Dr. Dale Bredesen Says that 95% of Alzheimer’s Cases Are Caused By Lifestyle Choices that Can Be Improved
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Dr. Dale
Bredesen’s ReCODE protocol evaluates 150 factors known to contribute to
Alzheimer’s disease. This identifies your disease subtype or combination
of subtypes, and an effective treatment protocol can be devised -
Type 1
Alzheimer’s is primarily caused by inflammatory factors; type 2 involves
atrophic responses; type 1.5 is a mix of inflammation and atrophy, and
type 3 is primarily caused by toxic exposures -
Only 5 percent
of Alzheimer’s cases are “familial” Alzheimer’s disease, a genetic
condition that causes early onset Alzheimer’s; the rest are caused by
lifestyle factors over which we have a great deal of control; hence, we
have the ability to improve or even reverse most cases of the disease
By Dr. Mercola
Alzheimer’s is now the third leading cause of death in the United States, right behind heart disease and cancer.
While prevalence is rapidly increasing, the good news is you actually
have a great deal of control over this devastating disease.
Dr. Dale Bredesen, director of neurodegenerative disease research at
the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine, and
author of “The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline,”
has identified a number of molecular mechanisms at work in this
disease, and has created a novel program to treat and reverse it.
Originally known as the MEND (Metabolic Enhancement of
Neurodegeneration) Protocol, the program is now called ReCODE (Reversal
of Cognitive Decline).1
“You hear things that sound like hyperbole when it comes to Alzheimer’s disease, but unfortunately, they’re not,” Bredesen says.
“It’s currently costing the United States over $220 billion annually.
It is a trillion-dollar global health problem. It was the sixth leading
cause of death … Now, it has become the third leading cause of death in
the United States. This is something that’s set to bankrupt Medicare.
It strikes about 15 percent of the population, so it’s incredibly
common. In fact, you have the pathophysiology of the disease for about
20 years before the diagnosis is made. Many of us are walking around
with early Alzheimer’s without realizing it. It’s a huge problem on the
rise, and there hasn’t been any sort of a monotherapeutic approach that
has worked for this terrible illness.”
List of 11 things you can do right now to fight Alzheimer’s:
https://www.nola.com/healthy-eating/2016/12/11_changes_you_can_do_right_no.html
