Here are some YouTube video where Dr. Dale Bredesen is interviewed about ways of preventing Alzheimer’s.
Dr. Mercola interviews Dr. Dale Bredesen…
Dr. Mark Hyman interview Dr. Dale Bredensen…
Dr. Steven Gundry interviews Dr. Dale Bredesen…
Dr. Jockers Top Brain Foods
In this video …
Dr. Jocker lists his top 10 brain foods
- Coffee – simulates blood flow
- Green Tea (preferably Macha)- contains ECGC, protect against metals and oxidative damage
- Wild caught sockeye salmon – contains EPA/DHA and astaxanthin antioxidant. Eat with parsley and cilantro to detox heavy metals in seafood.
- Free range eggs – contains omega 3, vitamin E, choline (helps form acetylcholine)
- Rosemary herb – slow down the breakdown of acetylcholine
- Lemon and lime – bioflavonoid with vitamin C
- Coconut oil
Glyphosate implicated in neurological diseases
Dr. Stephanie Seneff gave talk explaining how Glyphosate in pesticide RoundUp can incorrectly substitute for the amino acid Glycine, which then causes a whole hosts of problems in the human body including neurological diseases including autism and Alzheimer’s and Parkinsons.
This talk was at Autism One and the slides are available.
She believes glyphosate is a major factor in the cause of autism due to high correlation between glyphosate use and autism (R = 0.9972 where 1 is max).
Glyphosate is toxic because it affects the shikimate pathway in our beneficial gut bacteria — one of whose job is to produce folate for us. Glyphosate causes folate deficiency and methly group deficiencies.
It disrupt gut flora, chelates useful minerals, disrupt sulfur metabolism, and impairs methalation — all issues with autism.
How does this relate vaccine and autism? She believe there is glyphosate in the vaccine due to how they are grown.
Alzheimer’s, Parkinson, ALS, and Prion disease all involves mis-folding of proteins. And they suspect that the problem is in the glycine location. Glyphosate substitution can cause this bad mis-folding of glycine. Glyphosate also hampers the body ability to break down the mis-folded proteins due to it causing sulfur depletion.
GABA receptor also has glycine. Autism has a weakened response of the inhibitory GABA receptor.
Glyphosate is sprayed on wheat and is a risk factor for celiac disease, and other food sensitivities.
Sri Lanka has realized that glyphosate is causing kidney failure among agricultural workers in sugar cane fields and have now ban glyphosate.
The last part of her talk was how to protect ourselves from glyphosate.
Dandelions, barberry, and burdock can protect. [reference]
On animals, it was found that activated charcoal, bentonite clay, humic and fulvic acids, and sauerkraut juice can protect against glyphosate.
Important nutrients to have around to get the sulfate up and prevent brain barrier leakiness…
Curcumin, Garlic, Vitamin C, Probiotic, Methyl tetrahydrofolate, Cobalamin, Glutathione , Taurine, Epsom salt baths (magnesium sulfate),
Do not take folate, take Methyl tetrahydrofolate instead.
Eat foods containing manganese and sulfur. And of course, go organic.
What she did not mention was about glycine supplement. Since glycine is a safe supplement, wouldn’t it be reasonable to take glycine supplement to have enough glycine aboard so as to reduce the mis-incorporation of glyphosate as glycine?
To avoid GMO (and therefor glyphosate), watch …
It says to avoid …
- non-organic corn and its derivatives (including high-fructose corn syrup)
- non-organic soy and its derivatives
- genetically modified sugar beets
- aspartame
- non-organic papaya
- canola oil
- cotton seed oil
- dairy
- non-organic zucchini
- non-organic yellow squash
Max Lugavere talks about Preventing Cognitive Decline
In episode 25 for Jason Prall podcast, he talks with Max Lugavere about ways of preventing cognitive decline can & Alzheimer’s Disease. You can watch it on this YouTube..
Max’s mother has dementia. He is now making a documentary about how to prevent cognitive decline called “Bread Head“. It is a catchy title kind of similar to the title of Dr. Perlmutter’s book Grain Brain. The idea being that both bread and grains are not good for the brain.
