>>John Bradshaw:
This is It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw.
Thanks for joining me.
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The Bible says
in 3 John, verse 2,
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"Beloved, I wish above all
things that thou mayest prosper
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and be in health, even
as thy soul prospereth."
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In other words, it's
God's will that we prosper
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not only physically, but
spiritually, or you might say,
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not only
spiritually, but physically.
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Which way would you say it?
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Clearly, from a
biblical point of view,
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the two are
inextricably linked together.
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We're gonna talk about
that today in the context
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of a lifestyle illness,
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a disease which is
a modern-day scourge,
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and it's only getting worse.
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You know people
who are affected by it,
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you might be
affected by it yourself,
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and if you're not,
the sad fact is there's
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a very, very good chance that
before too long, you will be.
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I'm talking about Alzheimer's.
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My guest today is
Dr. Wes Youngberg.
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He is a lifestyle
medicine specialist
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and clinical nutritionist
in southern California.
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He is also an assistant clinical
professor for the schools
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of medicine and public
health at Loma Linda University.
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I am really glad you've
made time to be here today.
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Dr. Youngberg,
thanks for joining me.
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>>Dr. Wes Youngberg:
It's good to be here, John.
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>>John: Alzheimer's.
I've got to tell you.
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I'm not scared of cancer.
I'm not scared of heart disease.
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I'm not scared of stroke.
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I'm scared of this stuff
because it seems to strike
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indiscriminately--and
anyone and everyone.
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I'm bothered by
Alzheimer's and dementia.
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Your book deals
with Alzheimer's.
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Your book is
called "Memory Makeover."
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It is a fascinating book,
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because in the midst of this
terrible thing, it offers hope.
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Let me ask you
first, what's Alzheimer's?
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Well, you
know, let me actually just read
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the very first line
of chapter 1 in the book,
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uh, where, where--you
know, a lot of people,
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you know, don't
understand Alzheimer's.
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I had a, a friend
of mine, a neurologist,
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recently at a conference
that we were both speaking at,
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he says, "You're
not telling people
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that they can actually
reverse Alzheimer's, are you?"
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And I said,
"Define Alzheimer's."
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>>John: Right.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: This has been
one of the challenges all along,
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is how do we
actually define Alzheimer's?
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No, we're, we're not
saying that you can start here
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at the advanced
to severe Alzheimer's
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and then totally get
rid of it all the way.
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We're saying that at
every stage of dementia,
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of, of mild cognitive decline,
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there is a potential to improve
that, to begin to reverse
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that process of
cognitive decline.
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And that's exciting,
because up until recently,
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we have all believed
that there's really nothing
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that can be done.
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>>John: Right. I know
you're about to read something
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from your book
about what Alzheimer's is,
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but I'm already ready to jump
ahead. [Dr. Youngberg laughs]
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You are saying
something that seems to fly
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in the face of
contemporary belief,
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that is, if you've
got it, you've got it;
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there's really not
much you can do about it.
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Most everybody just accepts--
if I, if I've put on weight,
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maybe I can take it off.
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If you have diabetes, I
can certainly reverse that,
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as you well know,
as you have taught.
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But this? This
is a one-way street.
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You're saying
that's not necessarily so.
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You better read this--
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>>Dr. Youngberg:
Yeah. So we are--
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>>John: ...before you ever do.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: So, John,
we are at a crossroads right now
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where, where we're
kind of, uh, at a crossroads
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where there is hope.
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There is a, there's a tremendous
amount of medical literature
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suggesting that
there's things that we can do.
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There's tests that
we can run to figure out
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what our risk factors
are, what we can do about them.
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Uh, and the more of
these risk factors we discover,
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the closer we get
to that tipping point,
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to the threshold effect where
we can actually start healing,
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rather than progressing in
this scourge, as you put it,
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of cognitive decline.
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And so, to answer
your question specifically,
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"Alzheimer's disease
is" a form of dementia;
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it's "the most
common form of dementia.
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"It is the decline of
mental abilities severe enough
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to interfere with the
activities of daily living."
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That's the bottom line.
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And so, if we can do
something that takes somebody
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from, from a severe
dysfunction in their daily lives
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and improve their lives so
that the husband or the wife
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have their spouse back,
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their, their--I've had a
wife, uh, a husband who said,
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"My wife is now
laughing at my jokes again.
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"She's smiling at
me. She is talking to me.
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Five years ago she
wasn't even talking to me."
