To Help Your Mind, Take Steps To Help Your Heart, Study Says

Being predisposed genetically to both heart disease and hypertention, cholesterol has always been a concern of mine in regards to how they restrict blood flow to organs as well as the brain. ScienceDaily.com has recently published an article discussing the effect heart realted aligments have on the brain.

"Having risk factors like high blood pressure and high cholesterol does damage to small blood vessels in the brain and can cause death of brain cells over time,' says lead author Kenneth Langa, M.D., Ph.D. 'In addition, the Alzheimer's disease process itself can affect the walls of blood vessels in the brain, making strokes more likely. Strokes can cause dementia through the death of large areas of brain tissue, or through the build-up of damage from multiple small strokes cased by athero-sclerosis in small arteries in the brain or the larger carotid arteries in the neck.'" [link]: