General description of the disease
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease in which there is a breakdown of mental functions due to damage to the cerebral cortex. The disease is named after the German psychiatrist who first described it (in 1906). Otherwise, the disease is called senile dementia of alzheimer’s type or senile marasmus, since, basically, it occurs in elderly people (who have lived more than 65 years). It is extremely rare to have an early form of Alzheimer’s disease.
Stages and symptoms of Alzheimer-type senile dementia:
- stage of prementia – the patient is not able to remember recent events or to voice the information he just heard, is unable to acquire new skills, knowledge and skills, the patient has a lack of composure, an apathetic state, abstract thinking is impaired;
- stage of early dementia – severe violations in colloquial speech (speech becomes incoherent, simpler, sometimes the meanings of words are forgotten), disorders in coordination of movements;
- stage of moderate dementia – speech becomes more incoherent, the patient loses the ability to read and write, long-term memory disorders are already underway, a person may not recognize his relatives, there is an evening aggravation (evening vagrancy through the streets, which is why the largest number of elderly people are lost), unexpected attacks aggression (sometimes manifested in the form of crying), there may be enuresis;
- stage of severe dementia – at this stage, the patient cannot take care of himself on his own, therefore he is completely dependent on the help of others (relatives, special personnel), he has bad speech (a person speaks individual words or phrases, and after a certain period of time, speech disappears completely ), it is worth noting that after the loss of speech, the patient realizes what he is being told and reacts to the emotions of the people around him. In the future, muscle tissue atrophies, due to which the patient becomes recumbent. Fatalities are not specifically due to Alzheimer’s disease, but directly due to the impact of some other factor (for example, pressure ulcers, pneumonia, viruses, and infections).
The reasons for the development of Alzheimer’s disease are:
- 1 accumulation of neurofibrillary blood clots and tangles in the brain tissue;
- 2 genetic predisposition;
- 3 head trauma;
- 4 hypothyroidism;
- 5 intoxication of the body with heavy metals;
- 6 brain tumors;
- 7 the body receives an insufficient amount of nutrients that are required to transmit impulses to the nervous system.
Healthy foods for Alzheimer’s
The patient needs to add antioxidant foods to food. As they kill free radicals that enter the body from poor quality or unhealthy food, thereby preventing premature aging and tissue damage. To do this, you need to eat foods containing vitamins B1, B6 and B12, C, E, beta-carotene, selenium, zinc, coenzyme Q10 and niacin (B3). These beneficial substances are found in:
- fatty fish, lamb, beef, liver, chicken;
- egg yolks;
- dairy products and Dutch cheese;
- vegetable oils: olive, flaxseed;
- vegetables: cabbage (especially sauerkraut), olives, blue, zucchini, tomatoes, corn, bell peppers, carrots, beets;
- fruits and berries: apricots, oranges, grapefruits, strawberries, strawberries, rose hips, viburnum, sea buckthorn, grapes, avocado, apples, pomegranates, kiwi, black currant, melon;
- spices and herbs: spinach, parsley, dill, thyme, basil, rosemary, oregano, horseradish;
- cereals: oatmeal, wheat, oatmeal, rice, barley, millet, buckwheat;
- pasta products;
- mushrooms: white mushroom and champignons;
- nuts and seeds;
- bread with bran and made from wholemeal flour;
- cereals and legumes;
- beekeeping products: honey, pollen, propolis oil, bee bread, royal jelly;
- dried fruits: prunes, raisins, dried apricots;
- water and fresh juices.
Traditional medicine for Alzheimer’s disease
For the treatment of the disease, it is necessary to apply the following recipes:
- Every day you need to drink tea (green or black) at the rate of 1 teaspoon of tea leaves for 200 milliliters of water.
- Take 10 grams of a mixture of lemongrass berries and ginseng root, pour a liter of boiled water, put on fire and boil for a quarter of an hour. Drink a day.
- Drink 2 cups a day of a decoction from the roots of Witania (200 milliliters will require 5 grams of roots).
- Good remedies are decoctions of the leaves of ginkgo biloba, Indian shieldwort, shatavra, mangosteen fruits. They help improve blood pressure, strengthen the brain. Before you start taking, you need to consult with your doctor so that he indicates the required dose for the patient.
- Every day, do rubbing with vinegar (it, absorbed into the skin, replenishes the insufficient amount of acid in the body).
- You need to drink kvass made from the needles of the Christmas tree. To do this, take the twigs and cut them (at 6 cm intervals), fill a 3-liter jar, pour water from a well (column) or from under a filter, add 100 grams of sugar and 10 grams of sour cream. Insist 3 weeks. Drink 100 milliliters for a month 30 minutes before meals (and so three times a day).
- Also, drink decoctions of dandelion, elecampane, wormwood, corn stigmas, lemon balm, centaury, hawthorn, sage, St. John’s wort, heather, eleutherococcus, hemlock, cinquefoil. You can combine them into fees.
- Every day you need to memorize a small poem, play checkers, chess, dominoes and other intellectual games.
- If possible and feeling well, do exercises in the fresh air.
Dangerous and unhealthy foods for Alzheimer’s disease
- excessively fatty, salty, sweet foods;
- alcohol;
- instant food, semi-finished products, canned food, smoked meats, products with E coding.
All of these foods contribute to the formation of plaque and tangles of neurons in the brain.
Stop smoking.
Attention!
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