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>>John: I've had a, I remember
a man saying to me recently,
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"I have been
mourning the loss of my wife
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for 20 or 25 years."
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Yes.
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>>John: "She's
still very much alive."
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Yes.
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>>John: "But she's
gone," as it were. Okay.
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>>Dr. Youngberg:
We're here to give hope
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even for that individual.
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>>John: Fantastic. Fantastic.
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So, Alzheimer's, how
does Alzheimer's differ
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from dementia?
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Give me, give me
some definitions here--
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Okay, so--
>>John: ...or some differences.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: ...dementia
is the broader term for diff--
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for cognitive
decline that's severe.
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>>John: Yes.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: And,
and so, really, you know,
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a lot of people
say, "Well, she didn't,
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"they don't
really have Alzheimer's;
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they have dementia."
Well, Alzheimer's represents--
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>>John: Yep.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: ...80
percent of all dementias.
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It's the number one condition,
uh, that is associated
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with dementia.
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There is over 20
different classes of dementia,
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but Alzheimer's is by far
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the, the, the
lion's share of dementia.
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>>John: What
happens with Alzheimer's?
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What, what, what is it?
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How does it play
out in a person's life?
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>>Dr. Youngberg: You know,
the, the bottom line, John,
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is that it, it just
changes your ability to function
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in daily living.
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So, many of my
patients who come to me,
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their initial concern is,
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"Man, [snaps fingers]
I'm, I'm fishing for that word,
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"and, you know, I used to,
I used to be really bright,
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"and, and that
word, I can see it,
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"I know everything about
it, I can describe everything,
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[laughs] but I don't, I
can't pick up that word."
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So that synapse, that
synapse that's in our brain,
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in our hippocampus that
is responsible for that word,
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is not connected right.
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It's, it's fragmenting.
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And so, our job it to
kind of help heal that synapse
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that holds that, that
word or that partial memory
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so that we can
start using it again.
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And that is
actually quite possible.
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>>John: So
Alzheimer's is forgetfulness?
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Yeah,
it's, that's a big part of it.
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>>John: Okay, what else?
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Yeah, it's,
it's, um, see, when we think of
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forgetfulness,
most of us are thinking,
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well, we forgot
somebody's name--
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>>John: Amen.
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>>Dr. Youngberg:
...or we forgot what our,
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what my wife told me yesterday.
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>>John: Oh, amen.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Or, you
know, we have to take notes
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for everything now
'cause we just forget,
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or even some people are
forgetting where they are,
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right? They're driving
along in a familiar road
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that they've driven on for
decades, and they're going,
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"Oh, wait a minute, where am I?"
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So, the hippocampus, the part
of the brain that's associated
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with, with taking short-term
memories and making them
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into long-term
memories, is also like a GPS.
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It, it's, it's a locator.
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It, it tells us where we
are in reference to the world
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around us.
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And if that part of the
brain is starting to atrophy,
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is starting to become senile,
senility is just loss of cells
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in that area of the
brain, and, uh, if that happens,
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we, we're not gonna
be able to do the things
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that we always took for granted.
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And that can
progress so gradually into...
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going into the bathroom
and not knowing what to do.
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See? So that's a
memory problem as well, okay?
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And so this can get really bad,
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so we want to prevent
that from ever happening.
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>>John: Okay,
what we're going to do,
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and we, more than likely we'll
do this in the next program,
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we're going to talk about how
you can start to reverse this.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Right.
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>>John: So you
don't want to miss that.
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How can you begin to
reverse some of these processes
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and find improvement?
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But before we get to reversing,
let's talk about preventing.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Yes. Yes.
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>>John: We don't have long
before we go to the first break,
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but where do we begin with
this, to prevent this kind of,
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to keep the wolf from the door?
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>>Dr. Youngberg:
Researchers at Loma Linda
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have actually established
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that about 90 percent of
all Alzheimer's is preventable.
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So this is good news for those
of us who have a family history.
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My grandfather on my
mother's side had Alzheimer's.
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So, does that have something
to say about my future health?
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Of course it does.
It, it gives me clues.
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It's a red flag, obviously.
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Wes, you need to be paying
attention to this because you,
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like so many other individuals,
could succumb to Alzheimer's.
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So, so we know from the
Adventist health studies
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and other studies that,
that 90 percent of Alzheimer's
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is preventable, but we
have to have actionable steps.
