Felix Veloso - Dementia Prevention Naturally: Evidence-based Strategies to Enrich Cognition

Dementia Prevention Naturally:

Evidence-based Strategies to Enrich Cognition

Dr. Felix Veloso, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C), F.A.A.N., 2014

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Veloso, Felix, 1936-, author

Dementia prevention naturally: evidence-based strategies to enrich cognition / Felix Veloso, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C), F.A.A.N.; with Roxanne Veloso-Tang, B.S.P., R.Ph and Joanne Veloso, B.COM, PMP, ABCP; illustrated by Natasha Kaitlin Tang.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-927756-11-9 (bound)

1. Dementia. 2. DementiaPrevention. 3. Alzheimers diseasePrevention. 4. BrainCare and hygiene. I. Veloso-Tang, Roxanne, 1960-, author II. Veloso, Joanne, 1961- , author III. Title.

DISCLAIMER

The author makes no claim that the statements, advice, recommendations and suggestions in this book will help the reader in any way. Claims in this book have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States of America or by the Health Protection Branch of Health Canada. This book is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. The preventive measures mentioned in this book are used at the sole risk of the reader. The author does not and cannot assume any harm that may be caused by practising recommendations or advice in this book. Readers are completely responsible for any harm or damages caused by reading this book. The recommendations in this book may delay and probably prevent the onset of all types of dementia but particularly of the vascular variety. The author makes no other claims.

Readers are advised to consult their physician(s) before practising any of this books recommendations. Every attempt has been made to provide the most accurate and current information. Knowledge in the field of medicine, however, is constantly expanding, and neither the author nor the publisher of this book can be held responsible for any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions of past, present and future information. The characters and incidents described in this book are a composite of many patients and events designed to highlight a problem, risk factor, issue or recommendation. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, and/or occurrences, either present or past, are purely coincidental and completely unintentional.

Editing, layout and design by Heather Nickel

Front cover image Carl Schlademan

Brain image ryan burke/www.istockphoto.com

Printed in Canada

January 2014; May 2015

Regina, SK.

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This book is dedicated to my patientswho taught me the art of medicinemy dearest wife, Ruby Lim Veloso, for her enduring patience my daughters, Roxanne Veloso-Tang and Joanne Veloso, for their enthusiastic support, my only grandchild, Natasha Kaitlin Veloso Tang, for illustrating this book.

With special thanks to my son-in-law, Patrick Tang, president of Sammer Technology for his immeasurable technical expertise in drafting this book.

Live each day as if the finale today is tomorrows yesterday tomorrow may not come today will never return only the here and now counts.

FELIX VELOSO

I know one day my memory will fail. I strive to delay the inevitable decade.

~ FELIX VELOSO

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

~ SHOLEM ASCH
American novelist (November 1, 1880 July 10, 1957)

Please provide the date of your dementia.

~ LETTER FROM INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE

More than tax and equal to death, dementia is a certainty of life. If you live long enough, you will either develop dementia or care for a loved one with the mind-robbing curse. Tax may be avoided financially by reducing personal income or legally by the modification of tax laws, but no amount of money or authority can prevent dementia or death. However, unlike death, dementia is deferrable and may even be preventable.

Dementia affected 500,000 Canadians in 2010. The current life expectancy for Canadian women is 83 years, and men, 78 years; an increase of seven and nine years respectively from 20 years ago. And exponential advancements in medical sciences support the continuance of lengthened longevity so that most new births in Canada now can expect to be centenarians.

South of the border, more than 5 million Americans currently have Alzheimers disease, and this number is expected to reach 13 million by 2050. In 2009, Alzheimers disease was the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States, a ranking that has risen steadily during the past decade. Medicare expenditures for Alzheimers disease alone in 2005 were $91 billion, and were estimated to balloon to $160 billion by 2010an increase of $70 billion in just five years. Aggregate health care expenditures for dementia are projected to exceed $183 billion in 2011 and reach $1.1 trillion by 2050.

And dementia is a plague not only in the industrialized world. An estimated 60% of people with dementia live in developing countries, and that number is believed to increase at a much greater rate than in developed countries.

Health care authorities are just awakening to the looming dementia tsunami that will surely flood the world in approximately 30 years, but governments have yet to formulate comprehensive nationaland more importantly, globalplans to minimize this imminent pandemic. There is currently no cure for Alzheimers disease, the most common form of dementia. In spite of spending billions researching numerous drugs in clinical trials over the past two decades, the pharmaceutical industry has been able to prove only two classes of medications for the symptomatic treatment of Alzheimers disease. These medications merely slow the relentless loss of cognition for, at most, two years. It is therefore incumbent on each and every one of us to immediately implement all recognized strategies to preserve our cognition while we still possess the minds to learn and adapt all the known natural defenses against dementia.

This book provides proven natural healthy lifestyle strategies that not only delay dementia but may, in fact, prevent it.