Link Between Heart Health and Brain Disease
Evidence continues to build that supports the correlation between cardiovascular health and mental health. It seems that anything that maintains a healthy flow of oxygen and nutrient delivery to the brain likely helps expel toxic proteins before they can accumulate and kill brain cells. That’s why exercise and mental stimulation in general are helpful. A proper diet also is vital.
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Australian scientists from the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, led by Noel Faux, have discovered a link between Alzheimer’s disease and the blood disorder, anaemia.
The research has shown that having Alzheimer’s disease leads to lower blood hemoglobin levels and is a major risk factor for developing an untreatable form of anaemia.
Anaemia is a lack of red blood cells and/or the iron-rich molecule in red blood cells (hemoglobin) that carries oxygen throughout the body and gives blood its red color.
“It’s a little left field, so to speak, because when people think of Alzheimer’s and dementia they think of the head; they think of the brain. Recently, research has been moving into the blood, and a lot of that research is more around finding a marker that allows us to identify people who are at risk of developing Alzheimer’s.” Faux said. However further research is needed to fully understand the relationship between Alzheimer’s disease and anaemia.
“We don’t understand exactly what that relationship is, outside that there is a relationship. Our hypothesis is that the process of Alzheimer’s manifesting within the red blood cells that will actually lead to the anaemia that we see,” according to Faux. “So, our biggest hope is finding a way in which we can treat the anaemia – not to cure Alzheimer’s, but actually treat anaemia,” he add.
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Gary Chandler is a prion expert. He is the CEO of Crossbow Communications, author of several books and producer of documentaries about health and environmental issues around the world. Chandler is connecting the dots to the global surge in neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, chronic wasting disease and other forms of prion disease.
