awakeningfromalzheimers Day 1 https://regainyourbrain.awakeningfromalzheimers.com/new-episode Day 1: Getting Started: The Master Plan to Reverse Memory Loss & Regain Your Brain with Lee Euler & Peggy Sarlin Peggy Starlin - an introduction and preview of the series book: awakening from alz Lee Euler, producer of this series biggest takeaway, plaque is not the cause of alz, it's just a symptom Dr Bredeson: plaque is a protective response - drugs attempt to remove plaque, donw work for alz Why do we have this condition? - 1/2 people w/dementia don't have plaques - toxins and chronic infections - - vix., mold - - - Dr.Ross, respitory, thyroid, autoimune disease - - - - a cause for inhalational alz, a tpye if akz - - - - - approz 70% of alz is from ihalational mold - lyme disease is a major cause - - other viruses from your pets - - herpies 1 or 2 - - paracitic infections - - have infectous disease pannel - high blood sugar and insulin resistance -> type 3 alz - - a huge risk factor - BDNF, brain growth hormone - hormone difficency can increase alz risk - - tesosterone in men = memory - - pregnanalone - hormone of memory - - - makes estroghen, testosterons, ... cortosol - - - need to have hormone levels checked and balanced - drugs that attack plaques are attacking something that is there to protect tge brain & therefore don't work - - in fact those drugs make alz worse - neuroplasticity, day 9 - - electrical stimulation via toungue - - get into brain w/light - - certain laser frequencies promote healing - brain training program - - not all exercises are the same - stop learnig = starat dying - - i.e., new things - bad genes are not a death sentence, rather, a wake-up call - not enough sleep, or poor quality sleep increases risk of dementia - - brain is as active in REM sleep as when awake - - need min of 2 to 3 hrs of sleep for all 4 stages of brain clean up - - - need 4 passes of the 4 stages for restorativae sleep KF!