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A Potent Cocktail
Tips 3 and 4 👍 … I have mentioned before that you need mental challenge – at number 2 in these 12 tips to prevent dementia. Tip 3 is “look after your mental well being” and Tip 4 is “stay socially active” I see these as contributing to each other. Rather than just individual mental challenge…
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Brain Gym
Number 2 in these 12 tips to prevent dementia is “regularly challenge the brain” I do this by staying in touch with many different but current organisations that need planning, research, development and decision making. I’m lucky enough to have a life full of such things !!! Maybe TOO full 🤯 For others, particularly if…
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Jon Snow – Are you stalking me? 😂
Episode 1 Jon begins his Odyssey on the Greek Island of Ikaria where locals live 10 years longer than the European average. Jon Snow does his own investigation into living well to 100 years old Check out the sailing with an 87 year old doctor in episode 1. Just needs a decent fishing line 🎣…
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💤 SLEEP 😴
SLEEP 😴 The first of 12 ways for YOU to prevent dementia Dementia is a massive fear for me. The Parkinsons is bad enough and research has shown there is an increased risk of dementia in Parkinsons patients. ⛔️ NOT ME ⛔️ I’m doing everything I can to keep this awful disease from my door,…
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Is this the Silver Bullet?
Is B1 the answer to help with Parkinsons? Ageing… on the 1st January 2023 the World Health Organisation officially signed off “Ageing” as a disease. Long overdue. Just think about it. Cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular problems, Parkinsons Disease and Alzheimers Disease to name but a few, are afflictions that affect us as we grow older. How…
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Lets Get Serious…About Parkinsons & Dementia…
Precision Medicine leaps forward A randomised control trial published in the Journal of Alzheimers Disease (JAD) this year, 2022, in the UK looked at people with early stage dementia. Twenty-five patients with dementia or mild cognitive impairment were evaluated for a number of underlying issues including things such as inflammation, infection or vascular disease. Each…
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Stem Cells, the British and Democracy
Can stem cells be engineered to cure Parkinsons? A Cambridge Uni neuroscientist says “We now know that putting dopamine cells in the brain will work and the procedure is safe” See this article Radical new therapy for Parkinson’s will use stem cell transplants which gives me huge confidence that I will live to be able…
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The Big Yin at 80
Happy 80th Birthday Sir Billy Connolly. Born in Glasgow in 1942, Sir Billy’s career as a comedian, actor and musician spans more than five decades. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease a year after me, in 2013. He retired from live stand-up in 2018 but has continued to make tv programmes. In a fitting tribute…
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Clint Eastwood – still driving …
Clint Eastwood is still working in his 90s. This backs up my conviction that keeping working keeps you going. It exercises your brain, it gives you purpose, it surrounds you with people. Clint Eastwood was born in 1930 – and here he is looking fit and continuing to make films. Judi Dench – another one for…
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Gifts for Grandparents
… and treats for yourself ! As the festive season approaches are you scratching your head for inspiration for gifts for grandparents or other older people in your lives? To help with ideas I have put together some recommendations which you can find on “Gifts for Grandparents” or to find something for yourself, see Dicky’s…