I’ve been thinking about this massive #ENDALZ movement- the hashtag, who uses it, what it means… I taped it on my back in 2013 when I ran the Baltimore Marathon. I thought I’d use the 26 miles to spread awareness ...
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This just makes sense. Sleep is renewing and necessary. Listen to Jon Hamilton discuss new research on NPR. Read more about it here.
Read More »New Research Will Target Early Stage Alzheimer’s
*** “If someone comes into the ER with a heart attack and you give them a (cholesterol-lowering) statin drug for the first time, you are probably 15 years too late,” said Dr. Michael Rafii, an Alzheimer’s expert at the University ...
Read More »Get Some Sleep!
Heed this, Caregivers, living your 36 hour day. *** Everybody knows that there just aren’t enough hours in the day, and sometimes sleep seems like a time consuming nuisance. But research has shown there are lots of health ailments related ...
Read More »Amyloid… Friend or Foe?
There is a longstanding hypothesis in research that beta amyloid- a build up of abnormally folded proteins- is responsible for Alzheimer’s disease. The theory is that a build up of amyloid blocks the flow of nutrients in and out ...
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