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Deb Kennedy, PhD - Cooking Strategies for Your Mental Health
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Question:
Are there cooking strategies for mental health to help ward off or slow down dementia due to Parkinson’s?
— Lyn B
Answer:
My 82-year-old aunt is, um, in later stages of Alzheimer's. And this is what I'm gonna say, it depends what stage your uh, mother is in. If she's in a phase where she knows what she's doing and can make choices over her health, um, and what she eats, then yes, you could promote maybe giving her one of those smoothies, make a smoothie that's, you know, full of antioxidants and creates brain derived neurotropic factors and all of that. So build a smoothie for her every day. And if that, if you can give her that, that'll help a little bit. But this is a wicked, wicked disease, both of them. And um, after a certain point, really it's about getting enough calories into an individual. When we work with individuals with illness, there's a different strategy we have with prevention versus treatment. And in treatment there's a different strategy we have depending on how serious the disease is. So you have to look at what the capacity of your mother is right now and if she will take a smoothie, great.