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"Delivered without proper subtlety, the "Alzheimer's" label ushers in beliefs, attitudes, cultural meanings, scientific inaccuracies, and narrow treatment options that negatively affect what a person expects of his final years. In consequence, millions of people approach old age expecting to become burdens to their families and to society as they "fade away" and "lose their selves" to a "disease." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Throw in movie star Rita Hay-worth and former President Ronald Reagan—both affected by alzheimer's disease—stir in Nobel Prize-seeking hubris, the heavy hand of the pharmaceutical industry, a dash of hype about biotechnology, and a dollop of Washington politics, and we have developed an all-too-tragic and reduc-tionistic narrative that dominates our hearts and minds. It is a story that medical professionals—myself included—have been telling to a terrified public for decades. There are certain fundamental flaws in this story." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Elinor Fuchs, a professor of drama at Yale and one of my colleagues, has written a book called Making an Exit, about her mother, Lil, who had alzheimer's. An indomitable and ambitious woman, Lil had damaged her relationship with her daughter through her career-driven style of living?so much that Elinor avoided her through her college years." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "A fundamental critique of Alzhemed is that their treatment for alzheimer's relies on the BAPtist belief that amyloid is the cause of AD. This may be an ill-defined target, since we aren't sure what role amyloid plays in brain aging. Since amyloid deposition may begin as early as the second or third decade, to be effective, Alzhemed might have to be given over the course of half of one's life! As it now stands, Alzhemed has not been administered long enough for us to track the long-term consequences of its action. The safety concerns for such a long administration are considerable." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"A Fraudulent alzheimer's Disease Claim Statins are being researched as a drug to reduce alzheimer's disease. All brain deterioration, including alzheimer's disease, involves increased inflammation in the brain which results in brain damage. Because statins have immunosuppressing features, it has been demonstrated (in cell studies, not in people) that they can reduce the inflammatory signals that are part of the alzheimer's process (so can a large number of nutrients). Once again, this is like taking a sledgehammer to the brain." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"It can relieve the patient of fears that he or she has a progressive brain disease like alzheimer's. Importantly, patients with brain fog rarely have problems with intelligence and with the ability to memorize; in contrast, these are the major issues in alzheimer's. So neuropsychological testing is a useful tool to assess the complaint of brain fog. In our work on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), we have found patients to have problems processing complex information. Finding such a problem can be useful in substantiating insurance or disability claims." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Heading Off alzheimer's Disease Good nutrition may even help people suffering from alzheimer's disease. This most-feared form of senility strikes in middle age and gradually destroys its victims mentally and physically. alzheimer's is regarded as unexplainable and untreatable, but there is hope. "Let's say that someone has a mild case of alzheimer's," geriatric specialist Charles H. Weingarten, M.D., of McLean Hospital in Massachu- Can better nutrition help setts, says. "They may fall into poor dietary habits that Pe°P|e witn alzheimer's make the situation worse." - Prevention Magazine Editors, The Complete Book of Vitamins & Minerals for Health (Get the book.)

"Alzheimer's disease (whose symptoms can be difficult to distinguish from CJD) were examined after death, 5.5 percent of the presumed alzheimer's victims were found actually to have CJD. 1 And in a study at Yale University, when people diagnosed with alzheimer's disease were examined after death it was found that 13 percent of the presumed alzheimer's victims actually had CJD.72 Four million Americans are currently diagnosed with alzheimer's." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.)

"The symptoms of alzheimer's disease are progressive mental deterioration characterized by an inability to carry out daily activities, a loss of cognitive functions, and a loss of memory functions. Extensive research studies indicate that the causes of alzheimer's disease can include genetic factors, age, environmental factors, chronic exposure to aluminum and/or silicon, and increased oxidative damage due to long-term toxic exposure." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"If milder cases of dementia are counted, these prevalence rates double. alzheimer's disease accounts for two thirds of these cases of demetia. Alzheimer's Disease and Antioxidants The brain of a person with alzheimer's disease looks quite different from the brain of a person without it. When a brain affected by alzheimer's is dissected and examined, there are many signs of high levels of oxidative stress. Clumped neurons (nerve cells) and a substance called "beta-amyloid," both found abundantly in the brains of alzheimer's patients, are thought to be the result of excess free radicals." - David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., What Color is Your Diet? (Get the book.)

