Hello and welcome to
Health for a Lifetime.
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I'm your host Don Mackintosh,
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and we are delighted to
have Dr. Bernell Baldwin with us
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today. Welcome
doctor. Glad to be here.
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Now, I understand that you
are scientist and your specialty
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is the brain. Right.
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And you have studied the
brain; you have got some ongoing
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research going on. Yes.
You've taught medical students
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and all different types
of students for many years.
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As I recall your Ph. D. was...
what was it that you focused on?
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In neurophysiology. We
map the brain for influences
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on the heart. OK.
Influences on the heart.
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For instance, we got 90 minutes
of arrhythmia from stimulation
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of the cortex of the brain,
and we stopped this in 2 seconds
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by stimulation in certain spots.
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Of the brain? Right.
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And it influenced the heart.
So, the body is connected.
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Hyper connected. Very
connected, we hope at least.
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Well, today there's something
that has to do with connections
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again. We are going to
be talking about dementia
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and Alzheimer's disease. Well,
who really worries about this
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in America
anyway, would you say?
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Caregivers worry about this.
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OK. And people who are losing
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their memory and faculties worry
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about this. Um-hmm.
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We really need to understand
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what's going on so
that we can prevent.
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Most Alzheimer's disease and
most dementia can be prevented
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now. That's very good
news. Let's come back to that.
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But what is
dementia? What does it cause?
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What does the
diagnosis mean: dementia?
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Yes. Dementia. In the
medical sense dementia is
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loss of memory,
loss of faculties,
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loss of judgment, and loss of
a capacity for social and normal
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communication in life. Does
the person usually recognize it?
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Sometimes yes, and often no.
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Um-hmm. How big a problem is it?
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It's common. Alzheimer's disease
is about the #5 cause of death
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of older ladies.
This is a BIG problem.
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And the older people are the
more tendency there is to get
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Alzheimer's disease. We all need
to understand this so that we
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can prevent it intelligently.
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Now when we were talking about
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this just before we started
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you said there was also a
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problem with
spatial orientation.
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What do you mean by that?
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Umm. A person who has
significant Alzheimer's disease
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may not only forget
how to find the bathroom,
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they even forget
what state they're in.
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Umm, OK. So someone is
not knowing where they are
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in terms of what
state or different things.
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What about so-called
confabulation or making up
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sentences? Yes. There are
several modes of sliding into
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Alzheimer's disease, and one
of these could be psychiatric.
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And you could have confabulation
and this kind of thing.
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And that would be
when, for instance,
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take the frontal
lobe. If the frontal lobe is
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in such disarray and if
so many nerve cells are dead,
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then confabulation
would be just obvious.
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And when we say confabulation
we mean what exactly?
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Stories, lying.
Um-hmm. So, in other words,
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I don't remember something but
I don't want to act like I don't
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know it so I make something up.
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Yes. OK, confabulate something.
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So, the common causes then
of dementia or Alzheimer's...
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what causes it?
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Very good
question. No. 1: genetics.
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Like 20, 25% of
this can be genetics...
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so if you have type E4
lipo- proteins in your blood,
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you are a sitting duck
for Alzheimer's disease.
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But good news right there.
Let's take the most dismal
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negative fact in the whole
area. All people that have bad
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genetics do not
get the disease...
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and in a few minutes we
are going to find out why.
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Well, let's come back
to that E4 lipoprotein.
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Can you get a test to see
whether or not you have this?
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Yes. And they
have... with a catch.
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You can't get it in an ordinary
hospital because they don't
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want to discourage you.
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I see. Well, let's say
it comes back positive.
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Maybe we want to
come back to that. But...
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what are some other
causes - Oh, yes - of this?
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The more common causes
would be environmental.
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Um-hmm. Now, let's get right
to the heart of something new.
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Something vital
and something relevant.
