Folate Against Dementia

[Guest guest]

Dear Butch,

 

If your beautiful Tania cooks from scratch like a

good European, and incorporates lots of green

leafy veggies, you don't have to worry about a

lack of folate.

 

This is typical of the reductionist " this for that " thinking

that characterizes modern Western medicine.

 

Supplementing with any of the B vitamins in

isolation is always tricky.

A surplus of one may induce lack of another.

 

Folate ( I forget its B number) has to be harmonized

with B 6 and B12, among others.

 

Other factors that play a role in preventing

Alzheimers are essential fatty acids and the

anti-oxidants. Another new buzz word.

 

If you are worried about a lack of anything, try a

whole-foods based supplement rather than a pill

consisting of fractioned, isolated man-made

vitamins.

There are many good products out there.

 

I have no idea what makes it into Turkey.

 

Y'all keep eatin' that good home-cooking,

and don't forget to dry the dishes.

 

Ien in the Kootenays

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I can finish my own sentences again!

muddled

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[Guest guest]

Hey y'all,

 

Interesting this study is .. and I'm gonna get me some ASAP before I

forget it. ;-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

 

Folate can protect aging brain against decline in cognitive function.

 

Two American studies indicate that folate can protect aging brains from

cognitive decline, including Alzheimer’s.

 

A team at Tufts University studied a group of men who were part of the

ongoing Normative Aging Study. Men consuming higher levels of dietary

folate showed less decline in verbal fluency skills over three years

than men with lower intake of dietary folate. High folate levels in

both diet and blood were also protective against declines in ‘spatial

copying’, another cognitive skill category. (Tucker KL et al. High

homocysteine and low B vitamins predict cognitive decline in aging men:

the Veterans affairs Normative Aging Study. Am J Clin Nutr

2005;82:627.). The researchers also found that the effects of high

homocysteine levels – a known marker of cardiovascular disease risk –

which previous research had linked with lower cognitive test scores,

were independent of folate’s effect to reduce them.

 

In a related study, researchers concluded that increasing folate

consumption in older people may significantly reduce the risk of

Alzheimer’s disease. Data from more than 575 men and women aged 60 or

older was tracked for over nine years and showed that participants with

the highest folic acid intake reduced their risk of developing

Alzheimer’s by 55 percent.

 

(Corrada MM et al. Reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease with high folate

intake: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Alzheimer’s &

Dementia 2005;1(1):11-18).

 

2005 Institute for Complementary Medicine www.i-c-m.org.uk