Like many people of my life, there are times when I can’t find my dimensions, solar glasses, or my phone.
Over and over again, I will get an idea to find something, get to my computer, and forget what it was.
Ordinary aging?
Signs of cognitive weakness?
You are not sure, but if you have similar questions about yourself or a member Alzheimer’s Los Angeles disease (Details below). The AAA CONDUTIOTIS expert team will explain recent developments in prevention, early detection and treatment.
There are no treatments yet for dementia, which is the term umbrella for cognitive disorders, which is the most common Alzheimer’s disease. But thanks to progress in recent years, drugs can treat some mild and even moderate impairment symptoms, and with the number of dementia in the United States It is expected to double By 2060 with age and people who live longer, there is hope for continued progress.
“There is a huge increase in the number of clinical trials that test new treatments,” said Heather Cooper Ortner, President and CEO of Alzheimer’s disease in Los Angeles. There is ongoing research on drugs that may “enhance perception or treat difficult behaviors such as incitement, depression, hallucinations, and other psychological or behavioral symptoms.”
Only in the past few months, doctors have been encouraged before The approval of the FDA in May For a blood test that can help in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, and with increasing evidence that lifestyle options can improve mental intensity.
“This happens to be a very exciting time,” said Dr. David Robin, director of the dementia for the University of California, Los Angeles. “I just talked about the state of dementia in 2025, and most of what we are talking about, 10 years ago it was imagination.”
If you are among the millions of people who have risk factors for dementia, it may be possible not only to delay memory loss, but to improve the mental function.
Without taking any medicine.
the Study of the United States Index More than 2000 people follow five sites for two years, with a system of physical activity, brain exercises, healthy diet and social participation. Participants in North California participated under the supervision Uc Davis Health.
None of the participants had dementia, but they had risk factors including family history, cardiovascular disease, poor meals and lifestyles.
Half of the group was the training, and the other half was alone.
Both groups showed a perceived improvement, as stated in American Medicine Magazine.
Dr. Duj Tenna, researcher at Healthy brain clinic In Long Beach and a member of the Board of Directors of Alzheimer’s disease in Los Angeles.
Dr. Zaldi Tan, the medical director of the Cedars-Sinai program for memory and aging, was in the Toronto audience when the results of the index were announced, as you saw it.
“I can tell you that there is standing applause,” Tan said.
Some experts have noted that at least an improvement can be explained by what is known as the name “The effect of practice”, “ This means that the participants have become better in the cognitive test with multiple presentations. But the study was based on one decade ago in Finland, which had similar results.
Shernah said he preaches the same patients ’lifestyle options.
He said: “We have seen an increase in the decrease in Alzheimer’s disease and memory during the epidemic, when we were all closed and no one was on social media.” “There has been a greater risk of mental health problems, including cognitive issues. It has everything related to the use of your mind to communicate, social communication, and the purpose.”
Participants in the index, who numbered between 60 and 79 Follow a diet for the mindDifficulty in the Mediterranean diet. Many vegetables (especially paper), berries, beans, nuts, whole grains, fish and chicken. Very few foods are fried and processed, red meat, cheese and sweets.
They have done 30 minutes of moderate to condenser air activity four times a week, with strength and flexibility training twice a week. The program includes three weekly cognitive exercises of 30 minutes, social activities and regular health monitoring.
“It seems to delay the rate of aging of the brain,” said Dr. Tan.
The measures may not produce half of the desired results.
“Satan in the details,” said Tan. “People with blood pressure can be told 145 more than 95 by an initial care doctor … that is good … just more exercise.”
But they must work to achieve a 120 -year -old blood pressure goal, and the exercise cannot be just a picnic.
“The higher the exercise you are doing, the better,” said Robin, a vegetarian swimming four days a week, wanders three days on weekends. “The big benefit is transferred from sitting in front of the screen to doing something. Tell me [patients] To start five minutes, twice a day, and build. Half an hour a day is when they start seeing a lot of gains. “
In the first days of research, dementia was only diagnosed in the autopsy, and later through the spine liquid or PET tests. In the continuous development of science, the diagnostic blood test approved by the Food and Drug Administration-which costs several hundreds of dollars and has not yet been covered by insurance-is a much simpler means to detect vital indicators of Alzheimer’s disease.
“Now we realize that the scope of the disease can start 15 years before there are symptoms,” said Dr. Helena Choi, a Cake Hospital at the University of Southern California and a major investigator for Alzheimer’s Research Center.
Choi said that this gives doctors and patients the beginning of preventing or delaying the development of the disease with medical intervention or lifestyle changes. She asks her patients to follow the eight basic life strategy.
Better diet, more exercises, no smoking, healthy sleep, cholesterol management, blood sugar and blood pressure.
DRS. The Chui, Reuben and Trinh will be among the experts who explain all this in a Saturday conferenceSeptember 13, from 9 am to 4 pm at the Skirball Center. Another conference, in Spanish, will be held in Downey on September 26, and another, directed towards black society, will be held on October 4 in the hills of the Kalings Province.
All are free, and you can register to attend Alzheimorsla
Steve.lopez@latimes.com