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July 14, 2024 16 mins

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Explore the potential to reverse Alzheimer's with Dr. Heather Sandison in this insightful video. Discover actionable insights from her book, "Reversing Alzheimer's," offering a groundbreaking toolkit to enhance cognition and safeguard brain health.

 

In this summary:

- Uncover Dr. Sandison's innovative approach to tackling Alzheimer's disease.

- Learn practical steps to potentially reverse cognitive decline.

- Hear inspiring stories of individuals who boosted their memory function.

- Gain strategies to fortify brain health and possibly prevent dementia.

 

🧠 Empower yourself with knowledge to take control of your brain health journey today!

 

Keywords: Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Memory Loss, Cognitive Decline, Brain Health, Prevention, Reversal, Natural Treatment, Diet, Lifestyle Changes, Book Summary, Dr. Heather Sandison, David Perlmutter, Dr. David Perlmutter, Grain Brain, Dr. Perlmutter, Brain Maker, Functional Medicine, Insulin Resistance

 

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protein is important in your diet
compared to carbohydrates,
how the toxins in your food is affecting
your body as well as your
brain, chronic inflammation,
how it is affecting
your brain and its health,

(00:22):
the hormonal imbalance which is affecting
your brain and its functions,
and exercise.
Along with your body, how it is good for
your brain and about
activities such as games,
how it is beneficial for your brain.
And finally about the stress, how it is
damaging our brain and
how we can recover from it.
We'll talk about the why, how and what of
Alzheimer's and how we can
prevent and recover from it.

(00:44):
The why of the problem.
Our generation have
an imbalance in health.
In short we tell it we have too much, too
little in the wrong
place at the wrong time.
Too much of carbohydrates in our food,
too little of exercise we do,
too much of glucose in the wrong place in
the blood and we have wrong time,
we have too much cortisol even during the
night we are not able to see it.
That's all part and parcel of the health

(01:04):
imbalance and it is
affecting our brain health
and it's attributing to
the Alzheimer's as well.
So we'll start with why.
First of all toxins in our environment.
We have too much
toxins in our environment.
Somehow like heavy metals we found in
fish and all like mercury and cadmium
which is affecting the brain.
Then after that we have
pesticides and glyphosate.
Pesticides mainly in the fertilizers to

(01:25):
protect the crops and all and in another
way for glyphosate in the gardening and
other agriculture products and all.
Then finally we got mold and spores.
Mold is something maybe new to you.
Like when you are living in an
air-conditioned building or you have
water contaminated humidity is there.
These molds will stay in the air, will
get inhaled that, will have inflammation

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and that is going to affect the immune
response inflammation.
All these things going to affect your
brain as well because air is something
which is the very essence of life.
And if you have polluted, toxinated air
and that will affect your health.
Then about food.
We now eat food for
pleasure than for health.
We somehow eat food for our
taste buds than for our brain.

(02:06):
So our brain actually require amino acids
to manufacture the
neurotransmitters and all.
And it require vitamin B, vitamin C, zinc
to metabolize that neurotransmitters.
And also we need fat for fuel.
So we are not
attending that amino acid part.
We are not attending the vitamin part.
Also we are eating too much of
carbohydrates and glucose.

(02:28):
We are not providing the
brain with fats or healthy fats.
Also stress.
We are living too much
stress and too much of cortisol.
Actually even research has found that it
will shrink your hippocampus.
And you will not have a bandwidth to
allow the brain to
recover or refresh or rest.
Too much cortisol means
it's always in action.
Some other things is about the physical

(02:49):
structure of your nasal part.
So you will have difficulty in breathing.
Another one is attributed to APOE genes
coming from your parents and all.
That may attribute to
the brain health as well.
And then we have chronic pain which is
also going to affect your brain.
The book is talking about
brain and your body as a country.
So the communication system of a country
may be the
communication system of your brain,

(03:11):
the neurons and all.
So suppose your country is in war.
All of the resources of the country will
be provided to protect
their country instead
of feeding the country.
Same thing is happening
to your brain as well.
Sleep apnea which is something like you
are just waking up
suddenly in the night and all.
So one of the challenges is that it is
not the sleep apnea but the
way or how it is happening,
it will decrease the

(03:32):
oxygen level to your brain.
So decreased oxygen level is going to
impair your brain
functions and will damage your
brain as well.
So finally about signaling, we live in a
world where we are all
relaxed and more robotic
and all.
So there is no
sedentary lifestyle especially.
It is not creating a
new neuron, neurogenesis.
There is no new neuroplasticity is not

(03:54):
happening like changing
and firing and wiring is not
changing it.
So that way it is affecting.
So somehow the neurons, new neurons are
not getting created.
All the neuron
connections will get them weak.
So whole signaling mechanism of the brain
is getting affected.
Why we got it so wrong with
Alzheimer's all this time?
The problem is that all those research so
far has been focused
on beta amyloid plaques

(04:16):
and taut angles which is found in the
Alzheimer's patients.
Such research has been funded by
pharmaceutical industry and they are
focused on getting a
magical to cure them.
Until all this research, it has not
completely provided this one cause is
creating that Alzheimer's.
Instead, Dr. Heather Sanderson is trying
to tell that
Alzheimer's is a contribution of
multiple causes.