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Seventh-day
Adventist researchers called
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epidemiologists at
Loma Linda University,
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Doctors Geem and
Beeson and associates,
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they have published in the peer
reviewed scientific literature
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precisely, Journal
of Neuroepidemiology.
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Clear back in 1993 they
presented information that
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Seventh-day Adventist
people who eat a lot of meat
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get 2.4 times as much dementia
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as Seventh-day
Adventists who are vegetarians.
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And the reason they study
Adventist groups are because
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there are those
that don't eat meat
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and there are
those that do. Yes.
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And they are in the data
banks and they can follow them
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for years. OK. And they
just plain find that out.
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So, what this means is
that the better the diet
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the better the brain. OK, so...
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It's not enough to just say
well I'm eating the good kind
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of meat. Go for the
gold standard; go for that...
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the optimal diet
really basically. Yes.
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Now let me try and explain that.
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We know by measurement in
the laboratory that the more the
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xanthene in the fluids
around the nerve cell the less
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acetylcholine it can make.
Xanthene is a common byproduct
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of meat. Whereas vitamin E,
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and I mean the whole complex,
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the alpha, the
gamma, and the delta.
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Vitamin E as in whole grains:
this will help the brain make
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acetylcholine. So in the
Nebuchadnezzar program you
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go down - the
Daniel program you go up.
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Because in the Bible story...
Nebuchadnezzar, I assume that...
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they ate a lot of meat -
oh, yes - and different things
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whereas Daniel said give me
vegetables and different things.
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And he tried to push this
off on Daniel and his buddies.
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And you remember they stuck
with their program and they went
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vegetarian. Can alcohol
consumption cause Alzheimer's
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or dementia? Uh, alcohol,
of course, can kill cells
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by the million. And one
way it does this is through
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acetaldehyde. Alcohol is
broken down into acetaldehyde,
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and this can kill
little cells in the brain.
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Hmmm... by the million. So that,
of course, would lead to that.
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Any other causes for dementia?
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Things that would give us
warning signals that this is
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developing aside from
what you've mentioned? Yes!
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Now, this particular
answer turns on something
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everybody knows... but not
enough people are living it.
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And that is this:
use it or lose it.
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Um-hmm. Illustration -
There is a famous study of nuns
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and here's what they did:
they compared the letters of
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application for the nunnery
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with microscopic picture
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of the brain 30+ years later.
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And here's what they
learned. Here's a young lady:
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I would like to be a nun.
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My favorite aunt was a nun.
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She liked me.
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Sincerely
yours, Mary Low Voltage
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What do you mean by that?
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Just like the letter
sounds. OK. This will clear up.
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All right. Now
here is another letter.
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To whom it may concern: My
considerations for applying
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to your
institution are: philosophic,
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ethical,
religious, and personal.
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Signed, Up and At'em
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High voltage. High voltage.
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So there's more involved
in that... there certainly is.
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So the electronic
action in the brain
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produces nerve growth factors,
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and these biochemically
prevent Alzheimer's disease.
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Hmmm. Now let me list
some of these growth factors
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because this
program is not... we aren't
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interested in propaganda...
we're interested in truth.
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Here are some of
these nerve growth factors:
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1. Brain-derived growth factor.
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Nerve growth factor.
Glial-derived growth factor.
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Colony-stimulating
growth factor.
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These growth factors keep
these nerve cells up and at'em
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and busy, and it keeps
them intact because the brain is
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so dynamic that if the brain is
not being used in a certain area
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that area of the brain
will shrink, atrophy, and die.
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So the more varied different
things you can be doing
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with your brain the better?
And action. For instance...
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take a zoo animal. Have
you ever seen an old-fashioned,
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small, low-budget zoo?
Have you ever seen the animals
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pace in front of the
cage. They go across... back.
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Across... back.
Yes. Across... back.
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Now, this is called
stereotype behavior.
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If you scan the brain
or weigh it or x-ray it,
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the brain has
typically shrunk 25%.
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And even the cerebellum 15%.