Max and Jason get into more of the practical applications of preventing cognitive decline the latter half of the video. I’ve learn two new terms from them.
One from Jason: “flaneuring” from the French word “flaneur” which means to “stroll, loaf, saunter”. But in our context, it means to stroll around in own city with no purpose other than to explore, which improves the brain as in mice being put in an enriched environment.
One from Max: “quotidian” meaning everyday thing.
Other take-away points from the video…
Exercise is beneficial to the brain. But don’t over-do it. Because endurance athletes tend to have GI problems and leaky gut due to high cortisol and over-training. Outside of that, the more exercise the better, especially aerobic exercise. It decreases insulin resistance and create new mitochondria (including mitochondria in brain).
Green odor from grass and nature boosts BDNF. Being in enriched environments like travelling improves cognition.
Eating fiber boosts butyrate in the colon.
Chronically elevated cortisol kills brain cells
I could have easily titled this article as “Chronically elevated stress kills brain cells”. Because cortisol is the stress hormone.
When under stress, the adrenal glands secretes the cortisol hormone which activates our “fight-or-flight response”. Cortisol plays an important role in that respect. And that is fine for short durations.
The problem comes when cortisol is chronically elevated due to constant non-relenting stress. This chronic high levels of cortisol is detrimental to many aspects of the human physiology. But one is when the stress hormone cortisol gets released into the bloodstream, it goes everywhere including the brain.
And brain cells start to die when they are chronically exposed to cortisol. And when brain cells die, the brain shrinks — especially the hippocampus part. Just search “cortisol shrinks the brain” in your search engine.
In the below video, Dr. John Medina says that “stress damages cognition in virtually every way cognition can be measured” …
The article The Brain on Cortisol writes…
“Cortisol is a potent chemical that surges when you slip into stress, and is now recognized as a drug that can literally shrink human brains.”
Dr. Andrew Weil website says …
“Cortisol is directly toxic to neurons, it actually destroys hippocampal cells resulting in loss of the ability to voluntarily recall previously learned information. You can lower cortisol levels with meditation and other relaxation techniques.”
In his book Brain Longevity, Dr. Khalsa writes that …
“If you experience the stress response day after day, year after year, its toxic effects will gradually injure and kill billions of your brain cells.” [page 121]
He believes that …
“I am convinced, based upon my research and clinical work, that excessive cortisol production is one of the primary causes of death of those cells.” [page 8 and 9]
Cortisol Damages the Hippocampus
The memory center of the brain known as the hippocampus is prone to damage by cortisol. In The UltraMind Solution, Dr. Mark Hyman writes that …
“we know that the stress hormone cortisol injures the hippocampus, damages brain cells, and leads to memory loss and dementia. Conversely, we know that reducing cotisol levels with relaxation increases the size of the hippocampus through neurogenesis.” [page 53]
In his other book, UltraPrevention, he writes …
“Cortisol kills neurons, especially in a particularly sensitive area called the hippocampus.”
Cortisol Affects Memory
Because the hippocampus play a crucial role in memory. It is no surprise that chronically elevated cortisol levels will affect memory. In the below video, you can see a report on how stress affects the memory of mice….
Magnificent Mind at Any Age by Dr. Amen writes that …
“They found that older adults with continuously high levels of cortisol performed worse on memory tests than older adults with moderate or low cortisol levels. In addition, older adults with longterm exposure to high cortisol levels also had, on average, a 14 percent smaller hippocampus”
In the book Beautiful Brain, Beautiful You, it says …
“Cortisol, the so-called stress hormone, has been shown in animal studies to actually kill off neurons in the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center. Animals under chronic stress have smaller hippocampi, and there is reason to believe the same holds true for humans.” [page 137]
Patrick Holford in Optimum Nutrition for the Mind talks about studies by Professor Robert Sapolsky …
“In studies with rats he found that two weeks of induced stress causing raised cortisol levels causes dendrites, those connections between brain cells, to shrivel up. He believes that brain cell loss in aging and Alzheimer’s disease may be, in part, due to high levels of cortisol…”
Stress and Depression
There is no doubt that stress can lead to depression. Here is how.
