Dr. Dale Bredesen speaks about the Reversal of Alzheimer’s Disease with Dr. Ben Weitz at the Functional Medicine Discussion Group meeting on May 27, 2021.

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Podcast Highlights

12:10   Traditional medicine currently has nothing effective to offer for the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease, but yet is not open to the model that Dr. Bredesen is showing can reverse the condition.  There are over 400 failed trials with drugs to treat Alzheimer’s Disease. Dr. Bredesen has spent 30 years and he has published over 220 papers in peer review journals figuring out the fundamental nature of the neurodegenerative process to be able to design an effective treatment approach. Dr. Bredesen’s challenge to the traditional neurological community is “Look, you line up the people that you’ve made better, I’ll line up the people that we’ve made better, and let’s take a look at the lines.”  Dr. Bredesen’s group of practitioners has seen hundreds and hundreds of people improved.  Dr. Bredesen has just published a clinical trial that demonstrates the effectiveness of his approach with 25 patients treated by three different doctors.

20:37  The single drug approach has repeatedly failed for Alzheimer’s Disease and when Donanemab, which is another antibody that removes amyloid, was approved eight weeks ago, it was hailed. Yet, it doesn’t reverse or even stop the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease, but merely slows the decline and Eli Lilly stock went up 20 billion dollars. The reason for this failure is that Alzheimer’s is not a simple illness like a viral infection.  Rather Alzheimer’s is a complex, chronic disease and such a simple approach is doomed to failure unless it is possibly combined with a systems approach.

21:13  There are a number of theories about what causes Alzheimer’s Disease, including the amyloid cascade theory, which has been the target of numerous failed pharmaceuticals, including Bapineuzumab, Crenezumab, Gantenerumab, and Aducanumab and the list goes on and on. Some people say that amyloid is not important, but rather it’s tau that is the problem.  But Dr. Bredesen explained that both amyloid and tau are both mediators of a downsizing of the brain and they are both physiological responses to various insults to brain health.  Here is the full list of theories of the cause of Alzheimer’s disease that Dr. Bredesen discussed: 1. Amyloid cascade, 2. Tau, 3. Prion, 4. Type 3 diabetes, 5. Chronic herpes simplex infection, 6. Gingipain produced by P. gingivalis, 7. mercury toxicity, 8. Metal binding by amyloid, 9. Reactive oxygen species, 10. APP amplification, 11. Cortical demyelination, 12. Vascular leak. 

24:55  The amyloid hypothesis says that you have too much amyloid but it doesn’t consider why and we know now that when you remove it, you don’t get better, and some patients get worse.  The amyloid is a protective response by the brain to infections and other insults.

25:17  The problem is that if you go to a conventional Alzheimer’s center, they’ll tell you that we don’t know what the cause is, and that we’re going to give you a monotherapy, whether it be Aricept or Namenda, and it will be ineffective, and you’re going to die. 

25:51  The research findings show something completely different.  They show that there are dozens of contributors to the cause of Alzheimer’s disease and these can be broken down into subtypes.  Some patients have more of an inflammatory type of Alzheimer’s, while others have more of an atrophic type.

Christine DeLozier, LAc, discusses Diet For Great Sex with Dr. Ben Weitz.

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Podcast Highlights

1:06  Hormones, including both testosterone and estrogen, are important for sexual health.  In men, not only is testosterone important, but so are small amounts of estrogen and progesterone important for sexual health.  Testosterone is also important for sexual health in women.

6:41  Eating the right diet by avoiding junk food and avoiding sugar, consisting of lots of fresh fruits and vegetables and leafy greens can help some women to not have to go on hormone replacement therapy after menopause.  Both a diet high in refined carbohydrates and sugar and a diet very high in fat can disrupt your hormones.

13:07  Leafy greens are very high in both potassium and antioxidants, like vitamin C, which protect not only our hormones but our neurological health and reduces oxidative damage to our nerves.

18:19  Omega 3 fats are super important for brain health and neurological health. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is a huge component of pleasure and the circuitry for dopamine requires omega-3 fats, which you can attain from consuming wild salmon or from taking fish oil capsules. 

 

Christine DeLozier, LAc, is an acupuncturist and herbalist at Needle and Herb Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine in Rochester, New York, and author of the new book, Diet for Great Sex: Food for male and female sexual health. Her website is ChristineDelozier.com.

Dr. Ben Weitz is available for nutrition consultations specializing in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders like IBS/SIBO and Reflux and also specializing in Cardiometabolic Risk Factors like elevated lipids, high blood sugar, and high blood pressure and also weight loss, as well as sports chiropractic work by calling his Santa Monica office 310-395-3111. Dr. Weitz is also available for video or phone consultations.

 

Podcast Transcript

Dr. Weitz:                   Hey, this is Dr. Ben Weitz, host of the Rational Wellness Podcast. I talk to the leading health and nutrition experts and researchers in the field to bring you the latest in cutting edge health information. Subscribe to the Rational Wellness Podcast for weekly updates, and to learn more, check out my website, drweitz.com. Thanks for joining me. And let’s jump into the podcast. Hello, Rational Wellness podcasters. Today, our topic is diet for great sex with Christine Delozier, LAc. Christine Delozier is an acupuncturist, herbalist, and author of the new book Diet for Great Sex: Food for Male and Female Sexual Health. Christine, thank you so much for joining us.

Christine:            Thank you so much for having me on your show.

Dr. Weitz:            So my first question is how much does it facilitate sex to wear an N95 mask?

Christine:            Well, it can be a barrier to oral for sure.

Dr. Weitz:            So for the first real question, Christine, in your book Diet for Great Sex, you focus on the three systems of our body that affects sexual health, and you break it down into hormones, neurological and vascular. So let’s start with hormones and let’s talk about which are the most important hormones for sexual health.

Christine:            Well, the short answer to that is all of them. Our hormonal balance is like a symphony. And when one of them gets out of whack, many of them tend to fall out of whack. It’s very rarely that one hormone is out of balance in ...