10 Warning Signs You Already Have Dementia

Hello health champions. Today I want to talk about the

signs

of

dementia

and why it is so important that we recognize the

signs

early, because although the body has an amazing ability to recover and repair

dementia

, it is one of the conditions where we first recognize the initial symptoms. It was over early. stages, it is simply a non-reversible dementia, it is a mental deterioration, it is a reduction in the ability to carry out mental processes, so it is related to memory disorders with personality changes with impaired reasoning, and therefore It is one of the most devastating conditions anyone can

have

, because although the person is technically still alive and the body is still there, the person we once knew is no longer there.

It is a form that is related to specific findings with amyloid plaques and with something called cross-linking of the tau protein, but it is not really important, there are other forms with dementia with Lewy bodies where proteins accumulate and then there is vascular dementia, which It is the result of multiple silent infarcts and this often occurs in people who suffer strokes and the reason I say that it is not all important is that regardless of the type, there is still not much they can do about it, it is more as an academic classification exercise, so we want to understand the very early signs, as well as the mechanisms that cause them, so that we can do early detection, but even better, we can do some prevention.

I watched some videos about it and it was a little disheartening that most of the advice on diagnosis is just about classifying it, just labeling it as dementia versus normal age-related impairment or forgetfulness and that's almost like the whole point of having a classification with the label of dementia, it's just that we

have

a better tolerance, a better understanding of what these people are, what they go for and what they become, it's like a child, you can't get too angry for the child because you know he's not mature, but you know he doesn't have the mental cognition to deal. with things the way we do them, but the most important thing I hope to make clear is the process that if we do things from the beginning, it is still reversible, and why it is so difficult to reverse it in the later stages, because do we need the brain to fix the brain we need?

Brain function must be there to prevent further deterioration, once we have a certain amount of brain function then we have the motivation to do something about it, exercise, take action, live an active life, make more food decisions. healthy and so on and then activation drives brain function which drives motivation and so on, but the opposite is also true: as soon as we lose a brain function if the brain function exceeds a certain point, we no longer have the motivation and we are There, before we lose activation, brain function declines further, and so on, and so on, once past a certain point, we simply don't have enough healthy, viable brain tissue, we don't have enough energy to build the brain. mechanism to process, so I want to guide you through the seven stages of mental decline, and then you will better understand why these advanced cases are so difficult that once the brain is gone, for some reason it is gone and you are still normal. so I don't know why they call it stage one instead of stage zero or before stage one, but that's how they do it, the normal thing is you want to be number two, it's a very slight decline and that's where we're still at On the green side of the spectrum it's not really dementia, but it's when we occasionally forget things, we may not have immediate access to familiar words, we can't remember where things are as quickly as we used to be and some of this is completely normal.

We all have good days and bad days and that Another thing we need to understand is that this is an ongoing process that we can all have, but the trick is to make it progress slowly enough so that we can live our lives and live the end of our lives with Remains as much function as possible, stage number three is early stage dementia, you are now officially developing dementia, you are still in the early stages, this is still considered a mild decline, but some of the things you may start to notice is forgetting the names you have in a conversation with someone you've introduced, but you try to remember what their name was, but a minute later you have no idea what your short-term memory is.

This would seem to happen when you forget what you just read, watch a movie or read a paragraph, and a minute later you don't know what it is about, and at this point you can see that people learn to compensate and realize this. that short-term memory is declining, so they develop a strategy for writing down traces of what they know they need to remember but what they are likely to forget, and we all do this to some extent because we use lists to keep ourselves organized and so Go ahead, but it's a little further, and these people mark their footprints as if they were breadcrumbs, where they know they will find the notes to have an organization in their life and their ability to organize and do things also worsens with planning if It's complicated if it's more than one step now, they can't really handle it without marking their tracks in advance, and the thing to understand here is that when people start to compensate and develop a strategy: they still have enough brain function, they still have enough awareness, they are still aware of the problem and have some motivation at this point, but you can still turn it around if you understand how the brain works and what it needs, you can develop a strategy to reverse this.

