Reverse cognitive decline with amino acids?

BLOCK dementia damage with these essential aminos?

First, they take your strength.

Then, they rob you of your energy.

Now, they’re STEALING your brain, as an urgent new report exposes how following conventional nutritional guidelines could empty out your mental tank.

And that could set the stage for cognitive struggles… decline… dementia… and Alzheimer’s disease.

But this same report also shines a light on something else, and that’s a way to:

Cut that process off
End the cycle
Preserve both body and mind

All it takes is following some science-backed wisdom…

Save your brain with this muscle-boosting superstar

Your brain isn’t actually a muscle – but in many ways, it needs the same kind of attention.

You know, for example, that a little daily activity can protect both your muscles and your mind.

Similarly, your brain also needs the protein that’s so important to muscle – and the new study on mice shows what happens when you fall short.

You don’t just get weaker muscles.

You get a weaker brain!

Yet official U.S. government guidelines don’t come close to the level of protein needed by aging Americans.

Hmmm… could it be that they WANT us to be weaker in the noggin???

Makes a lot of sense if you think about it!

But experiments on mice with a rodent form of Alzheimer’s disease show how to turn it around and save your brain.

First… when given a typical low-protein diet… the mice went into rapid decline.

Their levels of dangerous tau in the brain spiked, and their neurons – the network inside the brain that carries around the crucial signals that keep everything operating – started to go dark.

But when the mice were given a pennies-a-day blend of seven key amino acids – the main “building blocks” of the protein missing from their diet – they had remarkable improvements.

The damage essentially stopped – and, in some cases, reversed – when compared to mice that didn’t get the amino acids.

They also experienced:

LESS inflammation
LESS neuronal death
LESS degeneration
LESS tau accumulation

We’ll need some human studies to see if this same approach will work for us.

But we don’t need studies to know that most older Americans aren’t getting enough protein overall, which means they’re missing those same crucial amino acids and suffering from loss of muscle and, potentially, loss of brainpower.

That leads to two key action points:

Action Point #1: Step up your protein, especially from meat, eggs and dairy. Studies show most seniors need roughly double the levels recommended by government guidelines.
Action Point #2: Consider a supplement of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) which can help ensure that you get the levels needed for good muscle function.

And, as the new study shows, you may enjoy a bump in brainpower and protection from dementia too.

Reference:

A diet of essential amino acids could keep dementia at bay

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-diet-essential-amino-acids-dementia.html