PSP and Dale Breesden's book - The End of Alzheimers?

[PDDJED]

Has anyone read "The End of Alzheimer's" by Dale Breesden? It talks a lot about "tau" which I understand is a substance in the brain that is thought to be the cause of PSP. It was published in August last year and I have been interested in it because it suggests that Alzheimers can be reversed by sticking to a no sugar, no gluten, low starch diet, whilst excercising regularly and leaving 12 hours between dinner and breakfast. He also has a long list of vitamens and supplements to try and suggests testing a whole range of other things. However, it got me wondering if any of these things may help with PSP. I wonder whether anyone else is trying out this stuff? It may be helpful for people recently diagnosed?? I bought the book on Amazon. Its quite complex with a lot of medical information....Quite a lot to take on board.

[Kevin_1]

Hi PDDJED

There is another forum member here who knows a lot more than I on this. They are using the diet now I believe.

All I can say is that it had good reviews (Have you seen his Website too?)

You might want to go to an American Alzheimer's forum and ask there. I have done that and there was a fairly positive response to his approach, but it was early days for them too. There may be more experience of it there now.

It ties in closely with Michael Mosely's, "The Clever Guts Diet." as well as the work being 'put out' by Michael Gregner.

nutritionfacts.org/video/ho...

Gregner scours the published research for articles related to food and the Biome approach and does presentations on it. He only draws on scientific research.

I've been reading about food and health and diet for some 35 years. I've watched the fads come and go and generally, apart from glaringly obvious things, many seemed to be based on a snake oil seller pushing a decent idea way beyond sense.However this Biome approach seems to have considerable scientific meat on it ( sic ).

My take (FWIW) on all of this food and Biome thing is that it is based on real scientific study and that there may be quite a lot to it. The problem we have is that many of the studies were on fairly small populations. Dale Bredeson conducts his own research and I believe he has a fairly large scale study on the go at the moment. He has done a smaller scale study which showed good results. He is a serious Doctor.

The research on food and what precisely happens to it in our body and with what effect is still in its infancy in many ways. All of these authors put their core focus on the Biome. According to Gregner we have only just been able to look at the gut biome in its live state for some few years.

I have modified my diet in the light of this research and I can honestly say that my sense of well being is markedly improved. I am not rigid about it. If I fancy some meat dish or other I make it still. Were this a food forum I would add a lot more about organic food and welfare meat...

Sorry, none of this really answers your question, but I hope it helps a little.

We didn't go down this route because Liz was far too down the road for it to make sense.

Best to you

Kevin

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