Save Your Brain:
Protect Yourself from the Ravages
of Alzheimer’s and Other Diseases
After age 40, most of us begin to worry about losing our memories and
even worse, becoming demented. This is especially true once we reach
our fifties.
But do we really need to worry? Yes and no.
Yes, because there has been an increase in the incidence of
neurodegenerative
diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and
Lou Gehrig’s disease over the last two decades. Though medical
scientists
have no explanation for this increase, there are many strong clues.
No, because there is growing evidence that simple steps can be taken
to significantly reduce your risk.
What Causes the Brain to Age
As with most things in the universe, we have discovered that the
secret of aging lies in commonly occurring events in the body,
something
shared by all cells. This common event is the accumulated damage
to vital cellular components by free radicals.
Most of us have heard of antioxidants and that they are good for you.
Antioxidants are substances that neutralize free radicals. So, what is
a
free radical?
Basically, free radicals are highly reactive submicroscopic particles
that bounce around inside a cell like red-hot BBs, burning everything
they touch.
Each cell is filled with delicate factories that perform all sorts of
vital
functions such as generating energy, making enzymes and other
proteins,
and storing information, as with DNA.
Free radicals chip away at these cell factories the way water dripping
on a stone wears the stone away. In the beginning, the damage is so
minute that little is harmed, but over time the cell’s function
becomes
impaired. The effects of this chipping away by free radicals depends
on
the types of cells affected and how severely they are damaged.
God also created a system to repair much of this damage, but our poor
The
Edited by Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
Blaylock Wellness Report
June 2004 Vol. 1, No. 2
Quick FactsOn Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:42:21 -0000, Joe
Thanks for being helpful, but I'm not needing to cut and paste
anything. I'm speaking of moving the cursor around the document. Just
like there's a "Move to end of line" command, I'm looking for a "Move
to next/previous column" command. But I need it not to jump the cursor
up to the beginning of the next column but rather move it straight
across to the line that's parallel to the one it was on.
Oh. Well <TAB> moves to the next cell right and <SHIFT> <TAB> moves to
the next cell left.
