Time To Begin Brain Health Improvement
At OVitaminPro, we like to see people making an effort to protect brain function. Too many times we have seen people heading down the path to dependence on others because they didn’t take simple steps. My own family has a mixed record with respect to brain health in their later years. One side of the family did pretty well without working too hard at it and the other side had major issues by their mid 60s or so. I could feel my own brain shutting down about 20 years ago when in my early 50s so I knew I had better learn what my brain wanted to be able to last another 40 years or so, just in case my heart would last that long.
First, a person must have the ability to perform a decent self-evaluation of brain health. It is important to be honest about this. The mother of one person I know didn’t say much about her cognitive state until she couldn’t find her way home from the grocery store in a town she had lived in most of her life. Only then did she finally admit to having a problem and request help.
Hopefully you will notice small problems in your brain and begin making changes at the first signs of difficulty. It will never be easier than now to make positive changes.
I should mention that if problems begin early and with some level of severity and rapidity, that is in your 40s or 50s, you may have a genetic propensity for dementia, and there may not be much you can do about it. This is thought to make up maybe 5% of dementia cases, however. A large majority of cases can respond to lifestyle changes.
We had friends who got divorced in their 50s because the husband was becoming very unreasonable and angry. It was later that he also began to lose track of where he was in their town and then, and only then did the now ex-wife realize that this was a type of dementia. In this case, early onset and fairly sudden personality change were keys to a diagnosis of a type of dementia that eventually took his life.
I mention these cases to help you be aware of these more serious types of cognition problems. Again, cases that come on slowly and respond well to changes in diet and supplements are the more garden variety and what most people will run into.
So keep an eye on signs of brain health that could affect memory, learning, reasoning, concentration, problem solving, decision making and resistance to stress.
It might take some work to bring your brain’s health back to a better level but what better thing do you have to do today?
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