Even the medulla is shrunk 10%
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because so many cells are dead.
So one of the big reasons for
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losing your marbles
is not rolling them.
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I mean, you know, you
don't use these marbles.
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So if they let those animals
out of the cage... they put them
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back in the
wild, would they live?
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No, they would starve to death
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because the brain is wrecked.
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And look at this as a human
bearing. Prisoners should not be
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put in dungeons: put them
in a body and fender shop!
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See? You need tools; you
need a trade; they need action.
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Give them volleyball nets, see?
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Get them active;
get them working. Yes!
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Recently, in a very rich
and fancy state out South...
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West... they forbid the inmates
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to work out in a gym. That is
inhumane, that is unphysiologic,
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and we need a
class action lawsuit
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to stop that whole nonsense.
One of the finest things
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that young men could do
would be to work out in a gym.
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Action is a law of the being.
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And this is very good
on the marbles in the head.
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So... depression of the
brain or different parts... yes,
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that's what you're
talking about there?
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This can also be a
factor. Your question is doubly
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important because it's
very important to differentiate
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in an older lady
between depression and dementia.
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Because many women -
they haven't ruined the brain
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at all, they are just
discouraged and they got behind
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on life and so life
is very hard on them.
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So you think a lot of people
then that have been diagnosed
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with dementia maybe don't
have it? They have depression?
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Right. This is
common. And not only that but
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other preventable diseases.
How can you help someone
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like that if you
are a family member?
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Very careful diagnosis.
And just because grandmother
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is not earning $5,000 a month
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is no reason for not
taking good care of her.
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Because if you take grandmother
and take her to a real good
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physician, the
physician will check her over
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and he will do a blood test.
And he'll say: "Look at here!
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These red blood cells are
too big. I think grandmother
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may have a B12 problem. "
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And recently it has been
learned that many older people
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have B12 deficiency. And
you give them adequate B12
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because the stomach, you
see, can wear out in old age
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and the B12 goes down and
then the cellulite goes up
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in the blood and it kills off
these nerve cells and gives them
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a big lot of trouble. So
there are preventable causes
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of dementia, a set of
them, and they need to be faced
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and dealt with properly.
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What about mad cow disease?
Does that have anything to do
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with dementia? Of
course! In mad cow disease
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you not only lose
marbles but you are killed.
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And this is happening;
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it has not stopped yet.
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The press is not telling you
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as many people die,
young people, 30 years and less
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clear down to 16 years of
age, the media are not telling
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you folks that as many people
died with mad cow... humans...
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last year as the year before.
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And more people died
last year and the year before
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than the year before
that. So, the mad cow problem
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instead of going
away is still with us.
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And it, of course, has spread
to sheep, to elk in Montana,
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Idaho. Chronic
wasting disease of ungulates
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is a wide-spread disease.
And, of course, the squirrels
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in Kentucky are
dying with Preaud disease.
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And there is a cluster of dead
and dying people in Kentucky
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from eating the
brains of the squirrels.
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Now how does that work? I mean,
you have a model of a brain
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here. Where does it attack you?
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Can you show us in
the brain what happens?
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Yes. Quite commonly
in the back of the brain
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but normal prion
is a beautiful spiral
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like this. OK.
Prion is a zig-zag
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beta sheet like
this: zig - zag - zig.
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And that's what's in
the mad cow disease? Right.
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And what does it do?
And this abnormal particle
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protein particle gets in the
brain and it sidles up to the
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spiral and it forces the
spiral to become zig-zag.
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And so the zig-zag spreads
to the brain until you're dead.
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Gets caught in
there? No no no no.
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Explain what happens. It imposes
the abnormal shape - all right -
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on the next protein so that the
zig-zag spreads in the brain.
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Zig-zag, zig-zag
until you're dead.
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Now there's a cure for this.
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Heat your animal
products to 600 degrees
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until on the inside
of the animal product
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it is black. If it is not
black - brown isn't enough,
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it's got to be black -
then it will be safe to eat.
