Posted on: May 5, 2016 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Of all age-related diseases, Alzheimer’s is one of the scariest. It causes you to lose all sense of who you are and robs you of your ability to live a healthy, independent life by killing your nerve cells and shrinking your brain.

Unfortunately, more than 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease… and most of them are 60 years or older. But whether you’re 60 or just 30, there’s no reason not to seriously consider how you can prevent or slow this fate…

Years of research has shown that there is a lot you can do to keep your brain from shrinking to avoid the ravages of Alzheimer’s. A healthy, nutrient-rich diet, for example, can do wonders in this fight — especially if you feed your brain before or during the phase that precedes full-blown Alzheimer’s known as prodromal Alzheimer’s disease.

Prodomal Alzheimer’s is a period of time in which a person may begin to experience symptoms of mild cognitive impairment. It can begin as much as 7 years prior to Alzheimer’s disease.

But the good news is that researchers recently stumbled upon a brain-boosting cocktail of specific nutrients that may keep your brain healthy and help you hold onto your memory longer — and it’s been developed into a liquid nutritional supplement.

The drink, called Souvenaid, is already available in pharmacies across Europe, Brazil, Australia and the U.K. In most of these countries it’s also available for purchase online, though it doesn’t look like they can ship to the states until it is approved in the U.S.

Hope for Alzheimer’s patients

The anti-Alzheimer’s cocktail was created by American researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University — and contains a patented combination of nutrients researchers named Fortasyn Connect which give it its brain-boosting powers. Here’s a list of the powerful nutrients found in a bottle of Souvenaid:

  • EPA (fish oil), 300 mg
  • DHA (fish oil), 1,200 mg
  • Phospholipids, 106 mg
  • Choline, 40 0mg
  • UMP (uridine monophosphate), 625 mg
  • Vitamin E, 40 mg
  • Vitamin C, 80 mg
  • Selenium, 60 mcg
  • Vitamin B12, 3 mcg
  • Vitamin B6, 1 mg
  • Folic acid, 400 mcg

Based on the results of European clinical trials, people with prodromal Alzheimer’s disease who drank Souvenaid were better able to remember specific events (known as episodic memory) and had less brain shrinkage than those who didn’t.

Souvenaid appeared to be particularly effective in the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for short-term memory. The scientists believe that those who consume Souvenaid regularly — and early enough — may be able to conserve memory. That’s very promising for all of us.

But even if you can’t easily buy a bottle of Souvenaid yet, you don’t have to wait a minute longer to feed your brain what it needs. Sure, Souvenaid may have a special patented formulation of nutrients, but most of these important nutrients can be purchased at your health food store right now.

Sources:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160310111933.htm
https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=2571
http://www.alz.org/facts/

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