Stage four is still considered early stage dementia, but you're a little further down and there's a moderate decline, and this is where it becomes increasingly difficult to reverse. It is almost impossible to reverse it, but you can still do things to stop it. write it down, an example is forgetting the past event, which happens if you just read a paragraph, maybe you did something and you can't remember it anymore. happens a lot here, calculus affects your ability to do simple math, it's not that good, so an example would be subtracting 7, you start with 100 and subtract 7. So 100 minus 7 is 93. 93 minus 7 is 86, etc Normally you should be able to do it even if you can't do it immediately or as quickly as someone else, but once you're at this stage you can't do it at all and some of the other things you can do are lost.

It may be the ability to pay bills to manage your finances even if you no longer concentrate and tasks that require more planning and management become increasingly difficult, so someone else has to start taking over these tasks when in these stages we must understand that although we focus mainly on the cognitive part of the diagnosis of mental capacity, this mental capacity is reflected in the physiology that the physical tissue of the neurology decreases and that this decrease is progressive and before we can reach a notable decline in cognitive function. There is

already

a progression of physical deterioration, so we are talking about the cellular machinery that your brain cells begin to gradually decrease in their ability to produce energy, in their ability to produce signals that were the beginning of this, and as it progresses, we can see a decrease in the resistance of the brain, and we see what that means and once we have these first things, then we see the early degeneration and finally we see these early signs that lead to more progressive signs that can lead to dementia, So, if we have it in the early stages of degeneration, we can reverse it, but if we start with the early symptom and into the later symptoms, now it is simply too late, so in the earliest stages before there is a sign of cognitive decline. , we can see a decrease in brain endurance, so it could be a reduction in attention span, more mental fatigue, it could be that you can't stay focused as long as before, but maybe you feel like you need caffeine or something. another stimulant to keep you going, or it could be that you notice that in some other way, your brain function is simply not providing you with the quality of life that you used to notice that there is a change, there is something else in the early stages What you should look for are changes in posture and movement, your cognition.

It's still there, but these things indicate a decline in brain function of the brain's physical ability to do work, so if you sit still and see a twitch or tremor, it's a sign that the brain is not capable. to control it so well if before you notice that your handwriting becomes smaller and it is not because you are simply an orderly person who always wrote like that, but because you wrote in a certain way. way and now you write in another way it becomes more compressed, micrograph is mentioned, it is another sign if you can't smell the food, because so much smell is the result of brain function, like everything else, so if you can't smell the food , it is very common if the quality of sleep decreases, brain function determines the production of hormones and the regulation of sleep cycles and the regulation of stress, etc., something else you may notice as your brain degenerates is a slouched posture, so posture is part of the brain When we start our lives as babies, we all start in a fetal position, but as our brain develops and progresses and the brain, the frontal lobe learns to inhibit certain things, we adopt an upright posture and then the brain starts to weaken, we go back, we become more and more slouched and slouched and we go back to the childlike posture, another sign that the brain is not working as well is a loss of arm swing that when you walk You may be able to swing one arm more than the other.

The other or both arms may not swing as much, so it's important to understand that poor brain function leads to this, but it works the other way around if you pay attention to your posture and brain function. So when do we do it? I'm starting to worry if it's dementia and when is it normal for the age, so with dementia it's very common for us to have poor judgment, but these people are chronically poor. judgment, they are incapable of good judgment. The normal thing with age is that you occasionally make bad decisions, but once you think about it, you can argue with dementia, but you often can't manage a budget, but I think all of us at some point have failed to pay a bill, and is different. , is that sometimes people with dementia tend to lose track of what time it is, what month or even what season they can start summer and they say: shall we go?

To have snow you really have no idea about the weather or even the normal season, you don't know if it's Wednesday or Thursday because there are many things that get you going, but if you go sit down and think about it, you can notice it and with the In dementia, people lose things, but they also can't do their job and find out where it is or what happened. It's normal for us to lose things from time to time, but they still have this basic awareness of what happened or where they might be and with dementia they also have trouble being coherent, so in a conversation or when trying to explain something, the Reasoning is everywhere, there is no structure or direction to it and it is normal that sometimes we look for a word that we sometimes miss, but after a while we can return to our way of thinking, and this has lately attracted attention in the media, where many people claim that it could happen to the leader of the free world.

