Show 994: Learn How One Doctor Is Reversing Alzheimer’s (Archive)
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Alzheimer’s disease is a prospect as frightening to many of us as cancer, and the treatment options are not promising. Most of the costly medications used in treating this type of dementia do little more than delay its progression by a few weeks or months. The idea that anything might be done to turn back the ravages of this memory robber has seemed an impossible dream.
Optimizing Multiple Factors for Cognitive Recovery:
Now, however, research shows that a novel, multi-faceted approach may be able to reverse cognitive decline. Nine of the first ten patients on this comprehensive, personalized therapeutic program have shown improvement. Not only have the markers of inflammation underlying Alzheimer’s disease become less severe, but they also have had lasting improvement in measures of memory and ability to function and reason. What are the elements and lessons of this therapeutic system?
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This Week’s Guest:
Dale Bredesen, MD, is the Augustus Rose Professor of Neurology and Director of the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research at UCLA. He is also Director of Neurodegenerative Disease Research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Founding President and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, CA. His research has been published in the journal Aging (Sept. 27, 2014), and in EMBO Molecular Medicine (May 23, 2013) on next generation therapeutics for reversing Alzheimer’s disease. Here is a presentation he gave to the California State Assembly.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Intranaturals, a high-quality supplement brand focused on creating products you'll feel good about your family using. |
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| 0:28.6 | More than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's. |
| 0:32.2 | There's no cure, but could there be a way to reverse this devastating disease? |
| 0:37.5 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:48.8 | Medications for Alzheimer's disease have been disappointing, |
| 0:52.2 | and there don't appear to be pharmaceutical breakthroughs on the horizon. |
| 0:56.1 | But could there be another way to slow or reverse cognitive decline? |
| 1:00.5 | Our guest today is a prominent neuroscientist. Dr. Dale Bredesen has developed a comprehensive, personalized assessment and therapeutic approach that shows promise against Alzheimer's disease. |
| 1:13.7 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, find out how lifestyle choices and biochemical markers can affect cognitive function as we age. |
| 1:23.4 | First, this news. |
| 1:28.2 | In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, even many of the people's pharmacy health headlines, even modest weight loss can pay big health dividends. |
| 1:35.2 | Researchers at Washington University recruited 40 people with body mass index measurements that qualified them as obese |
| 1:42.7 | and randomly assigned them either to a weight loss |
| 1:45.9 | regimen or to a maintenance regimen. The subject went through thorough metabolic assessments |
| 1:51.7 | after weight loss of 5, 10, and 15 percent of their initial body weight. Losing just 5% of their |
| 1:59.8 | starting weight reduced liver fat by 40%. It also improved |
| 2:04.9 | blood levels of triglycerides, insulin, and glucose. This modest weight loss lowered heart rate |
| 2:10.7 | and systolic blood pressure as well. Continued weight loss resulted in greater improvement, |
| 2:16.1 | but the researchers say the biggest bang |
| 2:18.8 | for the effort was achieved with that first 5% drop in weight. This should serve as motivation |
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