We have a higher chance of Alzheimers due to our stroke. Ask your doctor if this would reduce that risk. From the Dana Foundation.
http://dana.org/news/features/detail.aspx?id=42806
A strategy summed up by a famous Nietzsche quote – “What does not destroy me makes me stronger”—might
provide a drug-free method for delaying Alzheimer’s and other
neurodegenerative diseases, and perhaps the aging process itself. The
strategy involves stressing the body—by restricting food intake, in this
case—to trigger the activation of biological programs in our cells that
protect against disease and degeneration.
“Cells and organisms
respond adaptively to certain kinds of stress by increasing their
ability to cope with more severe stress,” says Mark Mattson,
a researcher at the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute
on Aging (NIA). “We now have a lot of data pointing to the activation of
mechanisms that help cells cope with oxidative stress, maintain their
energy levels, and prevent the abnormal accumulation of protein
aggregates.”
This makes-me-stronger stress response is often
called the “hormesis” effect. Mattson and his colleagues are about to
start one of the first clinical trials of a hormesis-based strategy—the “5:2 diet,” a form of intermittent fasting—aimed at slowing age-related cognitive decline.
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