Eating with your left hand and brushing your teeth may prevent dementia

Aging and Alzheimer’s disease is not a thing that draws an equal sign, but today there are more and more old people, step into the ranks of Alzheimer’s disease. Professor Gao Pu of the Geriatric Center of Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, told Life Times that there are some very simple ways to prevent Alzheimer’s disease to a certain extent, such as proper use of the left hand is good. There are many ways to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, mainly including diet, drugs and daily exercise. Among the daily exercises, using your left hand more often is one of the easy ways to implement. Chinese medicine believes that the hand acupuncture points, activities of the wrist, fingers, fingers as the center of a variety of activities, especially the fingers of the left hand, can stimulate the cerebral cortex, slow down the aging of brain cells, prevent brain degeneration. Therefore, the right hand of the elderly may be appropriate to use the left hand, such as trying to use the left hand to eat, brush your teeth, cup, comb your hair, the use of the mouse, turn the fitness ball, writing, etc., so that the left and right brain can be fully trained and use, in a flexible state, improve the agility of thinking, thereby preventing dementia. Relatively speaking, with the left hand to turn the fitness ball is relatively simple, 2-3 times a day, 30 minutes each time can achieve good results; followed by life skills, such as eating, brushing teeth, combing hair, cups, etc., although the elderly have a certain degree of difficulty, but as long as they adhere to, but also will gradually adapt to; writing the most difficult to operate, may not be suitable for all the elderly, you can do according to your ability to write a big word every day! , can play a role in alleviating Alzheimer’s disease. In addition, long-term tea, appropriate vitamins can improve brain function. The elderly should also cultivate a variety of interests, such as listening to the radio, watching television, reading books and newspapers, writing, painting, reading poetry, walking, boxing, flowers, fishing, chess, etc., often with friends and family exchanges, but also can slow down the rate of brain aging.