Each of us, if we are honest, has a fear of losing our memory. As we advance in years from our youth we begin to see subtle issues with memory. This may be forgetting someone’s name or forgetting where you put your cell phone. Ninety nine percent of the time there is a plausible reason for these failings in memory. On the other hand, you could be seeing the start of some type of cognitive decline, something more noticeable today than in the past and not simply in older individuals.

When it comes to a declining mental state, it is one of the initial indications that we are aging and this can be a troublesome scenario for many. We have all seen the older person who has a difficult time remembering things, like what they had for dinner last night or breakfast this morning or even their spouses name. Experts believe that this situation does not need to take place at all. Their belief is that anyone can sustain a fit and healthy mind regardless of their age. These experts are assisting people regularly with their memory who are concerned they may be losing their cherished mental functionality.

Popular Brain Stimulating And Memory Enhancing Remedies

It’s time to look at some remedies that can be utilized by anyone that will enhance their memory and brain function right away. Your brain neurons will be healthy and fit giving you maximum clarity and a quick mind.

Brain Oxygenation To Safeguard Memory And Brain Function.

Your primary concern should be whether or not your brain is getting proper amounts of oxygen. As apparent as this sounds, in actuality it is not as rudimentary as it might appear. Your brain neurons [cells] are quite susceptible to oxygen and when this is lacking your cells begin to misfire and begin to perish – they cannot be replaced, ever.

If you are one of the thousands with blocked arteries or a compromised cardiovascular system, you will experience inadequate blood flow due to thickening blood caused from toxicity, cholesterol and fat. Your vital organs depend on this continual flow of blood to supply them with oxygen – counting your brain as arguably the most important destination.

If your diet is high in calcium you could have an accumulation of plaque in your arteries that can impede blood flow. Your carotid arteries stretch into your brain and they are frequently vulnerable to these deposits that mean not enough blood and oxygen is getting to your brain.

Physicians are also finding in their patients a lowered capability to transport the oxygen in the blood and even if things are working smoothly otherwise. Not enough red blood cells to oxygenate the cells, they will become hypoxic – an ailment resulting from decreased oxygen levels.

When this occurs the consequence is a deliberate decline to brain cell mortality. There will be no immediate loss of memory, only if your reduced blood flow is significant [such as having a stoke that can cause permanent cellular harm]. What will be noticeable is a steady and measured drop in your cognitive function and memory.

In order to solve this problem you must clean out your arteries entirely and reinstate a steady and strong flow of blood throughout your body to each organ, including your brain. This will make certain you are receiving enough memory augmenting oxygen into your brain – provided you have adequate red blood cells for oxygen transport.

Some professionals recommend that a person have a total detoxification regimen with extra corporeal blood oxygenation – or EBOO – claiming it is the most effectual method of cleaning your entire body including your arteries.

When this has been completed, it is time to evaluate your red blood cell count to ensure you have enough of them to transport the vital oxygen throughout your system and into your brain. This only requires a blood test to find out. If your red cell count is deficient certain steps are necessary to solve the problem, your brain function depends on it. You should speak to your physician regarding your options.

Your Brain, Your Memory, Your Hormones

Hormones could well be the most important components in your body. Your general health and wellness is dependent on hormones for sexual fitness, bone health, heart function and most importantly for the health of your brain.

It is a little known fact that the brain is home to the most hormone receptors in your whole physiology. This means that our brain neurons are considerably more vulnerable to insufficiencies in our quantity of hormones. If our neurons are not receiving adequate hormones, functionality will suffer and the metabolism will become sluggish. It is at this point your brain capability will be depleted and your memory will suffer.

Your thyroid hormone is of considerable significance to the health of your brain. If you have limited thyroid hormones your metabolism becomes sluggish and this saps your health causing numerous problems. The person will become tired; they gain weight, lose their hair, have bouts of brain haze and suffer memory lapses. Indeed, numerous individuals have been told they are suffering with dementia when in reality they have insufficient thyroid hormones. The good news is when the problem is rectified; their memory issues and dementia usually vanish.

 Women have two vital hormones in estrogen and progesterone. Today there seems to be an estrogen ascendancy or surplus and conversely a progesterone deficiency that results in a hormonal inequity. The result of this imbalance is a dramatic surge in health conditions like elevated breast cancer rates and heart disease being the two primary problems. They also affect mental health causing depression, anxiousness and loss of memory. Your primary healthcare provider can easily test you for this increasingly more common problem.
 
Brain fitness is also vulnerable to another significant hormone – testosterone – in both men and women. This hormone has consistently been criticized and has a battered reputation because of its abuse by athletes and bodybuilders. Nevertheless, testosterone is vital to your wellness and there are huge numbers of receptors specifically for testosterone, not only for sexual health in men and women but for their brain and heart also.

Science has determined that reduced amounts of testosterone could be responsible for some memory loss and increase susceptibility of the brain to Alzheimer’s disease and other similar diseases and conditions. Beta-amyloid is a peptide that can build up in particular regions of an elder’s brain and has been linked to the progress of Alzheimer’s disease.

Scientific investigators have determined that testosterone helps safeguard the brain from the effects of beta-amyloid toxicity. A report was printed in the Journal Brain Research, stating that neuron cultures were laid bare to beta-amyloid in the company of some testosterone. The inevitable toxic build up from beta-amyloid was dramatically lowered due to the testosterone’s presence.

One more crucial hormone is Pregnenolone in your system as it has a vital part to play with brain and memory capability. It is known as the “mother hormone” that is responsible for each of the other sex hormones growth.

Pregnenolone is also a primary brain hormone. This hormone is manufactured by some particular brain neurons and is also absorbed into your brain from the blood. It safeguards your brain neurons from impairment due to lack of sleep, and a certain quantity has a soothing effect on our emotions – this means it is crucial for stress management that could mean an overproduction of cortisol – the stress hormone.

Any form of hormone replacement needs to be in its bio-identical formulation, or the exact same hormone that is being manufactured by your body. There can be no synthetic or manmade substitution for the hormones. Bio-identical hormones will respond in a healthy manner within your body where, conversely, synthetic hormones might mean some improvement in symptoms for a while but over time they can lead to considerable health issue with your physiology.

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Do We Really Want To Live Forever?

by admin on September 3, 2010

Life extension has been an immortal quest throughout human existence. It is a far-reaching target to overcome death and transcend unto immortality. Eternal youth isn’t only a quest, but it is also a belief shared by Holy Scriptures. After death comes eternal life. All religions share this belief of immortality.

Over years, the reference or quest for immortality has been given various connotations such as during the medieval ages, it was called the fountain of youth. The search for immortality is still very present in our contemporary society. We are lured towards living forever; our commitment is present in science but also in Hollywood movies like Indian Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and the Highlanders (1986-2000). Even more modern theories of immortality are emerging with technology and trans-humanism (Cyborgs), an example is seen in the virtual ability to live in a recent film by Bruce Wills entitled Surrogate (2010).

Nevertheless, films are like myths and only imaginations. The most compelling field to realise immortality is science. Modern science has already been able to track the process of aging and might soon unravel the mysteries behind it.

The possibility of curing aging has led to an unfolding amount of social and ethical debates. The very fact that anti-aging therapies will not only change our mode of living it will even change the social fabric of our society, is triggering opposing views from the public. Prolonging lifespan and thereafter reaching maximum lifespan will have radical political and social ramifications.

According to scientists, slowing the aging process is highly feasible. The scientific developments that are emerging will likely help humans to surpass the longest human life span ever observed; ‘French woman living to the age of 122 years’. One current strategy is to focus on ‘telomerase’, which limits the cell’s ability to divide as telomeres get shorter each time a cell split. There is also a dozen of other prolonging life treatments in progress like ‘Caloric restriction’ which has shown results of increasing ‘lifespan for mice’ by roughly 30 percent.

Another fascinating research is the ‘Human Genome Project’ which could likely shed light on pharmaceutical solutions to alleviate aging-diseases and consequently, to slow aging. In respect to various ‘progresses in medical science, the aging process’ can be referred to as being a disease which can be cured.

Some scientists believe in the possible outcome of immortality (transhumanists). This is why increasingly finance is being injected into longevity research. It is a quest worth pursuing. ‘Aubrey de Grey’ believes that immortality is closer than we predict. However, S Jay ‘Olshansky, PhD, from University of Illinois at Chicago, ‘doubts in radical life extension’ but believes that gradual increase in average human lifespan can be achieved.

There are currently no approved mathematical models, which can project the theoretical human maximum lifespan. However, models are suggesting that it is possible to surpass the current limit of 122 years but there might be a limit to the human biology to carry on. For medicine and science to solve aging, human genetic modification will be required but the extent is still unclear and thus awkward for society.

Besides, in the past century medical advancement has decreased childhood mortality and ‘increased overall life expectancy’. It is fundamental that our bodies are made in such a way that they can adapt in the environment while pushing towards longevity. Improved sanitation, medicine and food supplies have increased life expectancy by almost 100 percent from the 1990s to 2000. There are already signs of hurdles derived through prolonged longevity such as the exploding national healthcare budget in America. There will be several political and social ramifications of prolonging human lifespan.