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We are talking with
Dr. Bernell Baldwin.
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We are talking about dementia
and Alzheimer's and things that
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cause it. And when we come back,
what can we do to treat it?
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We hope that you will join us.
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Welcome back. We are
talking with Dr. Bernell Baldwin
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from Wildwood, and we have
been talking about Alzheimer's
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and dementia. It's a big
problem, you've told us, doctor.
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You've told us that
there are some real problems,
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and many are
concerned about this.
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But I want to talk a little
bit more. There's another thing
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as we were just speaking
together here that we haven't
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touched on yet, and that
has to do with our blood vessels
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and dementia.
Yes. Vascular dementia.
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About 20-30% of dementia is
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due to this cause. What happens
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is the blood vessels shut
down, typically atherosclerosis.
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So, anything that has to do
with hardening of the arteries:
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high fat, high cholesterol,
all those different things.
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Yes. The public does not
know this. They don't realize
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that when you get a bypass
operation to relieve the heart,
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that the atherosclerosis
keeps right on going
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and it ruins your blood
vessels going to the brain.
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So that bypass
surgery is palliation
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not cure. In other words, it
just tries to keep up with the
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damage, it's not something
that's going to fix it. Yes.
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So let me ask you this question:
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can you have brain attacks
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just like heart attacks?
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Oh, yes. Common. And
these brain attacks...
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there is good news about that.
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When an older
person, a middle-aged person,
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gets a sudden
attack of paralysis,
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sudden loss of speech,
sudden severe dizziness,
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if you take them to a real
good hospital within three hours
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they can do a scan,
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find out the
kind of brain attack.
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And if this is a clot, they
can go in there and dissolve
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the clot and save the
brain of your relative,
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your friend, or
yourself. So, like a hematoma
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or is that different?
No, that's another one.
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This is more like just
in the vessel itself we are
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talking about? Like a big wreck!
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When the head is injured
from a side-blow in a car,
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from very severe
whiplash, if you have bleeding
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under the skull,
this can squeeze down
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on the brain and
damage it very heavily.
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That's the sub
derma. Yeah. Right.
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But these as well as these other
small ones where you have a
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memory loss or different things
they can be pinpointed with what
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like a PET scan or a CAT
scan or a MMR or whatever? Yeah.
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Yes. The new
scans will pick that up,
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And diagnosis is very important.
And it will save you money
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and save you trouble
to get a good diagnosis.
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So there are, then, types
of dementia that are treatable?
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Right. We have talked about
depression, we have talked about
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vitamin B, we have talked
about sub dermal hematomas
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that pressure. Any other
types that are treatable?
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Another one is brain tumors.
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OK. Now 50 years ago
some African scientists proved
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that you can take a
fluid from a chicken's brain
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who has got... Chickens
very commonly get brain tumors.
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If you take the fluid
and give it to another bird,
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they get brain tumor,
because of virus going through
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this fluid, you see.
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So... That's
what... that's why we say
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what my wife gives me instead of
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the chicken materials
she gives me soy milk.
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I see. And this
avoids this problem.
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It really, really
helps. So this is... Now,
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regular checkups by a real
good physician can find a change
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of pressure by looking
in the back of the eye.
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And, a good brain
surgeon can take out
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this little grape or even
this walnut... sized tumor...
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OK... and save the
life and save the brain.
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Whereas, a few
years of procrastination
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and you have got a funeral.
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A big problem. So, diagnosis
and checkups are very important.
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At what age
should these be started?
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As teenagers. Really?
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Not just for brain tumors but
because of health in general.
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You should be seeing a physician
since the time you are a
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teenager? More than a
third, more than a third
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of school children
are obese right now.
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And early care, you
see, can nip that in the bud.
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But especially with
dementia and Alzheimer's
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you want to just in there
and get checked, and see what's
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causing problems and rule
out this or rule out that.
