YOU DON’T HAVE TO LOSE YOUR MIND
CATEGORY: 3: Blockage
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RECOMMENDED SUPPLEMENT: LECITHIN
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. As of 2010, over five million Americans had the disease, while over 35 million suffer from it worldwide. Dementia worsens over time, progressing from forgetting people and things, to difficult and stubborn behaviors, to psychotic and delusional states. Your doctor may not know what causes it, but I do.
There is also a shadow population in America of eleven million unpaid caregivers who are adversely effected by the disease, and who are generally emotionally drained and physically exhausted by the need to provide constant physical care to another adult. Alzheimer’s also negatively affects everyone around the person suffering from the disorder, not just the caregivers.
Alzheimer’s is not a pretty way to go, either. In fact, it’s plenty scary. By the time the end comes you’re completely useless. All that trouble and expense you went to educating yourself, honing your talent, creating and presenting a cool, savvy persona to the public? Gone. Maybe you were a hotshot before, but now, you’re someone completely dependent on others, a little drooly, who can’t remember what you had for breakfast, the name of your favorite grandchild, your shoe size, or even how to dress yourself. Everything you are is in your mind—for you, as well as others. Lose it and you lose your world, your self.
But, like everything that goes wrong with the body, short of outside inflicted injury, there is a simple explanation for Alzheimer’s that is directly connected to diet, and a serious nutrient deficiency. That’s all any disease is, you know, a titanic deficiency of one or more nutrients. Alzheimer’s is simply a blockage in your brain arteries created by a diet with too many starches and fats, and insufficient supplementation with Lecithin, an emulsifier.
If you give your body what it needs you can avoid or eliminate Alzheimer’s, meaning you can even bring people back, out of the fog. Up to a point. The sooner you change the person’s diet the better, because a time may come when too many brain cells and neurons have died for her to be fully regained to her prior self. But it’s a wide window of opportunity, and many people have been brought back to themselves with this therapy. You have nothing to lose by trying and a mind to save.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. PRESIDENT
The year 2011 is the centennial celebration of Ronald Wilson Reagan’s birthday, February 6, 1911. I just read “Grace Under Fire” in TIME magazine, by Patti Davis, commemorating her father’s birthday today. She writes a poignant piece that could only be penned by a daughter who had been there for the glory and the demise. According to Davis, by the time he died of Alzheimer’s, Ronald Reagan did not remember being president of the United States. Number 40.
Think about that for a minute.
It takes a lot of hard work and endurance to get to be president. Campaigning to get to the White House, actually doing the job, getting reelected, shaping a legacy. But President Reagan didn’t remember any of it. Not the adoring crowds who showed up wherever he spoke, not spearheading Reaganomics, not winning 49 states in a landslide reelection, not fathering the Reagan Revolution, not helping end the Cold War, not saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” in 1987, and then watching it happen two years later.
That’s a lot to give up.
Anyone who knew Ronald Reagan even remotely knows that after being Nancy’s husband, and a father to his children, being President of his country was one of his proudest and most cherished memories. Yet Dementia stole all that. Midway through his Alzheimer’s years, Davis says her father didn’t even recognize her.
THERE ARE OTHERS
A lot of talented people succumb to Alzheimer’s. Besides President Reagan the following are a few taken by the disease.
George Balanchine: dancer, choreographer
Rita Hayworth: actress
Joyce Chen: chef
Harold Wilson: British Prime Minister
Charlton Heston: actor
Barry Goldwater: Arizona U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate
Aaron Copeland, composer
James Doohan: actor who played Scotty on Star Trek
E. B. White: author of the Stuart Little books for children
Sugar Ray Robinson: welterweight and middleweight boxing champ
Charles Bronson: actor
Perry Como: singer
Norman Rockwell: artist
Joe Adcock: baseball player
Vincent Minnelli: director and father of Liza
Raul Silva Henriquez: Roman Catholic cardinal & human rights advocate
Thomas A. Dorsey: father of gospel music
Burgess Meredith: actor
Alfred Van Vogt, science fiction writer
Bill Quackenbush: pro hockey hall of famer
Otto Preminger: director
Dana Andrews: actor
Kay Smith: composer
Edmond O’Brien: actor
Tom Fears: pro football hall of famer and coach
Louis Feraud: fashion designer
Jack Lord: actor from original Hawaii Five-O TV series
Rudolph Bing: opera impresario
Arlene Francis: actress
James Brooks: artist
Abe Burrows: author and commentator
And many others.
