Stop Dementia Right Now, Right Here

Scientists have been struggling to discover a medical solution for Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, with no success so far.

A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, however, reveals a simple, fun, non-medical way to stop dementia in its tracks.

Researchers from the University of Michigan and New York University studied 18,154 dementia-free adults aged between 50 and 65 over a median follow-up period of nearly eight years. Some of them were observed for up to 17 years.

The participants were questioned about their internet usage habits, ranging from emails and online purchases to information searches and travel reservations. They were also asked how much time they spent online, from 0–2 to 6–8 hours per day.

They discovered the following facts:

1. Those who regularly used the internet reduced their dementia risk by 43% compared to those who did not use it often.

2. The reduction in risk held both for people who used the internet voluntarily and for those who had no choice.

3. Both those who were perfectly cognitively able and those who showed slight signs of cognitive decline when the study started experienced a reduction in dementia risk.

4. The more regularly the participants used the internet over a long period, the more their risk declined.

5. The difference in dementia risk between regular and non-regular internet users held regardless of their education, race, sex, or age group.

The study results suggest that regular internet users have about half the risk of developing dementia that non-regular users have. Using the internet regularly over a long period in later life seems to be linked with a lower risk of mental decline.

The authors speculated that internet use could help older adults build and maintain a cognitive reserve. People with a high cognitive reserve are thought to have more efficient neural connections and more flexible problem-solving capabilities, which allows them to maintain function despite having brain damage.

In other words, internet use doesn’t prevent brain cells from being damaged, but it does allow people to continue functioning almost normally with such damage because their brains are optimized to improvise and find alternate ways of getting things done.

Best of all, if you have begun experiencing those senior moments, you can learn to stop your dementia in its tracks and even reverse it using a simple technique found right here online…