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We have to be willing
to accept that information
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and then
incorporate it into our lives
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so that we're
taking advantage of it.
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>>John: Okay. So, a person's
got to be--well, uh, okay,
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you've got, you've gotta
be willing to accept that
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and incorporate it.
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Why wouldn't someone
be willing to accept that
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and incorporate?
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>>Dr. Youngberg:
[laughs] Yeah. Well,
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uh, I'll tell you one reason.
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Uh, I'd a, I'd a patient
just recently, just a few weeks,
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tell me--I'd been
working with them a year,
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and we'll talk about
this in the next program,
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where, where she'd
reversed her dementia so much
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that she is now functional.
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She'd had, she'd had advanced
Alzheimer's for over five years
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before we started, and, but
her husband wouldn't give up.
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And so her husband
went to the neurologist,
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said, "What can I do?"
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So the neurologist
actually referred them to me,
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and, and so, they've been going
to church for this whole year,
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and other couples, five
other couples in that church
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also have a spouse
with severe Alzheimer's,
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and, and it just gets
worse really quick, right?
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>>John: Sure.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Unless
you're actually addressing
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the risk factors
that that individual has.
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So, so after a year now, uh, the
other spouses are coming to him,
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saying, like,
"Man, you're so lucky.
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"Your wife is doing so much
better. Look at our spouses,
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"man, they're just,
they're just progressing rapidly
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into further
severe forms of dementia."
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And, and so my, my patient,
you know, the husband says,
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"Let me tell you what we did."
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And, and, and they
started talking about diet,
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and, and immediately
their, their affect changed,
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and they said, "Oh, no, no, no,
don't talk to me about diets."
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Said, "My doctor told me there's
nothing that can be done,
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"and I believe my doctor,
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and so I'm not
going to change my diet."
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And, of course, that's not
scientific, because any doctor
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who's studied nutrition
understands that the brain
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operates based
on, well or not well,
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based on how
well, how well you eat.
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So that's one of the
first steps that we use
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to prevent the process
of neural degeneration.
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>>John: And we're going to talk
about many other steps as well.
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My guest is Dr. Wes Youngberg.
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We're talking about Alzheimer's,
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and you are discovering
today that there is hope.
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More in just a moment.
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>>Dr. Wes Youngberg:
Hello. I'm Dr. Wes Youngberg,
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and I've just written a
book called "Memory Makeover:
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How to Prevent Alzheimer's
and Reverse Cognitive Decline."
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This book is in story form.
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It's case studies of individuals
that I have worked with
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and my colleagues have worked
with where they've actually
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been able to stop
cognitive decline,
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and 80 percent of the
time have been able to reverse
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aspects of cognitive decline.
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If you want to
know more about that,
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get the book "Memory Makeover."
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>>John Bradshaw:
Thanks for joining me today
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on It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw. My
guest is Dr. Wes Youngberg.
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Currently, there are 5.4 million
people in the United States
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suffering from Alzheimer's.
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By 2050, that
will be 16 million.
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What's even more dramatic is
that around the world by then,
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there will be 160
millions of people suffering
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from Alzheimer's, a
dreaded and dreadful disease.
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But Dr. Youngberg is
telling us that there is hope
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and Alzheimer's can
be prevented, warded off.
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Tell me more about this.
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How do we, what do
we do to prevent this?
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It's a horrible thing.
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>>Dr. Wes Youngberg: Well,
the first step for all of us,
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you know, it's
been said that, uh,
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of the 318 million people in the
U.S. that were alive in 2012,
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a full 45 million of us,
John, will have Alzheimer's,
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uh, in our lifetime.
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So, and that's scary, especially
since actually about four times
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that many of people would
have Alzheimer's, but they died
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from something else before
they could actually be diagnosed
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with Alzheimer's.
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So, even those of us who don't
have the genetic predisposition,
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the APOE4 mutation that
dramatically increases risk
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for Alzheimer's, even
amongst those, 1/2 of us,
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okay, about 40 to 50 percent,
will develop Alzheimer's
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after age 85, even
without the genetic mutation.
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If we have the genetic mutation,
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that happens 10
to 20 years earlier.
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And so, in other
words, we're all at risk.
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>>John: Right.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: We
all, every single one of us,
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have significant risk, and
so we should be paying attention
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to the principles of prevention.
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>>John: And everybody realizes
that this thing is on the rise.
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Uh, a generation ago, no
one knew anyone suffering
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from Alzheimer's.
