Re: Study: Extra folic acid may protect brain
- From: "Bill" <xxx@xxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:34:07 GMT
"Rita" <nitany_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:54:35 GMT, "Bill" <xxx@xxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> Study: Extra folic acid may protect brain
>>
>> WASHINGTON (AP) -- High-dose folic acid pills -- providing as much of
>>the nutrient as 2.5 pounds of strawberries -- might help slow the cognitive
>>decline of aging.
>>
>> So says a Dutch study that's the first to show a vitamin could really
>>improve memory.
>>
> I wonder if the study addresed short term memory loss, the
> phenomenum those of us who experience it call "senior moments"?
>
They talk about cognitive speed, so maybe. I think long term memory would be
harder to test. I'll keep a look out for more on this.
> I don't believe my reasoning powers have begun to fail, nor my
> ability to read and absorb fairly challenging material.
>
For me, I think time of day may be a factor. :)
>
> But I do momentarily forget names of people and books and other
> facts I know well. In a converation I find myself stumbling to
> recall a name -- sometimes I have to menally recite the alphabet
> to see if coming across the letter with which the name begins will
> "job" my memory. I am age 75 and this has been going on for
> a few years now. Usually, even if I do nothing to stimulate
> memory, the name pops up in my mind a bit later. This happens
> to me far more often when talking to someone than when writing.
> Although I do make use of Google to give me clues sometimes as to
> the name or term I want to recall:)
>
I do exactly the same thing and I am 62. Except often is is a movie star and I
look her (almost always a her!) up on the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) by
looking up a movies she was in or remembering someone else in a movie she was
in.
> My daughter once worked in a nursing home and tells me, when I once
> got dressed to go off to church on a Saturday, that she will put up
> a big board that says "Today is Tuesday. The President is George
> Bush. You live in New York City."
I do forget the day sometimes. But have various things that keep me in control
on that.
Bill
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