EP38: Ten Tips for Preventing Alzheimer's Disease

<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ten Tips for Preventing Alzheimer's Disease</span></em></p> <p><strong><em>“Your biggest risk factors are your</em></strong> <strong><em>lifestyle choices.”</em></strong> <strong>— Melissa Batchelor, PhD, RN, FNP, FAAN </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death for people over the age of sixty-five. We can't slow it down once you are diagnosed, and we haven't cured it. Therefore, there have been no survivors of anyone ever diagnosed with Alzheimer's until we have a major medical breakthrough. In this week's episode, you'll learn about the top ten tips for preventing Alzheimer's Disease</span></p> <p><strong>Part One of ‘Ten Tips for Preventing Alzheimer's Disease’</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While getting older is the biggest risk factor, including your gender and your genetics, those are things that you can't really control. But your biggest risk factors are your lifestyle choices. Those are called modifiable risk factors, so that we can do something about those.</span></p> <p><strong>Tip 1: Stay Active</strong></p> <p><a href= "https://www.bluezones.com/2016/11/power-9/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Move Naturally.</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">I heard this tip several years ago at a conference at a presentation on the</span> <a href="https://www.bluezones.com"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Blue Zones</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. I was relieved to know that I didn’t need to start training for a marathon or spend hours in the gym every day. It's about the small things - like making sure that you're getting 10,000 steps in a day and doing some type of strength and flexibility exercise in your daily life. You should have or maintain an</span> <a href= "https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/participating-activities-you-enjoy"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">active lifestyle</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">- whether it's moving around your house, walking ar