Latest / Your Daily Dose / NOT ENOUGH VITAMIN C WILL SHRINK YOUR BRAIN

Transcript

NOT ENOUGH VITAMIN C WILL SHRINK YOUR BRAIN · Your Daily Dose

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome to Saturday. It's August 29th. August is gone.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Moving our way to September. Today we're going to talk
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: about vitamin C. Are you getting enough of it? And
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: if you're not, it's now been linked to reduced brain volume.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Oh boy. Stay tuned. Hi and welcome to Health Talk
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: with Dr. Len, your daily dose. The information you hear
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: on this show is informational. It's not meant to diagnose
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: or treat any disease. Any kind of complete health conditions
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: must be checked out and discussed with your primary care physician.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Get ready for the good news of the day. God
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: bless you folks. And here is Dr. Lent. Our daily
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: devotional today comes from the book of Luke chapter 12.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: Demonstrate your trust in me by sitting quietly in my presence.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: Put aside all that is waiting to be done and
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: refuse to worry about anything. This sacred time together strengthens
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: you and prepares you to face whatever the day will bring.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: By waiting with me before you begin this day's activities,
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: you proclaim the reality of my living presence. This act
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: of faith, waiting before working, is noted in the spirit
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: world where your demonstration of trust weakens precipitalities and powers
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: of darkness. The most effective way to resist evil is
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: to draw near me. When you need to take action,
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: I will guide you clearly through my spirit and my word.
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: The world is so complex and overstimulating, you can easily
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: lose your sense of direction. Doing countless unnecessary activities will
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: dissipate your energy. When you spend time with me, I
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: restore your sense of direction. As you look to me
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: for guidance, I enable you to do less, but accomplish more.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: Stay tuned. The number to reach me off air, 727-916-4215.
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: The Journal of Brain and Neurological Health says low vitamin
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: C linked to reduced brain volume. While vitamin C is
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: best known for its immune support and antioxidant defense, it
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: plays several underappreciated roles in the brain. The possibility gained
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: new support from a recent study of more than 2,000
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: older Japanese adults. Researchers found that participants with lower blood
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: levels of vitamin C had less gray matter and weaker
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: communication within one of the earliest brain networks affected by Alzheimer's.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: Think of it this way. If your brain were a
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: city Gray matter would be the buildings and the neural networks,
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: the highways connecting them. According to Dr. Thomas Holland, a
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: clinician researcher who studies cognitive aging, individuals with higher vitamin
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: C levels appear to have both more preserved buildings and
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: healthier roadways connecting critical regions of the brain. The findings,
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: published in the Public Library of Science, followed adults with
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: an average age of 70. Participants underwent MRI scans to
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: assess brain volume and connectivity, and the researchers measured blood
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: vitamin C levels after an overnight fast. Lower blood vitamin
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: C levels were associated with reduced gray matter volume and
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: weakened connectivity within the brain's default mode network, a network
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: of connective brain regions involved in memory, self-reflection, and future planning.
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: Gray matter contains many of the brain's nerve cells. and
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: lower gray matter is volume, considered a marker of brain
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: tissue loss and shrinkage. The association remained even after adjusting
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: for age, sex, cognitive status, education, lifestyle factors, smoking, drinking,
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: and physical activity, all of which are being explored as
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: links to Alzheimer's. Structural loss and decreased connectivity within this
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: brain are known as early clinical manifestations of cognitive impairment,
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: such as Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment. The effect
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: of vitamin C on brain structure was comparable in magnitude
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: to established lifestyle and vascular risk factors, suggesting that even
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: modest differences could matter at the population level. Again, vitamin
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: C is best known for immune support and antioxidant defense,
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: but also plays several underappreciated roles in the brain. It
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: helps to neutralize free radicals that accumulate with age, potentially
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: protecting the structural integrity of the brain over time. It
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: also supports the synthesis of neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers the
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: brain uses to communicate. Humans cannot produce vitamin C on
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: their own and must get it entirely through diet. I
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: like this in orange. The recommended dietary allowance is 75
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: milligrams per day for most. I take 6,000. God, my
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: brain should be ready to explode, huh? 90 milligrams for
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: most adult men. The new findings add to a growing
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: body of evidence linking healthy vitamin C status with better
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: cognitive health. A Netherlands study in 2002 followed 5,300 people
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: for six years and found that higher intake of vitamin
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: C was tied to an 18% lower risk of Alzheimer's.
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: Other studies have found that even vitamin C levels that
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: are too low To cause classic deficiency symptoms have been
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: associated with worse memory, slower information processing. A 2022 review
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: of 12 studies likewise found that people with Alzheimer's disease
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: consistently had significantly lower blood vitamin C levels than cognitively
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: healthy adults, suggesting the nutrients may play a role in
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: disease progression. Older adults may be at a greater risk
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: of low vitamin C levels because of reduced appetite, less
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: varied diets, and changes in digestion and absorption that occur
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: with age. Chronic health conditions, inflammation, and some medications can
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: further lower blood vitamin C levels. Researchers caution the study
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: doesn't prove that vitamin C directly protects the brain, but
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: it sure does look that way. Huh. You can look
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: at buffered vitamin C, one of the best preps on
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: the market, not coming from corn, on the Nutritional Frontiers website.
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: Hey everybody, once again, thanks so much for tuning in
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: today and listening. I just wanted to let you know
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: that Nutritional Frontiers, you hear me talk a lot about
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: their products and the quality and the distribution of those,
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: has now come up with a new website, nutritionalfrontiers.com. And
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: they're now allowing my clients, my patients, to have direct
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: access to order their own products. All you have to
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: do is go to nutritionalfrontiers.com. Enter the access code. You ready? 22077. 22077.
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: Finish your order, set up your new account, and you'll
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: be all set to go to have those great products
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: shipped directly to you at your home. All right? Good information, nutritionalfrontiers.com.
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: And don't forget the numbers to reach me directly, 727-916-4215.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: God bless you, folks. Talk to you soon. That's what
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: we've got for you today, folks. Have a great, healthy weekend.
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: God bless you. And again, the number to reach me, 727-916-4200.