Improve Brain Health
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
This is part 5 of a 7-part Brain Health Connection to Reduce Stress and Improve Mental Clarity, episodes 2068-2074.
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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode |
| 0:02.0 | 2073 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I wonder how you are doing this week. I hope you are noticing how your heart feels |
| 0:19.6 | when you encounter stress, when you encounter joy |
| 0:25.1 | encounter the wide range of emotions we all experience day today. In today's episode we continue with our heart |
| 0:38.5 | brain series where you are discovering how to manage the health of your heart and brain. |
| 0:49.0 | They are so interconnected. |
| 0:51.0 | In fact, I was doing a little research for this series and I came across an |
| 0:57.0 | article by Harvard Health Publishing. This is an article by Dr. Monique Tello. |
| 1:04.0 | It's titled, |
| 1:05.0 | Brain Health Rest on Heart Health, |
| 1:09.0 | Guidelines for Lifestyle Changes |
| 1:11.0 | Changes |
| 1:12.0 | And she starts off the article talking about how right now the |
| 1:19.2 | world is experiencing an epidemic that is projected to get much, much worse. |
| 1:26.0 | When I read that, I thought she was talking about the coronavirus pandemic we are experiencing. I read further and she is actually talking |
| 1:38.1 | about an epidemic of dementia affecting 50 million people and millions more of their |
| 1:48.8 | caregivers. Dr. Tello goes on to say that these staggering numbers are projected to triple by 2050. |
| 1:58.8 | So in this pandemic we are all experiencing, there's this epidemic of dementia, which stress contributes to. |
| 2:09.2 | So what we're experiencing now is not likely helping to improve our odds to battle dementia. |
| 2:17.0 | dementia is a progressive heartbreaking deterioration of brain functioning associated with aging. |
| 2:27.0 | And there are different causes of dementia, the most common Alzheimer's and vascular dementia are now thought to be closely related to and |
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