Alzheimer's Disease.
there is also evidence of involvement of progesterone, vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acid deficiencies in many Alzheimer's patients and it is believed that these deficiencies contribute to Alzheimer's risk.
"It's not how old you are, but how long you've been doing too much of the wrong things, or not enough of the right things."
I keep eating fish oil and garlic.