Docs are catching up with my recommendations for preventing Alzheimer's Disease

Welcome to my blog. I’ll be posting blurbs once or twice a week similar to what I was publishing in my monthly Teplitz Report.

For years, I’ve been writing about the benefits of exercise, nutrition, relationships, sleep and mental activities including meditation to keep us healthier, living longer, being more productive and having enjoyable lives. It’s been fun for me to see the medical profession as its been catching up with what I’ve been recommending.

The latest “catch-up” is Alzheimer’s disease. In the December 2018 issue of Discover Magazine, the featured article was reporting on researchers using lifestyle changes to fight Alzheimer’s. What are the lifestyle changes that they are recommending? How about reducing chronic stress, getting more exercise and restorative sleep, eliminating toxins from molds, eliminating fast foods that are fat-laden and reducing sugar.

By using Big Data, the researchers are now able to validate how powerful these lifestyle changes can be. Years ago, I wrote how beta amyloids might not be the key to solving Alzheimer’s disease, which is what recent research is now confirming. As a matter of fact, 99% of the drugs targeting the reduction of amyloids have failed to stop Alzheimer’s even if they reduced the amount of amyloids in the brain

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There is an approach called The Bredesen Protocol that is a comprehensive personalized program aimed to reverse Alzheimer’s by doing a lot of testing which includes blood tests, genetic evaluations, cognitive assessments and an MRI. All this is crunched in a computer which comes up with a plan to reverse inflammation, insulin resistance and the destruction of vital brain functions. The recommendations are where healthy living is recommended rather than drugs. The results border on miraculous!

So…having the medical profession catching up to my recommendations is a very rewarding feeling. I’m looking forward to other catch-ups happening.

PUTTING THE UNEXPECTED IN YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

 

This Saturday is Valentine's day so hopefully you will see this post in time!

Scientists at Emory and Baylor University using magnetic resonance imaging discovered that the pleasure centers of the brain respond much more strongly to unexpected stimuli than to expected pleasurable ones.

To me this means in intimate relationships when you do the unexpected, your loved one will be much more excited about that than when you do the expected. So keep those flowers, cards, letters, and surprise kisses going but be sure to think of something new too!

The Key To Long-Term Happiness In Relationships Is Cuddling

A study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that cuddling in middle-aged couples found that cuddling can caressing can boost satisfaction.

They researchers found
that tenderness is more important to men than women, men are more likely to report being happy in their relationship and women are more likely to be satisfied with their sex life.

Both men and women were happier the longer they were together and if they had higher levels of sexual functioning. Sexual satisfaction included frequent kissing, cuddling, sexual caressing and frequent sex. Sexual satisfaction increased for women over time. So…snuggle up to your partner…and…

Having Friends At The Office Increases Productivity

Researchers have reported that loneliness at the office decreases productivity. Having a least one friend at work actually increases a worker’s productivity. 

So, loneliness is not just a personal problem, it’s an organizational problem.

If you manage others, make sure your folks have at least one person that they are friends with.

(Reported Prevention, June 2012)

Good News, Money Is Not The Cause Of Divorce. Oops, It’s Selfishness

A study done in 1948 found ago a link between money and divorce.

The leading reason for women to divorce was “nonsupport”, which meant that the husbands didn’t provide enough money for the daily essentials of life.

Today things are different. More women are in the workforce and depend less on men for support.

While money is still a problem as a study of married couples from 1980 to 1992 found that 70% reported some kind of money problems. However, when they analyzed the statistics further, they found that selfishness was the root cause.

By selfishness, it’s where one spouse begins to think that their needs and wants should come first. The strongest marriages are when each partner puts the other first. So…in your relationships, who’s first and who’s second?

(Blog by Ethan Kap)

This Week on My Internet Radio Show: HAVING DIFFICUTLIES WITH YOUR KIDS AND GRANDKIDS? LEARN A LOVE BASED WAY TO TRANSFORM CHALLENGING PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS

My guest this week is Dr. Bryan Post www.PostInstitute.com

Dr. Post is a psychotherapist, lecturer and best-selling author. His focus is working with children with severe behavior challenges.

For the past fifteen years, he has been educating others about the challenges facing adopted and foster children. From this work he has developed a new love-based understanding that can transform the most challenging parent-child relationship that all parents and grandparents need to know.

You’re going to learn about the impact of time-outs, spanking, crying and the surprising impact it can have on your kids. You’re not going to want to miss this one!

Go to http://webtalkradio.net/shows/healthy-alternatives/ to listen or download the program.

Since I do this show weekly, we can inform you of each show with an email reminder.  Just click here to register.

We’re Not The Only Ones With Social Networks -Think Plants

Botanists have tried to figure out why some trees don’t grow well near members of their own species while others do.

It turns out that newly sprouted seeds respond to soil-dwelling microbes near the tree’s roots. These microbes can harm a tree’s seedlings so the seeds need to get away from the mother tree.

This has caused trees to evolve methods of dispersal of their seeds by using fruits that get eaten and seeds that get blown on the wind.

There are also plants that fare better when they are surrounded by their own kind. Sagebrush, for example, sends out airborne chemical cues from its foliage and branches that play a vital role in protecting the plants against insect attack.

One study showed that two genetically identical sagebrush plants grown next to each other were more effective fending off caterpillars and grasshoppers than two unrelated plants.

So…the notion of “friending” started a long time ago.

Paying Attention To Feelings Versus Your Head

The question is: Is it better to pay attention to your reasoning skills or your feelings?  This is an old debate that just got some new insights. A researcher at the University of Toronto had his test subjects interact with an anonymous partner.

The subjects had two options from which to choose – they could treat the other person fairly or lie to them. If they lied, they would gain at the expense of their partners.

Before the subjects decided to be fair or to cheat, they were encouraged either to think rationally about the situation and to ignore their emotions or they were told to make their decision based on their gut feelings. Sixty-nine percent of those who were told to be rational decided to lie to their partners while those only 27% of those who were told to go with their gut feelings lied.

With the economic crisis we’ve all been going through, it seems that using our gut feelings got lost in the ‘rational’ thought of “everyone else is doing it so I should, too.” If I could buy a house by exaggerating my income, I may as well do it. If I knew the homeowner wasn’t qualified, but I could profit by giving him a loan anyway, I may as well do it. If I could bundle these useless securities so that no one would know that they were valueless and sell them, why not.

All of these were ‘rational’ thoughts and they almost created a depression! One person who was using her gut was a woman, Sheila Bair, head of the FDIC. In 2008, she was warning bankers that there was a huge problem with mortgages and that the banks should renegotiate entire categories of loans to avoid massive foreclosures.

So what did these rationally minded bankers do - they ignored her. So…maybe when the alarm bells in your gut go off, you’ll start to give them more credit and pay attention.

(Reported Fast Company July/August 2009)

Facebook-Twitter: Having Meaningful Relationships Has Gotten Harder.

According to research done by Kodak, while it’s easier to say in touch with family and friends using email, texting, and sites like Facebook - the contacts may be less meaningful.

As a matter of fact, Kodak researchers found that 60% of the respondents felt like they have fewer meaningful relationships now.

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