You know what you want to do with the button that I want to frame. I'm so happy, you know, I mean, but it's the kind of thing or you know things that come out of Florida, things that come out of you know, Robert and Lee, but. In Afghanistan you are the one, anyway, stage number five is in the middle of the stage, so now you are in the middle or even past the middle of the spectrum, moderate to severe impairment and brain damage, these people can't They remember the basic things that they have encountered, that they have talked about and known all their lives, suddenly they do not have their own address or their own telephone number, of course, their ability to notice, know and remember the time, the day or the season, it is even worse and They have problems choosing the right clothes like in this image.

They have trouble matching things and can't choose the right clothes for the season or weather, but I don't want the causes not to be discussed in detail, but I want to touch on them. briefly here. you can get dementia, you can suffer brain damage due to injury or trauma, but this is relatively rare in all cases of dementia, but the vast majority of cases are brain diseases and degeneration, which as a result is a gradual decrease in mental processes. of physical degeneration and the first thing to understand in this context is the principle of use it or lose it, your muscles work the same way if you break your arm, put a cast on your arm, then that contracts the muscle because it doesn't you do.

We don't use it, it is the most important component of brain degeneration, yes, there isa genetic predisposition and all that, but we have to understand the basic mechanism here and what the brain needs, it needs fuel, what we eat, and then it has oxygen needed to burn the food. fuel that produces energy, but then the second part that people overlook is stimulation and there is a lot of confusion about how to stimulate the brain, which most people think is playing bridge and crossword puzzles and having an interesting life, but The fact is that most more than 90% of the stimulation of the signals that keep the brain alive comes from movement, that is why I always talk about exercise, it is not the best to stop insulin resistance, but it is the best to maintain I live your brain if you do.

If you don't stimulate it you will see a decrease in blood flow which is part of this brain degeneration, and if you don't lose it, the brain ends up with less blood flow. The factor that can accelerate this degeneration is neuroinflammation, and it has to do with metabolic diseases, which is what I talk about a lot in my videos, and although most people are concerned about their metabolism for weight loss or diabetes, you have to understand that Alzheimer's and dementia are often called diabetes. type 3, that's how strong the link between the two is: insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.

Metabolic disease is a cause of neuroinflammation, and then some other causes are toxins that inflame the body and toxins that come from food and the environment. so insulting to the environment and from the feeding stage in the middle stage to the late stage of dementia, now you are getting very close to the red, these people are seriously impaired and an example of what happens is that they can't even remember your spouse's name. That's where it becomes so devastating for a couple who has known each other their whole lives and all of a sudden the person is just gone, there.

It's like they should be there, but they just aren't and these people have to do it. Constantly observing that they are now often kept in an institution, because they tend to wander and get lost and have very little judgment about how to take care of themselves, so they get hurt very easily, and now they can't even do the basics. self-care; They need help dressing and eating and basically there is nothing left of their original personality either, their main seven personality disorder is late stage dementia, now you are almost gone and it is a very serious degradation, these people have total detachment, they are basically

already

They are not there, they do not respond, you talk to them, you make a gesture and you simply do not recognize anything, it may produce random words but there is simply no context or meaning; they have no awareness of themselves or their condition, and another thing that happens at this point is that they can't even swallow anymore when you feed them, I hope you can really see that the things that we normally associate with dementia, the stages are those that are too late to do anything about, so if you are at this stage you have the ability to compensate if you have some motivation to develop strategies; that's the range where you want to see it in the early stages and do something about it, even if there is cognitive decline when there is a small loss of brain stamina or posture, that's where it's time to do something, if you enjoy this video. love the video and if you really want to master health by understanding how the body really works make sure to subscribe, hit the bell and turn on all notifications.

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