World Alzheimer's Day 2005
by Medindia Content Team onExercise keeps ‘Alzheimer’s Away’
London: Regular exercise can keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay according to a recent study done in the UK.Exercise flushes out the toxic chemical that causes this degenerative disease of the brain in the elderly population. Exercise replaces the toxic molecules with beneficial ones that protect the nerve cell.
The research, led by Ignacio Torres-Aleman from the Cajal Institute in Madrid, found that exercise doubles the presence of the protein megalin which not only ejects a potentially destructive protein called amyloid-beta, from the brain, but also binds to insulin-like growth factor, a beneficial molecule, and transports it to the brain.
Alzheimer's Disease
Study done on Genetically altered mice suggest that the Curcumin (A yellow pigment of the spice turmeric used in Indian cooking) inhibits the growth of the destructive beta Amyloids and breaks up Amyloid plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's Patients. The effectiveness of Curcumin is determined to it's molecular structure and weight, which allows it to easily penetrate into the blood brain barrier binding the beta amyloid...Depression
Depression, an illness that involves both the well being of the mental as well as physical state of a person. It is often clinically called as a depressive disorder which effects the way in which one things and deifiers situations around them. Depression often disrupts the normal life of a person, with an overall change in attitude and behavior both internally and externally. Research has shown that on the whole suicides are commoner among men.Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a persistent, lifelong condition, which has no cure, but there are ways to approach learning and be successful with it.The world Dyslexia -'Dys' Means "difficulty" and 'lexia' means "Words" essentially gives one the definition of what dyslexia is in a nut shell - " A person with difficulty in words".
