Fear Alzheimer?In fact, you can build a better brain at any age

Text ｜ Chen Dongsheng (founder and chairman of Taikang Insurance Group Co., Ltd.)

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In recent years, people of insight have really felt that humans are standing at the crossroads of an era. In my opinion, from the perspective of the span of century -long time and space, the changes in the times we are facing include three levels: first of all, the big change of globalization and the world, and secondly In the end, the change of the way is the great change of humans brought by the longevity era.

Among them, the advent of the longevity era is even more related to human destiny.

In 2021, I will publish some of my recent thoughts and sorting up, publishing the book "Age of Longevity: Performing Human Future from the perspective of longevity, health, wealth", trying to summarize this new population with this neutral concept. The huge influence of power.

One of the important contents is that the longevity era will "start" a healthy era.

In the healthy era, the main burden on human disease transitions from acute infectious diseases to chronic non -infectious diseases, and the prolonged life span makes "long -term survival with illness" became the norm.

The long -term survival of the disease, and eventually dying from chronic diseases, seems to be the law of life and death in the longevity era. Among them, cognitive diseases such as Alzheimer's disease have become one of our most concerned chronic diseases.

Human beings are entering the longevity era, but this is not synchronized with the pace of human beings into a healthy era.

The growth rate of health expectations cannot keep up with the growth rate of the expected life expectancy. The number of people who suffer from chronic diseases have continued to increase, and the disabled elderly people gradually increased.

How to live long and healthy has become an important issue for our thinking in the longevity era.

It is not easy to realize health and longevity. In my opinion, it is important to change the concept.

In the past, people in each era underestimated the life growth of human life in the future, and it was not the case for expectations for the health level that the elderly could reach. Most people are not prepared for the upcoming longevity life.

The current health resources have not been served with the goal of promoting health and providing a full life cycle, but only pay attention to the age of age and treat the disease of the human body.

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From "heavy treatment" to "heavy health", it is necessary to strengthen the attention of health management, but the active and active management of the brain is far from receiving due attention.

Although neuroscience has made great progress, the brain is largely a "black box" to us to a large extent, or it may be due to our stereotypes -the brain is doomed at birth. can be used as.

In fact, brain health is an important part of health and the cornerstone of health. Without a healthy brain, you can't maintain normal life, diet and social interaction, and your health cannot be talked about. All health management measures should start with a healthy and efficient brain.

This "Adverse Age Brain: Keeping Young and Scientific New Science" by the National Medical Academy of Medicine Sanjay Goodpata is just the same time.

As a neurosurgery expert and a famous journalist, Gubuta has given full play to his two specialties, that is, the basic situation of high -level mental functions such as memory and thinking with a large number of stories and in -depth texts, as well as degenerative diseases such as cognitive diseases The physiological mechanism. This is one of the best neurological books I have ever seen.

In this book, a most impressive point of view of Gubuta is that brain health can be managed.

Taking Alzheimer's disease as an example, although the specific pathological mechanism has not determined the answer, more and more scientific evidence shows that in the years or even decades before the development of the corresponding symptoms, the related recession of the patient's brain began to begin It's right. This important discovery opened a sufficient time window for people to prevent cognitive disease.

In addition, many empirical studies have shown that cognitive diseases such as Alzheimer's disease can be effectively prevented. For example, exercise can directly benefit brain health. Gubuta pointed out two mechanisms: First, exercise can effectively use circulating blood sugar, reduce inflammation, and stimulate growth factors to release, and growth factors are substances that promote cell proliferation and enhance cell function; second, regular exercise with regular exercise It can reduce anxiety and stress, while improving sleep and emotions, and then have a positive impact on brain function.

The most precious part of this book is that Guba integrates a large number of scientific research results and summarizes the five simple and easy -to -run big health self -management measures -exercise, maintaining goals and cognitive reserves, sufficient sleep, food that is beneficial to the brain, which is beneficial to the brain With eating habits, maintaining social and intimate relationships, and formulating a 12 -week action plan that everyone can practice.

Judging from the five major measures recommended by Guba, people do not need to master complex knowledge and skills like cognitive neuroscience, they only need to improve their attention to the health of the brain and insist on healthy lifestyle.

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The incidence of cognitive disease is getting higher and higher, and the pathogenic factors may be planted when they are young, but many young people do not realize this.

The brain is indeed aging, but this does not mean that it will lose their acuity. As Gu Puta said, you can build a better brain at any age.

The time of brain health management, preventing neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, or delaying the occurrence of the symptoms of related diseases, its value is obvious.

We all know that once the cognitive function of people cognitive disease degenerates to a certain degree, they will become very dependent on the caregiver. Especially in the middle or late stages of the disease, they will also show the symptoms of mental behavior.

Care cognitive diseases are a very challenging job, whether at the economy, physical strength, and emotional level.

Fortunately, in the past few decades, the elderly industry at home and abroad has made in -depth exploration in the care of people with cognitive diseases and achieved a lot of results. For example, promoting the "people -centered" cognitive care concept, and the introduction of non -drug therapy such as multi -sensory stimulus therapy, music therapy, nostalgic therapy and other non -drug therapy. These practices are full of innovation and imagination, making cognitive disease care Services are known as the "Pearl on the Crown" for pension care services.

In China, the cognitive symptom care business has just started. We must actively explore practice and establish a cognitive care service model suitable for Chinese people.

Finally, I hope that this book from Guba can evoke people's attention to the health of the brain, allows people to actively take action, practice the corresponding strategies in daily life, and effectively prevent Alzheimer's disease. The times will always be keen and healthy.

(This article is the recommendation preface of the book "Adverse Brain: Keeping the Brain Young and Scientific New Science".

"China Science News" (2022-07-15 Reading 3rd Edition)

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