"About 10 percent of people older than sixty-five and half of those eighty-five and older develop symptoms of alzheimer's disease, and it is more common in older people who also have obesity, hypertension, heart disease, or diabetes. Research shows that vitamin D, omega-3 fats, and magnesium can reduce the levels of inflammatory substances that nerve cells produce following brain injury, thereby limiting damage. Recent alzheimer's research at Washington University in St. Louis found that 58 percent of eighty patients had vitamin D levels of 20 or lower." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Heading Off alzheimer's Disease Good nutrition may even help people suffering from alzheimer's disease. This most-feared form of senility strikes in middle age and gradually destroys its victims mentally and physically. alzheimer's is regarded as unexplainable and untreatable, but there is hope. "Let's say that someone has a mild case of alzheimer's," geriatric specialist Charles H. Weingarten, M.D., of McLean Hospital in Massachu- Can better nutrition help setts, says. "They may fall into poor dietary habits that Pe°P|e witn alzheimer's make the situation worse." - Prevention Magazine Editors, The Complete Book of Vitamins & Minerals for Health (Get the book.)

"The editorial also indicts research on d -ugs for alzheimer's disease: A study to determine the effectiveness of one such drug, Aricept, restricted the range of patients to age 65 to 74 and excluded people with other medical problems besides alzheimer's disease, thus minimizing the likelihood of side effects. The problem is that the vast majority of patients for whom this drug will be prescrib id are older than this, and therefore the results of the study do not apply to them." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"A recent study found that 2,000 IU of vitamin E, taken daily, slowed the rate of disability among patients with moderately severe alzheimer's by seven months, on average. Patients on the experimental vitamin E regimen were able to maintain daily functions, such as dressing them- selves and handling money, for longer than alzheimer's sufferers who were not taking the supplements. A notable finding, when you consider that Alzheimers affects nearly half of Americans over age 85. ANTI-AGING • "Nuts" to Growing Older I' Cff) n recent years, a ? handful of new ? ? nutrients, vita- i ? ?" - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) "James Duke, PhD, one of the leading botanists in the US, even believes that eating rosemary over many years can reduce a person's risk of developing alzheimer's. • Ginkgo for Stronger Cognitive Skills Several studies have shown that ginkgo bilo-ba extract, taken from the leaves of the ginkgo tree, can help some people with alzheimer's disease by slowing their rate of mental decline. In one study, nearly 30% of the people who took 120 mg of the extract for at least six months improved on cognitive tests, whereas only 13% of those taking a placebo showed improvement." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"This has promise in diminishing the dementia and cognition loss of alzheimer's. Even in non-alzheimer's study subjects improved attention and recall has been shown. Apparently, Sage blocks AchE from breaking down acetylcholine into inactive choline and acetate, therefore keeping the compound in the synapse longer. This then improves brain nerve transmission. AchE inhibition through pharmaceuticals is the primary conventional treatment for alzheimer's. The plant's monoterpene content, which is largely responsible for this effect acts strongest as a whole complex." - Charles W. Kane, Herbal Medicine of the American Southwest (Get the book.)

