Clinical Lifestyle Medicine Strategies for Preventing and Reversing Memory Loss in Alzheimer’s

Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and currently affects over 5 million Americans and 30 million individuals worldwide. Unfortunately, the current approach to treating AD provides nothing more than a marginal, unsustained, symptomatic effect, with little or no effect on disease progression itself. To attain effective improvements in AD, one must determine risk factors, address the underlying causes, and focus on a combination of functional and lifestyle medicine strategies that provide a comprehensive, programmatic, and network-based approach that is sufficient to achieve epigenetic transformation and neurologic healing through its multiple and necessary synergistic components. Rather than normalizing metabolic parameters, the focus is on optimization of each metabolic parameter. Papers published by research neurologist, Dr Dale Bredesen have documented that symptoms of mild cognitive impairment and early AD may often be reversed within 6 months after initiating a comprehensive, functional and lifestyle medicine-focused program. The purpose of this article are as follows: 1. Shed light on a promising clinical protocol that focuses on a comprehensive functional and lifestyle medicine approach to treating mild cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease; 2. Identify the Bredesen Protocol testing, diagnostic and treatment guidelines; 3. Review several case studies and discuss the promising results of the program. Although published case studies such as those reported here are relatively few, clinicians applying these comprehensive strategies have reason to expect improvement in their patients. Lifestyle medicine can be a source of greatly needed hope for those suffering with cognitive decline.

Secondary Metabolite Differences between Naturally Grown and Conventional Coarse Green Tea

“…Also, the risk of vitamin B2 and B6 deficiency has been reported in vegan populations [47]. Vitamin B6 and B12 have been reported to be effective in treating Alzheimer's disease [48][49][50]. Our results suggest that vitamin B6 is contained more in the tea samples cultivated under the in natura culture condition in which the topsoil ecosystem is not disturbed.…”

Personalized Management and Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease

“…In addition to the conventional treatments available for different forms of dementia, assuming their limitations in terms of the cost–benefit ratio, and without forgetting that the search for etiopathogenic treatments is an unavoidable priority, the search for new forms of symptomatic treatments today should not be ruled out [ 169 ], as well as the use of alternative therapies that contribute to alleviate dysfunction, disconnection from the socio-family environment, and aberrant behaviors present in a high number of patients with dementia [ 170 , 171 , 172 , 173 , 174 ]. Furthermore, a deeper understanding of AD pathophysiology may lead to the identification of neuronal signaling pathways as potential novel targets for therapeutic intervention (i.e., tyrosine kinases) [ 175 , 176 , 177 , 178 , 179 ].…”

Lifestyle Medicine Continues to Grow and Thrive

“…The article by Shetty and Youngberg 17 demonstrates an intriguing early application of multiple lifestyle medicine practices and principles as a strategy for reversing memory loss in individuals who have Alzheimer’s disease. As the authors point out, cognitive decline is one of the great fears of individuals as they age.…”