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Prevention of Alzheimer

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The person must take preventive measures to avoid the disease, especially those with a family history of this disease. Prevention includes avoiding and replacing the wrong practices with health, including: Regular and daily exercise, as this will help maintain the activity of the brain and nerves naturally even after reaching a large age, and these sports: jogging, swimming. Energize the brain daily with some mental exercises, reading, writing, thinking, because this will help to renew brain cells and protect them from inactivity and damage. To get a healthy social life, the association of people helps to get busy, and the mind does not surrender to the negative thoughts and boredom that leads to its inactivity, and the mental illness which is a catalyst for Alzheimer's disease. Eat healthy food containing nutrients such as Omega 3, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals, healthy and natural fats, and must avoid foods harmful to the mind, which cause him to id...

Alzheimer disease

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Alzheimer Disease Alzheimer disease Alzheimer disease is a degenerative disease of the brain that leads to dementia (mental deterioration). Nearly half of the senior housing clientele is made up of ALZHEIMER patients. From 5 % to 15% of the over 65s are affected, and up to 50% of the over 85s die.  In 2007, the number of people affected was estimated at 100,000 in Quebec. The disease is characterized by loss of memory, reduction of the duration of attention, disorientation, in the last stages of the disease, the inability to recognize easygoing people become in some years irritable moody, disoriented, sometimes violent, and end up having hallucinations. The disease Is association with deficiency Acetylcholine and to change structurally the brain, especially in regions governing cognition and memory. The disease seems to have a hereditary component in some cases. Researchers study a protein called (TAU) in the role, similar would link (rails) that are mi...