If you’ve got restless leg syndrome (RLS), you already know it can flip your life upside down. The uncontrollable urge to move your legs can disrupt your social life… your exercise routine… and even your sleep. Now, a new study shows that having RLS can increase your risk of another dangerous condition. And this one [...]
A new, novel therapy for people suffering with Parkinson’s disease is drug free and requires no anesthetic, no incision, and no hospital stay. If that sounds too good to be true, then you’ll want to keep reading. Because the results of a published clinical trial on the therapy were so convincing the FDA gave this [...]
Your doctor probably hasn’t told you, but your brain has a superpower that allows your memory to stay healthy at any age—as long as you keep fueling the process. That power is the ability of neurons to reorganize themselves – a process known as neuroplasticity. And it’s quite a gift. Because it's this skill at [...]
If you think Alzheimer’s disease happens only to older people, think again. A Chinese teenager has become the world’s youngest person to be diagnosed with the condition. Although Alzheimer’s can strike people in their 20s and 30s, the unfortunate victims in these rare cases have head trauma, a family history of the disease, or a [...]
Wouldn’t it be amazing if a few magic words could help you strengthen your memory? Well, scientists now say that speaking the words of a second language are the only magic words you’ll ever need! In fact, by simply taking steps to learn a new language you can help delay or prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Especially [...]
The research is clear that staying socially engaged throughout middle age and beyond helps protect your memory against Alzheimer’s disease. But what about getting married and having a family? Being married continuously from mid-life onwards appears to save your memory and reduce your chances of developing dementia in old age. On the flip side, divorced [...]
Researchers made a surprising finding about another risk factor for Alzheimer’s. And the results of this brand-new research will have you tightening your helmet when you’re biking and doing what you can to avoid traumatic stress. I’m talking about the new findings of a large-scale study that revealed a direct link between Alzheimer’s-related dementia, head [...]
Memory loss is the main symptom we associate with Alzheimer’s disease. What this looks like in real life is that dementia sufferers often can’t recall recent events and learning new information becomes a struggle. It’s typically the first sign of the disease. The problems with thinking, reasoning, and language come later. But this isn’t always [...]
The mind-blowing Artificial Intelligence-powered ChatGPT, which can produce a human-like response to any task that involves language, has been making headlines since its recent release because of its remarkable capabilities. It can generate convincing articles, reports and much else on any subject. Even scientists have been fooled, unable to tell the difference between AI-generated abstracts [...]
For years Alzheimer’s disease researchers have pointed to tau proteins and amyloid beta proteins as drivers of the brain plaques behind the disease. Of course, natural doctors aren’t convinced that these proteins alone cause Alzheimer’s disease, and neither am I. There’s too much scientific evidence of older folks with brains chock full of these proteins [...]