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Today, everybody knows someone.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Yes.
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>>John: Memory care centers
have been built left and right.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Yes.
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>>John: There's an Alzheimer's
unit here and there, and there,
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and everywhere else. It's
growing, growing, growing.
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So this is something,
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this is something very
seriously we need to look at.
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And why are we
talking it, talking about it
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on It Is Written?
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The Bible says that your body is
"the temple of the Holy Spirit."
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So, the more you can do to
protect this thing and keep it
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in a way that honors
God and keep it shipshape,
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the better off
you're going to be.
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Why would you suffer
from something you don't need
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to suffer from, particularly
when your body is not your own?
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We've been "bought at a price."
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So let's talk about
some of these concrete steps
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for avoiding or
preventing Alzheimer's.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: When I was
a, when I was a young teenager,
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the favorite book
that I read was called
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"The Ministry of Healing."
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And if you
haven't read that book,
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I encourage the, the,
the viewers of this show
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to get that book.
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I'm sure they can
get it right from here.
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And it, the book basically
outlines the major foundational
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principles of
lifestyle medicine,
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what we can do to
optimize our health right now,
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even before we even
understand we have risk.
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It begins with
optimizing nutrition.
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It begins by not, not
just, not just thinking
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that we're eating
healthy, because, you know,
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we're comparing ourselves
to what somebody else eats,
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but to, to ask the question,
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what is actually
best for me right now?
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And that begins with
just getting a lot of colors.
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You know, so if we had to
simplify this to one principle,
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it's get lots of
colors, lots of greens,
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lots of reds, lots of blues.
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Not Skittles, Fruit Loops, and--
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>>John: Right.
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>>Dr. Youngberg:
...and lollipops.
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>>John: Right.
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>>Dr. Youngberg:
[laughs] Those are colorful,
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but those are
artificial colors, right?
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We want to get, uh, colors
that come to us from nature.
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Those very colors, John,
those very pigments are actually
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the phytochemicals that
turn your genes on or off,
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that activate your
genes, either promoting disease
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or turning off, uh,
the genes of disease.
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So, the, the right colors from
the right foods will literally
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turn the healing genes on
and turn the disease genes off.
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>>John: Here's what's
really interesting about this,
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is that we're talking
about a destructive disease,
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a rampant disease, and
it's becoming more rampant.
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We're talking about
how to prevent it, and,
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and you haven't, you
haven't said you need to get
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this chemical or this
drug; you've gone real simple.
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This is going to strike
a lot of people as being
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just way too simple.
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>>Dr. Youngberg:
[chuckles] Well, it's so simple
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the researchers actually
have proven this over and over
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and over again.
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The researchers at
Chicago Rush Institute have,
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have discovered years ago
that just people, elderly,
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who get two cups of
green leafy vegetables a day--
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you know, how
many people do that?--
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but if they do that,
they have a brain health
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that's at least five
years younger than their peers.
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>>John: Mm.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: So it
dramatically staves off,
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it slows down the progress
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that normally leads
to dementia over time.
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>>John: And let's be honest,
I don't, I don't want to be
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indelicate about it,
uh, but I guess I might be.
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The standard
American diet is...garbage.
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>>Dr. Youngberg:
That's why they call it "SAD,"
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Standard American Diet.
>>John: Standard American Diet.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: It is very sad.
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>>John: I think if most people,
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most people stopped
and looked, we'd be saying,
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"Mm, the truth is my
diet's not what it ought to be."
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I think perhaps we don't
realize the unfortunate results
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of going down that road.
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Maybe we don't realize
there's gonna be payday someday
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if we don't do
something about our diet.
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So, so leafy green
vegetables and lots of colors.
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What else would you recommend?
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>>Dr. Youngberg:
Yeah. You know, the key is
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basically colorful
fruits, but the, but the base
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of a brain-healthy diet is
lots and lots of the non-starchy
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green leafys, colorful
vegetables, and colorful fruits,
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like blueberries.
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>>John: Mm-hmm.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Lot
of good research on how
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organic blueberries, in
particular, are really good
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for the brain.
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Nuts, seeds, uh, are
extremely beneficial.
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Avocados are very beneficial.
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Olives are
especially beneficial.
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Olives are known to have a
chemical called oleocanthal
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in them that literally block
the toxins that damage the brain
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and, and help those cells, those
brain cells continue to grow
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like they should,
and the new brain cells
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that we're all developing
every day actually can,
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can survive long enough if
we're using these natural foods
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on a daily basis.
