How Alzheimer’s Can be Reversed Naturally (new study)

American scientists from the University of California in Los Angeles and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato have found a natural approach that tackles Alzheimer’s.

Not only does this approach stop the disease in its tracks, it reverses it.

Study subjects could return to work and normal life. And MRI scans showed amazing growth in brain function. And they didn’t even have to follow the plan in detail.

Drs Dale Bredesen and Varghese John recently published a paper in the journal Aging that summarized a novel approach to treat Alzheimer’s disease.

It is known as metabolic enhancement for neuro degeneration (or MEND.)

The development of the MEND program started with the realization that Alzheimer’s disease has numerous risk factors that may even differ from one person to the next.

Prof Bredesen compared the disease to a roof leaking from 36 holes. While an Alzheimer’s drug may patch one hole perfectly, that still leaves 35 unpatched leaks.

Currently, the popular theory is that the protein beta-amyloid forms plaques that ultimately interfere with the synapses through which messages need to be sent from one nerve cell to the next. Bredesen and John believe that this is only one cause of the disease, and they have identified 35 others.

In response, they design a personalized lifestyle program consisting of elements the target each of these causes.

Among other things, the MEND program includes:

• Avoidance of refined carbohydrates and trans fats.
• Emphasis on vegetables, fruit, and non-farmed fish for omega-3.
• A 12-hour gap between the evening and morning meals.
• Reduction of stress through meditation, forest walks, or whatever relaxes you.
• Seven to eight hours of sleep per night.
• 30 to 60 minutes of exercise per day, four to six days a week, including both weight training and aerobics.
• Brain training exercises and games.
• L-methylfolate (folate), pyridoxal-5-phosphate (vitamin B-6), and methylcobalamin (vitamin B-12) supplements.
• Vitamin D3, vitamin K, vitamin E, selenium, magnesium, zinc, DHA
• And EPA omega-3, coenzyme Q10, N-acetyl-cysteine, alpha-lipoic acid, and probiotic supplements.
• Herb supplements like curcumin, ashwagandha, and bacopa monnieri.

If you are stunned by the extent of the program, you are not the only one. During their studies, most participants reported that they could not follow the program in its entirety because it was simply too difficult.

In 2014, the scientists published the first study in Aging in which they guided 10 Alzheimer’s patients through the program. One participant’s condition was at an advanced stage and he did not benefit. The other nine, however, all benefited significantly.

The six who had given up their jobs by then could return to work, and the three who were still employed but struggling at work improved substantially. Family and friends also reported a major improvement in those nine cases.

In a follow-up study in a 2016 edition of Aging, they reported the results of MRI scans on the brains of these participants. They specifically focused on the hippocampus, the part of the brain essential for learning and memory.

All participants’ hippocampi increased in size, many of them far past those of non-Alzheimer’s sufferers of the same age.

One, for example, used to have a hippocampus at the 17th percentile for his age, which increased to the 75th percentile after 10 months of the treatment.

The authors recommended larger studies to confirm the results.

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