What I Would Do If I Had ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis): Lou Gehrig’s Disease – Dr. Berg

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we're going to talk about ALS and how it can negatively affect the body. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects nerve cells. This leads to muscle weakness, paralysis, and eventually death.

According to "The ALS Puzzle Solved?!", there is evidence that ALS may be related to hormonal shifts and aging. As we age, there is a decrease in protective hormones such as progesterone and melatonin, which can lead to nerve damage and muscle weakness. It has also been suggested that mutations in certain individuals may play a role in the development of ALS.

While the exact cause of ALS is still unknown, this information provides a potential pathway for treatment and management of the disease. It is recommended to supplement with melatonin and vitamin K2, as well as take natural B vitamins and hormones such as pregnenolone to support the body's production of progesterone.

Additionally, infrared therapy has been shown to potentially increase melatonin levels, while resveratrol can help decrease toxicity in the body.

DATA:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30173656

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34138412

https://www.scielo.br/j/ramb/a/hXLP66...

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0:00.0	I'd like to discuss ALS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It's not very common, but there's not a lot of data on it.
0:08.5	And I stumbled on this incredible book on this topic. I want to share with you some amazing things about this disease.
0:17.0	Now what is ALS? It's a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects different muscle groups and it's fatal and people
0:27.0	last between three to five years. Roughly about 20,000 people a year develop this.
0:33.4	So it's not very common, but boy, if you have this, you need all the data.
0:37.3	Presently, if I'm not mistaken, there's only one treatment that only extends your life by five months. And the cost of it is like $1,400 a month.
0:46.0	So the information I'm going to share with you sounds very, very promising, very exciting, and
0:50.6	it's from a book called ALS Puzzle Solved.
0:54.0	So the person who wrote this book has a very unique way of looking at things, very similar
0:58.3	to how I look at things.
0:59.8	You know you listed all the unique things with this disorder and you start to pull a string what's behind this what's behind that what's the connection between this and that and they did a really good job of connecting the dots. So I'm going to share with you what this person found. So the first thing is the onset of this
1:14.7	disease is between 60 years old and 70 years old. It doesn't happen when you're
1:21.6	younger. So that's interesting. It's usually higher in men than women except for when a woman goes through menopause.
1:29.0	The ratio goes up where it's like a one-to-one ratio. So that's very interesting. There's something about
1:34.9	menopause or aging that triggers this disorder. There's also data that shows that there's a potential mutation in certain people with this disorder.
1:47.8	The mutation has to do with SOD,
1:50.8	and that stands for superoxide dismutase. Not that you needed to know that, but that's an enzyme that's a very powerful
1:57.2	antioxidant, which is going to raise the level of oxidation in free radical damage and that's called
2:04.8	oxidative stress which makes sense because that's going to affect the nervous
2:08.2	system that affects the muscles to a certain degree. There's some mixed
2:11.9	reviews on whether it's an
2:13.1	autoimmune disease or not. The jury is still out because typical immunosuppressant
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