There exists the strong likelihood that none of these people would have died of Dementia if their diets had included Lecithin, an effective emulsifier.
LIKE MOST HEALTH PROBLEMS IT BEGINS WITH DIET
Forget genetic markers. I don’t care who your relatives are, Alzheimer’s is a disease directly attributable to what you eat. Dementia is twice as likely to develop in blacks as it is in whites, and 1.5 times more common among Hispanics, according to a new national report. These groups are getting higher numbers for Alzheimer’s simply because there are more of them eating diets high in fats and starches. One that causes “blockages.” Our bodies cannot properly process such a diet, without additional help from an emulsifier.
HOW DO BLOCKAGES FORM IN THE BODY?
When you eat something your body has trouble processing, like a double bacon cheeseburger with extra mayo, French fries, onion rings, and a deep fried Snickers bar, without also providing it with an emulsifier, it stores the left over gunk in all sorts of inner nooks and crannies. Just like you do in real life. But instead of a drawer, closet or garage, the body stores it in your arteries, your lungs, sinus, joints, liver, kidneys, heart, gallbladder, penis, spinal cord, colon, eyes, any old place it finds room, because it can’t get rid of it without an emulsifier. In the process it causes you to get sick with a blockage disorder.
Blockages are a whole category of diseases unto themselves in my paradigm of wellness. From the outside, it may look like Alzheimer’s, or heart disease, or a blocked sinus, or erectile dysfunction, or lung congestion, or peripheral artery disease, or glaucoma, or a blood clot, but it’s actually a blockage masquerading as a plethora of different problems. Your arterial pathways have to be kept clear or you will be at risk for many blockage diseases besides Alzheimer’s. But all of the blockage disorders, including Alzheimer’s, can be treated successfully with Lecithin.
The cells in your body depend on a constant flow of blood for oxygen and nourishment. Your brain is no different. But if the arteries—the pathways that carry that blood and oxygen—become blocked with plaque and solidified organic debris, less and less blood, and therefore nourishment, gets through. Without proper nourishment and enough oxygen from a steady blood supply, brain cells and neurons will eventually die in great numbers. As they die you lose your ability to remember, think, calculate and judge.
Think of an army using a road to get supplies to the front. Think of your brain cells as the troops at the front. If the road becomes blocked with disabled vehicles, it will be impossible for supply trucks to get through. Without sufficient supplies, the troops will starve and die. That makes it necessary to send in additional troops for the sole purpose of removing the blockage on the road. Once the blockage is gone, the trucks can roll and supplies can reach the troops at the front. Think of Lecithin as those additional troops sent in to remove the blockage, so that the supply lines to your brain cells can be kept open.
USING THE EMULSIFYING POWERS OF LECITHIN TO KEEP YOUR BRAIN ALIVE
Lecithin is a natural substance extracted from soybean oil. It is known to be safe, and has been used in our food supply since the early 1900’s. Take a look in your cabinets at the boxes, jars, cans, and bottles there. Lecithin is used as an ingredient in countless foods and cosmetics, because of its ability to emulsify, stabilize, thicken, and moisturize. It also has great suspension qualities.
Without Lecithin, when you opened a box of biscuit mix, it wouldn’t come out in a nice powdery stream, but would plop into your bowl in clumps. Without Lecithin, your facial moisturizer wouldn’t be creamy and smooth when you stick your finger in, but would show the oils coagulated and greasy. Without Lecithin, your mayonnaise would be a congealed mess, unspreadable. Likewise, your peanut butter. Lecithin is what keeps ingredients in suspension, as a mixture, and keeps the oils from separating from the other ingredients.
It’s Lecithin’s ability to keep organic particles in suspension that makes it such a valuable food supplement. It does the same thing in your body as it does in the food container: keeps organic particles suspended in your blood stream, not allowing them to clump together. Each Lecithin molecule binds with an organic molecule and prevents it from joining with other similar molecules, by holding it in suspension while it travels through your body and is expelled. Without sufficient Lecithin in your system, oils, fats, and other organic compounds can clump together, solidify, clog up vital areas, and cause “blockages.”
