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Tag : dementia
Are Carbs Causing Dementia?
Dementia is on the rise. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) there are currently around 47 million people with dementia and that number is expected to get up to nearly three times that many within 30-35 years.
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Cognition
Fat is Expensive
When your doctor tells you to lose weight, it’s not because they care what you look like in a bathing suit. We used to think that fat was just energy stored against the future, and that someday there will be a famine so the skinny would starve and the chubby would inherit the earth.
But that famine never came. We now know that fat produces a variety of hormones, peptides, and enzymes that can have wide-ranging impact on your health. Overweight people have increased risk of diabetes, dementia, cancer, sexual dysfunction, heart disease and strokes. It costs Medicare 50% more every year to treat an obese American compared to one of normal weight. The problem is only 20% of Medicare patients are normal weight.
If we Americans lost our extra weight, most of the healthcare crisis would disappear right along with the pounds.
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Dr. Mixon's Longevity Journal
Link Between Soft Drink & Incidence of Depression
A new study links soft drinks and depression. Researchers followed almost 264,000 people for 10 years. The study demonstrated rather convincingly that people who drink more than four soft drinks per day have a 30% increase in their risk of becoming clinically depressed.
Interestingly, it’s not the sugar, since those who drank diet soda had a slightly higher risk of depression than those who drank the sugared versions. The sugar, of course, will make you fat, raise your cholesterol, and increase your risk of dementia. But there’s something else that’s present in both the diet and sugared versions that seems to increase your risk of developing a
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Dr. Mixon's Longevity Journal
Is Genetics Nature or Nurture?
When it comes to health, people often say, “Genetics is destiny.” In other words, you were born pre-wired for the condition of your health today. Is that true? Well – yes and no.
When I was a lad in medicine, the great debate was over "Nature vs. Nurture." We were taught the prevailing wisdom that there were aspects of our lives that were determined by our genetic code and others that were a function of our environment. The debate concerned which factors fell into which category. Based on the medical knowledge we have today, it turns out that much of the intellectual and emotional energy of that debate was wasted. Now we know that a great deal of what we call “our genetic predisposition” is dramatically influenced by our environment. In other words, Nature is significantly affected by Nurture.
Of course, this doesn’t mean your genes actually change. They were fixed when the egg and sperm provided by your parents first came together
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Dr. Mixon's Longevity Journal
Can Diabetes truly be cured or is it just "remission"?
When a diabetic no longer needs medication and has normal blood sugars – do we call it remission or do we call it a cure?
Assume for a moment that you're a diabetic. Your fasting blood sugar is 214. Your hemoglobin A1c – the component of hemoglobin to which glucose is bound – is an unhealthy 7.9. You are taking nine pills per day in an effort to control your blood sugar, but it does not seem to be working. This means you are a poorly controlled type 2 diabetic, and your risk of experiencing the deadly effects of unchecked diabetes – heart attacks, strokes, dementia, blindness, kidney failure, loss of sensation in your extremities and amputations – is significantly elevated.
Now, let's consider a different scenario.
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Diabetes, Dr. Mixon's Longevity Journal