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>>John: Now, what I'm
going to do in just a moment,
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I'm going to ask
you, uh, to talk to me
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about what you've seen.
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Well, there are other
things that we can do to prevent
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Alzheimer's as well,
and, and Alzheimer's,
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uh, under that
cover-all banner of dementia,
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there are other
things we can do,
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you'll tell me about those,
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but I also want to
hear about the evidence.
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Bob did this, Bob was here,
Bob did this, Bob is now here.
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So, in a moment we'll find out
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that this
absolutely really does work.
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Back with more with Dr.
Wes Youngberg in just a moment.
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>>Dr. Youngberg:
Hello. I'm Dr. Wes Youngberg,
00:17:51.67\00:17:53.44
and I've just written a
book called "Memory Makeover:
00:17:53.47\00:17:55.64
How to Prevent Alzheimer's
and Reverse Cognitive Decline."
00:17:55.67\00:18:00.11
This book is in story form.
00:18:00.14\00:18:01.91
It's case studies of individuals
that I have worked with
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and my colleagues have worked
with where they've actually been
00:18:04.35\00:18:07.15
able to stop cognitive decline,
and 80 percent of the time
00:18:07.18\00:18:11.59
have been able to reverse
aspects of cognitive decline.
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If you want to
know more about that,
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get the book "Memory Makeover."
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>>John Bradshaw: Most everybody
wants to live a little longer,
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a little healthier,
and a little happier.
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But the question is, how
can you experience that life?
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Jesus said that He came into the
world that we might have life
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"more abundantly."
00:18:36.91\00:18:38.58
Evidently it's what
God wants us to have.
00:18:38.61\00:18:41.72
So don't miss
"Life and Longevity"
00:18:41.75\00:18:44.72
with special
guest Dr. David DeRose.
00:18:44.75\00:18:48.12
We uncover simple secrets of
the Bible, attainable secrets,
00:18:48.16\00:18:53.13
the things that God presents
to us that are guaranteed
00:18:53.16\00:18:56.56
to enhance our
lives, and at the same time
00:18:56.60\00:18:59.77
open up our hearts
and minds to receive more
00:18:59.80\00:19:03.00
of the Holy Spirit of God.
00:19:03.04\00:19:05.17
"Life and Longevity,"
00:19:05.21\00:19:07.01
Bible secrets to
living the abundant life
00:19:07.04\00:19:09.91
that God wants you to have,
00:19:09.94\00:19:12.55
featuring special
guest Dr. David DeRose.
00:19:12.58\00:19:16.02
"Life and
Longevity" on It Is Written TV.
00:19:16.05\00:19:20.06
>>John Bradshaw: Thanks for
joining me on It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw. My
guest is Dr. Wes Youngberg,
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whose new book is
"Memory Makeover,"
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talks about preventing
and even reversing Alzheimer's
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and other forms of dementia.
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Jesus said He came to the
world that we "might have life"
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and "have it more abundantly,"
and you and I both know
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there's not much abundance
in a life that is riddled
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by some of these
really difficult diseases.
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Dr. Youngberg, we've talked
about the importance of diet
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in preventing Alzheimer's.
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Give me one, two,
three, four, however many,
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uh, more steps there might be
or things we can do to prevent
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diseases such as Alzheimer's.
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>>Dr. Wes Youngberg: Yeah,
so we can not only prevent--
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and to clarify,
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we're talking about
reversing cognitive decline.
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>>John: Sure.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Beginning
to reverse that process,
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seeing visible, uh,
functional physiologic evidence
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that people can get better.
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>>John: Sure.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: So,
so the, the key principle
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is that we start
out with nutrition.
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There's a lot, we could
spend hours talking about
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how to optimize nutrition, but
there's some basic principles
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there, and we just
need to use common sense,
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but then we need to
focus on healthy foods,
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foods that are
rich in nutrients,
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things that we
can grow in the soil.
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We need to eat a
lot more of those foods.
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Uh, number two is exercise.
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There is little doubt; in
fact, some of the best evidence
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is that's the very first thing
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that we should
take advantage of.
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You know, some of us are
really caught in a, in a,
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with a big challenge with diet,
and we're really struggling,
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and it, it's hard to have
the willpower to actually eat
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a healthy diet.
