Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 A new story has emerged that argues the nerve cell death occurring in a variety of degenerative diseases, including alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease, occurs because nerve cells are stimulated to death—shorted out—by an overabundance of glutamate-producing action. Memantine acts as a glutamate receptor antagonist that blocks the effects of glutamate. Thus, the companies that make memantine brand their product to make doctors believe that their drug slows the biological progression of the illness by preventing cell death. |
| Certain herpes viruses and other infectious diseases can cause dementia, but they are not consistently related to alzheimer's. Further, evidence that infectious agents have been present in a person's brain does not necessarily mean that they are the agents causing the dementia. Most of the claims that infectious agents are producing AD are never replicated in follow-up studies by different scientists. the vascular hypothesis
Many parallels have been drawn between similar causative mechanisms in AD and vascular dementia by focusing on pathology in blood vessels. |
| In the summer of 2006, the Tenth International Conference on alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders was held in Madrid, Spain. At the conference the buzz was that there was a clear link between diabetes and dementia. Diabetes had been known for some time to be a risk factor for vascular diseases like heart attack and stroke. |
| Disturbances in glucose metabolism had been reported in alzheimer's disease decades ago, with scientists theorizing that either the brain of a diabetic person lacks sufficient glucose to function properly or excess sugar in a diabetic person's bloodstream does vascular damage that affects blood flow to neurons.
In Madrid, evidence was presented to suggest that antidiabetic drugs could be used as a treatment for AD. |
| Epidemiological studies suggested that people with alzheimer's had co-occurring diabetes more than those who did not, while other studies showed that people with high blood pressure and prediabetes tended to score poorly on cognitive tests. Further, small pilot randomized controlled studies reported that drugs used to treat diabetes led to some improvements in patients. As is quite common in these small clinical studies, the results were overinterpreted. |
| The American alzheimer's Association has understandably led the world looking for a cure. After all, it is in the United States where much of the research is conducted. This association has had a dual mission of finding the cure and improving care, but increasingly it has lost the balance between these approaches, and is out of step with other national organizations around the world that recognize the limits of science and the need to improve care and prevention in the present. |
Bill Sardi
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 Studies show the brains of alzheimer's patients have higher levels of aluminum and lower amounts of magnesium. [Journal alzheimer's Disease 7, 273-84, 2005] Long-term exposure to low levels of aluminum in animals raises levels of an enzyme (acetycholinesterase) that facilitates memory loss in alzheimer's disease. [Journal Inorganic Biochemistry 99:1865-70, 2005] Public health authorities may give aluminum a clean bill of health in regard to cancer, but need to warn the public there are other health concerns involving aluminum.
Is cancer contagious? |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 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. Participants' mood disturbances, depression, and understanding were studied, and those with vitamin D levels below 20 were eleven times more likely to have a mood disorder and three times more likely to have impaired understanding. People with alzheimer's disease who have early comprehension troubles that progress to dementia quickly usually have very low vitamin D levels. |
John Robbins
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 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. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 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. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 One study out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden found that even people with borderline diabetes, meaning people with high blood sugar, had a 70 percent greater risk of developing alzheimer's.140 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. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Alzheimer's drugs for Congress
The FDA has approved a new alzheimer's patch that delivers brain-saving drugs through the skin. The agency was so thrilled by the performance of the drug that they not only approved it, they MANDATED its use on anyone with poor brain function. A massive shipment of the skin patches are now on their way to the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and the White House where it is hoped that the drug-laced skin patches will either restore normal brain function or remove some politicians from office due to toxic side effects. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 ALZHEIMER'S: Researchers discovered in animal experiments that eating brown rice reduced learning and memory deficits brought about by beta-amyloid protein, considered to be one of the leading contributors to alzheimer's dementia.
Tips on Using Brown Rice
SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• Long grain rice produces light, dry grains that separate easily.
• Short grain rice produces almost-round grains that have higher starch content than either the long or medium grain varieties, and that stick together when cooked.
• Medium grain rice has size and texture characteristics between short and long. |
Tom Bohager
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 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. |
Elaine Magee
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 A recent study of New Yorkers by the Taub Institute for Research on alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University Medical Center found that closely following the patterns of the Mediterranean diet was associated with a lower risk of alzheimer's disease. More needs to be known about this possible food synergy benefit, but so far this looks like another reason to eat the Mediterranean way!
Reduce levels of oxidized LDL in the circulation. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Well, when my grandfather was diagnosed with alzheimer's, I had a gut instinct that the two diseases had to be connected. After all, if hemochromatosis caused dangerous iron buildups that damaged other organs, why couldn't it contribute to damage in the brain? Of course, nobody took me very seriously—I was fifteen.
