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Beat Alzheimer’s with Brain Training.

Here’s the best news for Baby Boomers this year!enjoy-life-without-alzheimer's

Latest US Study Finds Brain Training Linked to Decreased Risk of Alzheimer’s.

It’s a huge, 800 page study prepared for an NIH State-of-the-Science Conference “Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Decline:, but its findings are music to the ears of everyone over 50 who wants to keep a sharp, alert brain for the rest of their life. And who doesn’t!

Scientists, as you know, are very cautious about making promises but this is what they said:

“Of all the factors reviewed, including diet and dietary supplements, physical exercise, social engagement, and other leisure activities, only cognitive training was found to have a high level of evidence for being associated with a decreased risk of cognitive decline.”

This is fantastic news for Baby Boomers!

It means you don’t have to accept memory loss as a part of getting older.

You can do something about it!

‘Cognitive’ means brain and memory activities.

So, what the scientists are saying is this.

Although eating brain food, physical fitness and social activity are all really important,

‘only cognitive training was said to have a “high degree of evidence” in this report’.

These new scientific findings are of critical importance.

At 50+, you are confidently expecting to live a full and positive life, with plenty of time to enjoy the leisure activities you’ve promised yourself and your family during your busy earning years. You are entitled to those years – but more and more of us are being robbed of them through memory loss and Alzheimer’s.

But you can do something about that. Start today.

Sign up now for our FREE six-day Brain Tune course.

It will set you on the right path to brain fitness.

For further information, read lots of articles on this site, including  Nine Secrets of a Sharp Brain After 55 and Keep that Boomer Brain Growing

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This article was reproduced with permission of its author Gillian Eadie, founder of the Brain and Memory Foundation. Gillian is an award-winning educator with more than 20 years as a principal at several prestigious private schools and is a Churchill Fellow. For more free help and personal advice on Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and improving your memory, please visit the Brain and Memory Foundation.

Is My Memory Loss Normal or Is It Alzheimer’s?

What’s Normal and What’s Not?

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Is this forgetfulness normal?

Many people over the age of 50 (and maybe even younger) experience mild forgetfulness.
Although these are a wake-up call to pay attention to your brain and memory, if the forgetfulness includes:
• Forgetting parts of an experience
• Forgetting where you park the car
• Forgetting events from the distant past
• Forgetting a person’s name, but remembering it later
Then, your memory loss is mild and would be regarded in the ‘normal’ range. It’s worrying though and, in the view of Dr. Allison Lamont, the Memory Doctor, “it’s time to take stock of your lifestyle and memory habits. Memory can be enhanced at this stage.” Read more…

How to Improve Your Brain

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Never forget again!

Most people want to know how to improve their brain. Trouble is, most want improvement without actually having to do anything! And they want it NOW.

Well, there are some quick fixes that you can do today – and there are hints about some ways of doing things that will give you longer term improvement. No-one has to accept forgetfulness as a way of life, particularly if you are entering your 50’s and 60’s. Read more…

Avoid or Delay Dementia Later in Life.

Shocking headline UK, 2008

Shocking headline UK, 2008

I don’t know about you but I had not given a nanosecond’s thought to dementia – in fact, I wasn’t even certain what dementia was, exactly. Something to do with being demented or crazy, maybe …..

So I wasn’t exactly ready for being told that some of the odd things my Mom was doing were actually the first signs of Alzheimer’s disease, a kind of dementia. Like she was thinking it was night time and putting herself to bed in the afternoon. Or forgetting that she had just had lunch and wondering when lunch would be ready …. that sort of thing. What’s really scary, though, is that I’ve caught myself out being a bit forgetful as well and I’m just a baby-boomer. So, being anxious to make sure that I wasn’t on a fast-track to dementia, myself, I’ve done some research. Read more…

Keep Your Brain Sharp at Any Age

architect-small-sizeHave you had trouble remembering passwords or the time and location of an appointment you made a week ago?

Or forgotten an important birthdays? Been out and worried about whether you’d taken your medication, turned out the light, turned off the oven?

So, what’s happening? Read more…