Not long ago, 68-year-old Uncle Wang suffered a sudden cerebral infarction. This cerebral infarction left him in a coma for six months. Saved a life. After the coma, Uncle Li’s brain function seems to have been damaged.

I don’t remember some things very clearly, and many familiar people have become unfamiliar, and my emotional state is sometimes happy and sometimes lost. Mood swings are very high. Such symptoms lasted for more than half a month.Uncle Wang’s family took him to the hospital again for a systematic physical examination.

The conclusion given by the doctor is that Uncle Wang has serious sequelae after suffering from cerebral infarction, and these sequelae damage his brain. Brain function, causing vascular dementia, which is a type of Alzheimer’s disease. This made his family feel very sad. His relatives stood in front of him, but he couldn’t recognize him. He could only enjoy his old age with the careful care of his family.

First, stay away from these two habits!

Is vascular dementia a disease of eating? There is no guarantee that it is 100% caused by eating habits, but 60% of the factors are closely related to eating habits. As the saying goes, “disease comes from the mouth”, many people will have health problems due to unreasonable diet. Which foods are closely linked to Alzheimer’s?

1. Foods that are too salty. Eating too salty food for a long time is not good for the human body’s cardiovascular and cerebrovascular. Excessive salt is closely related to high blood pressure, and the brain Bleeding favors patients with hypertension, hyperglycemia, and hyperlipidemia.

Therefore, it can be concluded that eating too much salt is closely related to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Salt was a natural antiseptic in ancient times, and at the same time, it also had a very strong water absorption function. When the human body consumes a large amount of salt, the blood vessels will absorb 100% of these sodium ions.

Where the sodium ions go, the water absorption function will follow, and the water retained in the body will be absorbed into the blood vessels , blood pressure will naturally rise. If you maintain a high-sodium diet for a long time, the blood vessels will become more and more fragile, and it will become more and more difficult to lower blood pressure.

Hypertension increases the risk of blood pressure rupture, for example, when water in a water line exerts high pressure on the water line for a long time, The life of this water pipe will also gradually decrease. The same is true for our blood vessels. High pressure will make the blood vessels lose their elasticity, and the probability of rupture of the intima of the blood vessels is very high.

With age, the blood vessels of the human body will age, coupled with unreasonable eating habits and living habits, The phenomenon of hardening will become more and more obvious. Affected by high pressure, the body’s cerebral arteries become more and more fragile, and are prone to tiny aneurysms inside.

This tiny aneurysm acts like a ticking time bomb, installed near the brain, if it is subjected to high-pressure fluctuations or high emotions The high pressure causes this tiny aneurysm to rupture, which can lead to a cerebral hemorrhage.Once ruptured.

Every part of the human brain controls various functions of the body. Once an important part is damaged, it will naturally cause serious sequelae , which is the induction process of vascular dementia. After reading the relationship between high blood pressure and cerebral hemorrhage, I believe everyone knows why doctors strictly require patients with three high levels of salt intake.

The World Health Organization stipulates that a normal adult should not consume more than 6g of salt per day. Many people are very vague about the concept of 6g. This not only refers to the salt jar in your own home, but many foods or seasonings in daily life contain invisible salt. So controlling salt intake is one of the main ways to prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

(Light diet is very important)

2. Eat less fat and high fat food. A series of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as hypertension are one of the main causes of Alzheimer’s disease. In addition to eating less food with high salt content, < span>Eat less food with higher fat content.

After a survey, the overall age of Alzheimer’s patients is ten years earlier, which means that Alzheimer’s has also appeared trend of youth. Alzheimer’s disease is inseparable from eating habits and living habits. So why eat less fatty foods? First of all, eating foods with high fat content is easy to cause excess calories, which can easily lead to obesity or excessive obesity.

Second, eating high-calorie foods for a long time will increase cholesterol and increase the risk of hyperlipidemia . Obesity and hyperlipidemia are one of the important causes of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.High blood lipid content increases blood viscosity and weakens blood fluidity.

The blood supply efficiency of some important organs is greatly reduced, and it is easy to cause ischemia, hypoxia or partial tissue softening in the brain, heart, and kidneys. condition. Once the brain is damaged, it can lead to vascular dementia, which is the link between eating fatty foods and Alzheimer’s.

These two dietary habits are not only the main cause of Alzheimer’s disease, but also the cause of many diseases. When one person in the family changes their eating habits, family members and friends are also subtly affected.

Second, these habits should be cultivated

The cause of dementia Not only limited to diet, inattentiveness in many aspects can cause some more serious problems such as vascular dementia. So what should be paid attention to to prevent Alzheimer’s disease?

1. Drink less alcohol and smoke less. Drinking on the wine table when you are young, have you ever thought that you may face the risk of Alzheimer’s disease when you are old? The main component of alcohol is ethanol. After entering the human body, metabolizes to produce a toxic substance called acetaldehyde.

