Doing this 4 steps, risk of dementia will be reduced!

Doing this 4 steps, risk of dementia will be reduced!

The average of human life is rising from time to time. However, the risk of getting dementia among human is getting higher and affect their life. If everyone wants to live long with good quality of life, he or she must move a lots and train their brain regularly. So exactly what is dementia?

Dementia

For completing an action, we need our brain to think about things we need to be done and action with our psychomotor. If our mind cannot receive or process information, we call it cognitive decline. Therefore, when talking about dementia, we are talking about a person whose cognitive function gradually declines compared to a few years ago or a few months ago. Remember, this does not just mean that this person has a bad memory!

In fact, dementia will reduce a person's ability to use language, or a person's attention, judgment, planning decision-making process and execution ability. As long as the cognitive declines affect daily life, it is considered dementia. When dementia becomes more serious, the patient may cannot control his emotions. His personality will change, and he may even lose the ability to take good care of himself. 

① Take care of blood vessels

First of all, when we talk about many brain problems, we will say that "repeated stroke" is very harmful to the cerebrovascular. Therefore, it is important to change and reduce the factors that can easily cause stroke. And the most important of these is that the brain will be healthy only if the blood vessels are taken care of. If the blood vessels are not good, it may become clogged and the blood cannot flow through; or the blood vessels may rupture and cause intracerebral hemorrhage. Either way, it will greatly damage the health of brain cells. After a stroke, the cognitive function of the patient will decline.

Therefore, if you want a healthy brain, you must take care of your blood vessels and control the three highs. To control the three highs, in addition to taking medications according to the doctor’s recommendations, you must also adjust your lifestyle, maintain a proper weight, and don’t burden your body too much.

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②To be active

Next, if you want to avoid dementia, you must be active in joining activities such as physical activities, mental activities, and social activities. Physical activity can be the easiest way where you can do it at home. You can do gardening and household chores, don't sit on chair or  lie on bed for long time, stand up and walk around. Go for a walk in the park to exercise. If the body can afford it, practice some weight training to build up muscles and avoid sarcopenia, so that the body can get healthier. Being active in the mind means not watching TV or chasing dramas all day long. When watching TV, it is mostly “passively receiving information”, but there is no time for brainstorming. Find some time to use your brain every day by playing with educational toys, solving math problems, solving puzzles, and playing crosswords in newspapers are all good ways for brainstorming. The last one is you need to be active social activities as it involves our brains actively in receiving, processing and delivering the information.

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③Eat healthy and nutritious

When we having three meals a day, we have to choose carefully on types of food that is good for our health Food choices are very important in supplying the nutrients and minerals that need by our body. Modern people are well-nourished as they take in nutrients from healthy foods and make them balanced. Although seasoned food is delicious, but it is not good for health! If you want to eat healthy, you have to eat as many types of food as it is, and don’t cook food at too high a temperature. Besides that, brown rice will be better than white rice, and freshly cooked chicken will be better than processed red meat. 

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④ Sleep well

Everyone must have this kind of experience where you didn't sleep well the day before and lack of sleep causes you couldn't do anything the next day, and became very irritable. If someone asks a harmless sentence, you will get angry. In fact, poor sleep and insufficient sleep are very harmful to the brain. Because sleep is the key time for the brain to remove wastes. If you sleep well, the wastes can be eliminated and will not stay in the brain. According to the health research, people with sleep disorders have a high chance of developing cognitive deterioration or Alzheimer's disease in the future. Although you are young,  please don’t think that it’s okay to be tired. If you don’t sleep well at the age of 30 or 50, you will accumulate more risk of dementia in your body.

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