In the book, The Cortisol Connection, it writes …
“The first phase is characterized by an overexposure to cortisol, creating a “toxic” effect whereby too much cortisol actually destroys crucial brain cells responsible for good mood.” [page 23]
The second stage is when the brain become resistant to cortisol as a protection mechanism. Now the cells are under-exposed to cortisol leading to memory and psychological problems.
Further on page 116, it continues …
“… having elevated cortisol levels raises one’s risk of developing depression. It also appears that cortisol does a pretty good job gumming up the works when it comes to the synthesis, transport, breakdown, and overall activity of the neuotransmitters in the brain.”
In summary, cortisol is simply bad for the brain.
Putting Things in Perspective
It is scary to read about brain cells dying. To put things into perspective, one stressful traffic jam for example is not going to cause that large amount of damage to brain cells.
Brain cells consist of neurons and support glial cells. And to be sure, with about 100 billion neurons and even more glial cells, the brain can withstand a loss of some amount of cells.
Doing some math examples, let’s say that a million brain cells dies over the course of a lifetime. One million out of 100 billion neurons is only 0.001%. That means that for every one cell that dies, 99,999 of them lives. And if you count neurons and glial cells as “brain cells”, then that percentage would be at least halved. Even in constructing a worst case scenario, you need to loose 1 billion neurons in order to loose one percent of neurons.
With these numbers in mind, then it would no be surprising to read an article in USC that says “if you don’t have a specific disease that causes loss of nerve cells, then most, if not all, of the neurons remain healthy until you die.”[4]
Other cells such as our skins cells die at a much faster rate. However, skin cells grow back and get replaced at a fast rate too. Not so for brain cells. It is true that the brain can form new cells in a process called neurogenesis in the hippocampus region. But it is quite slow and only in very limited parts of the brain. (By the way, one way to enhance neurogenesis is with aerobic exercise).
Since it is difficult for scientists to count brain cell lost while someone is still alive, it is difficult to say with certainty how much brain cells are lost on a regular basis. And scientist are continually revising their theories.
In any case, it is still a good idea to maintain the survival of as much of your brain cells as possible, and avoid excessive stress-induced cortisol which tends to kill them.
Homocysteine and Brain Shrinkage
Patrick Holford talked about high homocysteine being associated with brain shrinkage in this YouTube …
complete with charts and MRI images of brains with normal (7.8) and high homocysteine. Higher the homocysteine, the greater the brain shrinkage. But this shrinkage can be slowed by B vitamins. He says …
“The level of homocysteine above which you get brain shrinkage (and probably bone shrinkage) is 9.5.”
And 75% of older people have this high level.
He also writes in his book Optimum Nutrition for the Mind …
“the higher the homocysteine, the greater the damage to the brain. They also confirmed that high homocysteine levels were strongly correlated with low folic acid levels. Other researchers have also found that older people with low levels of folic acid have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease”
As we age, our need for B vitamins (especially B12) goes up due to reduced methylation and poorer absorption of B vitamins.
Homocysteine levels can be easily tested by your doctor. Although he/she may know of that test as a test for risk of heart disease. This is true, because high homocysteine is damaging to the heart and arteries. But it is damaging to the brain as well.
In fact, Dr. Mark Hyman writes in Ultraprevention …
“More than any other single test, homocysteine correctly identifies the risks of such conditions as heart attack, stroke, and dementia years before the onset of any symptoms. More important, if found to be elevated, homocysteine can be easily lowered using the correct dose of B vitamins such as folate acid, B6, and B12.”
and that …
“whereas the proteins in vegetables, containing different amino acid structures, do not raise homocysteine. Thus an excess of animal protein in the diet may cause harm, whereas consuming many plant proteins won’t.” [page 157]
Eating more methionine that you need may produce excessive conversion of methionine into homocysteine. The body will use B vitamins (such as B6) to convert the homocysteine into cystathionine which the body can safely excrete. So a lack of B vitamins may reduce this conversion resulting in higher homocysteine.
A UK study showed that participants taking folate, B12, and B6 showed lower rates of brain shrinkage.
