If you have answered yes to this question then it is possible you are suffering from some form of mental decline, which is remarkably common these days, and not just in elderly people.
Mental decline or brain dysfunction is often one of the first signs of Aging and it can be a frightening thing. I’m sure you have seen elderly people with Dementia who cannot remember what they had for breakfast and can’t remember even their loved ones names! Well I firmly believe that this scenario does not have to happen at all. I believe that you can maintain a strong and healthy mind at any age. Indeed, one of my goals as an Anti Aging specialist is to assist people like you who are worried about the state of their mental health.
The Best Memory & Brain Boosting Therapies
Having said that now let me focus on some therapies that you can immediately implement to help boost your memory and brain power, and that will keep your brain cells healthy and strong allowing you to age with a sharp, clear and focused mind.
Oxygenate Your Brain – Preserve Your Memory & Brain Power
Firstly and most importantly is making sure your brain is receiving enough oxygen. This sounds obvious enough but in reality It is not as simple as it sounds. Your brain cells (neurons) are extremely sensitive to oxygen, and when they don’t get enough of this vital substance they will start to malfunction and start to die. And once your brain cells die you can never replace them.
Many people have a congested and blocked cardiovascular system, with blood that is thick and full of toxins and excess fats and cholesterol. This leads to a poor blood flow and inadequate blood supply to your vital organs, including your brain.
Also, excess calcium in many people’s diets leads to calcium plaques that become deposited in arteries leading to reduced blood flow. The carotid arteries leading to the brain are commonly affected by this condition, leading to inadequate blood flow to the brain.
Another common problem that I have found in numerous people is a low oxygen carrying capacity within the blood itself. Even if you have good clean blood flowing to all parts of your body, if you do not have enough red blood cells to carry adequate oxygen to your cells, your cells will become hypoxic (a condition of low oxygen).
This leads to a slow death of brain cells – you will not notice an immediate or sudden loss of memory unless you have a sudden dramatic reduction in blood flow (which does happen in a stroke – leading to possibly permanently damaged brain cells). What you will notice however is a slow and gradual decline in your mental function and memory.
The solution to this problem is to firstly completely clean out your arteries to make sure they allow a good flow of blood to your brain and all your other organs. This will ensure that you can get enough memory boosting oxygen to your brain (assuming you have enough red blood cells to carry sufficient oxygen).
A complete whole body detoxification program using EBOO (extra corporeal blood oxygenation and ozonation) is in my opinion the most powerful way you can achieve a completely clean body and also clean arteries.
Following this you must check to see that you have adequate red blood cells in your blood in order to carry sufficient oxygen to your brain. A simple blood test will be able to determine this. If your red blood cell numbers are low you will need to take action to rectify this problem to preserve your brain function. I can advise you further if you need help with this problem.
Hormones Are Crucial For Your Memory and for Your Brain
Hormones are very important for your overall health and in particular for your sexual health, bone health, heart health, and especially for your brain health.
You may not be aware that your brain cells have the largest number of hormone receptors in your body. This means that your brain cells are even more susceptible to deficiencies in your hormone levels. If your brain cells don’t get enough hormones, then they will not function correctly, and their metabolism will slow down. When this happens, your brain function slows down and so does your memory.
Thyroid hormone is particularly important for your brain health, and if you have low levels of thyroid hormones your metabolism will slow down leading to numerous health problems – tiredness, weight gain, loss of hair, brain fog, and memory problems. In fact many people that have been diagnosed as suffering from dementia have low thyroid hormone levels. Once this problem is corrected, the dementia or memory problems often disappear.
In women the hormones estrogen and progesterone are both very important. In our society there tends to be an estrogen dominance or overload and a progesterone deficiency leading to a hormonal imbalance. This in turn leads to numerous significant health problems (increased breast cancer and heart disease risk are the major ones), and also to mental problems including depression, anxiety and memory loss. I will talk further about estrogen dominance in future articles as this is an extremely common and significant problem in both women and men
Testosterone is also another very important hormone that is critical for brain health in both men and women. This is a much maligned hormone and has been given a bad rap for its misuse within body building circles. However, testosterone is so critical to your health that there a large numbers of testosterone receptors not just in the sexual organs of men and women, but also in the heart and in the brain.
Evidence indicates that low levels of testosterone may contribute to memory impairment and increase the vulnerability of the brain to Alzheimer’s and related disorders. Beta-amyloid, a peptide that may accumulate in certain regions of the aging brain, is implicated in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers have found that testosterone exerts neuroprotective benefits from the effects of toxic beta-amyloid. An article published in Brain Research describes a study in which cultured neurons were exposed to beta-amyloid in the presence of testosterone. The resulting toxicity from beta-amyloid was significantly reduced by testosterone.
Pregnenolone is another vitally important hormone within your body that plays a crucial role in brain and memory function. This is your “mother hormone” form which all the other sex hormones are made.
Pregnenolone is one of the major hormones in the brain. It is produced by certain brain cells, as well as being absorbed into the brain from the blood. It protects brain cells from injury caused by fatigue, and an adequate amount has a calming effect on the emotions, which is part of the reason that it protects us from the stress response that leads to an excessive production of cortisone.
Hormones should only be taken in their bio-identical form, meaning that they are the exact same hormones that your body makes, and not synthetic substitutes of the hormones. Bio-identical hormones will lead to healthy reactions in your body, whereas synthetic hormones may lead to symptomatic improvement in the short term, but in the long term will cause significant health problems to your body.