Vital Vitamins for Protecting yourself from Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia - Part 2

Vital Vitamins For the Prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and Dementia - Part 2

Come on Choline

Choline has been shown to have tremendous results with early onset Alzheimer’s disease and dementia - with no side-effects reported at all on the recommended dose. In the following paragraphs you will be able to find out all you need to know….

Choline (considered to be part of the B vitamin complex) is the active ingredient in Lecithin and was first discovered in 1862 – but it was only in the last 20 years or so that it has been given any serious attention and its role in health really studied.

This ongoing work has shown that it is used by the body to manufacture and maintain healthy cell membranes and promote the manufacture of a specific neurotransmitter (brain chemical) that is used in memory storage. This neurotransmitter is acetylcholine and a decrease in the amount of this chemical (as you will already know!) has been linked in numerous studies to Alzheimer's disease. It is believed that this deficit is due to a decrease of an enzyme that converts dietary choline in to acetylcholine in the brain and therefore would seem the ideal solution...

A study comparing the treatment of Alzheimer’s patients with choline to a placebo group (that didn't receive choline) showed that after 6 months the control group improved whilst the placebo group worsened when their cognition was tested. However, there is only one drawback with the use of choline.

Another study published in Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology detected significant improvement in mental performance after only one month of treatment with CDP-choline (which is excellent) but only in subjects with early-onset Alzheimer's.

As with all supplements you intend to start, it is worth checking with you G.P. or healthcare practitioner before you do to ask their advice on dosage, but in studies using choline dosages of 1000mg and 400mg three times daily were used without problem. I would recommend a daily dose of up to 850mg which has been shown to be well tolerated but also necessary to prevent organ damage in many individuals