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So, maybe the
very first thing, John,
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that we should be focusing
on is getting on a, a reasonable
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but consistent
daily exercise program.
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>>John: Mm-hmm.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: So, exercise
not only makes us feel better,
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so we're better able to
make good decisions, right?
00:21:06.23\00:21:10.60
But, uh, and, and
start taking advantage
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of the other strategies, it
actually makes us sleep better,
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and when we sleep better,
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we also make a
lot better decisions.
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Uh, so, but exercise
specifically stimulates
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the, the glial
cells in the brain.
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These are the structural
immune cells in the brain
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that can release a hormone-like
substance called BDNF,
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or brain-derived
neurotrophic factor.
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I've, I've heard you talking
about this on, on other shows
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in this program,
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and, and this BDNF
literally heals brain cells.
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It literally heals the
synapses that hold the memories
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that are not plugged into,
into the proper connections.
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And so when we, when the
brain is able to produce more
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of this
hormone, the brain heals,
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and we're able
to remember better.
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We're able to
have better cognition.
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Well, exercise just
happens to be one of the,
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if not the most powerful,
strategy that we know of,
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in the medical literature,
to stimulate this process.
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>>John: Does, uh, sleep
have any part to play in this?
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>>Dr. Youngberg: Uh,
it has such a big part
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that if we don't
figure out sleep properly,
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we're going to be
sliding in this progression
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of cognitive decline
for the rest of our lives,
00:22:22.64\00:22:26.27
uh, and, and if we, and
if we're already noticing
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cognitive decline, if we
don't figure out the sleep,
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sleep problem, we're
going to slide faster.
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>>John: There
are people who say,
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"I can get by on
four hours a night."
00:22:37.79\00:22:39.49
Can they really?
00:22:39.52\00:22:40.32
>>Dr. Youngberg: No. No.
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I, I can tell you,
case study after case study,
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unless somebody
gets a good night's rest,
00:22:44.63\00:22:48.30
uh, they're, they're on their
way towards cognitive decline.
00:22:48.33\00:22:52.30
>>John: Are there other
steps people can take to improve
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their, uh, cognitive function?
00:22:54.97\00:22:56.47
>>Dr. Youngberg: One
of the simplest things
00:22:56.50\00:22:58.01
is just drink enough water.
00:22:58.04\00:22:59.44
You know, the way
our body is wired,
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the way our, our feelings
are wired, we don't realize
00:23:01.78\00:23:05.65
that we're dehydrated
most of the day and night.
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And so, you can't
operate by your feelings
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when it comes to health.
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We need to be in
touch with our feelings,
00:23:14.59\00:23:16.49
but if you only
drink water or eat or sleep
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when you feel like it,
you're in trouble. [laughs]
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You're, you're on the
way toward some serious
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health complications.
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And so, what I
suggest to my patients is that
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when they first wake up, that
one of the first things they do
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is drink between 16
and 20 ounces of water.
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So I actually go downstairs
and take some filtered water,
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put it on the stove, and
heat it up, and then I add
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some little organic lemon on it,
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so I have my, my mug
of warmed hot water--
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>>John: Man, I'm
glad I'm in good company.
00:23:49.69\00:23:51.06
>>Dr. Youngberg:
...and drink that down.
00:23:51.09\00:23:51.89
>>John: I do
exactly the same thing.
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Except no lemons are harmed
in the preparation of my water.
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>>Dr. Youngberg: You
don't have to have lemon.
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>>John: Otherwise, same.
00:23:57.10\00:23:58.10
>>Dr. Youngberg:
So, so, when we wake up,
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everybody's horribly dehydrated.
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Just a one-percent
decrease in your body weight
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because of dehydration
already is affecting cognition
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in a dramatic way.
00:24:08.84\00:24:09.61
You're not
making good decisions.
00:24:09.64\00:24:11.51
You may, instead of
talking nicely to your spouse,
00:24:11.55\00:24:13.98
you're talking roughly.
00:24:14.02\00:24:15.25
It, it's amazing how just a,
a good drink of water can change
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your predis--your
disposition in life.
00:24:20.42\00:24:22.49
>>John: Mm-hmm.
00:24:22.52\00:24:23.66
>>Dr. Youngberg: So make
sure you're hydrated properly
00:24:23.69\00:24:25.13
first thing in the morning.
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Try to get that about 20
minutes before breakfast,
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and then at
mid-morning and mid-afternoon,
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those are the second and
third most important times
00:24:30.63\00:24:32.93
to get your water.
