I recently had a client tell me that her mother had been diagnosed with high blood pressure. She encouraged her to try my High Blood Pressure program. Other treatment methods were difficult as they involved daily medication or other complicated steps and her mother suffered from dementia.
While her blood pressure did go down, that wasn’t the major point of her communication to me. It turns out that her mother’s dementia symptoms greatly subsided once she started my program!
Dementia literally means, “deprived of mind.” It is a progressive decline in cognitive function which affects memory, attention, orientation, judgment language, motor and problem solving skills. Like vertigo is basically dizziness due to a myriad of causes, dementia is not a disease in and of itself but rather caused by damage or disease.
Once thought of as part of the aging process, dementia is now thought to be a deterioration due to damage (stroke or other vascular damage, head trauma, alcoholism – due to lack of thiamine and certain other vitamin deficiencies), or disease (Alzheimer’s – the most common type of dementia,
Syphilis, Lewy bodies, brain tumors, Pick’s disease, HIV and/or AIDs, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Huntington’s disease and Multiple Sclerosis).
Common symptoms include moodiness, memory loss, and communication difficulties (including the ability to read and write). Due to the progressive nature of most forms of dementia, the sufferer eventually finds it difficult to perform everyday tasks and can eventually become unable to care for his/herself.
While no longer considered a normal part of aging, studies do reflect that dementia affects 1% of the population over the age of 60, that number doubling every five years after. Interestingly enough, those who are bi or multi-lingual have tend to experience symptoms an average of 4 years later. “Use it or lose it,” definitely figures in.
Blood tests, CT, PET and MRI scans can rule out dementia due to certain diseases or injuries (stroke), however, for many, mental and cognitive tests are required.
A doctor must, however, take into account one’s socio-economic, cultural and educational background when administering the test. Just as many claim IQ tests are biased, it can sometimes be difficult to know what “normal” is for a patient.
Risk factors include smoking and drinking (alcohol), due to the fact that it puts one at an increased risk for vascular diseases, which in turn puts one at risk for dementia. Additionally, high cholesterol and diabetes can contribute.
Regardless of how the dementia occurs, whether it is through brain trauma such as stroke or Alzheimer’s disease, the reason for the dementia is LACK of OXYGEN to vital parts of the brain. Some types of dementia can be reversed while others can’t.
Do not, however, consider your or your loved one’s dementia a death sentence, even if your doctor claims otherwise. New research is emerging on the effects of oxygen on already damaged tissues in the brain. Worst case, you don’t want the dementia to progress. The key is delivering the oxygen to the necessary areas of the brain.
I highly recommend my programs due to the fact that they are completely natural, relaxation and breathing exercises specifically designed to get blood/oxygen to your major organs, including the brain. I highly recommend my Alzheimer’s program (coming soon!).
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