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"Dementias: Therapeutic effectiveness of ginkgo biloba in dementia syndromes has been demonstrated.""'* One report recommends early GBE therapy in dementias, especially because there are no side effects associated with other dementia dmgs." Effects of 240 mg/day GBE in = 200 patients with dementia of Alzheimer type and multi-infarct dementia, have been investigated in a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, multi-center study." - Ara Dermarderosian, Guide to Popular Natural Products (Get the book.)

"The patients were actually suffering from dementia, a condition for which Zyprexa is not approved. In fact its use for dementia is warned against by the FDA, which has stated that Zyprexa can increase the risk of death for older patients with dementia-related psychosis.67 In the last few years, Lilly has paid $1.2 billion to settle claims for patients who said they developed diabetes or other diseases after taking the drug.68 Diabetes is a possible side effect of Zyprexa, according to the American Diabetes Association.69 (Lilly denied that a link between Zyprexa and diabetes has been proven." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Apparently the risk of dementia rises in people with high blood sugar. Speculation is that the poor brain circulation caused by diabetes is a primary factor. An eight-year study out of Kaiser Permanente tracked 22,582 patients age 50 or above with Type-2 diabetes, and found that diabetic individuals with high blood sugar experience an increased risk of dementia and Alzheimer's." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"One report recommends early GBE therapy in dementias, especially because there are no side effects associated with other dementia dmgs." Effects of 240 mg/day GBE in = 200 patients with dementia of Alzheimer type and multi-infarct dementia, have been investigated in a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, multi-center study. Parameters such as psychopathological assessment, attention, memory, and behavior were monitored, resulting in clinical efficacy of the extract in dementias of both types.^?" - Ara Dermarderosian, Guide to Popular Natural Products (Get the book.)

"The study was published in dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, June 27, 2008; 26(l):50-57. If you want to avoid dementia, avoid all processed soy milks, tofu, soy burgers, soy ice cream, soy cheese, and all other soy-containing junk foods. In spite of the documented scientific evidence that shows non-fermented soy to be carcinogenic and also cause DNA and chromosome damage, the multi-billion dollar soy industry has managed to turn this generally worthless food into one of the most widely used "nutritious foods" of all times." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"In a double-blind placebo human trial (in 2000), researchers reported that a dosage of 360 mg per day of Anapsos given to patients with senile dementia improved cognitive performance, increased the blood supply to the brain, and also increased the electrical impulses in the brain.30 The results were better with Alzheimer's patients and those with mild dementia than those with severe dementia and extensive brain cell degeneration. Anapsos now is used in Spain and Europe for the treatment of Alzheimer's and dementia." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.)

"Not long ago, a Swedish study of five hundred eighty-five-year-olds found that fully one-third of them showed some form of dementia. A careful analysis revealed that in half of those with dementia, their mental impairment was due to a diseased arterial blood supply to the brain.5 Similarly, a study in the Netherlands focused on five thousand people between the ages of fifty-five and ninety-four.6 The researchers studied the circulation in the brains of all their subjects, then asked them to perform various written tests of mental acuity." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"A recent study found that unexplained weight loss in women may be an early warning sign of dementia a decade later. And sudden weight loss can be a reaction to some drugs—both prescribed and illicit—including antidepressants and amphetamines. If an older adult loses weight suddenly, it may be a forewarning of dementia. While it's common for the elderly to lose weight as they age—usually less than a pound a year—losing more than that appears to signal the imminent onset of this neurological disorder. We've probably all experienced putting on a few extra pounds, especially around the holidays." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"In May 2003 more results from the Women's Health Initiative were published showing that combined HRT not only did not prevent Alzheimer's disease, but actually doubled the risk of developing dementia (primarily Alzheimer's disease) in women aged 65 and older, causing about 1 additional case of dementia for every 100 women treated with HRT for five years. Just three months later came the final nail in the coffin, when the results of probably the biggest study of all time, the Million Women Study, were published in The Lancet." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Baseline homocysteine levels measured eight years earlier were examined in relation to those individuals who developed dementia on follow-up.The study concluded that an increased homocysteine level is a strong, independent risk factor for the development of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's nearly doubled in subjects with a high level of homocysteine. (Some researchers believe dementia begins many years before the symptoms become apparent. One Homocysteine Control Spray daily starts lowering homocysteine now.) paqe 132 Alzheimer's patients found deficient in B12 and folate." - Robert Redfern, The Miracle Enzyme Is Serrapeptase (Get the book.)

