Showing posts with label Dementia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dementia. Show all posts

Help Dementia By Meditating With Brainwave Entrainment

It's no secret that meditation has many benefits and it's not a new kid on the block.

For hundreds of years, if not thousands, meditation has been practiced daily, in just about every culture of the world, to achieve a no mind state of consciousness, where the brain releases chemicals to enhance health physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Meditation is a process that enables a person to communicate between you and your mind and your mind and your body.

If meditation can reverse damages done to the mind and brain, and stimulate areas of the brain that are not being used, it stands to reason that meditation can help with the symptoms of dementia.

A new study from the University of Pennsylvania, has confirmed that daily meditation can improve cognitive function. Cognitive function, is an intellectual process by which one becomes aware of, perceives, or comprehends ideas. This involves aspects of perception, thinking, reasoning, and remembering... all functions that are impaired in dementia patients.

In this study, subjects were taught how to meditate using Kundalini Yoga and were told to meditate 12 minutes a day for a period of eight weeks.

Kundalini yoga meditation involves the chanting of sounds, or words, in a repeating rhythm, to redirect the flow of thoughts, altering the brain's normal patterns, neural chemistry, and emotional balance.

After the eight weeks, SPECT scans showed a significant increase in blood flow to the area of the brain that deteriorates in people with Alzheimer's disease-the area associated with learning and memory.

"If this kind of meditation is helping patients with memory loss, we are encouraged by the prospects that daily practice may even prevent neurodegenative diseases such as Alzheimer's." Andrew Newberg, M.D.

Meditation, any kind of meditation, is not a skill that is easily acquired, and is especially difficult in people who have damaged areas in their brain.

Brainwave entrainment is a powerful, fast and efficient form of technology, that uses audio and/or visual pulses, to engage the brain into a specific pattern. Using specially designed recordings, while attempting a meditative state, can hasten the effect. Entrainment stimulates the brain to alter its dominant brainwave frequency to a precise brainwave that improves cognitive function.

Practicing Kundalini meditation, with a brainwave entrainment recording, will carve new neural pathways in the brain, those of which can be seen physically, on a brain scan. New neural networks form in the gray matter, waking up areas of the brain that are not being used to the best of their ability and enhances the damaged areas. Memories, made through the course of the day, have a new place to be stored, by-passing the damaged areas that used to store memories.

It's very exciting to think that dementia symptoms can be diminished or maybe even eliminated, just by changing the way the brain stores memories.

Brainwave entrainment is a technology that can speed up the ability to achieve a meditative state, which in turn speeds up the receiving of cognitive benefits.

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The Role of Zinc in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

For many years it has been known that heavy metal poisoning is not only detrimental to physical health but mental health as well - but now more and more research is driving this point home.

When considering mental health and cognition it was always considered that aluminium played the greatest role in causing the symptoms related to Alzheimer's and other dementias. However this is no longer the case and for this reason, in the next few articles I am going to look at not only aluminium but also zinc, copper and mercury and their effects on the brain.

So let's begin...

Zinc is a very strange supplement when used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Too little and it will have no effect and too much and it may actually aggravate the condition - therefore balance is the key.

Although zinc is an essential trace element in human biology it is neurotoxic (poisonous to nerves) at high concentrations. Several studies have shown that high levels aggravate plaque formation actually causing more aggregations (or clumping of these plaques and nerve fibres) that are typically found in Alzheimer's patients.

Other studies however, have shown that the level of zinc found in the brains of those suffering from the condition are reduced particularly in the area of the hippocampus - the part related to memory and learning. Supplementation of 10 patient's suffering with Alzheimer's with zinc aspartate / sulphate showed significant improvements in their condition.

Other theories believe that it may be an imbalance of trace metals that allows a toxic overload of heavy metals to build up creating these changes in the brain. An important study shows how they believe it is low general levels of zinc and selenium that cause a toxic build-up of heavy metals in the brain (particularly mercury) as they are its chief mineral antagonists (i.e. they block its absorption) and are known to have a protective role against heavy metal toxicity. However, a yet unpublished study from 1991 showed that dosages of 90mg a day caused a decline in cognition after only 5 days.

Because of this uncertainty I would urge caution with the use of zinc supplements and limit the daily supplementation to 50mg of zinc a day and I would also consider undergoing a detox program to remove excess heavy metals from the system.

It is also important to note that the supplementation of zinc also needs to be combined with copper in a ratio of 10:1 (therefore 25mg zinc to 2.5mg copper) to enhance the correct metabolism.

In my next article I will consider the effects copper plays in the prevention / causation of Alzheimer's and dementia.

I have been involved in Chiropractic and healthcare research for over 20 years. My latest book "The Alzheimer's Alternative" ( http://www.alzheimersalternative.com/ ) is I believe the definitive guide to Alzheimer's disease, alternative treatment and supplementation.


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