Maybe high blood pressure isn't so bad?

[Carol Orr]

On sixty minutes last week they showed the results of a study of 6000 people
since 1980 and the things the ones who lived to be over 90 had in common.

One to three cups of coffee per day.

Two drinks per day(did not have to be red wine)but no more than two drinks and
more than one.

15 minutes of exercise a day...up to 45 minutes, did not have to be done at
same time...included such things as 15 minutes of gardening.

More excercise than that did not lead to living past 90.

Being slightly over-weight. Maybe they didn't say slightly...maybe somewhat
overweight?

Smokers did not live to be over 90(in this study.

A social life

BUT MOST INTERESTING WAS THIS:

People who had higher blood pressure did not get alzheimers or dementia. I'm
sure Dr. Roz might have an idea about this or anyone and I'd like to hear it.

Plaques were equally in dementia or non dementia patients as well as no
plaques in dementia/alzheimers or in non dementia persons. In other
words..plaques was not a factor. Plus the added information of some dementias
being caused by maybe hundreds or thousands of little strokes in the brain.

The only thing that might be skewed about this study is that all 6000 people
lived in the same community since 1980. Part of living there was filling out
all this medical information and other stuff about their lives for the last 30
or more years.

[Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD]

Plaque appears not to be the cause of Alzheimer, but a consequence, a storage of degenerative proteins in the glial cells first, then in the neurons, as the glia becomes overwhelmed.

The relationship between higher BP and less ALzheimer could be better vascularisation of the brain, the higher BP being in fact artificial due to a false measurement because of lack of elasticity of the arteries, whereas the important aspect is the intra-arterial pressure.

Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD.

"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind"

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