STOP Dementia Before It Starts (31 Proven Tips)

Early signs of dementia can show up years before a diagnosis. Discover 31 scientifically proven dementia prevention strategies designed to preserve cognitive function and support long-term brain health.

I’m going to give you 31 scientifically proven tips on how to avoid dementia. Dementia is not just like one little symptom or disease, it’s a spectrum of a lot of things that go wrong with the brain. From memory loss to language problems to personality changes, problems with thinking and solving problems. A high-carb diet is the big thing behind dementia. And also deficiencies like B12 and other deficiencies that can cause dementia.

I love it when they say that 40% of dementia can be prevented with lifestyle changes. 40%, so why do they say it’s that low? Why isn’t it higher? What is the 60% that you can’t do anything about? That’s my question.

I’m telling you right now, you should actively and aggressively do things to prevent it and avoid it, and that’s what we’re going to talk about today. Number one, age is the biggest risk factor for dementia cuz the older you get, the more chance of you getting dementia. But when we get older, there’s a certain hormone that really goes way, way, way too high. It’s in your pituitary and it sends a signal down to the gonads, both the ovaries and the testicles. So it tells those organs to work and then there’s a feedback loop that is complying with the order to produce more hormones, but of course when we get older, like in a female body, they lose the function of the ovaries and then men also have testicular atrophy.

So they also lose the function of the gonads. So now this luteinizing hormone is just going crazy sending all these signals, but it’s not working, so it goes really, really high. There’s a lot of ways to lower it, three of the best ways are ashwagandha, magnesium, and zinc. Women and men have low testosterone. Improving your testosterone can also protect your brain in a significant way.

I will put a link down below to some videos on how to do that. Let’s go into number two, Tudca. Tudca is a synthetic version of bear bile. Bile that’s produced by the liver that’s stored in the gallbladder, but apparently bears have a different version that’s really good for certain body conditions that we have related to the brain and nervous system. Taka is used for people that had strokes because it crosses the blood-brain barrier.

It’s also really powerful for insulin resistance and making insulin more sensitive in addition to a lot of other things related to the liver. It can really help to decrease inflammation of the liver, decrease cirrhosis, and even fatty liver. Let’s talk about number three, milk thistle. This is another thing that’s also good for protecting the liver against poison like snake poisoning, mushroom poisoning. This is like the antidote.

It has a very special property of protecting the liver and it’s a powerful antioxidant to your nerves and your brain. Helping to decrease the toxic plaque that can build up in the brain that you see in dementia. But it’s interesting because liver damage can mimic problems with your brain. Even like advanced cirrhosis can really affect the cognitive function. Then we have something called betaine hydrochloride.

This is normally a natural remedy used to help increase acid in the stomach. It’s good for indigestion, acid reflux, but as we age and get older, we lose our stomach acid. We lose our ability to absorb minerals. We lose our ability to digest protein and extract certain nutrients from protein like B12. And if we don’t have enough stomach acid and we can’t absorb B12, those symptoms of a B12 deficiency can mimic uh what’s that called?

Dementia. Next one is number five, air pollution. If you’re in a toxic environment, especially with your air, and this also relates to, you know, smoking, breathing in pollution, all this pollution goes into the lungs, it ends up in your bloodstream, and it ends up in the brain, and it creates oxidative stress and inflammation, and that can start to affect your brain. Now, there’s various apps that you can get to see how much pollution is in your current environment, and if it’s a lot, boy, you’re going to have to get an air filter in your house, and try your best to breathe clean air. And maybe you’re going to have to move, but I just wanted to point out that air pollution is a pretty big risk in relationship to cognitive function.

Not as much as smoking, but it’s definitely a factor. This is why I always recommend that people spend a lot of time walking through nature, going to the woods where you have clean air. Number six, progesterone. This is another really interesting topic because progesterone protects your brain. They use it for a therapy for degenerative brain diseases.

And so, unfortunately, when we get older, the progesterone really crashes way down both in men and women. So, I’m just putting that on your radar because if you have dementia, I think taking progesterone would be a very smart thing to do. Next one, number seven, is music and dance. Music and dance has been studied to help reduce the risk of dementia because you’re stimulating certain parts of your brain, and you’re also increasing a very powerful hormone called oxytocin. Oxytocin is probably one of the best ways to reduce chronic stress and cortisol.

So, music and dance is a great way to not just reduce your stress, but also enhance your sleep, which we’re going to talk about. The next one, number eight, is depression. Your mood can affect all sorts of physiology, including neurons in your brain. I have a lot of videos on depression. I will put some links down below, but vitamin D3 is at the top of the list of things to try.

Next one is DHA. This is a type of omega-3 fatty acid that is a structural protein. A good portion of our brain is made out of DHA. And when people are deficient in DHA, they’re way more at risk for dementia. So, it’s really important as part of your diet to consume good amount of fatty fish.

You know, also it could be sardines, it could be cod liver, cod liver oil, just to really get that DHA. Another really important trace mineral is zinc for the brain as well as to help decrease the risk of plaque. You can get that from red meat, you can get that from oysters, shellfish, a lot of different foods. Number 11 is very interesting. It’s called Deprenyl.

This is a drug. Now, I’m not recommending taking this drug. It’s very interesting cuz I just read a book on it. And this is like an anti-aging drug. The FDA approved it for Parkinson’s, but not dementia, even though there’s some pretty hardcore clinical trials that show that it works for that because what it does is it inhibits the breakdown of neurotransmitters.

Of course, if we’re dealing with dementia, we don’t want that to happen because that’s going to worsen dementia and cognitive function, right? This drug inhibits that process, but of course, I always like the natural version of that. Like, is there a natural MAOB inhibitor? Yes, there are. There’s quite a few of them.

Are they as potent? No, but there’s less side effects, and that’s what I like. And that is something called noble kava. And I wouldn’t even take this unless I had dementia, but it’s just something that you should know about as potentially an alternative to that drug. Let’s talk about number 12.

Chelate aluminum. Yes, it is true that when aluminum builds up in the brain, it can affect cognitive function. What you should know about that is there’s a natural chelator. That means claw, connecting to the aluminum and other heavy metals, and then it helps pull it out. But silica, you can do silica water or silica supplement.

There’s been evidence of it working for children that have autism as well, which is interesting. And let’s go to number 13, NAD. NAD basically takes electrons from food into a battery to help make energy. But, as we get older,