(04:38):
But to solve that problem, you need a
multimodal approach.
Not a single approach is required.
Even beta amyloid plaques and taut
angles, almost 30% of
the people above 50s or 60s
have that but only less than 10% of those
people is getting Alzheimer's.
So we cannot completely provide that as a
culprit for Alzheimer's.
Instead, we have to look it on the big

(04:59):
picture and multimodal
perspective as Dr. Heather Sanderson
is providing us.
If not beta amyloid plaques and taut
angles, what else is causing Alzheimer's?
Some common causes of Alzheimer's is
traumatic brain injury.
It may create that hypertension that also
will affect excessive
alcoholic consumption
like even 21 drinks a week, then you are

(05:20):
at the risk of Alzheimer's.
Even 14 drinks a week, you are going to
affect the hippocampus
and it will be shrink your
hippocampus and all.
That's where we are standing.
In sedentary lifestyle, we are less on
exercise and such
things as I mentioned before.
That is also a cause of Alzheimer's.
Then we have depression which is part and
parcel of this isolated
social media generation.

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And we have diabetes which is also part
and parcel of our food
revolution, the excess
of food and we eat for pleasure and we
don't understand
whether we are eating sugar.
To follow our other book, Ultra Processed
People and All, you'll
see that a lot of ultra
processed foods are there in the market
which is affecting us as well.
In air pollution, with the air we inhale
outside and inside,

(06:02):
especially outside now, we have
too much of fossil fuel pollution and a
lot of things are
there in the air as well.
Then smoking which is also going to
affect the air and also
its capacity is going to
the brain and how it is working.
Smoking is a sleep
disturbances, not having good sleep.
That's also a problem.
Then social isolation, so all this we can
consider as some common

(06:22):
causes of Alzheimer's.
Okay, now we know what is a cause, how we
can prevent Alzheimer's.
Just going back to all the causes and the
solutions, theatrogenic
diet, it is not necessary
that okay, when you are on the recovery
path, you have to stay for
the whole life, ketogenic
note.
Doctor is recommending at least for six
months, it is advisable to maintain that.

(06:44):
The point is that then we'll come across
what is ketogenesis and
all, but that's about one
thing, then exercise, improving your
exercise or including
your exercise in your routine
will help you to just refresh and then
regain your brain function.
It will actually improve the brain.
It's not only for your body, you have to

(07:06):
exercise for your brain as well.
And brain stimulating activities, so we
somehow live in a very
boring routine stand-off and
we think that all that is not giving us
some economic value, that is all useless.
But instead, if you focus and put time on
brain stimulating activities, even games,
okay, video games, I'm not talking about

(07:27):
an addictive way of approaching it.
Instead a fun way of approaching it, then
games, just a lot of
things, indoor, outdoor
games, all these things is going to help
your brain to fire and
wire in a different way.
It will make that machine active, it will
make that signaling
system active and supportive
daily routine.
So your brain is routine or its habits is

(07:49):
somehow its efficient way of managing the
task.
So you make yourself the brain, all the
normal things, you make it in a routine.
So like for example, you have to prevent
the causes of Alzheimer's.
To prevent that whatever is required, you
add it in your routine
like exercise you add
it to it, sleep you add it to it, brain

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stimulating activities you add to it.
Such things you adding it to your routine
will one way make
your brain less action to
make that happen and also those actions
will help the brain to
regain its health as well.
And finally about sleep, we mentioned
before, but sleep is very
important, like your brain
is getting refreshed and recovered,

(08:31):
something like a
maintenance system for your brain data
center.
Sleep is important, sound you have to
control the sound as well,
then oral health, especially
the gut brain axis.
So if you have not brushed your teeth or
you have oral
infections or such things, that
is going to greatly affect your gut and
the same time it is

(08:51):
going to affect your brain
as so that's important.
And as I mentioned temperature control
also try to get it cold
environment or less temperature
to make your body cold than getting
hotter to get you into sleep.
So all these things will make you help
that you fall asleep and
it is important for your
brain.
How to refresh your body and mind?
Yes, here we are talking about exercise,

(09:12):
maybe you thought it
something for increasing your
muscles or to prevent diabetes, but here
we are taking it one level further.
That exercise is a good
stress, they call it hormesis.
So somehow it will recreate neurons, it
will make the
neuroplasticity better and it will
improve those
circulations and lot of things.

