QUESTION
Dear Sir/Madam, I am an 81-year-old woman, a former nurse, who was recently diagnosed with early onset dementia. I still drive, cook, socialize and dress nicely. I am worried about my deteriorating short-term memory. I don't remember my friends' names and forget some meetings. My GP prescribed Aricept but the side effects (vomiting and diarrhoea) were horrible. He then prescribed an Exelon patch but the results were similar but not as bad. I stopped using the patch. My question to you is: what would you recommend regarding my memory loss and how to prevent further memory loss?
– DS
ANSWER
Dear Dottie,
YES, I have some suggestions for you to not only prevent further memory loss, but also to REVERSE memory loss and restore your memories. But before I tell you about that, I have to tell you a few things.
WRONG DIAGNOSIS
First, your diagnosis is completely wrong! Early stage dementia simply means that a person under the age of 60 (or 65 at the latest) begins to show signs of dementia, hence the name early onset of the disease. YOU ARE 81 YEARS YOUNG! That's about 20 years past the transition period for starting ANYTHING early! You may have shown early signs of the disease, but you do NOT have an early onset of dementia!
So my first suggestion, and as a nurse I'm sure you will agree, is to stop going to doctors and doctors to diagnose you with various ailments. You're an 81-year-old young lady, so it's dangerous to go to the doctor at this age because you're being compared to the perfect metabolic model on Grey's Anatomy and guess what - you're not perfect, honey.
I knew a man younger than you who went for an examination and was told he had macular degeneration and was going blind. I tried to convince him that life is a "limited supply" and that we all go blind as we age, but instead he settled on depression and a year later bought a gun and blew his own brains out. My point of view is that we all age, we all die and if we start focusing on what is wrong with us, we will find ourselves in many physical, emotional and spiritual problems.
While I was writing that, I couldn't remember the name Macular Degeneration, it took me about 1 minute to remember that name. Does this mean I have premature senility or early onset dementia (and I'm only 59) or even the early stages of Alzheimer's? Who knows and who cares! Personally, I love the aging process, because I no longer care enough about the names of diseases to worry about forgetting a few of them.
"Hard disk" almost full
I heard recently that the amount of stimuli, mental input, and information we receive every day, from conversation, radio, television, movies, newspapers, magazines, telephones, the Internet, and so on, adds up to more input in a day than the average person American got in his WHOLE LIFE 100 YEARS AGO!
THIS IS SIMPLY TOO MUCH THINGS WE'RE STUFFING INTO OUR BRAINS! OUR "COMPUTER HARD DRIVE" IS FULL. So my question IS: Do you have early onset dementia, or has your brain just said enough is enough, and it's just filled with too much stuff?
I'm so happy that the meds your doctor gave you made you throw up and "scan" your brain, so you stopped taking them. I hope you learned your lesson.
Well, Dottie, let's just say that your computer's hard drive is so full and you're bombarded with so much incoming information that you can no longer hold all of this information, or at least you can't recall it all at once. You know that the more data you store on your computer's hard drive, the more time it takes to sort through it and find a particular file, so why should your brain work any differently? You are older, you have a huge library in your brain, so you need a little more time to find books and then a certain page. That sounds completely normal to me.
OK, LET'S GET THIS BRAIN IN SHAPE…
Brain
The brain, like every other organ in our body, consists of millions of cells, in this case brain cells. I remember the first time I held a brain from a cadaver in my hand - it was a very enlightening experience. I knew what the brain looked like from medical books, but I had always imagined it to be a very special organ. I don't know, maybe I was expecting it to be slightly gaseous or have bright stars swirling around it or something, but no gas, stars, nothing special, it's just a piece of meat.
Like any other organ or group of cells, nutrients must flow in and waste must flow out. Therefore, good circulation is the most important here if we want the brain or any organ to function in the best order.
More blood in the brain.
So how do we get more blood to the brain? Well, this is not very difficult. The first way is simply by reversing gravity.