00:24:32.97\00:24:34.10
Even if you have to set
your smartphone for 10 o'clock
00:24:34.14\00:24:37.07
and 3 o'clock, make
sure you get that water,
00:24:37.11\00:24:39.61
'cause it you don't, you're
impaired mentally, physically.
00:24:39.64\00:24:43.58
>>John: I think I could
answer this question myself,
00:24:43.61\00:24:45.58
but I would
prefer that you do it.
00:24:45.61\00:24:47.25
So someone goes to
the physician and says,
00:24:47.28\00:24:48.85
"You know, I, I really wanna
try to fight back this thing.
00:24:48.88\00:24:52.12
"I'm gonna, I'm gonna eat
well and drink well and exercise
00:24:52.15\00:24:54.46
and get more
sleep," and, and so forth.
00:24:54.49\00:24:57.23
I can just imagine,
and, and I don't mean this
00:24:57.26\00:24:59.23
in a cynical sense, but I
can imagine certain individuals
00:24:59.26\00:25:01.73
in the medical community
saying, "It's not that easy.
00:25:01.76\00:25:05.40
It's not that simple. We
have medication," and so forth.
00:25:05.43\00:25:08.40
Because there's a,
there's a certain culture
00:25:08.44\00:25:10.57
that's very much wired
that way. Not everybody.
00:25:10.61\00:25:13.51
What do you say to that person
who might get some push-back?
00:25:13.54\00:25:16.18
Or what do you say to
that physician perhaps
00:25:16.21\00:25:17.88
who might be thinking, "No,
we, we know better than this"?
00:25:17.91\00:25:21.28
>>Dr. Youngberg: Well, actually
I spend quite a bit of my time
00:25:21.32\00:25:23.89
lecturing to doctors at
conferences on this topic.
00:25:23.92\00:25:27.59
And, um, fortunately I'm getting
a lot of positive feedback--
00:25:27.62\00:25:31.33
>>John: Mm, good.
00:25:31.36\00:25:32.16
>>Dr. Youngberg:
...from many doctors
00:25:32.19\00:25:33.16
in the medical
community, because, you know,
00:25:33.19\00:25:34.86
if, if you're a doctor, and you
really care for your patient,
00:25:34.93\00:25:37.17
you're always looking for
something that's reasonable.
00:25:37.20\00:25:39.87
And so, you know, patients,
depending on their level
00:25:39.90\00:25:44.34
of cognitive decline, um,
00:25:44.37\00:25:47.01
we need to start at
the most fundamental place.
00:25:47.04\00:25:50.08
And so there may be various
medicines or other strategies
00:25:50.11\00:25:54.08
that we need to
introduce at a certain point,
00:25:54.12\00:25:56.38
if somebody has
progressed in their dementia.
00:25:56.42\00:25:59.32
But regardless of
what else we do medically,
00:25:59.35\00:26:02.36
if we don't
address the fundamentals,
00:26:02.39\00:26:05.33
pretty much
everything else we do
00:26:05.36\00:26:06.66
is not going to work very well.
00:26:06.70\00:26:07.56
>>John: Okay, sure.
00:26:07.60\00:26:08.33
>>Dr. Youngberg:
Almost guaranteed.
00:26:08.36\00:26:09.26
So when we take
care of the fundamentals,
00:26:09.30\00:26:11.97
it can be a dramatic
factor in preventing that slide
00:26:12.00\00:26:15.80
into dementia.
00:26:15.84\00:26:16.94
>>John: I appreciate you
taking the time to give us hope.
00:26:16.97\00:26:18.51
He's Dr. Wes Youngberg, and
his book is "Memory Makeover:
00:26:18.54\00:26:21.11
"How to Prevent Alzheimer's
and Reverse Cognitive Decline
00:26:21.14\00:26:24.21
the Natural Way."
00:26:24.25\00:26:25.55
And we'll talk again,
because in our next program
00:26:25.58\00:26:28.25
I want to pick your
brains about what it means
00:26:28.28\00:26:30.05
and what it takes to
reverse some of this.
00:26:30.09\00:26:33.49
So, Dr. Youngberg, thank
you, thank you very much.
00:26:33.52\00:26:35.66
>>Dr. Youngberg:
Pleasure to be here, John.
00:26:35.69\00:26:36.83
>>John: Thanks.
00:26:36.86\00:26:37.86
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