Author: James Greenblatt
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 152553999X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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A deadly neurological malady characterized by progressive and irreparable shrinking of brain tissue, Alzheimer’s disease causes declines in memory, social abilities, and communication skills that accelerate aging and eventually lead to death. Conventional medicine has failed to develop treatments for this terrifying disease. No drug or proprietary medicine has been shown to be effective. In this groundbreaking book, leading integrative psychiatrist Dr. James M. Greenblatt reveals that hope has come from new research showing the answer lies with an integrative approach, of which nutrition is a key factor. The key lies in low-dose nutritional lithium, a naturally occurring mineral with a long and well-documented history of restoring brain and nervous system function at the molecular level. Integrative Medicine for Alzheimer’s presents this simple and effective approach to the prevention and treatment of dementia, delivering a wealth of scientific support for the clinical use of nutritional lithium, including: ■ Insight into the causes of Alzheimer’s disease ■ New information about nutritional lithium and its clinical use in the prevention Alzheimer’s disease ■ Research showing how antioxidants and anti-inflammatory nutrients support brain health ■ A roadmap for you and your doctor to build an integrative treatment plan to preserve healthy brain function

Author: Dale Bredesen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735216207
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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The instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller A groundbreaking plan to prevent and reverse Alzheimer’s Disease that fundamentally changes how we understand cognitive decline. Everyone knows someone who has survived cancer, but until now no one knows anyone who has survived Alzheimer's Disease. In this paradigm shifting book, Dale Bredesen, MD, offers real hope to anyone looking to prevent and even reverse Alzheimer's Disease and cognitive decline. Revealing that AD is not one condition, as it is currently treated, but three, The End of Alzheimer’s outlines 36 metabolic factors (micronutrients, hormone levels, sleep) that can trigger "downsizing" in the brain. The protocol shows us how to rebalance these factors using lifestyle modifications like taking B12, eliminating gluten, or improving oral hygiene. The results are impressive. Of the first ten patients on the protocol, nine displayed significant improvement with 3-6 months; since then the protocol has yielded similar results with hundreds more. Now, The End of Alzheimer’s brings new hope to a broad audience of patients, caregivers, physicians, and treatment centers with a fascinating look inside the science and a complete step-by-step plan that fundamentally changes how we treat and even think about AD.

Author: Michelle Honda
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
ISBN: 157826779X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Breakthrough and effective natural medicine approaches to manage and treat Alzheimer's disease. More than 44 million people are affected by Alzheimer's disease worldwide. Millions of people of all ages are battling this disabling brain impairment, causing a health care crisis of epidemic proportions. Reverse Alzheimer's Disease Naturally provides a comprehensive overview of Alzheimer's disease and how to effectively and naturally manage it. It's a complete resource of healing remedies, dietary recommendations, mental exercises, and protocols. Reverse Alzheimer's Disease Naturally offers practical tips and alternative solutions to popular treatments as well as beneficial supplements and home remedies.

Author: Dharma Singh Khalsa
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0759520429
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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In the tradition of Andrew Weil's bestseller Spontaneous Healing, this is a physician's breakthrough medical program for the brain designed to diminish the effect of memory impairment caused by stress, aging, and Alzheimer's disease. As we grow older and experience the stresses of life, at about age 40 many of us begin to have trouble remembering things, concentrating, and generally staying mentally sharp. This book contains a four-part program including nutritional, stress-relieving, pharmacological, and mind-body exercise therapies to help people overcome the undesirable effects of normal brain "aging". By controlling cortisol, a hormone that is toxic to the brain and present in excessive levels as we age, Dr. Khalsa's plan can help improve memory and emotional zest. This is the first book to: Describe a program that may diminish age-associated memory impairment Feature a clinical method that can promote memory functioning impaired by Alzheimer's disease Detail the physical damage done to the brain by stress, how it adversely affects memory and our other mental abilities, and what can be done about it.

Author: James Greenblatt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781511716482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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In a nation plagued with chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, a different predator is the single greatest reason for disability in the United States: mental disorders. Our fast-paced and frenetic lifestyle, coupled with a grossly polluted environment, has created the perfect breeding ground for mental instability. With the spread of brain disorders on the rise around the world, nutritional biochemistry and one of its stars, lithium, has stepped into the spotlight to offer proven methods to heal our bodies from the inside out. Historically linked to severe psychiatric illness, lithium as an agent of good health and well-being is often ignored and brushed aside. Known as the Cinderella drug, it is an essential mineral in our physical and psychological makeup. Lack of its presence in the body can result in poor brain development, psychiatric symptoms, and so on. When administered in small, controlled doses, lithium can significantly improve the lives of those suffering from mental disorders. Nutritional Lithium: A Cinderella Story illustrates the significance of this precious mineral not only as a nutrient vital to human development, but also as a nutritional component that can help millions of people worldwide.

