A good vaccination program like the one we have here in Sweden, which since 2020, includes HPV vaccination, for boys. My son got it last week. Today’s vaccination protects against nine different cancers. Besides this, we have focused on a long period of breastfeeding and giving extra omega 3 when they were infants and up to age 2-3. When the kids could tolerate it, we made eggs to be a staple food to be included in most breakfasts. This and an age-relevant multivitamin is what we have done. Besides that, we try to teach them good behavior when it comes to food, homework, money, exercise, and sleep. I will encourage them to start anti-aging whe they are in their 30s.
Newborn vitamin D deficiency linked to higher risk of ADHD, schizophrenia and autism
Newborn babies with a vitamin D deficiency have a higher chance of later developing mental disorders such as ADHD, schizophrenia and autism, a major study involving the University of Queensland has found.
In the largest population study of its kind, researchers examined the vitamin D status of 71,793 people, many of whom had a mental health disorder diagnosed during childhood and early adulthood.
The research is published in The Lancet Psychiatry.
This sounds a heck of a lot more plausible than the vaccine/autism link. Maybe someone should send RFK Jr. this report???
Dementia prevention starts early…
Many lifestyle-related dementia risk factors emerge during the teenage years, then persist into adulthood. For example, 80% of adolescents living with obesity will remain this way when they are adults. The same applies to high blood pressure and lack of exercise. Similarly, virtually all adults who smoke or drink will have started these unhealthy habits in or around adolescence.
This poses two potential issues when considering middle age as the best starting point for dementia-prevention strategies. First, altering health behaviour that has already been established is notoriously difficult. And second, most high-risk individuals targeted in middle age will almost certainly have been exposed to the damaging effects of these risk factors for many decades already.
As such, the most effective actions are likely to be those aimed at preventing unhealthy behaviour in the first place, rather than attempting to change long-established habits decades down the line.
The roots of dementia
But what about even earlier in people’s lives? Could the roots of dementia stretch as far back as childhood or infancy? Increasing evidence suggests yes, and that risk factor exposures in the first decade of life (or even while in the womb) may have lifelong implications for dementia risk.