Alan Richman, Contributing Writer12.05.16
The most elegant of human organs, the brain also is the most essential. Unlike the heart, liver and kidneys, it cannot yet be replaced with either a transplant or an artificial unit. When the brain goes, we go.
Although it is protected from external shock to some extent by the hard, bony cranium, it is at least as vulnerable, and possibly more so, to insidious, systemic disease and deterioration.
The Enemies
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), other dementia, stroke, anxiety, depression, mood swings, stress, sleep issues, ADHD and PTSD are 10 of the most serious threats to brain health. Any one of these alone could cause havoc not only for individuals themselves, but also for their families, co-workers and the nation as a whole.
More than five million Americans are now living with Alzheimer’s; one in three seniors dies with Alzheimer’s, the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. Every 66 seconds a new case is detected. It kills more than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined, according to the Alzheimer’s Associati
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