Lecithin prevents plaque and other organic debris from settling on the artery walls in your brain, slowing down the blood supply, and causing dementia.
| PREVENTING ALZHEIMER’S/DEMENTIA REMEDY AT A GLANCE CHART | ||||
| Supplement | Breakfast | Dinner | Brand | Strength |
| LECITHIN (softgels) | 5 softgels | 5 softgels | Puritan’s Pride #303 | 1200 mg |
| LECITHIN (granules) | 1 tablespoon | Puritan’s Pride #1064 | NA | |
| L-Glutamine | 3 tablets | 3 tablets | Puritan’s Pride #3042 | 500 mg |
| Ginkgo Biloba (capsules only) | 1 capsule | 1 capsule | Puritan’s Pride #4544 | 120 mg |
| TREATING ALZHEIMER’S/DEMENTIA ALREADY DIAGNOSED REMEDY AT A GLANCE CHART | |||||
| Supplement | Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner | Brand | Strength |
| LECITHIN (softgels) | 6 softgels | 6 softgels | 6 softgels | Puritan’s Pride #303 | 1200 mg |
| LECITHIN (granules) | 1 tbls | 1 tbls | 1 tbls | Puritan’s Pride #1064 | NA |
| L-Glutamine | 3 tablets | 3 tablets | 3 tablets | Puritan’s Pride #3042 | 500 mg |
| Ginkgo Biloba (capsules only) | 1 capsule | 1 capsule | 1 capsule | Puritan’s Pride #4544 | 120 mg |
| Beta Carotene (softgels only) | 10 softgels | 10 softgels | 10 softgels | Puritan’s Pride #1223 | 25,000 IU (Equivalent to 15 mg) |
| Vitamin D3 (softgels only) | 1 softgel | 1 softgel | 1 softgel | Puritan’s Pride #15605 | 1000 IU |
NOTES
Remember, these are not pills you’re taking, but concentrated food supplements. This isn’t medicine. It’s nutrition.
Lecithin is the best natural emulsifier available, and will break up blockages in your brain or anywhere in your body. L-Glutamine is an amino acid, one of the building blocks of protein. It is considered brain food and can have a remarkable effect on improving the brain’s ability to learn, think, reason, and remember. It also facilitates the transfer of communication between the two hemispheres of the brain. Ginkgo Biloba is an herb and a blood thinner, and assists in immediately getting more nutrients to the under served areas of your brain. Once the plaque is severe enough in your brain arteries to cause dementia, there will also be inflammation, which Beta Carotene will stop. Vitamin D3 will assist Beta Carotene in its processes, and it is a better, safer, more natural form of Vitamin D. But if you can only get Vitamin D you may use it instead.
When you use Lecithin regularly, in the beginning you will notice that you are coughing up and blowing out of your nose, a lot more mucus than usual. This is happening because Lecithin is breaking up blockages and causing mucous and other wastes to be expelled. This is a good sign and after a while, as more and more organic debris is cleaned out of your body, you will find less and less mucous needing to be expelled.
I have recommended Puritan’s Pride brand because their Lecithin is from soybeans only, and contains a minimum of 70 mg of phosphatides in each 1200 mg softgel, equivalent to 61 percent phosphatides. The value of a Lecithin product is determined by the percentage of phosphatides it contains, because they activate the fat emulsifying process in your body. You may use another brand but make sure it conforms to these specifications or it will not work.
Lecithin Granules are best used in blender drinks and sprinkled on salads, fresh cut fruit, and cereals. Make sure to consume it uncooked, in its natural state. One heaping tablespoon is equal to six softgels. You can’t take too much, so feel free to use additional amounts liberally.
CONTRAINDICATIONS
Ginkgo Biloba is an effective natural blood thinner. If you are on a prescription blood thinner, like Coumadin, know that Ginkgo Biloba will duplicate your prescription medication.
If you take more Beta Carotene than your body can process you might get a mild, dull headache. It lasts as long as it takes your body to utilize the extra Beta Carotene, usually a couple hours. Some people get an itchy rash for a couple hours that can be relieved with Benadryl. There are no other side effects because Beta Carotene will not harm you. It will not turn your skin or the whites of your eyes orange, but in larger doses it will turn your feces that color.
Do not take mixed carotene products. They are a marketing gimmick, do not bestow any additional benefits to you, and will not work. Use only straight up Beta Carotene.
If you take Beta Carotene without also taking Vitamin D, you will deplete your stores of Vitamin D and develop a Vitamin D deficiency. It usually manifests as sores on the inside of the mouth. Be sure to take Vitamin D when you take Beta Carotene and there will be no problem.
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