The Key to Slowing Down Brain Aging: Tips from an Emeritus Professor of Marketing in Japan

An emeritus professor of marketing at a prestigious Japanese university has returned with his wife after a month of Oriental medicine brain cell rehabilitation treatment. It involves receiving treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, which has severely worsened memory. During the treatment, the professor said: “I have no memory problems and I am intelligent!”

When dementia occurs, awareness of one’s illness, or perception of the illness, decreases. Therefore, dementia patients may think that their memory is good. Intuition falls along with memory. People’s memory declines and their health worsens every year, but they are often unaware of this. This is because the person I am today is no different from the person I was yesterday, and the person I was yesterday is no different from the person I was yesterday.

Even if you think, “I have no memory problems and I’m smart!”, you need to look back to 10, 20 or 30 years ago and prepare in advance for the next 10, 20 or 30 years. Many people think that their appearance in 10 years will be similar to what it is now or that it will have changed for the worse in the last 10 years. However, the problem is that these changes are not proportional to time, but worsen more than the square of time. In the future, things could get worse at a completely different pace than they have so far, and at a pace that is difficult to imagine.

To make it easier to understand, if you express the degree of worsening in numbers, this year will be about 4 times worse than last year. In the next 10 years the situation will be about four times worse than in the last 10 years. For this reason, if you don’t notice any changes, you are still young. If you notice a change, you have entered the path of aging. To slow the pace of change, you need to completely change your life so far.

The professor and I are the same age. Unlike the professor, I want to be active in medical practice even in 10 years. This is when I turn 80. I also feel like my memory and ability to move are much worse than they were 10 years ago. 10 years ago I didn’t feel much difference compared to 10 years before, when I was 50. Because until then I was young. If you feel this difference as much as you do now, you may be entering a noticeable aging process and may have subjective cognitive impairment, which is a pre-dementia stage. You may have stage 2 of the 7 stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

For reference, Alzheimer’s disease progresses through stage 1 (asymptomatic phase), stage 2 (subjective cognitive impairment), stage 3 (mild cognitive impairment), stage 4 (early phase), stage 5 (middle phase) , stage 6 (early phase) and phase 6 (late phase). We proceed in 7 phases.

The duration of subjective cognitive impairment is long. However, the duration of mild cognitive impairment is approximately 6-10 years. If you do not currently have subjective cognitive impairment but the next stage is mild cognitive impairment, you may develop dementia within the next 6 years. Even subjective cognitive impairment can lead to dementia in 10 years. Subjective cognitive impairment refers to brain aging that is visible to one’s eyes. If you have entered a noticeable aging process, you need to completely change your lifestyle to slow down brain aging.

I emphasize again, even if you think: “I have no memory problems and I’m smart!”, you should be able to see yourself in 10, 20 or 30 years, which will be completely different from how you are now. Especially if you feel like you are getting older, you should make more effort to maintain a healthy lifestyle to slow down the aging process.

The first is food. You should follow a healthy diet. In our simple traditional diet, it is recommended to consciously eat less rice and more proteins, good fats, vegetables and greens. The measure of eating well is to eat so as not to become obese.

The second is to pack well. Gut health is important. Try to avoid foods high in simple sugars (FODMAPs), such as highly fermentable oligosaccharides, peat, monocarbonates and polyols, and eat plenty of fiber-rich vegetables and greens. It is advisable to reduce foods made from gluten-rich flour and milk containing lactose and casein, and avoid potatoes and sweet potatoes that do not sprout or rot. This is because any herbicides that may be present can worsen gut health.

The third is to work hard. It can be easy to lack exercise and physical movement. I lead a sedentary lifestyle. I have been running 4 km a day for about 6 months and also do exercise to strengthen my arms, waist and legs.

The fourth thing is to sleep enough and rest well. You need 7-8 hours of sleep a day. I mostly try to get enough sleep for my brain health. In addition to working hard, you also need time to be idle.

The fifth thing is to live carefully. This might be the most important. This is because people nowadays put a lot of effort into their health. Living thoughtfully means abandoning stereotypes and obsessions, living flexibly, believing that dreams and goals will come true, and living with determination to achieve them.

It is better to be more proactive and seek help from herbal medicine for brain cell rehabilitation treatment.

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