Treatment Of Alzheimers Guide

Alzheimers is difficult to diagnose and even more difficult to treat.

Alzheimers Treatments

As of 2006, there is no cure for Alzheimer's disease. Medications offer relatively small symptomatic benefit [such as memory] for some patients but do not slow disease progression.

Diet, exercise and memory stimulation used to help prevent alzheimers is thought to help slow the progression of the disease.

In a recent program developed by Dr. Gary Small, ULCA - the focus was on mental exercises, physical exercise and antioxidants.

Antioxidants - ALA

Antioxidants may be helpful in preventing the oxidation stress in the brain, thus preventing the destruction of brain cells.

Antioxidant Alpha Lipoic Acid is a powerful antioxidant only when there is an excess of it and it is in the "free" state in the cells.

Under normal conditions, there is little free ALA circulating in your body. Additional ALA is taken through either consuming supplements or by injection. Foods contain only tiny amounts of ALA, hence diet alone is insufficent to boost the levels in the body sufficiently.

ALA's power as an antioxidant is its versatility.  Iit helps deactivate an unusually wide array of cell-damaging free radicals in many bodily systems. In particular, ALA helps protect the mitochondria and the genetic material, DNA.

As we age, mitochondrial function is impaired. ALA also works closely with vitamin C and E and some other antioxidants, "recycling" them and thus making them much more effective.

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