If you reach the age of 80 there is a 50% chance that you will have dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. That number is staggering and can be significantly reduced if patients had a road map on what they can do to reduce their odds. The purpose of this blog is not to bore you with details or physiology but to give you the basic steps you need to take. 1. Optimize Hormone levels: Estradiol (estrogen): there are hundreds of published medical studies linking estradiol levels to memory and cognitive decline. One of them most important studies
A recent study published in the Archives of Neurology demonstrated an improvement in cognitive function in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). This supports other studies that demonstrate an improvement in memory and executive function in patients who took human growth hormone. In this most recent study, patients received a Growth hormone releasing hormone analogue (tesmorelin) which increases the bodies natural production of growth hormone. Patients also experienced a 7.4% reduction in body fat which is typical in patients who take HGH. Why is this important? Did you know that your chances of developing
Many physicians that prescribe testosterone use an “estrogen blocker” (arimidex or chrysin) to reduce the peripheral conversion of testosterone into the hormone estrogen. They do this because they claim high levels of estrogen in men can adversely affect the prostate gland. What they fail to realize is that estrogen in men plays a critical role in preventing bone loss, preventing Alzheimer’s disease and dementia and also reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. There is not one human study that shows estrogen in men is harmful. To the contrary I can produce 50 studies showing estrogens protective effects on
