The End of Alzheimer's Program

Informationen zum Autor Dale E. Bredesen, MD; Foreword by David Perlmutter, MD Klappentext "In The End of Alzheimer's, Dale Bredesen laid out the science behind his ... program that is the first to both prevent and reverse symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Now he lays out the detailed program he uses with his own patients. Accessible and detailed, it can be tailored to anyone's needs and will enhance cognitive ability at any age. ... With inspiring stories from patients who have reversed cognitive decline and are now thriving, this book shifts the treatment paradigm and offers a ... way to enhance cognition as well as ... hope to sufferers of this ... deadly disease"-- Leseprobe The famous basketball coach, player, and executive Pat Riley exhorted his players to adopt the following attitude when the game is on the line: Imagine that your head is underwater and you will not be able to breathe again unless you win. That is some motivation indeed! And it is the attitude we must have about Alzheimer's disease as well, and in fact about neurodegenerative diseases as a whole these have all been untreatable terminal illnesses, and if we do not approach them as a societal emergency we will see 13 million demented Americans by 2050, their families destroyed, Medicare bankrupt, and a multi-trillion-dollar global burden of dementia. Yet our standard of care is to treat without determining the cause of or contributors to Alzheimer's, to limit our treatment to a drug or two, to avoid targeted programs of treatment, to refuse clinical trials of multifaceted therapeutics, and to repeat the same old tired, ineffective approaches again and again. Where is the innovation? Where is the inspiration? Perhaps we need a pep talk from Pat Riley? Therefore, please don't be concerned if you get your tests, take them to your doctor, and he or she is skeptical. If you ask your doctor to obtain these tests, don't be surprised if he or she brushes you off with an all-knowing smile or even a look of disdain. As they say, An expert is someone who does not want to be told anything new in his or her field of expertise. This personalized approach to cognitive decline is a twenty-first-century approach, not yet in practice by the vast majority of doctors. As one neurologist said, I wouldn't order these tests because I would not know how to interpret them. Another physician said, These tests don't tell you whether you have Alzheimer's or not. True; what they tell you is why you have cognitive decline (or risk for decline)what all of the contributors are. Determining if you have Alzheimer's does not help you to avoid it or reverse it; determining why is the key. Most people who already have Alzheimer's disease or MCI (mild cognitive impairment, the harbinger of Alzheimer's) or SCI (subjective cognitive impairment, which precedes MCI) turn out to have between ten and twenty-five contributors, and these are identified by the tests so that each can be addressed therapeutically. Practitioners have attempted to treat dementia for thousands of years without knowing what caused it or contributed to it, but now, for the first time, we can actually treat the underlying mechanisms. Of course, when Ayurvedic physicians treated dementia thousands of years ago, they did not refer to it as Alzheimer's diseaseit was not until 1906 and 1907 that Dr. Alois Alzheimer published his famous papersbut Ayurvedic physicians clearly described and attempted to treat dementia, and what we now call Alzheimer's disease is the most common syndrome of dementia. Twenty years ago, our laboratory research led us to identify the APP (amyloid precursor protein) switch, and when we began to look at what factors flip this switch toward the Alzheimer's sidethe synaptoclastic sidewe found that there are different groups of factors, and thus there are actually different types of Alzheimer's disease.<b...

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Dale E. Bredesen, MD; Foreword by David Perlmutter, MD

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*The instant *New York Times bestseller

The New York Times Best Selling author of The End of Alzheimer's lays out a specific plan to help everyone prevent and reverse cognitive decline or simply maximize brainpower.

In The End of Alzheimer's Dale Bredesen laid out the science behind his revolutionary new program that is the first to both prevent and reverse symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Now he lays out the detailed program he uses with his own patients. Accessible and detailed, it can be tailored to anyone's needs and will enhance cognitive ability at any age.

What we call Alzheimer's disease is actually a protective response to a wide variety of insults to the brain: inflammation, insulin resistance, toxins, infections, and inadequate levels of nutrients, hormones, and growth factors. Bredesen starts by having us figure out which of these insults we need to address and continues by laying out a personalized lifestyle plan. Focusing on the Ketoflex 12/3 Diet, which triggers ketosis and lets the brain restore itself with a minimum 12-hour fast, Dr. Bredesen drills down on restorative sleep, targeted supplementation, exercise, and brain training. He also examines the tricky question of toxic exposure and provides workarounds for many difficult problems. The takeaway is that we do not need to do the program perfectly but will see tremendous results if we can do it well enough.

With inspiring stories from patients who have reversed cognitive decline and are now thriving, this book shifts the treatment paradigm and offers a new and effective way to enhance cognition as well as unprecedented hope to sufferers of this now no longer deadly disease.