Mental Exercises For Alzheimers:
Boost Your Brain And Maximize Your Memory

Use it or lose it! Mental exercises for Alzheimer's disease (AD) are not only a powerful preventative measure, they can slow down, halt or even help to reverse the disease. The good news is you're never too old to start boosting your brainpower.

The brain is like muscles in your body in that if you exercise it you can make it stronger, but if you don't it will get weaker. Unfortunately, normal day to day living doesn't always give you the mental stimulation you need.

50% Less Chance Of Getting AD

Studies have shown that staying mentally active can slash the chance of getting Alzheimer's disease by half! And the Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom reported that volunteers 65 years old and over who did just ten hours of training their memory, problem solving and reaction times, had mental abilities equivalent to people seven to fourteen years younger than those who didn't do the mental exercises.

Even the education you get when you are young seems to have a big influence on your chances of getting Alzheimer's disease. A study carried out in China showed that illiterates were five times more likely to get AD than high school graduates. Another study, this time in Sweden showed that those with less than a grade eight education were two and a half times more likely to get AD.

Even Early Education Pays

The higher the education you have when you are young, the lower the chance you'll get AD when you're old. The plaques and tangles in the brain (the physical signs of Alzheimer's) have less effect on the higher educated than the less educated.

Experiments have been carried out with rats that were given lead laced water to drink. Those living in a stimulating environment learnt better than those who were isolated.

It seems fairly conclusive that exercising your neurons keeps them functioning better. So what sort of exercises do you need to keep your brain tuned up and firing on all cylinders?

Fun Mental Exercises

Mental exercises don't have to be boring; in fact they can be a fun and enjoyable part of the day.

Playing cards is a good exercise, and bridge is often mentioned as an exceptionally good card game for mental stimulation.

The solitaire games of FreeCell and Spider are good too. If they're not already on your computer you can download them for free. Work hard at keeping your percentage of wins up.

Try Sudoku, which is a Japanese number game that is very popular. You can find books of Sudoku puzzles quite easily, and often the local newspaper has games in it near the crossword puzzles.

Crossword puzzles and Scrabble are both good neuron sharpeners.

Learn Something New

Keep Learning. Continuing education not only helps to keep Alzheimer's disease at bay, it's a good way to keep at the top in your profession or job.

Learn a new computer program. Apart from word processors and spreadsheets there are lots of fun and useful programs you can learn. There are photo editing programs so you can enhance your photos for yourself or to share with others. There are home and garden design programs so you can design your perfect house or garden. I have a program where you can design planes to be used in MS Flight Simulator. Or how about a genealogy program? Learning the program and researching your family tree will certainly stimulate the grey matter.

For more ideas have a look in your favorite computer store. You're bound to find something that interests you.

Learn a new computer game. If you've always wanted to fly try a flight simulator. Or how about becoming an entrepreneur running your own computerized airline, railway or zoo? There are lots of online games too, where you can compete against other players anywhere in the world any time of the night or day.

Build your own website. You can share your hobbies, interests, or fields of expertise with others, and you could even make money doing it. Click on over to SiteSell for the best all-in-one web solution for complete newbies that you'll ever find.

Do a course. If you've always wanted to learn something whether it's photography, cooking, or advanced calculus, do it!

Do Less Of This

There's one thing you should not do much of and that's watch television, unless of course it is teaching you something. Passively watching sitcoms or soapies dulls the brain, so don't do too much of it.

Read the newspaper rather than watch the news on the TV. it's better for your brain.

More Alzheimer's Prevention and Treatment

Mental exercises are just one of the tools to help prevent and slow down Alzheimer's disease. As well as medication there's also diet, physical exercise, and a range of supplements that can help keep this disease from devastating your life.

Frank Mangano's e-book “The Mind Killer Defense” gives the Mangano Method for preventing and treating Alzheimer's disease naturally. It is the most complete set of information I've come across while I've been researching the subject. I've read a lot of books and found a bit of information here, and a bit there. The Mangano Method brings it all together in one place and it also has information that I haven't seen anywhere else. It's easy to read as well.

I'd suggest you have a look at it. Click here to learn more about the Mangano Method for preventing and treating Alzheimer's disease naturally.