It is important to know which came first. Is it high homocysteine first and then Alzheimer’s? Or Alzheimer’s disease that caused high homocysteine levels? A study in the New England Journal of Medicine says that it is the former …
“The prospective nature of this study and the strong association between newly diagnosed dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and plasma homocysteine levels measured eight years before base line suggest that the elevation in the homocysteine level preceded the onset of dementia.”
But how would high homocysteine cause dementia? High homocysteine is associated with atherosclerosis which increase risk of stroke, which in turn increases risk of Alzheimer’s.
Other study says that high homocysteine levels are neuro-toxic and can kill brain cells. It says in more scientific terms …
“Human studies suggest that homocysteine (Hcy) plays a role in brain damage, cognitive and memory decline. … Hcy itself or folate and vitamin B12 deficiency can cause disturbed methylation and/or redox potentials, thus promoting calcium influx, amyloid and tau protein accumulation, apoptosis, and neuronal death.”
But the good news is that …
“Numerous neurotoxic effects of Hcy can be blocked by folate, glutamate receptor antagonists, or various antioxidants.”
That means that folate can help prevent the harmful effects of high homocysteine. Folate is the natural form of vitamin B9 that is found in foods.
B Vitamins for Brain Health
When you think B vitamins, think brain health. The B vitamins especially B6, B12, and folate are essential for brain health.
Dr. Mark Hyman says …
“Your brain runs on nutrients … and if you don’t have adequate levels of nutrients, you can’t actually regulate your brain function properly. So, having adequate levels of nutrients, particularly the methylating nutrients, B6, folate, B12, vitamin D, omega-3 fats, these are critical for brain function.”
[46 minutes into video of his talk at Google about health]
Folate is the natural form that is found in foods. Folic acid is synthetic form of folate that is found in supplements. Folate is actually a B vitamin; it is B9. But most people just call it folate.
Similarly, niacin is B3. Riboflavin is B2, Thiamine is B1. Biotin is B7. And pantothenic acid is B5. In vitamin bottles, you will see them labeled as folic acid, niacin, riboflavin, thiamine, botin, and pantothenic acid (which are what they are usually referred to as).
But for B6 and B12 they just call it B6 and B12. Why? B6 in vitamin pills can be pyridoxine, pyridoxal, or pyridoxamine, or pyridoxine hydrochloride. B12 is various cobalamins or more commonly cyanocobalamin in vitamins supplements. These are too complicated of a name; so it’s easier to just say B6 and B12. There are no such things as B4, B8, B10, nor B11.
Steven Wm. Fowkes gave a presentation “Nutrients for Better Mental Performance” at GoogleTechTalks. He says that vitamin B is critical for better mental performance. Cellular energy is key to brain function. Because the brain uses 20% of the body’s energy even though it is 3% of the body by mass.
The Mood Cure writes …
“All of the basic B vitamins have been shown to help eliminate every kind of emotional discomfort and significantly relieve physical discomfort as well.” [page 110]
Following on that, the book The Happiness Diet has section titled “Essential Element of Happiness #1: Vitamin B12”
It says that …
“You can’t make brain cells without this vitamin. Low B12 causes irritability, depression, and cognitive decline”. [page 59]
Good sources of B12 are found in shellfish, fish, liver, beef, and eggs.
Vitamin B Helps Reduce Risk of Alzheimer’s
According to the book Ultraprevention, elevated homocyteine levels can be reduced by proper dosage of B12, B6, and folic acid (B9). [page 17] Furthermore, it writes …
“Folic acid … controls levels of homocyteine which is closely linked to Alzheimer’s disease.” [page 23]
CNN reports that vitamin B12 may stave off Alzheimer’s. This is because vitamin B12 lowers homocysteine (an amino acid) levels. And high homocysteine levels is associated with increased Alzheimer’s risk. B vitamins help converts homocysteine into beneficial glutathione and SAMe. [reference]
Dr. Emily Deans explains on PsychologyToday on how homocysteine may cause brain shrinkage and how B vitamins reduces homocysteine and hence possibly reduce shrinkage.
In another post, she explains how the body converts folic acid to methylfolate, which is essential for making neurotransmitters and DNA. And that there is a correlation between low folate and high homocysteine and greater depression.
