How to decrease Alzheimer’s disease risk by 60%

In the next year, it is estimated that every 10 seconds a baby boomer will turn 65 years old. That is around 70 million in the next couple of decades.

What does this mean?

Now we must face many new challenges that we have not seen with previous generations. Chronic diseases, which affect older adults disproportionately, contribute to disability, diminish quality of life, and increased healthcare costs. One of the main fears is of an “Alzheimer’s epidemic”.

Is there anything that we can do?

Indeed there is something proven to decrease Alzheimer’s risk by 60%, decrease dementia risk by 50%, and stroke by more than 57%.

The problem with it is that it is not a new great drug or a new revolutionary therapy. Like one of my patients told me “Doc, if it is not new, expensive, and has many side effects, people don’t pay much attention.”

I think that part of the problem is that when things sound too good to be true, usually they are. This one must be one of the greatest exceptions to that rule. This therapy has side effects, but most, if not all, are actually good!

Documented side effects include decreasing the following (pain, anxiety, weight, heart attack risk, blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes risk, arthritis, skin infections), while improving energy, memory, problem solving skills, reasoning, libido… and the list goes on.

Does it sound too good to be true?

The answer is 30 minutes of exercise at least 3 times a week. Studies have even compared couch potatoes that fidget a lot on their couches to those who don’t and found it has an impact on health.

To me, one of the greatest challenges is to get the message to the masses. One of the main myths that needs to be revised is that, to exercise, you need expensive home equipment, to pay for a gym membership, or to start running. I have patients who like to dance, swim, walk the dog briskly, ride their bicycle … The most important thing is to increase your heart rate enough; sweating is a good sign.

Believe me, if exercise came in pills, it would be the miracle drug, and some physicians would be looking for work.

Jose Oscar Seda MD

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