When I went to college a few years later, there was no question that I was going to study biology. And there was no question that I was going to keep on searching for the link between alzheimer's and hemochromatosis. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 These natural products are used for colds, headaches, allergies, insomnia, depression, menopause and even alzheimer's disease.
One of the top-selling herbs, ginkgo biloba, has been used for nearly 3,000 years. Amongst many claims, it has been touted as an herbal remedy that improves blood flow because of its ability to increase vascular dilation. The result is said to improve brain function in alzheimer's patients, improve short-term memory and can even reduce retinal damage from diseases such as macular degeneration. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You have drug companies looking at the coming wave of alzheimer's and jumping up and down with joy, thinking, "Look how many customers we're going to have. Let's come up with an alzheimer's drug!" Research then comes out showing that alzheimer's drugs cause dementia. Yes, it's true. Pain drugs cause heart attacks, antidepressant drugs cause people to pick up automatic weapons and blow away their classmates; you can just go on down the list. These drugs are designed to treat disease and improve people's lives but they only destroy lives. |
Jack Challem
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 In addition, deficiencies of vitamin B12 can sometimes mimic symptoms of severe brain fog and alzheimer's disease. Because vitamin B12 is relatively inexpensive, everyone who is suspected of having alzheimer's or another type of dementia should be tested for his or her levels of vitamin B12 and methylmalonic acid, which reflect vitamin B12 activity. Some people may have normal vitamin B12 levels but abnormal methylmalonic acid levels.
Approximately one-third of senior citizens suffer from atrophic gastritis, a condition in which they don't produce enough stomach acid. |
Bill Sardi
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| Journal alzheimer's Disease 7, 273-84, 2005] Long-term exposure to low levels of aluminum in animals raises levels of an enzyme (acetycholinesterase) that facilitates memory loss in alzheimer's disease. [Journal Inorganic Biochemistry 99:1865-70, 2005] Public health authorities may give aluminum a clean bill of health in regard to cancer, but need to warn the public there are other health concerns involving aluminum.
Is cancer contagious? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Plant-based medicines are the answer to diabetes, obesity, cancer, osteoporosis, heart disease, kidney stones, depression and psychosis, behavioral disorders, liver disease, kidney disease, urinary tract infections, skin problems, bad breath, body odor, alzheimer's, eye health, longevity, colorectal cancer, Crohn's Disease, asthma and too many other health conditions to name. Once you start drinking massive quantities of plant medicines on a daily basis, your so-called "diseases" simply start to vanish.
Within weeks, the symptoms of many diseases start to disappear. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I believe that these chemicals are directly correlated with neurological disorders, autoimmune disorders and reproductive disorders, not to mention various forms of cancer and degenerative brain diseases (like alzheimer's).
Over the last several decades, the chemical industry has fudged its science and applied tremendous political pressure to try to prevent the public from learning the truth about the hazards of chemicals used in antibacterial soaps, cosmetics, skin creams, shampoos, home cleaning products and many other similar items. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Recent research has shown that an imbalance in estrogen and progesterone levels could be a precursor to alzheimer's disease. improved quality of life
Medical research studies provide clear physiological and biochemical evidence of the many health benefits of bio-identical progesterone replacement. For instance, the Mayo Clinic published a study in the Journal of Women's Health in
2000 that showed that women who included bio-identical progesterone in their hormone replacement regimen were more satisfied with their overall quality of life. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I believe it causes something like alzheimer's," said J.D. Hill, a commercial beekeeper from Muldrow, OK. "The bees go out and find a patch of flowers. Then they bring some of the pollen from the flower patch back to the hive and tell the other bees about it and they all then go to the flower patch. But something is disrupting their memory. They can't find their way back to the hive…if [scientists] don't get a handle on this, the economics are going to get real bad."
And yet, this shortage of honeybees in the continental U.S. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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| Later findings also linked synthetic hormone replacement to an increased risk for alzheimer's disease. The findings were published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Unfortunately, bio-identical progesterone is often confused with synthetically produced progestin. The Women's Health Initiative used progestin, not bio-identical progesterone. There is no documented evidence in the scientific literature of any cases of cancer resulting from treatment with bio-identical progesterone. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| Apple juice concentrate prevents oxidative damage and impaired maze performance in aged mice. J alzheimer's Dis. 2005 Dec;8(3):283-287.
Tchantchou F, Graves M, Ortiz D, Rogers E, Shea TB. Dietary supplementation with apple juice concentrate alleviates the compensatory increase in glutathione synthase transcription and activity that accompanies dietary- and genetically-induced oxidative stress. / Nutr Health Aging. 2004;8(6):492-496.
Tirgoviste C, Poppa E, Sintu E, Mihalache N, Che D, Mincu I. |
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