(09:33):
So we will just explain a couple of
different types of exercise
which you can do in comparison
and the benefits of that.
First one aerobic exercise or
otherwise you call it cardio.
Help of that is will improve the blood
flow and also it will
remove those toxins from
your body.
Somehow it will refresh that plumping

(09:54):
system in your brain.
So you will have more nutrients passing
to your body through
your blood and the toxins
are getting removed.
So sometimes it will help you to make

(10:21):
your neurons more healthy.
So it will help you to have the neuroplasticity better and that
communication better.
So strength training is as
important as your cardio.
Then dual task training, maybe something
new for you, but maybe you have done it already.
So you can do that. So you can have the neuroplasticity better and that communication better. So strength training is as important as your cardio. So you are hearing an audio book and at
the same time you are jogging or walking.
That is what dual task training is.
So you for example, you are doing two

(10:41):
actions for your brain.
One action your brain is doing at the
same time you are
involving your exercise as well.
The point is that that way your brain and
your body that
connection, that interaction
will become strong and you will have a
healthier brain and a healthier
communicating body to
the brain as well.
Then contrast oxygen therapy.

(11:02):
To put it simply, it is like you are
pushing your body to
your limit to get oxygen.
Simple way is like you are just running
to the top of a mountain.
That's a contrast oxygen therapy.
So you are stressing in such a way that
you are taking too much oxygen.
It can be done in multiple way like box
breathing and even like
heavy long exercises and all

(11:22):
such things.
But in one way it is a
contrast oxygen therapy.
So you are pushing your brain, your lungs
and your body to take more oxygen to your
body.
That way it will benefit
your body as well as your brain.
Then last one is cold plunge.
We cannot completely call it as exercise
but if you can combine
that with your exercise.
Suppose you are doing a very intense

(11:43):
workout then you just go
to cold shower or you just
drop yourself on a
swimming pool with cold water.
That's what cold plunge means.
So that is a good way of providing some
good stress to your
body, hormesis as I mentioned
before.
So that way it will benefit one way if
you don't have access to all such things.
Okay suppose you don't have access to
pools or you don't have

(12:04):
access to sauna or all these
things.
You can do it in a simple way.
Hormesis is really like you have shower
which have cold and hot water.
Just use hot water for some time then
take a break, a short
break and then use cold
water.
So between the cold and hot showers that
is an easy way to achieve hormesis.
How to feed your brain.

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Okay now we are
talking about Ketogenesis.
So your brain only takes a 2% of your
body weight but it
actually consume 20% of the
body energy it required.
Let me give you a short
introduction about Ketogenesis.
One to put it simply it is that you eat
more protein and good fat
compared to the carbohydrates

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and sugars and glucose.
That's what Ketosis means.
So the problem of glucose is that first
of all it require insulin also in action.
So you are always putting insulin in
action to your body to
get that glucose there.
Second thing when you age where there is
a risk of Alzheimer's and Dementia.
So those time most people will have

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diabetes which is type 2
diabetes and that is going
to affect type 3 diabetes which some
people call Alzheimer's is
called as type 3 diabetes.
So that glucose is
not good for your brain.
Instead your brain likes more
of ketones and fats as a fuel.
So we will go to the what of the problem.
What to eat.

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So for ketones to have the Ketogenesis
and all you can go for
grass fed beef and pasteurized
chicken and egg and also fatty fishes
like salmon and
shellfish that's all good high
quality protein providers.
Then non starchy vegetables like
broccoli, cauliflower,
mushrooms you name it you so

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lot of that try to get as much as input
of this vegetables
part of your food at least
5 cups and all.
So you will get enough fibers as well as
nutrients from your food.
Then nuts and seeds like macadamia,
almonds you name it there
are lot of such nuts and
there sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds such
topics you should include to improve your

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brain health as well.
So healthy fats you have coconut oil,
olive oil, coconut milk,
butter and ghee those are
the good fats available for you.
In carbohydrates specially when the start
of ketogenesis try to
take as less as carbohydrates
as possible that's one way and also try
to reduce the
processed sugar and such things

(14:30):
instead go for stevia and such
alternatives as from honey
and all as less as possible
as well.
So we talk about what
to do about the food.
Now about the activities or brain
stimulating activities you
can do cooking you can work
on arts like painting and such things,
artistic things, creative
endeavors all those things
will help your brain.

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Then gardening, stories, reading,
storytelling all these
things will going to help you.
So all such things try to incorporate in
your life so your brain
is more engaged and more
active and more learning as well somehow
learning something is very
good for your brain health.
Finally about the music, brain
engagement, mindfulness and

(15:11):
meditation all of these things
are also going to be helpful.
So that's about the topics what we are
talking in the book and also
some cutting edge treatments
as well like for example
importance of red light.
Red light therapy Dr. Sanderson is
mentioning that is going
to improve the mitochondrial
functions and all.
So try to improve you can get lot of ways

(15:31):
to do that red light
therapy maybe even you
can get some massager available in Amazon
and all to get that.
But red light therapy
is going to be helpful.
So about something about blood donation
that's another thing which you can do.
We talk about stem cell therapy lot of
things are there but I'm
not sure how much we can
explain that in the book summary.
But donating your blood actually you that

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will make your body to
create new plasma and
new blood and all so that will help you
enhance your brain health as well.
Also that's somehow the
conclusion of the book.
Actually we got too
much points from the book.
If you try to read more or understand
more we have added the
notes we prepared which
is more extensive than our summary.
You can download it for free from the

(16:14):
link in the description as well.
So until we come across with the next
book thank you for watching bye for now.

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