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine says …
“… that the elevation in the homocysteine level preceded the onset of dementia.”
Because vitamin B is a water-soluable vitamin, it is not likely that one would overdose on it. Excess that the body does not need can be easily eliminated in the urine.
However, on page 236 of Natural Health, Natural Medicine, Dr. Weil warns …
“Do not take high doses of niacin if you are pregnant or if you have ulcers, gout, diabetes, gallbladder disease, liver disease, or have had a recent heart attack.”
Niacin is B3.
B vitamins for making myelin
The myelin sheaths are the insulating material around the axon of neurons.
In order to make myelin, the body requires B1, B9, and B12 along with omega-3 and iodine. And in order to make neurotransmitters, it needs B6 and sulfur.
This was mentioned in the video on the right by Dr. Terry Wahls who had cured herself of multiple sclerosis through diet.
The diet that she adopted was high in vegetables for the B vitamins and in omega-3.
Vitamin B for Energy
The B vitamins are essential for energy production and critical for neurological functions. Your body needs vitamin B6, B12, and folate among other things in order to make coenzyme-Q10 which supports the cell’s energy power-plants mitochondria.
B vitamins also helps the methylation cycle which produces glutathione, the body’s master anti-oxidant and detoxifier.
Dr. Khalsa writes …
“The complete family of B vitamins help your brain cells create energy. Additionally, the B vitamins, especially B12 and folate acid, work to lower and control levels of the heart-harmful amino acid homocysteine.”
in his book Brain Longevity. And on page 51 his recommendation is ..
“I recommend at least 50 mg daily of the entire B-complex series.”
Thiamine B1 and the Citric Acid Cycle
Thiamine is a cofactor for enzymes such as transketolase, pyruvate dehydrogenase, alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, and others. One of the things that thiamine gets turned into is thiamine diphosphate (also known as TPP) which is involved in running glucose metabolism and citric acid cycle.
The citric acid cycle increases the cell’s ability to produce ATP energy and provide it with precursors that the cell needs to build a variety of molecules. Watch the animation on the Citric Acid Cycle. That is why B vitamins would be a supplement to help with low energy.
Article on PsychologyToday talks about the horrible symptoms of Thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency and its effect on the brain. Symptoms are disorientation, inattention, and agitatation. In extreme deficiencies, it leads to ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, confusion, and Wernike’s encephalopathy, or even Korsakoff’s Psychosis.
That is because thiamine deficiency decreases cerebral glucose utilization and results in damages to the mitochondria. Note that excessive alcohol reduces the intestinal absorption of thiamine.
Vitamin B Uses
Beside for producing energy and neurological health, B vitamins are used by many different cycles in the body (especially the methylation cycle). Karen Lyke MS, CCN presented a webinar …
explaining the many roles that B vitamin plays in the body. She also talks about B vitamins in foods.
Folic acid is sometimes used in for memory loss, Alzheimer’s disease, age-related hearing loss, preventing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), osteoporosis, restless leg syndrome, and more.
B6 is involved in protein metabolism and read blood cell metabolism. Your nervous and immune system also needs B6.
Niacin helps keep your hair, skin, and eyes healthy. Niacin is involved in controlling your cholesterol and may help boost your good HDL cholesterol.
Riboflavin is usually used in conjunction with other B vitamins to maintain healthy hair and skin and to boost the immune system.
Vitamin B in Foods
Folate acid is found in green leafy vegetable (such as broccoli and spinach), in mushrooms, bananas, asparagus, beans, and others.
B12 is found in beef, shellfish, and eggs. Organ meats like liver and heart are very metabolically active and contains lots of B vitamins, especially B12 and folate.
The leaves of dark leafy green vegetables is designed to take energy from the sun and supply the plant with its needs. So that too is very metabolically active. Dark meat from chicken has more B vitamins than white meat because the muscle contain more mitochondria and is more metabolically active.
The yolk of an egg from free-range chickens supply life and has a lot of good B vitamins, especially B12. The chicken from mass produced egg farms are stressed and uses up a lot of the B vitamins so there would be less in their eggs.
Mushroom are good source of Thiamine B1, Riboflavin B2, and Niacinamide B3 as well as possibly other B vitamins.
