Alzheimer's disease. How it started

DEMENTIA. EARLY SYMPTOMS AND FIRST AID FOR PATIENTS

SO THAT TIME DOES NOT DESTROY MEMORY.

• 55 million people worldwide suffer from some form of dementia, with women being three times more likely to be affected than men.
• Dementia is not a normal symptom of aging and is a common cause of cognitive decline.
• It encompasses a range of symptoms that affect a person's cognitive and mental abilities.
• Dementia ranks 7th globally among the leading causes of death

Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia in the world, accounting for 60-70% of all types of dementia. It is a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disease in which changes in the neurons of the brain begin decades before the first symptoms appear. The human brain stores information about the personality: who you are today, who you were yesterday, what you loved and love to do and what you don't, etc. Dementia attacks the brain and gradually erases memory, destroying the person's personality.

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Early symptoms of dementia that you need to know and recognize as abnormal

6. Changes in gait: small steps, slow walking, shuffling gait

5. Changes in the senses: inability to recognize smells, hearing loss

• Research has been published - hearing loss in midlife as a result of inflammatory diseases or infections increases the risk of developing dementia in the future. Poor hearing forces the brain to work harder to recognize signals (sounds), so it is necessary to monitor hearing and restore and maintain it as effectively as possible.4.  Loss of Muscle Strength
  
• Research published on grip strength test results - low grip strength may be an early sign of dementia in the future.

3. Sleep problems: excessive daytime sleepiness, restless sleep at night.
2. Apathy - lack of desire and interest in doing something new, refusal to meet with family members and friends, refusal to do your favorite activities.
 Depression, apathy, anxiety - these are symptoms of various psychiatric diseases, but in dementia these are early symptoms.
1. Difficulty in finding words: pauses in speech appear, words are used that are inappropriate in meaning, phrases are forgotten.

Early diagnosis of dementia is extremely important for effective treatment of the disease

• Исследования говорят, что при ранней диагностике терапия построена на правильном питании, физической активности и упражнениях на тренировку когнитивных функций мозга.
• Main diets for the brain

  1. Mediterranean diet
  2. MIND diet - a combination of the Mediterranean diet and the DAS diet

  The essence of the MIND diet is to reduce the likelihood of the oxidative process, which damages brain cells, which gradually disrupts the cognitive functions of the body.    Diet works due to the large number of antioxidants in the products.

• Physical activity: aerobics, strength training, walking, swimming - it is good when a set of activities is selected by a specialist, taking into account concomitant diseases, weight, the state of the skeletal and muscular systems of the body. For smokers - quit smoking, it is also necessary to control blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
  
• Normalization of sleep. During deep sleep, the human brain is active, part of it eliminates brain waste: beta-amyloid protein and Tau protein, otherwise they will accumulate in the neurons of the brain, destroying brain cells and causing dementia.