Why?Your brain is like a super computer. It's about the size of your two fists put together. It weighs about 3 pounds and has about 100 billion nerve cells that have about 100 trillion different ways of connecting with each other. The 100 billion nerve cells look like tree branches and at the tips of each one a signal jumps to another to communicate. This meeting is called a synapse .. .imagine, 100 trillion synapses. If we took care of ourselves, respected our body, it has been shown that nerve cells can live to be 100 years old. The brain is one of the highest oxygen using areas of the body ... 20%. That's all done in the brain stem that sits below the cerebellum. These signals are crucial to the automatic functions of our body such as breathing, blood pressure, heart rate and even sleep. These areas are very oxygen intensive. Alzheimer's disease shows up in the hippocampus where short term memory is changed into long term memory for storage. The plaque that is responsible for this disease starts accumulating in the cortex near the hippocampus and eventually strangles the area .... resulting in memory loss - the first sign of Alzheimer's. |
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Debra Hyatt Handley has dedicated herself to helping people learn how to prevent or postpone Alzheimer's. |
Alzheimer's runs on both sides of Debra's family, She has experienced the effects of this disease on her family and realizes the process is sad, scary and overwhelming. But, she is fighting Alzheimer's by offering the findings of Dr. Marwan Sabbagh who is a leading expert of Alzheimer's research and author of The Alzheimer's Answer. |
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