{"id":7206,"date":"2015-06-22T07:33:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T12:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/?p=7206"},"modified":"2021-08-19T10:02:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:02:05","slug":"a-nutritional-supplement-for-memory-that-actually-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/22\/a-nutritional-supplement-for-memory-that-actually-works","title":{"rendered":"A Nutritional Supplement For Memory That Actually Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You walk into a room, pause, stare blankly ahead, and ask yourself, \u201cWhat did I come in here for?\u201d Seeing a familiar face in the theatre lobby, you exchange socially acceptable kindnesses and now the first act is ruined as you wrack your brain trying to remember the person\u2019s name so you don\u2019t embarrass yourself at intermission. You go through the alphabet\u2026Adrian, Ann, B, Barbara?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or you\u2019ve lost your keys or glasses yet again. Even at work co-workers seem to be swapping eye rolls as they remind you of something for the third, fourth, or fifth time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If all this happened in your 20s or 30s, you\u2019d write it off to too much going on, the stress of a busy life. Now in your 40s, 50s, and older, you worry a bit. One day you may even show up in your doctor\u2019s office, the dreaded A-word on your trembling lips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo, it\u2019s not Alzheimer\u2019s,\u201d I\u2019ll reassure you. \u201cUsually an Alzheimer patient doesn\u2019t think anything\u2019s wrong with her memory. It\u2019s her family who brings her in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, let\u2019s clear the air on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pay attention<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The most common cause of mild memory issues is simple inattentiveness. Your brain is clogged with too much junk mail. Example: you walk in your front door. Crossing the threshold, thumbing through your actual junk mail, you put it aside to check your phone at the exact moment you toss your keys somewhere and force yourself into cheerfulness as you greet the cat. Keys? You have now officially \u201clost\u201d your keys. Fortunately, the cat (like cats everywhere) can fend for herself. Otherwise you\u2019d lose her, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Believe me, if you start paying attention to what you\u2019re doing in the moment, telling yourself \u201cKeys, here, on my new key hook. Ah, cat, hello!\u201d Then check your junk mail and your phone a bit later (not simultaneously), a lot of your memory worries will be over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that you\u2019re focused on this Health Tip, it\u2019s true that for some people short-term memory does decline with age. To be sure, not everyone experiences this, and we all know some sharp-as-a-tack 90-year-olds. As politically annoying as my 93-year-old Fox News-addicted aunt can be, her memory amazes me. Two hours after some dumb infomercial, she\u2019ll decide to order the product they were hawking and rattle off the phone number from memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For today, let\u2019s set aside the three old-age diseases that are linked to fairly rapid memory loss: Alzheimer\u2019s, vascular dementia (a\/k\/a hardening of the arteries, multiple small strokes), and the more recently described Lewy Body dementia<\/a> (Robin Williams had this).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prevention, as always, is best<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You think your memory might be going, but your doctor says not to worry. Not helpful–it\u2019s not his brain in a tailspin. You\u2019re still worrying. \u00a0Let\u2019s talk prevention. Here\u2019s a checklist that ends with a nutritional supplement<\/a> that\u2019s showing very impressive results in clinical trials. But please don\u2019t lean on supplements to the exclusion of the other items. They\u2019re all essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n