Acetaldehyde has been listed as a class 1 carcinogen, it not only makes blood quality worse, blood vessels harden faster It also increases the risk of cancer in humans. The alcohol of today is not comparable to what people drank in ancient times.

Now the alcohol has high alcohol content and many additives, which is very harmful to the liver. The second is smoking. Many people think that smoking will only damage the lungs, but this is not the case. In addition to nicotine, tobacco contains up to 50 other toxic components.

Smokers are six times more likely to develop myocardial infarction than non-smokers The risk of Alzheimer’s disease is 5 to 10 times higher than that of normal people. Alcohol can damage the human brain, reduce brain density and impair brain function. So it is necessary to quit smoking and drinking in time.

2. Use your brain. As long as people are alive, they need to work their brains more and make them work. If the brain is not used for a long time, the brain degenerates very quickly. So for some middle-aged and elderly people, how can we make the brain active?

What middle-aged and elderly people have to do is to plan their retirement life, and they can sign up for senior colleges, because many senior colleges have Activities require us to use our brains.Some events such as chess, table tennis, and dance competitions can make the brain enter a state of thinking. So middle-aged and elderly people should not stay at home, but enrich their retirement life and effectively prevent Alzheimer’s.

3. Eat more choline-containing foods. According to research, acetylcholine has the effect of enhancing memory. So which foods are rich in choline in daily life? Some foods such as beans, eggs, peanuts, and millet are high in choline. This requires middle-aged and elderly people to have a balanced diet, and intake of rich nutrients is very helpful for protecting the brain.

4. Increase the number of chews when eating. Many people don’t think that increasing the frequency of chewing food is actually closely related to the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, This is because the human body is in the process of chewing Brain flow increases by 20%.

It has a certain effect on the maintenance of the brain, and chewing food many times is suitable for middle-aged and elderly people with bad stomach. , is a way to protect the stomach and nourish the stomach. There are still many things to note about Alzheimer’s disease, and I will tell you the key ones. Diet and living habits are equally important, and only when these two are combined can have a very good effect on disease prevention.

Third, who is prone to Alzheimer’s disease?

With the aging of our population, the problem of Alzheimer’s has become more and more common. Researchers have conducted a systematic understanding of the population with Alzheimer’s disease, and found that the following three are very prone to Alzheimer’s disease.

1. Lonely elderly people. Children depend on their parents when they are young, and parents will depend on their children when they are old, but in order to allow their children to develop better, Generally, they will choose to let them go far away to make a career of their own.

This has also led to more and more empty nesters, and research shows that depression is not only present in young people , some older adults are also at high risk for depression,and depression and dementia are closely linked.

Lonely elderly people will be in a low mood for a long time without someone to take care of them, leading to the risk of depression and dementia A substantial increase, so family members should pay more attention to their parents.

2. The family has a genetic history. Alzheimer’s also has a genetic history. If some middle-aged and elderly parents have Alzheimer’s, their risk of developing Alzheimer’s is higher than others . What you need to do in this situation is to prevent it in advance and actively observe your physical condition.

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3. People with “three highs”. The three highs refer to high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and high blood lipids. People with this disease mean that your blood vessels and blood will be damaged for a long time.It is worse than healthy people.

These people have poorer blood flow and less efficient blood supply to the vital organ, the brain. Once an emergency occurs and induces a disease, it is easy to produce serious sequelae. Sequelae can be big or small, but they will eventually damage the brain and accelerate the rate of brain atrophy.

Middle-aged and elderly people whose physical condition is not very good or whose living environment is too deserted must pay more attention to their brain health . The brain is the life center of the human body.Once the brain is damaged or atrophied, the consequences are unimaginable.

(more care and more love)

At the same time, family members should also Be more concerned about the middle-aged and elderly people at home, and don’t be indifferent. The relationship between people has a very high impact on a person’s health.

Four. Summary

Alzheimer’s dementia is also showing a trend of younger and more generalized, which shows that people’s brain is damaged by more and more factors. What people have to do is to strictly control their eating habits and living habits, and don’t let those things that are harmful to health take advantage of them.

(dementia is worth paying attention to)

If there are elderly people at home who already have dementia , The family must take care of him carefully, and don’t scold him loudly because of what he did wrong, which will only aggravate the condition. Some young people are too busy with work and will hire nanny to serve the elderly at home.However, some unsympathetic nanny sees the elderly unable to take care of themselves, and beats and scolds them.

These social news make everyone feel very worried, and the family members have not done enough in caring for the elderly. Society is also not doing enough. Today, we have knowledge about Alzheimer’s disease, and here is the popular science. Interested friends, see you in the comment area! I hope that readers who read this article will have a new understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and lay a solid foundation for disease prevention and treatment in the future.