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Post by the Scribe on Jul 14, 2022 23:27:18 GMT
I am creating this thread because I suspect that statin drug use is the cause of what is being called Alzheimer's. Joel Wallach, aka the father of epigenetics strongly believes the connection so I am starting the discussion here:
Wallach: Alzheimer’s a physician-caused disease
www.cachevalleydaily.com/news/archive/2013/03/14/4267490c-8cd1-11e2-bc63-001a4bcf6878/#.YtCnkb3ML5Y
Written by Jennie Christensen
March 14, 2013
“Alzheimer’s is a physician-caused disease.” That according to Dr. Joel Wallach, former veterinarian, naturopath, nutritionist and author, including the book “Dead Doctors Don’t Lie.” Dr. Wallach said that too many doctors are working too hard to get their patients to avoid cholesterol. He said that cholesterol is not a boogey-man.
Dr. Wallach said the brain is 75%, by-weight, cholesterol and if people continue to restrict cholesterol from their diets and take statin drugs they will get Alzheimer’s. He claimed that the disease did not exist 40 years ago.
On KVNU’s Crosstalk program Tuesday, Dr. Wallach said a great study on Alzheimer’s by Johns Hopkins was done in Cache Valley over a 10-year period.
“This is a perfect place to do this kind of study,” Dr. Wallach said. “They’re all on the same diet, they live in the same place, all have the same origin, eat the same thing because of their religious beliefs.
“Then you just give half of the people in the study two vitamins, and they have 78%, just shy of 80% less Alzheimer’s disease than the one’s who didn’t get those two vitamins.”
Dr. Wallach is a proponent of proper nutrition and essential vitamins which, in proper doses, can solve many of the health problems plaguing America today, including muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis.
Dr. Wallach drew an overflow crowd when he spoke in Logan Tuesday evening.
jhu.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/a-population-study-of-alzheimers-disease-findings-from-the-cache--3
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 14, 2022 23:28:27 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 15, 2022 16:15:22 GMT
Vitamins 'cut Alzheimer's effect'
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3409221.stm
Brain scan
Alzheimer's causes damage to the brain
It may be possible to reduce the effects of Alzheimer's disease by taking the right combination of vitamins, US research suggests.
Scientists have found vitamins E and C may protect the ageing brain - but only if taken together.
They both mop up destructive molecules, called free radicals, released by the body's metabolic processes.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland announced their findings in the journal Archives of Neurology.
Brain cells, known as neurons, are thought to be particularly sensitive to damage caused by free radicals.
Lead researcher Dr Peter Zandi said: "These results are extremely exciting.
"Our study suggests that the regular use of vitamin E in nutritional supplement doses, especially in combination with vitamin C, may reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease."
Dr Zandi's team examined data on 4,740 people aged 65 years or older. Of these 304 showed signs of Alzheimer's disease.
Approximately 17% of the study participants reported taking vitamin E or C supplements.
Another 20% used multivitamins, but without a high dosage of vitamin E or C.
Combination crucial
The researchers found that taking a combination of vitamin E and C seemed to have a protective effect.
People taking both vitamins were 78% less likely to show signs of Alzheimer's than those not taking the combination.
They found no benefit from taking either of the vitamins in isolation, or from taking multivitamins alone.
But there was some evidence of a protective effect from combining vitamin E with the lower doses of vitamin C found in multivitamin supplements.
Multivitamins typically contain the recommended daily allowance of vitamin E (22 IU or 15 mg) and vitamin C (75-90 mg), while individual supplements contain doses up to 1,000 IU of vitamin E and 500-1,000 mg or more of vitamin C.
Dr Zandi said further trials were needed before drawing firm conclusions about the protective effects of the two vitaimins.
Working together
He told BBC News Online it was unclear why the two vitamins had to be taken together to have any beneficial effect in reducing the damage caused by free radicals - known as oxidative stress.
It was possible that it was simply a dosage effect - taking two vitamins instead of just one meant more was circulating around the body.
However, he said: "There is also evidence of a synergistic effect between the activities of vitamin E and C.
"Vitamin E is lipid-soluble and thus sticks around in fat tissues of the body a relatively long time.
"In contrast, vitamin C is water-soluble and is rapidly excreted from the body.
"Vitamin C may act to recharge the antioxidant capacities of vitamin E so that the vitamin E can continue doing its job of soaking up free radicals and reducing oxidative stress."
Harriet Millward, of Alzheimer's Research Trust, said: "Oxidative damage probably occurs to the brain in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and therefore antioxidants in food, and possibly in supplements, could help prevent Alzheimer's.
"Randomised prevention trials are now needed because it is always possible that in a retrospective study such as this, people taking vitamins might be more health conscious than those not taking vitamins, and therefore the difference might be due to factors other than the vitamins."
Dr Susanne Sorensen, of the Alzheimer's Society, said: "The doses of vitamins vitamin C and E that made a difference in this study are quite extreme.
"It may be difficult to find populations outside the US taking equivalent doses on a regular basis to verify this evidence."
It is thought that Alzheimer's disease will become an increasing problem as an increasing proportion of the population lives for longer.Study: Vitamins C, E cut Alzheimer's risk
www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/01/20/alzheimers.vitamins.reut/index.html
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Posted: 4:26 PM EST (2126 GMT)
CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) -- High daily doses of vitamins E and C taken together reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease among elderly people, a new study suggests.
Taken in supplement form, and not in a lower-dose multivitamin, the vitamins' anti-oxidant properties appear to offset the buildup of so-called free radicals that are believed to damage cells and lead to the debilitating brain disease, according to a report in the Archives of Neurology.
Alzheimer's gradually robs millions of people of their memories and ultimately of their mental faculties. Roughly 5 million Americans suffer from the disease, and the risks of developing it increase markedly with age.
The 4,740 participants in the five-year study were aged 65 or older when the study began in 1995.
In the first phase of the study, 200 cases of Alzheimer's were diagnosed, and those who had been taking vitamin supplements were at a 78 percent lower risk of the disease than those who had not. At the end of the study, another 104 participants had developed the disease, and the risk factor was 64 percent lower among supplement users.
Taking a lower-dose multivitamin or one of the two vitamin supplements taken alone did not have the protective effect. A vitamin E supplement together with a multivitamin may provide some benefit, the researchers said.
Vitamin E supplements contain up to 1,000 international units and most vitamin C supplements between 500 and 1,000 milligrams. The recommended daily allowance for vitamin E is 22 international units, and for vitamin C it is 75 to 90 milligrams.
High-dose vitamin supplements are rarely toxic and could have wide-ranging health benefits, the report said.
"These results are extremely exciting," study author Peter Zandi of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health said. "Our findings suggest that vitamins E and C may offer protection against Alzheimer's disease when taken together in the higher doses available from individual supplements."
Zandi cautioned his was an observational study, and a full-scale controlled trial was needed.
Vitamin K2 Holds Promise for Alzheimer’s Prevention and Treatment
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308377/
Alexander Popescu1 and Monica German2,*
Maria Antonietta Panaro, Academic Editor
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 15, 2022 16:30:11 GMT
Just the fact that supplements affect Alzheimer's at all must tell us something.
A good basic multi vitamin supplement like Youngevity's BTT2 and individual vitamins like E,C,K in higher doses might make sense especially if you are on statin drugs.
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