This Enjoyable Activity Defeats Dementia

by Christian Goodman | Dec 18, 2020

The traditional medical system has no solution for Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia. There are no drugs that cure it or stop it from progressing. That’s why we celebrate a new study in the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. It reveals how a quite...

Easy Way To Avoid Dementia

by Christian Goodman | Nov 28, 2020

Scientists have been struggling to find the cause of Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia. For the most part, they blame it on genetics, which we can do very little about. But now a new study published in the journal Brain Sciences has revealed a cause of dementia...

A Serious Health Hazard for Dementia Sufferers’ Caregivers

by Christian Goodman | Nov 4, 2020

Here at Blue Heron Health News, we spend a lot of time talking about diseases, their treatments, their causes, and their consequences for disease sufferers. But it is not often that researchers study the effects of disease on the people taking care of...

This Song Reverses Parkinson’s

by Jodi Knapp | Oct 21, 2020

How can a song reverse an ‘incurable’ disease like Parkinson’s? Sounds impossible! But a new study published in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies shows exactly how this happens – and how you can do the same. The authors of this study recruited 13 people...

The Simplest Cure for Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease

by Christian Goodman | Oct 3, 2020

The traditional medical system has been totally in the dark when it comes to the underlying causes of Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia. And how can you cure something when you don’t even know how it happens? But a new study from Amen Clinics, UC Irvine, Johns...

This Gut Issue Increases Alzheimer’s Risk by 600 %

by Christian Goodman | Aug 26, 2020

Gut health is usually not on the long list of risk factors when it comes to dementia. But according to a new study from University of California at San Francisco and Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan, it should be. One specific gut health issue (you may not...