"A person in the late stages of Parkinson's disease also may have dementia that's much like that seen in alzheimer's disease. The dysfunctional movements of Parkinson's disease point to the source of the problem in an area at the base of the brain that coordinates movement. This region of the brain has a very high concentration of vitamin D receptors. Specialized cells in this area produce the neurotransmitter dopamine. Destruction of these cells in Parkinson's disease reduces the production of dopamine, which leads to the loss of coordinated movement." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"It could have something to do with cholesterol's association to alzheimer's disease. Previous research has suggested that high cholesterol levels may increase the level of a certain protein that is abnormally processed by people with alzheimer's disease. This abnormal processing sets off a chain reaction that causes a peptide to accumulate and form tangles that can kill brain cells. A Georgetown University Medical Center study showed how high cholesterol levels significantly increase the rate at which these tangles are formed." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, AGEs play a major role in the aging process as well as in diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, cancer, alzheimer's disease, and certain types of neuropathy. Our primary focus is on the relationship of AGEs and ALEs to diabetes and complications of the disease. For the sake of simplicity, we will refer to AGEs and ALEs collectively as glycotoxins throughout the book. Glycotoxins and Diabetes The role of glycotoxins in diabetes is especially significant." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"New research linking diabetes and alzheimer's suggests that the high blood sugar of diabetes can lead to the formation of advanced glyca-tion end products, or AGEs.141 AGEs are sugar-derived substances that form in the body through an interaction between carbohydrates and proteins, lipids, or nucleic acids such as DNA. AGEs adversely affect the structure and function of proteins and the tissues that contain proteins.142 Recent studies have shown that both the formation and accumulation of AGEs are enhanced in diabetes.143 According to evidence provided by Edward R." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"This review article reported recent findings regarding the use of S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAMe) to treat depression: a small number of clinical trials have determined that doses of 200 to 1600 mg/d of SAMe are better than placebo and as effective as tricyclic antidepressants; SAMe may have a faster onset of action than conventional antidepressants; SAMe may potentiate the effect of tricyclic antidepressants; SAMe may protect against the adverse effects of alzheimer's disease." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"We'll look at them one by one in this chapter, along with other issues of diabetes as an accelerated aging reality, genetics, diabetes in children, insulin resistance, gestational diabetes, alzheimer's associated diabetes, and cancer associations. The personal lifestyle habits, choices, and predisposing diseases that are diabetogenic include: ?Inactivity, especially television watching ?" - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Those who reported drinking fruit or vegetable juices at least three times per week were 73 percent less likely to have developed alzheimer's as those who drank juice less than once a week.149 This is great news, as the Culture of Life anti-diabetogenic diet includes ample amounts of fresh vegetable juice. Cancer Associations In addition to diabetes, there is a strong link between high insulin levels and some types of cancer. In one study, ten post-menopausal women with endometrial cancer had significantly higher fasting serum insulin levels than the controls." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Alzheimer's disease. As part of the three-decade-long Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, twenty-seven foods and drinks were correlated with participants' health. Men who consumed tofu at least twice weekly had more cognitive impairment than those who rarely or never ate the soybean curd.32,33 Going further, higher midlife tofu consumption was also associated with low brain weight. Brain atrophy was assessed in 574 men using MRI results and in 290 men using autopsy information. Shrinkage occurs naturally with age, but for the men who had consumed more tofu, lead researcher Dr. Lon R." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Diseases like alzheimer's may be re-envisioned as alterations in the storage and retrieval of systemic memories. Maybe patients with alzheimer's have not "lost" their memory, but their ability to use their compromised biochemical machinery to express their memory. The transplant paradigm will need to be reconsidered, and we may be able to improve the likelihood that the transplant is accepted with little rejection by teaching people how to connect with, invite, and honor the new memories that will be sharing their physical body." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"Calcium and magnesium deficiencies often accompany vitamin D deficiency and are associated with seizures in infants and degenerative neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease and alzheimer's disease in adults. The good news is that vitamin D ?relieves the symptoms of seasonal depression; ?plays a critical role in slowing or preventing many types of arthritis; ?reduces the likelihood that you'll have a heart attack or a stroke; ?improves the release of insulin and the response of muscle and liver to insulin, which means that normal levels of vitamin D may help prevent diabetes; ?" - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"We can get any number of degenerative diseases, including heart disease, cancer, or alzheimer's disease. Indeed, mitochondria are quite likely the key to how we age, why we get disease, and why some of us die prematurely. One final word about the health of mitochondria: The mitochondria contain their own set of genetic material, or DNA. Human mitochondria each contain two to ten copies of DNA that make up approximately 1 percent of the total DNA of the cell." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"This study of 202 patients concluded that huperzine alpha is a safe and effective treatment that "remarkably improves" the behavior, mood and cognitive status of people with mild to moderate alzheimer's disease. Neuroprotective Effect of Garlic Compounds in Amyloid-Beta Peptide-Induced Apoptosis in Vitro. Peng Q; Buz'Zard AR; et al. Medical Science Monitor, 2002 August, 8(8):BR328-BR337. The researchers found beneficial effects of aged garlic extract (AGE) and S-allyl cysteine (SAC) on Abeta-induced apoptosis and reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation in a rat cell line." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "In addition to those mentioned above, physical health problems that may contribute to depression include Candida or yeast infection, amino acid deficiencies, electrolyte imbalances, toxic exposure to heavy metals or chemicals, cardiopulmonary obstructive disease, brain tumors, alzheimer's, stroke, seizure, hypertension, viral infections, diabetes, insulin resistance, and difficulty metabolizing carbohydrates. There are different degrees of depression, and its treatment has varied considerably according to trends in psychiatry, psychology, and psychopharmacol-ogy in recent decades." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

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