About Reversing Alzheimer’s Disease
Reversing Alzheimer’s offers information on the causes of Alzheimer’s, your gut’s microbiome, testing for Alzheimer’s biomarkers, controlling your genes with epigentics, and so much more. Below are a few excerpts from the book about many of these subjects. Any chapter noted in an excerpt indicates where you can find more information about the subject.
When an MRI scan of my brain showed cerebral atrophy a number of years ago, it wasn’t surprising; most people experience some brain shrinkage as a “normal” feature of aging. A few months later I read a research article in the Lancet showing that low-dose lithium reversed cerebral atrophy, so I added 20 milligrams (mg) […]
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I just learned that the bright golden-orange color in the California poppies that burst forth around our ranch every spring comes from berberine, an herbal powerhouse that has the potential to block cognitive decline and slam the door on Alzheimer’s disease. Berberine’s medicinal properties date back to the Shennong Ben Cao Jing, a Chinese book
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Deep down in the center of your brain lies a very special area where all your memories are stored. It’s called the hippocampus. The hippocampus is dynamic. It is constantly being damaged by stress, toxins, and lousy food choices, so it requires continual repair. In young, healthy brains, the repair keeps up with the damage,
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Biomarker testing identifies the unique combination of biochemical malfunctions that are causing memory loss in you or a loved one. These are standard tests that can be done at any medical laboratory. Using the test results, you can generate a treatment program that addresses each causative factor. In Reversing Alzheimer’s I reveal which lab tests
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Physical activity (like your morning walk or run) generates BDNF (brain-derived neurotropic factor), a powerful neurohormone that stimulates the growth of new neurons in your cerebral cortex. BDNF not only grows new brain cells but also enhances memory, improves IQ, and reverses cognitive impairment. BDNF invigorates nerve cells in three ways. First, it stimulates neurogenesis,
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The microbes living on and within us (mostly within our GI tracts) comprise a complex and dynamic community that has different genomes from ours and is thus truly foreign. More than ninety-nine percent of the total DNA we use comes not from our own cells, but from bacterial genes living in our gut microbiome. These
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Several specific nutritional medicines have been shown to prevent and reverse cognitive decline. At the top of the list is low-dose lithium, a “magical mineral” that not only reverses Alzheimer’s but also has been shown to increase BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor), stimulate neurogenesis, heal traumatic brain injury, and reverse cerebral atrophy. Anyone who wants to
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Suboptimal nutrition damages the molecular systems in your brain and causes Alzheimer’s disease. An anti-dementia diet is based on foods shown by research to reverse neurodegenerative disease. Optimum nutrition is necessary for neuroplasticity, neurogenesis, and brain repair. Every bite counts because every food choice directly affects your brain’s chemical structure and function. Following are the
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My mother’s death from Alzheimer’s twenty years ago was the inspiration for this book. Since then our scientific understanding of how the brain works has experienced an exponential growth spurt. We have discovered that Alzheimer’s disease is caused by multiple systemic disruptions of healthy biochemical reactions. These disruptions can be easily identified with standard laboratory
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