A recent study shows that goal-oriented people have a reduced risk of contracting Alzheimer's. The busy are 54% less likely to contract the disease than the aimless. Autopsies revealed that those who were goal driven may of had Alzheimer's-like lesions on the brain, yet suffered no symptoms of dementia.
Neurologists think that a disciplined mind may strengthen the neural connections. Hippies, deadbeat dads and slackers are high on the list of people who might one day suffer from Alzheimer's.
"Not getting Alzheimer's is just one more thing I've achieved," said an elderly man who had a sack full of trophies slung over his shoulder.
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease that afflicts the elderly. It was discovered by a German fellow named Dr. Alois Alzheimer. What are the odds that the disease and the man who discovered it would have the same name? (sorry for the dumb joke)
There are many ways to prevent the disease such as living an active lifestyle, keeping the mind busy with puzzles, and now, setting goals.
Obviously, some of the goal oriented succumbed to the disease as well. But in some cases, as mentioned earlier, autopsied brains underwent the same physical trauma in people who reported no symptoms of the disease.
Does the problem lie in the realm of the philosophical? I want it to.
Are we our brains or our are brains us? Are the mind and body in some way separate? Is the brain a tool that we use to think? Or does the brain create us to think that we use it to think?
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