"In May 2003 more results from the Women's Health Initiative were published showing that combined HRT not only did not prevent Alzheimer's disease, but actually doubled the risk of developing dementia (primarily Alzheimer's disease) in women aged 65 and older, causing about 1 additional case of dementia for every 100 women treated with HRT for five years. Just three months later came the final nail in the coffin, when the results of probably the biggest study of all time, the Million Women Study, were published in The Lancet." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and affects 1.5 to 3 times more women than men.19 For women on hormone therapy, adjustments in the dose may improve mental function. Vaginal Dryness and Thinning. Vaginal dryness, vaginal thinning, and what is called atrophy are very common problems for menopausal women but usually do not become troublesome until several years after menopause. Estrogen is responsible for the thickened, elastic, lubricated tissue of the vagina and vulva (external genital area)." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "It is not yet clear as to whether ET or EPT can prevent dementia when hormones are started during perimenopause or early postmenopause. Premature Menopause and Premature Ovarian Failure. Women who have the onset of menopause early, and especially prior to age 40, have lower risks of breast cancer, but earlier onset of bone loss and CHD. It is not known if ET or EPT affects these conditions in this population of women. It is logical to think that younger women who start ET or EPT may experience more benefits, but this is not known. Risks and Benefits." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"It is also related to dementia and sexual problems. Blood pressure is the force on the walls of the arteries as the blood circulates. When it is too high, as in hypertension, the arteries can become damaged and disease can develop. Probiotics may help fight hypertension. Animal studies have found that Lactobacilli probiotics have a mild effect on blood pressure. This may have to do with the ability of probiotics to produce enzymes that break down proteins involved in blood pressure." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"As with peripheral vascular disease going to amputations, there may be a vascular dementia that is triggered by low blood flow to the brain. 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." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Epilepsy. dementia. Developmental delay. Hypotonia. • ADHD. Chronic headaches. A popular theory about why gluten intolerance is so common is that wheat was not introduced into the human food supply until relatively late in the process of human evolution. People didn't eat wheat until after the advent of agriculture, about ten thousand years ago. This, however, was preceded by at least one million years in which people subsisted mostly on wild fruits, vegetables, and game meat." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Relative differences for dementia were not observed. I think it is important to include ginkgo for menopausal women because changes in mental clarity, memory, and concentration are common, and it may be that ginkgo will have an increasing role in improving these symptoms for this group of women. Another commonly reported change in peri-and postmenopausal women is a drop in their sex drive. Extract of ginkgo appears to be remarkably effective in reversing antidepressant-induced sexual dysfunction in women as well as men." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"In this study, more was clearly better because men who walked less than a quarter mile per day had nearly twice the risk of dementia, compared to those who walked more than two miles each day. • Why Does This Work? What is it about taking a daily walk that might prevent cognitive decline and dementia? 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." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"Much research over the years has shown that elevated plasma levels of homocysteine are associated with significant increases in coronary artery disease,255-257 myocardial infarction,258-259 peripheral occlusive disease, cerebral occlusive disease,260, 261 dementia, and Alzheimer's disease.262 Two recent meta-analyses of observational studies concluded that a 25 percent reduction in plasma homocysteine concentration was associated with decreases of 11 to 16 percent in the risk of ischemic heart disease and 19 to 22 percent reduction in the risk of stroke." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"It is gaining growing recognition in fighting age-related diseases ranging from dementia to diabetes. On a live-food diet properly eaten, we actually eat 50 percent fewer calories as compared to a Standard American Diet (SAD), but maintain a very high level of nutrition. The reason for this is that we are consuming nutrient-dense foods, not just calorie-dense foods such as those offered in restaurants and fast-food dispensaries all over the Westernized world. We are becoming nations of overfed, undernourished individuals." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Dementia Alzheimer's disease is probably the best known of the brain-related diseases that fall under the category of dementia. All cases of dementia involve memory loss as well as loss of motor function, vocabulary, and judgment. Dementia can result from various things—a stroke, Parkinson's disease, drugs, nutritional deficiencies such as Bu or folic acid, or even brain trauma. Several studies have shown PS to be effective in alleviating various symptoms. ^ Depression PS has been shown to improve mood and alleviate depression." - Mark Stengler, N.D., The Natural Physician's Healing Therapies (Get the book.)

