Preventing Alzheimer's with Vitamins

Most Alzheimer's patients are banging their heads tothese vitamins have proven helpful in numerous health
find out the answer for one of the most commonconditions including stress, high cholesterol, high blood
questions - Can vitamins help prevent Alzheimer'spressure, and heart disease.
disease? For the benefit of these sufferers, a studyIn order to help protect your brain from damage, you
was conducted in Johns Hopkins University to studymust include a sufficient amount of antioxidant vitamins
the progress of Alzheimer's disease. The results didto help control Alzheimer's. The amount of vitamins
suggest that the Alzheimer patients who consumedneeded to help prevent the disease varies for each
vitamins C and E together might slow down theindividual based on several factors including genetics
progress of this disease.and diet. Typically, if you were to include 500 milligrams
There is always hope that there is a cure out there,of vitamin C and 500 milligrams of vitamin E daily with
and this holds true for Alzheimer's too. This dreadfulyour diet, you may help protect your brain cells from
disease robs millions of people of their lives andearly destruction, and therefore, Alzheimer's.
memories. As prevention is better than cure, you canIt is evident through the many studies performed that
reduce your risk of disease by adopting some simplevitamins E and C may offer a defense against
measure that will be discussed in this article.Alzheimer's disease when consumed in combination.
Effects of Alzheimer'sHowever, when vitamin E is combined with the lower
A great number of our senior citizens in nursingdoses of vitamin C found in multivitamins, there is little
facilities have Alzheimer's disease. The main action ofprotective effect for brain. You must take large doses
this disease is that it will shut down the short-termof both to get the desired effects.
portion of the brain. The typical Alzheimer patient mayOther vitamins to consider
forget the name of their children but will rememberIn addition to these vitamins, there are two other
people and events from their childhood.substances that your body needs a healthy amount of
After 20 years of age, the human brain cells start toto ward off Alzheimer's, vitamin B and homocysteine.
pass away at a rate of about 9000 per day. For thisLow B vitamin and high homocysteine may lead to
reason, scientists have been testing the effects ofAlzheimers disease. Food sources that are rich in
vitamins on the human brain. Vitamins C and E seemVitamins B6, B12, and folate such as leafy green
to offer the most benefit .vegetables, spinach, chickenpeas, lentils, and asparagus
The antioxidant vitamin supplementsshould be included in your diet. Excess homocysteine
Vitamin C and E are building blocks of good health andwill be metabolized by Vitamin B6, B12 and folate.
may protect the aging brain from Alzheimer's disease.Consumption of the food sources rich in these
A healthy body will secrete enough Vitamin C and E tonutrients may minimize the occurrence of the
defend the brain from injury from free radicals. Both ofAlzheimer's disease.