Can a pill protect your memory?

“Improves memory” sharpens ability to focus”

These are just some of the claims you may read about the supplements that 25 percent of adults over age 50 take to keep their brain capacities efficient. But do these products work ?

It is not often clear since the FDA does not require manufacturers d prove its efficacy, nor are statements about efficacy against specific diseases required.

Here’s what experts know or don’t know about these widespread and popular products.

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Home can also help you stay healthy

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When memory declines due to heart disease

It may beatherosclerosis that results in memory impairment, when arteries are clogged with cholesterol plaques and blood does not flow freely, making thinking and remembering more difficult. Slowed flow can

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Itching can sometimes be psychosomatic in nature, caused by severe states of anxiety or stress. Psychosomatic itching is localized to a specific location on the body, not resulting from internal

Does sexual desire grows old or not?

In a society where being and staying young is a absolute imperative and the body is at the center of all forms of communication, any sign of aging that naturally

Lack of sleep weakens memory

For everyone when sleep is lost, memories are harder to reappear precisely because sleep restores and improves connections between brain cells. Particularly those who have already experienced the weakening of

Liver-friendly foods

Alcoholic drinks, fried foods, sausages, fatty meats and cheeses, creams, Various sauces and gravies can be very attractive and pleasing to the palate, but they are much less so for

Memory at risk with diabetes

Knowing the extreme harmfulness of a disease such as the diabetes it is also known that it often involves a memory loss and also a dementia condition, due to high

Staying in shape as we age

The body does not remain the same as it was 20 or even 10 years ago. Our training method could not remain the same as it was then either. Some

The enemies of hearing and how to defend yourself

Especially in the beginning, noticing that hearing is declining is difficult, constantly immersed as we are in noise of all sorts, because ear and brain gradually “get used” to hearing

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