Why dementia gets more severe in the winter – Jan 2019

Dr Miriam Stoppard: Why dementia gets more severe in the winter UK Mirror

• “A study found a 30% increase in the likelihood of a person reaching the threshold for dementia during the winter months”
• “It found people with dementia were mentally more alert in summer and autumn and, crucially, mental function declined by the equivalent of nearly five years in the winter and spring months”

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See also Vitamin D Life

• Poor cognition 26 percent more likely if low Vitamin D (29 studies) – meta-analysis July 2017
• 9,000 dollar prize for RCT which found cognition improved after taking 4,000 IU of Vitamin D for 18 weeks – May 2018
• Alzheimer’s associated with Vitamin D and Vitamin D receptor – video and pdf – Aug 2018
  • Vitamin D Receptor gene is NOT detected by testing Vitamin D blood levels
  • Alzheimer’s is 3 times more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor
• APOE4 gene problems (Alzheimer’s) reduced by both Vitamin D and Omega-3 - Dec 2018
• Search Vitamin D Life for dementia anywhere in text 1190 items Jan 2019
• Overview Schizophrenia and Vitamin D
• Types of evidence that Vitamin D helps brain problems - 2014

Vitamin D and Season

• Bariatric Surgery problems associated with season, latitude (low Vitamin D) – Dec 2015
• Headaches related to latitude and season – perhaps vitamin D - May 2010
• Vitamin D levels vary seasonally in seniors - Nov 2016
• Vitamin D levels should be adjusted for season (Cosinor) – Nov 2015
  

Alzheimers-Cognition - Overview starts with

• FACT: Cognitive decline is 19X more likely if low vitamin D
• FACT: Dementia is associated with low vitamin D levels.
• FACT: Alzheimer’s 21 % more likely if low vitamin D
• FACT: Alzheimer's Disease is 4X less likely if less likely if high vitamin D
• FACT: Every single risk factor listed for Alzheimer's Disease is also a risk factor for low vitamin D levels
• FACT: Elderly cognition gets worse as the elderly vitamin D levels get even lower (while in senior homes)
• OBSERVATION: Reports of increased vitamin D levels result in improved cognition
• OBSERVATION: Alzheimer’s patients 3X more likely to have a malfunctioning vitamin D receptor gene – 2012
• OBSERVATION: Alzheimer's Disease has been seen to halt when vitamin D was added.
• OBSERVATION: 39 vitamin D and Alz. or Cognition lntervention trials as of Sept 2018
• OBSERVATION: 2 Meta-analysis in 2012 agreed that Alzheimer's Disease. associated with low vitamin D
• OBSERVATION: 50X increase in Alzheimer's while decrease in vitamin D
• OBSERVATION: Vitamin D reduces Alzheimer’s disease in 11 ways
• OBSERVATION: Alzheimer’s cognition improved by 4,000 IU of vitamin D
• OBSERVATION: Plaque removed in mice by equiv. of 14,000 IU daily
• FACT: Vitamin D is extremely low cost and has very very few side effects
• CONCLUSION: Everyone concerned about cognitive decline or Alzheimer's Disease should take vitamin D
• PREDICTION: By 2024 Omega-3 and high dose Vitamin D will be found to reverse Alzheimer's in humans
  • As of 2018 that combination has worked well with Multiple Sclerosis, Sleep, and Cluster Headaches
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