The Silent Signs of Dementia: Watch Out for These 10 Warning Signs

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we’re going to look at some of the signs and causes of dementia and things you can do to combat dementia.

The first sign of dementia can occur as early as ten years before you have any cognitive changes. It takes many years for dementia to develop, and sensory changes that involve the loss of smell and vision often occur well before any other symptoms.

Here are 10 of the most common early signs of dementia:

1. Sensory problems (loss of smell)

2. Sensory problems (vision)

3. Sleeping problems

4. Agitation/Low tolerance to stress

5. Restlessness

6. Aggression

7. Memory issues

8. Emotional drop (depression, anxiety, lack of emotion)

9. Incontinence

10. Constipation

Memory issues can show up as an inability to recognize the time on a clock, mixing up words, lagging before answering questions, loss of spatial recognition, and lack of focus or concentration.

Chronic inflammation and insulin resistance are often seen in people who have dementia. Insulin resistance deprives the nerve cells of fuel, which is why Alzheimer's is commonly referred to as type 3 diabetes.

Chronic inflammation can be caused by poor diet and consuming refined sugars, refined starches, and refined oils. Head trauma, heavy metals, infection, and high blood pressure can also contribute to dementia.

So, what can you do? Here are 11 ways to effectively combat dementia:

1. Exercise

2. Have good sleep habits

3. Get on the Healthy Keto Diet

4. Do intermittent fasting and periodic prolonged fasting

5. Increase omega-3 fatty acids

6. Increase intake of B vitamins

7. Increase vitamin D

8. Try using a sauna

9. Take resveratrol and NAD

10. Consume probiotics

11. Try cold therapy

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0:00.0	So this is an updated video that I did about a year ago and I'm going to give you 10 signs of dementia that are really really important with the first sign or symptom that can occur 10 years before you have any cognitive changes whatsoever.
0:16.4	But I have to mention something just because you have the following symptoms that I'm going
0:21.2	to mention does not mean you have dementia.
0:24.0	It could be your sleep. It could be your stress. It could be what you just ate.
0:28.0	It could be some wine you had just yesterday. It could be anything.
0:31.0	And I have to say this, which I said in my other video,
0:35.1	the worst thing you could do is start to diagnose people with dementia,
0:42.4	especially friends, family, and your spouse.
0:45.0	I've seen it a lot in practice where a spouse is correcting another spouse.
0:52.0	Honey, you made a mistake, honey, you're forgetting things.
0:56.0	Don't do that, you can actually mess someone up, you can actually create more of that.
1:00.5	So if your spouse makes a mistake, just move on, don't try to correct them. I've seen it so much before
1:04.8	It's just not a healthy thing to do. What is dementia? Well, we have a normal brain right here and over time people can develop a pathological brain
1:17.6	condition which is where it atrophies and that can create dementia as a symptom. So in dementia you have a
1:25.5	shrinkage of certain parts of the brain, you also have inflammation. What's
1:30.3	really interesting about this is it takes many years for this process to develop,
1:36.0	and there's one symptom or sign that occurs 10 years before any cognitive changes can occur.
1:45.0	And I want to mention what that is.
1:46.5	Actually, there's two symptoms or two signs,
1:50.0	okay, before you even get any type of cognitive changes.
1:53.8	So the first change is a sensory change.
1:57.8	And it mainly has to do with the sensation of smell
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