B vitamins deficiencies
B vitamins are water soluble, as opposed to fat-soluble vitamins. B12 can be stored in the liver and the human body can store several years worth of it. But when it runs out, one may start to experience B12 deficiency conditions.
B12 deficiency symptoms may include anemia, panic attacks, nervous disorders, weakness, loss of balance, and numbness in extremities.
Since B12 are found in animal products, vegan who do not eat animal products may have a greater risk of B12 deficiency. In fact, the book Nourishing Traditions says that …
“Usable vitamin B12 occurs only in animal products.” [page 28]
The Homocysteine Revolution writes …
“Vegans who consume no animal products of any kind need to supplement their diets with 0.1 mg vitamin B12 per day (or 1 mg intramuscular injection per month) to prevent vitamin B12 deficiency.” [page 161]
Certain drugs can deplete the body of B vitamins, these includes anti-inflammatory drugs (such as aspirin and ibuprofen), birth control pills, water pills, anticonvulsant drugs, and others. [reference: The UltraMind Solution page 63]
Vitamin B and Homocysteine
Vitamin B deficiencies can lead to unhealthy high homocysteine levels which is associated with cardiovasular disease, dementia, and cancer.
The book The Homocysteine Revolution writes …
“Accordingly, an optimal diet for prevention of arteriosclerosis would emphasize an adequate dietary intake of vitamins B6 and folic acid … to prevent excessive conversion of the methionine of either animal or vegetable protein to homocysteine.” [page 148]
Homocysteine is an amino acid produced by the human body. Its level in the blood can be measured via a blood test. High homocysteine levels damages the linings of the arteries. So it increases the risk of coronary artery disease as well as Alzheimer’s disease.
Read also homocysteine is associated with brain shrinkage.
Patrick Holford writes in a section titled “B Vitamins: Your Brain’s Best Friend” in his book Optimum Nutrition for the Mind …
“B vitamins do far more for the brain than reduce homocysteine levels. Oxygen, the most critical and dangerous nutrient of them all, depends on vitamin B12, folic acid niacin, and essential fats to be transported and used by the brain. Vitamin B1 deficiency has long been known to result in brain damage. … For these reasons, optimal intakes of all the B vitamins is an important part of an Alzheimer’s prevention plan.”
And also that …
“Working together with vitamin B12 and folic acid, niacin helps keep adrenaline and noradrenaline levels in balance, and prevents the abnormal production of adrenochrome in the brain. These nutrients are “methyl” donors and acceptors, and act intelligently in the brain to keep everything in check … Niacin, through its flushing action, also helps to detoxify copper and other toxic elements that are associated with mental illness, and improves oxygen supply to the brain. Niacin is also needed for the brain to make use of essential fats. The “happy” neurotransmitter serotonin also needs niacin.”
Best Form of Vitamin B12 in Supplements
Not all supplements are the same. You need to get the best form of the B vitamins. It is best to get a B-complex which is a mix of the various B vitamins (because they work synergistically together).
There are three forms of B12…
Hydroxocobalamin
Cyanocobalamin
Methylcobalamin
According to NaturalNews.com methylcobalamin is the best form. It is the form found in found and is the form that can donate the methy group in the important methylation process.
Dr. Mercola also says methylcobalamin is the best form. And he has a spray form of the product in his website.
It might be difficult to find methylcobalamin in your grocery store. But amazon has “Pure Encapsulations B complex” that has this form, as do Life Extension’s “BioActive Complete B-Complex”
When taking B-vitamin supplement, make sure not to take folate, but rather Methyl tetrahydrofolate instead.
Best form of B9 in Supplements
As for B-9, you want Folate, and not Folic Acid (which may actually be harmful). The active form of folate is 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF) — some brand name of this form is Metafolin and Deplin. [reference]
So you want your supplement bottom to have the words “folate”, “5-MTHF”, “methyltetrahydrofolate”, or Metafolin, or Deplin in it. If it just says “folic acid”, skip it.