New Models To Predict Longevity

There are claims that earlier models used to forecast life-expectancy can no longer be used. Now progress in biomedical science might be the most promising determinant of longevity, quality of life and body health. The aim is to compress morbidity, so that people can live longer and healthier before they die. The aim isn’t to have an old and feeble population but rather individuals’ in their 80s who are highly active and vigilant until their death.

The concrete aim towards immortality is not primarily to live forever rather to slow the aging process. Our ‘chronically age should not affect our biological aging process’. Then we can age chronically (years) while still having a young body. There are already suggestions that human’s average lifespan will hit 112 years.

What is needed to sustain our biological aging mechanisms is anti-aging therapies that can maintain our metabolic while repairing damages occurring inside the body. If such revolutions are reaped then ‘Aubrey de Grey’s prediction of living to a thousand years’ might become an achievable legend.

Scientists Are Giving Opinions But What About Ordinary People?

The debates that have been echoing throughout conferences on life extension are merely only for scientists. The opinions of ordinary people haven’t yet been discussed. There hasn’t been a widespread effort to delve into the voice of the general public. Aubrey de Grey, a bio-gerontologist at the University of Cambridge, UK has had some public debates both with scientists and ordinary people to avoid misperception of anti-aging research.

Several commentators (general public) displayed a sense of fear towards life extension technology while others proclaimed that ‘people aren’t interested in living forever’. De Grey pinpointed that paradoxically people do have a great interest in cosmetic and other aging interventions, so slowing aging in the form of appearance is a common goal. Nevertheless, there are no statistical data projecting the number of people pertaining to these two perspectives towards aging (mentioned above). There is a lack of empirical research on general public opinion.

It is amazing that the interest of the public has elapsed. If the public would have full awareness than biomedical research could have a steadier direction both in terms of fundraising and support. Over years, people are becoming increasingly engaged in new technology. The views on quality of life related to disabling old people will certainly become a question of technologic advancement. People prefer to stay healthy and healthiness is a goal of longevity. Anti-aging research could thus progress even faster if the public was well aware and engaged in longevity study.

There is a belief that the motivation towards life extension might be associated to one’s health status. According to ‘Winter and Colleagues’, people who are weaker are more willing to prolong their life in comparison to those who are healthy. This potential theory demonstrates that people tend to change opinion towards life extension as their health worsens.

One of the most crucial players in creating awareness is the media. The media can both positively and negatively influence the perception towards life-extension. Nonetheless, it is significant to nurture a balance discussion on longevity. Some journals and newspapers are already publishing progress on human genome and molecular bioscience, which can lead to immortality.

Amidst the few research conducted on public attitudes towards life extension, there is one large public survey. A telephone survey was conducted by the International Longevity Center (New York, NY, USA). Interestingly, the belief in anti-aging medicine was extremely low. There were a few who had heard about it and only 2 percent had tried anti-aging medicines or therapies.

It is indeed intriguing to note that as the post-world-war II baby-boomers are coming closer to their pension-age, there is a rising demand of anti-aging products. This might have a close association with a desire for longer life. Currently research in youth and health products is getting public attention. In other words, for the affluent population there is a high demand for anti-aging products.

Currently, in the USA as per figures in 2003, there was a total of 2,500 physicians specialized in longevity medicine targeting elders. Moreover, access of anti-aging medicine is becoming more prevalent on the internet as well. There are several companies that are promoting a series of different anti-aging products. The hitch is that most of these products do not have any scientific evidence of actually reversing aging. On the contrary, most of these products that customers are buying are rather for aging and not against aging. It is necessary to take extra precautions before buying anti-aging medicine. They should be bought from recognised and responsible companies.

If we want to live forever, according to the optimistic scientists, we are already in the realm of longer lives. Trends are showing that longevity is prolonging and most people seem happy about it. Undeniably, there are problems associated with longer lifespan being ‘overpopulation’, changes to social fabric and opposing viewpoints (theological opposition). In future empirical research (surveys), public opinion should become a priority to further support and direct life-extension research.

The current problem is that we do not yet know how motivated the general public is in encouraging life-extension.

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Source: Who Wants To Live Forever? By Jayne C. Lucke a Senior Research Officer and Wayne Hall a Professor and Director of the Office of Public Policy and Ethics at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia.

Download EMBO report in PDF format: Who wants to live forever?

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