A study published in the journal Neurology examines the relationship between vitamin B12 and homocysteine and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.  It was determined that for each small increase in homocysteine the risk of Alzheimer’s disease increased by 16 percent.  However, it was also found that each small increase in vitamin B12 ...

Dementias are disorders with symptoms of memory loss and a decrease in cognition and the ability to reason. Dementia, sometimes called “senility,” is not a part of the normal aging process, and shows that some other disease may be present. Dementia affects a person’s ability to be successful in carrying out their activities of daily living. Accurate diagnosis of the disease that is present is necessary for treating the dementia properly.

Of course, just about everyone worries about Alzheimer’s. It currently afflicts 5.2 million people in the US and is the seventh leading cause of death. The cost of treating it is estimated at $148 billion.

Mary Newport, MD, has been medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit at Spring Hill Regional Hospital in Florida since it opened in 2003. About the same time the unit opened, her husband Steve, then 53, began showing signs of progressive dementia, later diagnosed as Alzheimer’s.

Some argue that humans were destined to be vegetarians - the argument is based on the length of our digestive tract and the type of teeth we have, both of which are similar to non-meat eating mammals. Paleontology and biochemical observations, however, indicate otherwise. While the ancestors of humans may have subsisted on a diet of plants including fruits and nuts and while that may explain an anatomy adapted to that type of food - the real transformation of the human

Phospholipids are the main molecular building blocks for cell membranes, the dynamic structures upon which our cells rely for their functions. PS is one of these phospholipids. Among the functions clinically proven to have benefited by supplements of PS are memory, learning, comprehension, word recall - features of cognition. Along with cognition other benefits include mood, anxiety, and coping with stress.

Important to learning, memory and other

Concentration, memory and mood -- whether we are fifteen and struggling with math or sixty-five and looking forward to an active retirement, these matter. Nutrients which support brain health should be a part of any supplementation program.

FIRST, LAY THE FOUNDATION

When building a house, you start with the foundation; when building brain health, you look to the health of the body as a whole. Several studies have shown

It is possible to naturally boost and/or to stabilize the brain's levels of various neurotransmitters without getting caught up in the pharmaceutical drug culture. One method of improving the mood, which works for many, is to provide additional quantities of the nutritional building blocks of the major neurotransmitters.

The quality of both mental and emotional functioning is highly dependent upon special messengers in the brain called

The May (2004) issue of the Archives of Neurology published a study which shows strong connections between diabetes and Alzheimer's. Lead author of the study, a neurologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago confirms that "confidence that diabetes is linked to Alzheimer's is pretty strong."

The new research is one of the first long-term studies to follow people with no signs of Alzheimer's and track how diabetes affects their risk of

There is reason for celebration among proponents of natural healing, and the guest of honor is ginkgo. Recent research results may finally convince U.S. physicians to seriously consider natural treatments.¹ It isn't because there wasn't evidence to support ginkgo as an effective treatment for dementia

Although every major organ is critical to physiological functioning, one might say that the brain is the body's dictator. This three-pound, walnut-shaped organ encased in the skull orchestrates an astounding array of functions throughout the body. As Richard Restak, M.D., notes: "The human brain can store more information than all the libraries in the world. It is also responsible for our most primitive urges, our loftiest ideals, the way we think. ... The workings of an