The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline

My Dad has this and I wanted to read up on it . Informative book . Good quality . Interesting read

This is a must have book for every family not just Alzheimer's patients. Recommended, although Indians may find all these things already incorporated in lifestyles since long times..quite likely the reason Alzheimer's as a disease is very rare in India and research into it has just begun with few lucky patients. Please buy right now. Thanks Amazon India.

Saber que uma doença mortal e incapacidade tem prevenção e tratamento eficazes é uma grande esperança. Melhor ainda, o modo como é colocado no livro traz autonomia para os que decidem seguir o protocolo do Dr. Bredesen, a maioria das ações são acessíveis, sem medicamentos caros e patenteados, basicamente mudanças em hábitos de vida. Vale a pena ler, se houver casos na família ou se simplesmente quer cuidar de sua saúde, pois é disto que fala o livro.

Dr Bredesen has researched Alzheimer’s for 30 years and has succeeded in unraveling this disease. He can prevent it and in most cases reverse its associated decline. (He has already helped about 200 people.) His discoveries represent a paradigm shift regarding this disease.First, here is the current view of Alzheimer’s:-it is a single disease caused by the accumulation of plaques made of amyloid-beta-to treat it find a way of stopping the plaques from forming or remove them once they have formed-most drugs developed with this view have succeeded in stopping or removing plaques but the patients either got no better or got worse.Here is what Alzheimer’s really is:-it results when the brain responds to various events by downsizing-there are 3 types of Alzheimer’s and each is a protective response to different triggers (or a combination of triggers): a) inflammation caused by too much sugar, infections or other causes b) low levels of synapse supporting nutrients, hormones and other molecules c) toxic exposure such as metals or bio-toxins-usually when the brain responds to these triggers it goes on functioning normally-the problem comes when these triggers are chronic, multiple, unrelenting and intense-then the process goes haywire and too many of these triggers start the process of brain cells dyingThe solution then is to:a) identify which triggers are presentb) remove the contributorsc) remove the amyloid-betad) rebuild the lost synapses.These triggers (or factors) are about 36 in number so identifying which are present involves doing tests for each. These tests measure a specific condition in the body. Each test must be in a certain range otherwise it adds to the triggers. i.e. for each item that is out of range it contributes to Alzheimer’s. Once the out of range values are identified, changes are made to bring them all to the optimal value. (The optimal value is not just what is considered ‘normal’ but what is best for reversing the Alzheimer’s.) As more and more of these items are corrected, a certain threshold is reached and the person starts to improve. It is like having 36 holes in your roof that are causing a flood and realizing it is not enough to fix one hole, most of the holes need to be fixed to stop the flood. It’s similar with the brain: once the ‘holes’ are found, each is fixed until enough of them are stopped to get to a point where the death of brain cells has been reduced and compensated by the growth of new ones.With this background in place the major part of the book explains each trigger/factor, how to test for them and how to correct those that are out of range.Throughout the book there are stories of some of those who were helped.Many other books are available about Alzheimer’s but they focus on only a few of the 36 factors. For people who have only a few factors out of range, fixing those will help. However, this will not help those who have different factors which are causing their Alzheimer’s. Dr Bredesen’s program is the only one that is comprehensive enough to deal with all possible triggers.Dr. Bredesen has trained over 450 others in this program so if you or a loved one has Alzheimer’s or is showing signs of cognitive decline, you should be able to find someone who can help. (I emailed him and am waiting to find out if there is anyone in Canada.)

Es un gran libro que nos explica las raíces y causas de esta enfermedad. Proponiendo un enfoque muy distinto a su tratamiento. Lo recomiendo ampliamente