Author: Arnold R. Eiser
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538158086
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Learn how to reduce the impact of environmental toxins on brain development, functioning, and health. The human brain is a marvelously complex organ that has evolved great new capabilities over the past 250,000 years. During most of that period, daily life was vastly different from our lives today. Exercise was not optional - one literally had to run for one’s life, livelihood, and sustenance. The Stone Age diet was not a fad, but the only food available. Periods of fasting arose from food scarcity, and hence the earliest keto-diet was commonplace. Life changed greatly with the advent of agriculture and industry. Diseases that were previously unknown or uncommon began to surface as by-products of civilization’s advance. Changes in our ways of living have altered the nature of illness as well as its diagnosis and treatment. From the 1970s to the present, tens of thousands of chemicals with applications in all aspects of our lives have grown more than 40-fold. Exposure to these new substances has impacted many aspects of our health, especially the delicate parts of the brain and nervous system. In parallel with the changes in our environment, we have seen the growth of brain disorders including Alzheimer’s Disease and autism in previously unimaginable ways. Here, Arnold Eiser elucidates some features of diseases affecting the nervous system that are increasing in incidence with a focus on those disorders that appear related to environmental toxins that modern life has introduced. He takes readers behind the scenes of the science itself to discover the human stories involved in the discovery and management of these illnesses. Offering insights from a variety of scientific disciplines, Eiser clearly and succinctly illustrates the impact of toxins on our brains and how we might better protect ourselves from negative outcomes. With interviews from leading authorities in the field of neuroscience, environmental toxicology, integrative medicine, neurology, immunology, geriatrics, and microbiology (re the gut microbiome), this book offers a robust understanding of the complex threats to our brains, and the healthy brain’s dependence upon many other systems within our bodies. This is a voyage of discovery into the science, history, and human struggle regarding disorders challenging the brain as well as their possible prevention.

Author: Dale Bredesen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 052553850X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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The instant New York Times bestseller The New York Times Best Selling author of The End of Alzheimer's lays out a specific plan to help everyone prevent and reverse cognitive decline or simply maximize brainpower. In The End of Alzheimer's Dale Bredesen laid out the science behind his revolutionary new program that is the first to both prevent and reverse symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Now he lays out the detailed program he uses with his own patients. Accessible and detailed, it can be tailored to anyone's needs and will enhance cognitive ability at any age. What we call Alzheimer's disease is actually a protective response to a wide variety of insults to the brain: inflammation, insulin resistance, toxins, infections, and inadequate levels of nutrients, hormones, and growth factors. Bredesen starts by having us figure out which of these insults we need to address and continues by laying out a personalized lifestyle plan. Focusing on the Ketoflex 12/3 Diet, which triggers ketosis and lets the brain restore itself with a minimum 12-hour fast, Dr. Bredesen drills down on restorative sleep, targeted supplementation, exercise, and brain training. He also examines the tricky question of toxic exposure and provides workarounds for many difficult problems. The takeaway is that we do not need to do the program perfectly but will see tremendous results if we can do it well enough. With inspiring stories from patients who have reversed cognitive decline and are now thriving, this book shifts the treatment paradigm and offers a new and effective way to enhance cognition as well as unprecedented hope to sufferers of this now no longer deadly disease.

