“Is It Forgetfulness or Is It Something Else?”
Before working with older people, I personally never understood how much impact a disease like Alzheimer’s disease (AD) had on a patient. Being a type of dement...
Tag: Alzheimer’s
Preventing Insulin Resistance in Alzheimer’s Through Diet
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that causes difficultly with cognitive function, behavior, and day-to-day life functioning and it effects ove...
Lifestyle factors can impact brain health
Alzheimer’s disease: New research keeps shedding light on Alzheimer’s Disease prevention and treatment. New studies have linked Diabetes Mellitus Type II...
Forgetting to Live Healthy
Introducing the problem As advanced as modern medicine is, there are still anomalies which have the scientific community confused. Increasingly Alzheimer’s dise...
How Likely Are You to Develop Alzheimer’s?
One of the most common things you hear in relation to Alzheimer’s is “Oh all the men in my family get it, so I’m going to get it” or “It’s not in my family so I...
A Public Health Crisis: The Shocking Relationship Between Type Two Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease
Dementia and diabetes are two of the most prevalent health problems facing the world today. Countless resources are spent on treating the symptoms of each, thou...
Concussion: An Especially Relevant problem in the NFL in 2019
What causes concussion? Concussions are caused by head trauma, often a blow to the head in which the brain hits the opposite side of the interior of the skull. ...
“Grandma… it’s October”: What is happening to our relatives with Alzheimer’s Disease?
We all know someone who has been affected by Alzheimer’s disease: maybe a neighbor, a family member, or even a teacher/mentor. Alzheimer’s is a terrible disease...
What do diet and memory have in common?
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) involves degeneration of tissue in the brain while type 2 diabetes (T2D) involves an problem with insulin resistance. At first glance i...
Death Before Death: Alzheimer’s Disease
The ability to think is quite remarkable, and one that we often take for granted. It enables us to make decisions, to express our concerns, to giggle at our fav...