GRAVITY is simply the downward pressure on your body caused by the sun, moon, earth and planets. This pressure has a dramatic effect on the fluids in your body. Therefore, your heart has the hardest time pumping blood to your brain, which is why you have one of the largest sets of arteries (carotid) and the largest set of veins (jugular) to accommodate the large volume of blood flow to and from your brain. But as we age, gravity takes an increasing toll on us and the flow of our body fluids. As you get older, it can easily become difficult for you to have a good flow of circulation to all your extremities, and especially to the brain. This is part of the reason why the older people get, the more often they have problems with vision, hearing, memory and many other brain functions. So the simplest answer to that is to get the best possible blood flow and circulation to the brain.
CURVATURE AND INVERSION
A great way to start is to simply reduce the size of the pillows you use in bed, and take a few books you won't read again, I suggest medical books, and put them under the foot of your bed. Raise the legs of your bed at the foot of your bed to a height of about five centimeters on each side. This will tilt your bed slightly, so if you put a ball at the foot of your bed, it would roll towards the head of the bed. By doing this, you will help your body get more blood to your head ALL NIGHT. Inversion poses are fantastic, like shoulderstands, INCLINE BOARDS, and even BACK SWINGS and other similar devices that you strap into and flip into an incline or even upside down, and even gravity boots for the most extreme inversion. Be careful and always start slowly.
HERBAL, you can also direct a lot more blood to your brain, and two of the best herbs are Chili Pepper and Ginkgo Biloba, the two main ingredients in Brain Tincture. The tincture will direct more blood, oxygen and everything in the blood like nutrients to your brain. DRAMATICALLY increases blood circulation in the brain. I suggest 70 drops four times a day, for an indefinite period of time, mixed with 2dl or 0.4dl of juice.
Better blood to the brain
Now that we are introducing a lot more blood into your brain, with inversion, curvature and brain tincture, let's be sure that your blood is rich in nutrients. After all, blood filled with sugar and chemicals will not help your brain function. We need to make sure that your blood is loaded with nutrients, and the best way to do that is to consume a nutritional program that is loaded with organic fresh foods, and also start taking Superfoods, whether you're making breakfast smoothies with powder or taking 5 tablet three times a day. This will give your brain the nutrition it needs to function at its peak. For maximum results, try a double dose of SuperFood plus, taking it in the morning and in the afternoon.
More waste from the brain
During autopsies, I have seen the brains of people who have dementia, senility, Alzheimer's disease, and numerous other brain diseases. I also read numerous pathological reports from autopsies. In both cases there is often mucus (thick, whitish and yellow viscous waste fluid) or we can simply call it sludge, glue or toxic waste. Whatever you want to call it, it's an obvious sign that either the blood reaching the brain is contaminated with garbage, or the metabolic waste of the brain cells is not leaving the brain. Yes, the brain, as it functions, creates metabolic waste that must be removed frequently. And what takes away all that waste is the great circulation of the blood, then back to the inversion, obliqueness and tincture of the Brain.
Detoxification
We also need to make sure that the waste we remove from the brain has somewhere to go and that your body can eliminate and dispose of it. I always suggest that you start with a five day gut detox program and then a month or two later do a five day liver detox program. This will make sure that all the waste is washed out of the brain and leaves your body as soon as possible!
EXERCISE
Exercise is another great way to get blood flowing in and out of the brain, so start walking for an hour a day and see all the ways you can increase your exercise throughout the day. You know, if you rest then you get rusty, but if your lifestyle is too sedentary, you will also accumulate waste in your brain. So, at the age of 81, exercise is no longer just a suggestion - it is a life-prolonging NEED!
Finally Dottie, PLEASE ignore this silly diagnosis of early onset dementia. NOTHING POSITIVE will ever come from being told you have it, or even thinking about it. It's NEGATIVE garbage, so please LET IT GO.
INSTEAD, let's focus on a healthier way, creating a truly healthy lifestyle and building our bodies and brains for the next 81 years.
Think of all the things you remember!
And now lean back, start with Mozak tincture and Super food plus, start with brisk walking and get lost in exercise classes and enjoy all this!