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RE: Would you choose to know if you were likely to develop Alzheimer's?

Maddog · Go Outside

Alzheimer’s disease, strokes, and diseases of the heart are 3 of the top 5 causes of death for Americans over the age of 65.

Study after study has shown that exercise significantly decreases your risk for all three of these diseases. In fact, when it comes to living a longer life of better quality, regular exercise is one of the best investments you can make.

The heart benefits of regular exercise have long been known, more recently research has emerged on how exercise can prevent and even improve Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Exercise and Alzheimer’s

During exercise your heart beats more quickly and increases the amount of blood that is pumped to your muscles and brain. The increased blood flow brings the brain more of the nutrients and energy that it needs to function while also removing an increased amount of waste products from the brain.

^From the American Alzheimers Association.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
I don't know that any of the above does lower the risk of developing Alzheimers.
All of the above lower the risk of being physically unhealthy, not so sure about mentally.
It does.

Alzheimers doesn't randomly impact society. Neither does heart disease or cancer..

You can develop all 3 while doing everything right, but your odds decrease by living certain lifestyles..

You may be right....or wrong, I doubt whether enough evidence has been gathered yet to ascertain exactly who is more at risk and why.

Odd that the UK tops some polls in % of Alzheimer sufferers, yet we are a relatively rich country, but then we have an ageing population, which I suspect is the main cause of the high %.

The US, which has a far greater population with obesity...is further down the table.

Maddog · Go Outside

Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
I don't know that any of the above does lower the risk of developing Alzheimers.
All of the above lower the risk of being physically unhealthy, not so sure about mentally.
It does.

Alzheimers doesn't randomly impact society. Neither does heart disease or cancer..

You can develop all 3 while doing everything right, but your odds decrease by living certain lifestyles..
You may be right....or wrong, I doubt whether enough evidence has been gathered yet to ascertain exactly who is more at risk and why.
Odd that the UK tops some polls in % of Alzheimer sufferers, yet we are a relatively rich country, but then we have an ageing population, which I suspect is the main cause of the high %.
The US, which has a far greater population with obesity...is further down the table.

That's because something else gets us before we can develop alzheimers.

Heart disease.

Also preventable to some degree..

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
I don't know that any of the above does lower the risk of developing Alzheimers.
All of the above lower the risk of being physically unhealthy, not so sure about mentally.
It does.

Alzheimers doesn't randomly impact society. Neither does heart disease or cancer..

You can develop all 3 while doing everything right, but your odds decrease by living certain lifestyles..
You may be right....or wrong, I doubt whether enough evidence has been gathered yet to ascertain exactly who is more at risk and why.
Odd that the UK tops some polls in % of Alzheimer sufferers, yet we are a relatively rich country, but then we have an ageing population, which I suspect is the main cause of the high %.
The US, which has a far greater population with obesity...is further down the table.
That's because something else gets us before we can develop alzheimers.

Heart disease.

Also preventable to some degree..

I 100% agree that lifestyle and diet can help or hinder our physical selves, I am just not convinced that Alzheimers and dementia is a result of that.

Depression can obviously be a cause, or maybe a forerunner, but personally, I think age, genetics and just the luck of the draw are the things that determine whether one gets altzheimers or any form of dementia.

Maddog · Go Outside

Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
I don't know that any of the above does lower the risk of developing Alzheimers.
All of the above lower the risk of being physically unhealthy, not so sure about mentally.
It does.

Alzheimers doesn't randomly impact society. Neither does heart disease or cancer..

You can develop all 3 while doing everything right, but your odds decrease by living certain lifestyles..
You may be right....or wrong, I doubt whether enough evidence has been gathered yet to ascertain exactly who is more at risk and why.
Odd that the UK tops some polls in % of Alzheimer sufferers, yet we are a relatively rich country, but then we have an ageing population, which I suspect is the main cause of the high %.
The US, which has a far greater population with obesity...is further down the table.
That's because something else gets us before we can develop alzheimers.

Heart disease.

Also preventable to some degree..
I 100% agree that lifestyle and diet can help or hinder our physical selves, I am just not convinced that Alzheimers and dementia is a result of that.
Depression can obviously be a cause, or maybe a forerunner, but personally, I think age, genetics and just the luck of the draw are the things that determine whether one gets altzheimers or any form of dementia.

Your brain is an organ. It will perform better in person that takes good care of their body.

The research is quite clear..

Google alzheimers and exercise..

-- Edited by Maddog on Saturday 13th of September 2025 07:40:11 PM