Show 1132: Are Infections to Blame for Alzheimer Disease? (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

With nearly six million Americans living with Alzheimer disease, this condition is a serious public health problem. It robs people of their memories, their ability to function independently and even their very identities. When Alois Alzheimer published the first report on the brain disease that was later named for him, he described distinctive plaques and […]

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The People's Pharmacy Podcast is supported in part by Cocovia.
0:04.6	Cocovia, cocovolvinols, support both cardiovascular health and cognitive function
0:10.4	by promoting
0:13.0	oxygen and nutrients to vital organs and muscles
0:16.0	including your heart and brain.
0:18.0	Cocovia now comes
0:20.0	and an even more concentrated formula
0:22.0	with 450 milligrams of cocoa flavinols five times more
0:27.6	than the leading dark chocolate bar and 15 times more than the leading cocoa powder.
0:33.2	Cocoa Via has a proprietary process that preserves cocoa flavinols at the highest levels
0:39.1	and the product undergoes rigorous testing at every stage, which allows them to guarantee the highest
0:45.1	level of cocoa flovinol's per serving and to provide the purest highest quality product
0:50.8	possible.
0:51.8	People's Pharmacy listeners can now try Koca Via for 25% off by using the code
0:58.8	People's 25 at Koca Via.com, that's C-O-C-O-A-V-I-A-com.
1:09.1	Alzheimer's disease robs people of their memories and their identities. To date we don't know the cause
1:15.1	and there is no cure. This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe
1:20.2	Grayden. Scientists know that Alzheimer's disease is associated with plaques and tangles in the brain.
1:34.0	The plaques are composed of a peptide called beta amyloid.
1:38.0	The pharmaceutical industry has spent enormous sums developing drugs to eliminate beta amyloid. Are they barking up the wrong tree?
1:45.0	A Harvard researcher suggests that amyloid beta is part of the brain's immune defense system.
1:51.0	Could it be serving a useful function?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Joe and Terry Graedon, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Joe and Terry Graedon and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.