New Blog from Dr Bronstein re alzeimers medications

[shaws]

He states

"I do not claim to know the cure for Alzheimer’s disease, but I do know that Aricept and other Alzheimer’s medications should not be used".

drbrownstein.com/22871-2/?i...

[Marz]

There's an excellent on-line series about Alzheimers prevention currently running - hosted by Dr David Perlmutter. Mostly lifestyle choices and a healthy gut are key. Prevention is better than cure - if there was one.

[Milagroscrs615]

Thank you for this post, I have a lot of family members with this disease, alive and some gone already, which means I am probably going to get it too.

[Hidden in reply to Milagroscrs615]

I lost my grandmother and mother to this disease so I try to be very careful. D

[shaws Administrator in reply to Hidden]

Having lost both of your relatives due to this disease you will probably have a worry. Hopefully there are quicker diagnosis and better treatment

[Hidden in reply to shaws]

Am now 76 and my mother started in her late 80s. So have started a LCHF diet, try to walk each day and pray hard!!

[shaws Administrator in reply to Hidden]

Age is irrelevent and yes, we have to be very diligent and do the best we can. Prayer can be a comfort.

[hachiko in reply to Hidden]

What is lchf diet?

[Hidden in reply to hachiko]

Low carb high fat. I have lost a stone

[helvella Administrator in reply to hachiko]

If you come across any more abbreviations and acronyms you don't understand, have a look at this post:

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

(Currently it is a Pinned Post.)

[shaws Administrator in reply to Milagroscrs615]

I hope you don't but you need to be extra careful that you are treated with medication that impproves your condition and not make it worse.

[vocalEK]

Rhabdomyolysis can also result from taking a statin drug.

[shaws Administrator in reply to vocalEK]

It's the first time I have heard about this about this condition and that is another awful disease:-

Rhabdomyolysis

webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/rha...

[vocalEK in reply to shaws]

After my doctor insisted I stop taking HRT my cholesterol soared. I tried to tell him that estrogen helps keep arteries clear by a "rotorooter" effect on cholesterol deposits. He responded by seeking another cause and that's when I was finally diagnosed with hypothyroidism (around 2002). But first he put me on a statin and I started waking up every morning with a sharp ache across my middle back. My research came up with rhabdomyolysis as the possible cause. I tested my hypothesis by stopping the statin. Within 3 days the pain was gone! I waited a week and rechallenged by taking the stain again. It only took a day for the back pain to come back. So I stopped the statin permanently. After I went back to the doctor to report my experience was when he finally sent me for a thyroid test. So something good came out of the experience.

Ironically I had been trying to tell my doctors for years that based on symptoms such as cold intolerance, fatigue, heavy periods, etc that I had hypothyroidism. They always insisted that something else was causing my problems and sent me for all kinds of tests that came up negative.

So I only got my correct Dx when the doctor was trying to disprove a different self diagnosis.

[Nico101 in reply to vocalEK]

Just been reading about this. Seems cholesterol has a use after all - particularly in the brain (not that you'd know if you listen to an endo or GP). This obsession with lowering cholesterol has to stop.

[shaws Administrator]

We also have to ensure that our B12 level is are optimum. Both B12 and vitamin D are very important for good health.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/156...

Hidden Milagroscrs615 vocalEK

[UrsaP in reply to shaws]

Yep, last Dec, my GP was saying that there are talks going on about stopping testing Vitamin D and such as there is no point. When I suggested that was a worrying notion that vitamin d and such are so important to have right he just said he wasn’t going to get into an argument with me. But very very worrying. If he is right and these talks are going on.... what else are they talking about?

PS this was when he was exasperated with me for asking for a vitamin D check, as much earlier in the year, following a rheumy appointment, low d was detected and my surgery were informed and issued me a prescription for 3 months, telling me to thereafter source a maintenance dose. But didn’t say what a maintenance dose was, so wanted to check I was talking enough. Apparently there was no mention of low vitamin d on my records?? And he’s exasperated with me!!!

We live in worrying times.

I wonder how much of this is coming out of the discussions to not treat people for longevity of life? There was a YouTube, where the (Dr) Anti sugar campaigner was presenting to the European committee. When he finished the chair (I think he was - a while since I watched it and my interpretation of what was said) was talking about the question of spending x£ on drugs to prolong life for a matter of months. Whether it was ethical etc, as deprived funding elsewhere.

More recently there was tweets about putting funding into ‘social care’ rather than funding health for longevity. The theory being that putting money into the social side will lead to longevity. Trouble is they have destroyed social care already, so how is that going to work? Wonder if it is just easier to hide funds via social care?

How much NHS money invested in the new research centres, in a bid to be ‘the best in the world’? When we know how most research is not worth the paper it is printed on. More about promoting careers, and grooming researchers into same old same old -where it suits.

[shaws Administrator in reply to UrsaP]

I think it is slowly, slowly, bringing the end towards NHS because too much money is being spent. It's not our fault we have autoimmune diseases brought on by Mother Nature and not through our 'lifestyle'.

You can tell because first of all they withdrew NDT (through False Statements), then T3 (due to cost) and now they're happy we are on levo alone, despite the additional prescriptons some have to have in order to control (or try to) their remaining clinical symptoms.

[UrsaP in reply to shaws]

Oh yes, a definite push to private. Im not convinced the T3 situation is any different to the NDT one. I’ve personally never bough into the ‘cost as the reason’ stance. I think that is something the NHS and Gov could have and should have sorted before it got to the ridiculous price of £9+. They have clearly chosen not to. Which makes me wonder why? When NHS bods are telling patients that it is the cost ‘WE’ (patients) need to be addressing. As if we can alter the price? They could and don’t? Makes no sense. Unless to distract and get us focused in the wrong direction.

The Benefit of NDT was clear. They botched in the development of T4. They needed to market T4 despite knowing it was insufficient. It would quickly have become clear that NDT was far superior had NDT been left on the market. Hence the sabotage - false statements. Undermine NDT off the market.

Not much different to what they have done to T3. Remove all evidence of benefit, as they did with NDT, in the case of T3 they have encouraged price hiking and now they are even making T3 harder to administer by saying dissolve in water, whilst also making it more expensive. Didn’t they promote T4 as easier to administer than NDT? History repeating itself. Same old tactics. They vilified NDT back in the day, through ‘rogue material’, they vilify T3 through cost. Same old same old.

So, to my mind, either something in the pipeline, in way of a new med - slow release or combi, that is going to make a few very rich as T4 no doubt has, or it is BP calling the shots and they do not want treatments for causes on the market - i.e T3.

I suppose it is a case of ‘watch this space’.

[Hidden in reply to shaws]

Take sublingual B12 and vitamin D3 all year round.

[hachiko in reply to Hidden]

Is daily intake of b12 /1000uq and d /100uq enough?

[Hidden in reply to hachiko]

I’m sorry, that you would need to ask an expert on here