Are you always forgetting where you put your keys? Do you tend to forget people’s names? Do you forget what you were saying mid-sentence? Do you often miss appointments? Sometimes forgetfulness can be attributed to a sporadic lapse in memory, however if the problem persists, it may be a sign that you’re suffering Alzheimer’s disease.
November is known as Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. According the Alzheimer’s Association, every 70 seconds someone will develop Alzheimer’s disease. The disease is defined as short-term memory loss (STML) and is a result of ongoing degenerative neurological processing, and nearly 5 million people suffer from the progressive brain disease for which there is no cure.
Neurologist experts have divided the disease into three main stages; early onset, moderate stage and late stage. According to leading neurologist, Dr. Galvez-Jimenez in a recent article in the Sun Sentinel, “In the early stages the main complaint is moderate forgetfulness, finding the right words, problems with names and mild confusion; the moderate stage shows the person becoming more introspective, they can show agitation and depression and become either apathetic or aggressive. In the late stages full time care becomes a necessity. The person may require care for incontinence, dressing oneself, providing medications and eventually become wheelchair bound or bed bound.”
Recent studies have revealed a link between hormonal imbalance and Alzheimer’s disease. Although currently there is no known cure, there are many preventive steps that one could take in order to sidestep the onset of the disease. It’s important to remember that hormonal imbalance affects EVERYONE (that’s right gentlemen, you too!) and although it is indeed an imminent toil of aging, it doesn’t have to lead to suffering and disease. Some researchers attribute Alzheimer’s disease to poor lifestyle choices such as lack of exercise and poor nutrition as well as environmental factors such as pollution and oxidation. Whatever the cause may be, experts claim that balancing your hormones can help. Balancing your hormones doesn’t only help to relieve symptoms of menopause and andropause (the male menopause), it turns out that balancing your hormones greatly reduces your risk of developing infammatory-related diseases such as various types of cancers, athersclerosis and… Bingo! Alzheimer’s disease. Being that our hormones naturally decline as we age, our bodies become more susceptible to inflammation. The hormone progesterone has been found to help decrease inflammation and in turn greatly reduce one’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. There are many bioidentical hormones such as progesterone, testosterone and estrogen that have already been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (over 20) and have proven to be the most natural and effective way to correct hormonal imbalance and often reverse the aging process.
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