"She was slipping mentally, but didn't have dementia yet—she knew perfectly well who I was, but she had less and less to say during our conversations. Then, the following year, she fell and broke her other hip. It was crushing for me to see her immobilized, and that's when she really stopped being herself. She lost her grip on the boundaries between what was real and what was not. The soap opera characters became part of her life, and she talked to them as if they were right there in the room. She died of natural causes at eighty-eight." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"By the 1880 census, seven types of insanity had been codified: mania, melancholia, monomania [obsession or paranoia], paresis [general or partial paralysis], dementia, dipsomania [alcoholism], and epilepsy.)34 It is only fairly recendy that such problems of living were considered to be in the purview of psychiatry at all. With some exceptions (upper-class neurotics on Freud's couch), the original charge of psychiatry was to treat the severely mentally ill. (And even then, Freud concentrated on cases with a high degree of pathology." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The Kame Project, a long-term study of more than 1,800 Japanese Americans conducted in Seattle, began in 1992-1994 to study participants who had no dementia, and averaged 71 years of age. The group was followed through 2001. During that time, eighty-one cases of probable Alzheimer's were diagnosed in participants who had completed the food surveys. 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." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Psychotic patients who exhibited a lack of affect, or emotion, suffered from dementia praecox (premature dementia). Their predicted fate was much gloomier: Seventy-five percent (or more) could be expected to deteriorate into an end-stage dementia. In igo8, Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the term "schizophrenia" as a substitute for dementia praecox. As a result of the work of Kraepelin and Bleuler, twentieth-century psychiatrists have generally held pessimistic views about their schizophrenia patients." - Robert Whitaker, Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (Get the book.)

"For some time, scientists didn't know why people with diabetes were at greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia than the rest of the general population. (Dementia is any mental disorder characterized by impairment of memory, judgment, and abstract thinking, as well as personality changes.) Recent research by scientists at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston suggests that the reason could be related to insulin resistance in their brain cells, which affects the way those cells function." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "Experts are now interested in learning more about how the long-term effects of glucose may affect the risk of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, which lead to loss of cognition, memory, reason, judgment, and language. If the theory that excessive sugar consumption plays an important role in the development of these conditions is true, the implications for our aging population could be profound. That's because some 4 million Americans aged 65 and up are now plagued by this most common cause of dementia." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Although the official diagnostic manual, the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, recognizes Xanax-induced persistent memory problems and dementia, juries are loathe to give money to people unless they suffer from gross physical disabilities, such as a neck twisted badly out of shape or a deforming scar. Despite all the hype about how easy it is to sue doctors, in reality lawyers are reluctant to take cases where the victim is not dead, visibly maimed, or completely disabled." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "The drug-induced dementia rendered her unable to fully appreciate or to react emotionally to her dire circumstances. Through it all, this remarkable woman maintained a sense of humor and expressed surprisingly little resentment. She is what many people would describe as a "good soul." We can only hope that the medications will continue to partially mask Mrs. Dignity's abnormal movements without worsening them in the long run. As she grows older, the constant movements will also cause wear and tear on her muscles and joints. The aging process itself may compound the disorder." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

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