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Anything else about
diagnosis you need to know?
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What kind of a doctor should you
see? A general practitioner or
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an internist, a neurologist?
What should you see?
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A very good internist
or general practitioner.
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And be free to ask for referral
to a neurologist for this.
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Like for instance. When an older
person starts to lose memory...
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If this diagnosis
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or assessment is done early,
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many times they can
do one of two things:
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turn around the loss
of memory or slow it down.
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Turn it around.
That's good news, isn't it?
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Yes. OK. You know,
let's say that you go
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and they, unfortunately,
get the diagnosis of a type of
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dementia that's not treatable...
yes... what would you say
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to the person that is needing
to care for that individual?
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The caregivers? Right.
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It's very simple.
00:24:03.31\00:24:04.31
One:
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Find a professional home
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or a professional facility
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for Alzheimer's patients.
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Look at the bottom line price,
00:24:19.33\00:24:21.98
and here's what you'll find.
00:24:22.08\00:24:24.16
That it is so expensive
that there is not 1 in 100 that
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can afford it.
It's out of sight. OK.
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So... for every year you can
keep them out of that facility
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you might save
$8,000 at least... or more.
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And it could be $20,000 a year
to take care of such a person.
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OK. So, here's why I
suggest that approach.
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If you will get
someone to help you every week,
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one full day and a
part of another one,
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then the morale of the
caregiver can be kept intact.
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Whereas, if they try
doing 168 hours a week of care
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to an Alzheimer's
patient, it's apt to give you
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Alzheimer's disease.
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In out last minute and
half here or two minutes
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I want to, I want to ask
a question. What can we do
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to prevent Alzheimer's?
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Number 1 would be
Genesis nutrition.
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Get back to the
original program in Genesis.
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Fruits, nuts, grains?
What about vegetables?
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Excellent. OK. Excellent.
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Number 2:
activity throughout life.
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Number 3: use it or lose it.
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And next, mental stimulation.
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You see. Using the
mind, maintain the activity,
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you see. And this will help keep
the brain alive and with it.
00:26:05.19\00:26:09.91
You talked about the
Genesis diet. What about soy?
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Soy is so important we really
need to discuss that in depth,
00:26:13.49\00:26:18.63
but the late news in
soy chemistry is this:
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there are compounds in
soy that help the brain make
00:26:21.78\00:26:25.22
acetylcholine. And
this helps the brain
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to stay with it
instead of sliding out of it.
00:26:30.78\00:26:34.60
You said we
should check vitamin B12?
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That means we need
to have sources of that.
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Let's say that we are eating all
vegetables like you have said.
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Yes. Where are we
going to get our vitamin B12?
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Now, here's where
my wife and I get it.
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I have a little bottle of B12
powder on the breakfast table.
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Forumer yeast?
No, no. Pure stuff.
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Pure stuff? OK. Yes.
I take a clean toothpick
00:26:55.95\00:26:59.17
and I stick this in the soy
powder a little ways and then
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I go "tick" on
the granola. I see.
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And this keeps my
B12 in tip-top shape!
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How about vitamin
E. Is it important?
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Certainly. And
the way to get that is
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whole grains and walnuts.
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OK. Whole grains and walnuts.
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Well, you have given us
some practical guidelines
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to prevent it,
yes, and how to find it.
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Would you recommend them
getting that lipoprotein test?
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People getting that?
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In select cases if the
nervous system of the patient
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is stable this
would be a good idea.
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See, this runs
in families you see.
00:27:36.56\00:27:39.42
And so if it is an
Alzheimer's family,
00:27:39.53\00:27:42.39
they ought to go to a neurology
clinic in the finest university
00:27:42.50\00:27:45.68
they can get next to.
00:27:45.78\00:27:46.95
We have been talking
with Dr. Bernell Baldwin.
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I know that this has
been a practical program,
00:27:50.00\00:27:53.18
and I hope that you can use this
and have health for a lifetime.
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