Best Aromatherapy Herb for Alzheimers Video Lecture | Aroma Therapy: An Essential Training - Health & Fitness

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improving cognitive performance with
aromatherapy and young healthy
volunteers is one thing but how about
where it really matters
this group of Japanese researchers had
this pie-in-the-sky notion that maybe
certain smells could lead to nerve
rebirth in Alzheimer's patients 20 years
ago to even raise such a possibility as
a hypothetical was heretical everybody
knew that the loss of neurons is
irreversible in other words dead nerve
cells are not replaced an important
factor in neurodegenerative diseases
that's what I was taught that's what
everyone was taught until 1998 patients
with advanced cancer volunteered to be
injected with a special dye that's
incorporated into the DNA of new cells
on autopsy the researchers then went
hunting for nerve cells in the brain
that lit up and there they were new
nerve cells in the brain that didn't
exist just days or months before
demonstrating that cell Genesis occurs
in human brains and the human brain
retains the potential for self renewal
throughout life something we can take
comfort in still doesn't mean smells can
help but an aromatherapy regimen of
rosemary lemon lavender and orange was
attempted for a month here's the
trajectory of their ability to form
abstract ideas and their cognitive
function starting six weeks before the
treatment showing a rather steady
decline until they reversed after the
aromatherapy the researchers conclude
romo therapy may be efficacious and have
some potential for improving cognitive
function all of course without any
apparent side effects what about severe
dementia we always hear about the
cognitive deficits but more than half of
patients with dementia experience the
hey Bueller psychiatric symptoms
Thorazine
type anti-psychotic drugs are often
prescribed even though they appear to be
particularly dangerous in the elderly
but hey it's easier to just prescribe a
drug than offer non pharmacological
alternatives such as aromatherapy
rubbing a lemon balm infused lotion on
their arms and face twice daily compared
to a lotion without the scent everybody
got rubbed but in the lemon balm group
significant improvements in agitation
shouting screaming and physical
aggression and improve quality of life
indicators less socially withdrawn more
engagement in constructive activities
that's important because when you give
the antipsychotics patients become more
withdrawn less engaged it's like a
chemical restraint
yeah the drugs can reduce agitation too
but that may just be because you're
effectively knocking the person out so
aromatherapy with lemon balm is safe
well tolerated highly efficacious with
additional benefits on key quality of
life parameters these findings clearly
indicate the need for longer-term
multicenter trials but we never had any
until never we still don't have any the
study was back in 2002 and still want
nothing but is that a surprise who's
gonna fund such a study big bomb
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