Author: Ken Sharlin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732077010
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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At last, neurologist-proven strategies to improve your memory and protect yourself against age-related diseases of the brain! The science and the "art" of functional medicine for the brain are laid out in this book. Dr. Ken Sharlin shows us how the individual pieces of the puzzle are integrated and nurtured along in a stepwise, achievable fashion, while recognizing the uniqueness of each individual who makes this approach their own. Here's what you will find inside: FORWARD by Terry Wahls, MD, IFMCP PART 1 - THE SCIENCE CHAPTER 1 Houston, We Have a Problem! How to Think Outside the Box to Solve a Global Health Crisis CHAPTER 2 I am a Product of My Generation: The Truth About How I Got Here CHAPTER 3 The Apple Can Land Far from the Tree, If You Give it a Push: How A Conventionally-Trained Doctor Turned into a Functional Medicine Fanatic CHAPTER 4 Inflammation and Oxidative Stress: Unearthing the Root Causes of Chronic Disease CHAPTER 5 The Seven Biological Systems: Imbalances in Functional Systems Affect One Another and Spark the Fire of Illness CHAPTER 6 The Clues are in the History: How Your Story Can Help You Learn What You Need to Do to Protect Your Brain CHAPTER 7 Getting Around the Parts of the Brain: How Structure Relates to Function, When it Comes to Preventing Memory Loss PART 2 - THE STRATEGIES CHAPTER 8 Brain Tune Up! In the Office: How a Functional Medicine Practice Can Work for You CHAPTER 9 Sleep Is More Than A Time Of Rest: Get Your Zzzs to Protect Your Brain! CHAPTER 10 Movement and Exercise: How Physical Activity Prevents Memory Loss and Protects Your Brain by Amy Gordin, PT CHAPTER 11 Nutrition to Tune Up Your Brain: How Food Provides the Building Blocks to Brain Health by Angela Jenkins, RD, LD CHAPTER 12 To Om and Beyond: An Emotional and Spiritual Stress Resilience Practice Can Improve Your Memory and Grow Your Brain by Chuck Renner, OTR, CHT CHAPTER 13 Eureka! How to Use Supplements, Herbal Brain Enhancers, and Technology to Prevent Memory Loss and Protect Your Aging Brain EPILOGUE: The Road Back

Author: National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780309495035
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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As the largest generation in U.S. history - the population born in the two decades immediately following World War II - enters the age of risk for cognitive impairment, growing numbers of people will experience dementia (including Alzheimer's disease and related dementias). By one estimate, nearly 14 million people in the United States will be living with dementia by 2060. Like other hardships, the experience of living with dementia can bring unexpected moments of intimacy, growth, and compassion, but these diseases also affect people's capacity to work and carry out other activities and alter their relationships with loved ones, friends, and coworkers. Those who live with and care for individuals experiencing these diseases face challenges that include physical and emotional stress, difficult changes and losses in their relationships with life partners, loss of income, and interrupted connections to other activities and friends. From a societal perspective, these diseases place substantial demands on communities and on the institutions and government entities that support people living with dementia and their families, including the health care system, the providers of direct care, and others. Nevertheless, research in the social and behavioral sciences points to possibilities for preventing or slowing the development of dementia and for substantially reducing its social and economic impacts. At the request of the National Institute on Aging of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Reducing the Impact of Dementia in America assesses the contributions of research in the social and behavioral sciences and identifies a research agenda for the coming decade. This report offers a blueprint for the next decade of behavioral and social science research to reduce the negative impact of dementia for America's diverse population. Reducing the Impact of Dementia in America calls for research that addresses the causes and solutions for disparities in both developing dementia and receiving adequate treatment and support. It calls for research that sets goals meaningful not just for scientists but for people living with dementia and those who support them as well. By 2030, an estimated 8.5 million Americans will have Alzheimer's disease and many more will have other forms of dementia. Through identifying priorities social and behavioral science research and recommending ways in which they can be pursued in a coordinated fashion, Reducing the Impact of Dementia in America will help produce research that improves the lives of all those affected by dementia.

Author: James Greenblatt, M.D.
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0451496604
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Discover the ADHD solution for your child with this holistic, evidence-based, and customizable approach to alleviating unwanted symptoms without relying on medication. “A clear, effective, and science-based program that gives you all the building blocks to treat ADHD naturally and effectively.”—Daniel G. Amen, M.D., founder of Amen Clinics and New York Times bestselling author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life ADHD is not a discipline problem. It is a medical condition with a range of possible underlying causes unique to each person. Dr. James Greenblatt has seen thousands of children and adults struggling with the symptoms of ADHD—hyperactivity, inattentiveness, impulsiveness, and often irritability and combativeness. To really heal, the ADHD child needs personalized treatment to correct the biologic imbalances that affect the brain and trigger symptoms. Rather than simply prescribing medication, Dr. Greenblatt tailors remedies to his ADHD patients’ individual needs, detecting and treating the underlying causes of the disorder. Finally Focused provides a comprehensive solution to the ADHD patient’s unique biochemical imbalances using proven natural and medical methods to easily treat problems such as nutritional deficiencies or excesses, dysbiosis (a microbial imbalance inside the body), sleeping difficulties, and food allergies—all of which surprisingly can cause or worsen the symptoms of ADHD. Dr. Greenblatt’s effective Plus-Minus Healing Plan allows parents to understand the reasons behind their child’s symptoms and provides customizable tools to eliminate them. Adults with ADHD can do the same. And if conventional medication is still necessary, this integrative approach will minimize or even eliminate troublesome side effects. With Dr. Greenblatt’s expert advice, millions of children and adults with ADHD will finally get the help they need to achieve true wellness.