Best form of B6 in Supplments
According to westonaprice.org …
Pyridoxine hydrochloride (PNHCl) is the most common form of B6 available in supplements. When compared with pyridoxal-5-phosphate (P-5-P) supplements, PNHCl requires an additional enzymatic step in the liver to be converted to the form utilizable by the body. Many practitioners recommend P-5-P supplements over PNHCl supplements for this reason and because there have been more reports of adverse effects with use of high doses of pyridoxine. However, in healthy individuals, bypassing this step using large doses of P-5-P may not be wise, as the liver serves as an important control to prevent excessive production of P-5-P.
Note:
The article also writes that high B6 is not advised …
“Supplementation with doses above the upper tolerable intake level of 100 mg per day can lead to nerve damage in the arms and legs and possibly the spinal cord, usually reversible when supplementation is stopped.9 In addition, there is research suggesting that high doses of B6 can generate toxic photo-products as a result of UV irradiation.”
In general, even though B vitamins are water-soluable and comes out in your urine, do not take high doses of B vitamins for long periods without a doctor supervision. High dosage for long periods have been known to cause nerve pains and possible nerve damage.
Dr. Norman Doige Interview tells how to keep brain healthy
This interview of Dr. Norman Dogie where he gives his top tips on how to keep brain healthy …
- Walking, Movement Exercise
- Getting enough sleep (it helps clean the brain)
- Brain Training such as BrainHQ which he thinks has the most science behind it.
- Don’t play sports that hits your head.
- Walking, not eating process food, being normal weight, not smoking, and not drinking too much.
He is the author of The Brain’s Way of Healing …
Avoid Aluminum
If you want to reduce risk of Alzheimer and preserve your brain and health, avoid using products with aluminum (such as deodorant and antiperspirants) and avoid cooking with aluminium such as aluminum pans and aluminum foils.
When aluminum is heated next to food, some aluminum can leach into the food which when ingest can be neurotoxic.
Baked goods is high in aluminum because they are cooked and stored on aluminum trays.
The documentary “The Age of Aluminum” suggests aluminum may be a causative factor to cancer.
Aluminum is most common element in the Earth’s crust. The video explain what happens to fish and people when aluminum accident occurs.
Vaccines contain aluminum as an adjuvant which are injected into your bloodstream. Due to the hazards of mercury, some vaccines are using aluminum instead. But that is just as bad or even worst, as suggest by Dr. Mercola’s article which writes …
“Aluminum is a known neurotoxin that is contained in a number of common childhood and adult vaccines and may even exceed the toxicity of mercury in the human body.”
He also writes that “Aluminum is a Brain Toxin”.
GreenMedInfo also writes about aluminum and vaccine.
Aluminum is not easy to rid out of the body. However, have it is important to have enough dietary sulfur as a precursor to glutathione, the body’s natural detoxifier. Sulfur are from foods such as onions, garlics, Brussels Sprouts, etc.
An adjuvant stimulates the immune system. That is why aluminum is used in vaccines. Aluminum can induce allergies (see documentary above). And it is not surprising that aluminum in vaccines is implicated in autoimmune conditions and autism. There is some autoimmune component in autism.
The article on discoverymedicine.com writes …
“Reported post-vaccination autoimmune diseases in the adult include SLE, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), inflammatory myopathies, multiple sclerosis (MS), Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), and vasculitis. Evidence for the association of vaccinations and the development of these diseases is presented in this review.”
The article “The Causes of Autoimmune Disease” lists that “Toxic Metal Exposure” as one of the causes. It writes…
“Studies have shown that exposure to toxic metals such as mercury, cadmium, lead, arsenic, aluminum, nickel and other heavy metals can be linked to the autoimmune process: The heavy metals induce autoantibodies, which then create autoimmune diseases.”
Some prescription drugs also contain aluminum. Read the fine print in some of your medication, you might be surprised that long term high dose use of some aluminum containing drugs may cause aluminium toxicity.
Aluminum is found to be high in Alzheimer’s brain.
Meschino’s Top 10 Preventive Strategies to Prevent Alzheimer’s
Dr. Meschino summarizes his top 10 preventive strategies to prevent Alzheimer’s in this YouTube video…
His more detailed article on this is on his site meschinohealth.com written in June 2012.