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Posted July 2, 2018: by Bill Sardi
In 1993, in what was called “the most important finding that’s ever been made in the study of Alzheimer’s disease,” investigators reported a variation of the APOE gene, a protein that transports cholesterol throughout the human body, drastically increases risk for this memory-robbing brain disease. The APOE gene provides instructions for making a protein called apolipoprotein E. APOE regulates the clearance of beta amyloid brain plaque, which is a common hallmark of age-related brain disease. Carriers of the APOE e4 gene in their brain cells are at such an increased risk for memory loss that it is called “the forgetting gene.” Carry two copies of this gene and the risk is worrisome. Look at the risk chart below:
|
GENE |
% Risk |
Age of Onset |
|
No APOE e4 |
20% |
84 years |
|
APOE e4 gene (1-copy) |
47% |
76 years |
|
APOE e4 gene (2-copies) |
91% |
68 years |
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Posted October 20, 2017: by Bill Sardi
The origin of dyslexia, the neurobiologically-rooted learning disorder that impairs reading words and letters (word blindness) but does not affect general intelligence, is no longer a mystery. As background information, dyslexia is said to affect 5-10% of the population. Some 70-80% of people with poor reading skills are likely dyslexic.
News headlines today herald a breakthrough in the understanding of the biological roots of this disorder. Most scientific investigations into the origins of dyslexia have been focused on the brain. The discovery announced today has to do with eye dominance.
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Posted September 30, 2017: by Bill Sardi
The study is being conducted at the Burke Rehabilitation & Research Hospital in White Plains, New York under the direction of Dr. Gary E. Gibson PhD.
In a pilot study other researchers overseas just reported a small number of patients (5) taking a fat-soluble form of vitamin B1 experienced restoration of some of their mental faculties and regeneration of brain activity as evidenced by PET scans. The PET scan images are remarkable. The scrambled brains of Alzheimer’s subjects regained youthful activity once again!
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Posted September 22, 2017: by Bill Sardi
No, the substance of this report doesn’t emanate from Harvard Medical School and is being ignored and will predictably be dismissed by uninformed physicians whose livelihood is threatened by such a discovery.
Denial and ridicule is the first phase of any scientific discovery, followed strong opposition and finally self-evident acceptance. This discovery hasn’t even reached the first stage as it goes ignored.
The acronym for the National Institutes of Health — NIH – more accurately means: “not invented here.” The covert mission of the NIH is to block any remedy outside of synthetic molecules from gaining FDA approval.
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Posted September 14, 2017: by Bill Sardi
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease after this famous baseball player died of the disease in 1941) is a disease without a known cause or cure. It progressively disables motor neurons and often a victim dies by choking to death or can’t expand their lungs and succumbs by asphyxiation.
Researchers writing in the Annual Review of Biochemistry have been investigating SOD1—superoxide dismutase 1 – an internally made enzymatic antioxidant and ALS. When the human body is biologically stressed SOD-1 is produced from copper-zinc precursors. Somehow in the development of ALS zinc-copper SOD1 becomes toxic, destroying motor neurons (nerves used for movement).
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Posted January 12, 2017: by Bill Sardi
During a tumultuous period of turnover of federal agencies just prior to the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, the Federal Trade Commission appears to be taking a final shot at a company that in 2009 needled forgetful government officials who didn’t pay their taxes on time.
We see today in the news an attack by the Federal Trade Commission on a dietary supplement company, QUINCY BIOSCIENCE and its PREVAGEN brain-boosting product. [Daily Mail Jan 9, 2017; FTC.gov]
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Posted January 11, 2017: by Bill Sardi
In recent weeks the world has learned the news media creates fake news and/or completely shuns significant news stories to match its own politically correct agendas. So an unequivocal cure for a major brain disease goes unreported. Shame on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, the BBC, Reuters, Associated Press and the New York Times.
For a disease considered incurable, a physician in Italy has begun to provide a common B vitamin to successfully treat a debilitating motor-nerve disease commonly known as Parkinson’s disease. The importance of this startling discovery has escaped major news outlets. It should be heralded on television and in newspapers worldwide. But it has only been reported by an obscure European news source. [Ultima Edizione.eu] (Be sure to click the before-and-after video tabs.)
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Posted June 6, 2014: by Bill Sardi
You have to utilize the best available evidence today to avert Alzheimer’s disease a couple of decades ahead in your future. That is what the best authorities are saying today. The changes in the brain associated with early Alzheimer’s memory loss begin at least two decades prior to noticeable mental decline. Treatment when symptoms first begin to arise may be too late to reverse deleterious effects upon the brain.
Brain researchers now believe it would be more productive to develop a treatment that will be prescribed in the earliest stages of mental decline. [Molecular Neurodegeneration Oct 2013]
Beta amyloid plaque deposition in the brain may precede Alzheimer’s disease symptoms by 20 years. [Discovery Medicine May 2013]
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Posted September 11, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Investigators at Tufts University display striking images of the human brain when it is deficient in vitamin B12. Brain scans show fluid-filled spaces at the center of a shrinking B-12 deficient brain – literally holes in the brain.
A prior study showed that high-dose B vitamins (800 mcg folic acid, 20 mg vitamin B6, 500 micrograms of vitamin B12) slows the rate of shrinkage in the human brain, and more demonstrably reduces (by 7 times) shrinkage of grey matter in the brain.
This study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, is more striking because of the photographic images of a shrinking brain accompanied by mental tests which confirms loss of thinking ability as the brain shrinks in size.
Lack of absorption of dietary and supplemental vitamin B12 due to progressive inability to produce stomach acid is cited as a growing concern. Therefore, it may be that widespread H. pylori infection, which is prevalent in more than half of the US population, could be a parallel facto as H. pylori shuts down production of stomach acid.
Another concern is that the most often used anti-diabetic drug, metformin, depletes the body of vitamin B12. Metformin use has been associated with declining mental function. ©2013 Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc.
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Posted July 8, 2013: by Bill Sardi
This investigator’s report about a vitamin remedy to quell the ongoing epidemic of Alzheimer’s memory loss suggests Big Pharma must have known all along that a vitamin B1 (thiamin) deficiency is associated with or is a cause of abnormalities (brain plaque) observed in both laboratory animals and humans.
A shortage of thiamin had been linked to Down’s Syndrome as far back as 1976. Down’s syndrome subjects develop an early form of Alzheimer’s disease.
That pharmaceutical companies must have known all this but failed to report it is consistent with their narrow profit-making mission to produce synthetic molecules and gain their approval as drugs.
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