10 Ways To Protect Your Brain and Keep Alzheimer’s At Bay

Far too many of us these days have had some experience with friends or loved ones who are dealing with Alzheimer’s and it’s heart-breaking physical, emotional and mental impact. Though many of us witness the disease at arm’s length, it’s hard not to think about the frightening specter of Alzheimer’s possibly affecting our own brains someday. How to side-step this scourge? Though we don’t have all the answers yet, we do know that a healthy lifestyle can have a big impact on reducing risk, slowing the progression of the disease and possibly even torpedo it all together. My advice? Start turning the tide and try incorporating these 10 do-now, brain-health habits to help keep yours in top form and trouble-free for years to come: 1) Delete pro-inflammatory foods from your life. In addition to setting you up for obesity and type 2 diabetes, sugar may also be destroying your brain cells! In fact, many scientists are now calling Alzheimer’s the ‘diabetes of the brain’ or ‘diabetes 3’ – making avoidance of all that sugar and excessive carbs endemic to the Standard American Diet (SAD) absolutely essential – that is, if maintaining a healthy brain is your goal. Other key brain-health killers to avoid: the cocktail of chemicals, industrial seed oils (aka vegetable oils), processed foods, and factory-farmed meats, which are, in addition to carbs and sugar, are cornerstones of the aptly acronymed ‘SAD.’ They too are robbing your brain and body of health by perpetuating the kind of disastrous, almost non-stop inflammation that sets the table for life-altering neurological problems and disease. 2) Feed your brain what it needs! Trading sugars, industrial oils, processed foods, and factory-farmed meats for real, whole, nutrient-dense foods will give brain-health a boost by supplying your brain-protecting ‘glial’ cells with the nutrients they need […]

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