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20 | LowcarbDirect Directory - <strong>Issue</strong> 3 - October 2016 By Judy Barnes Baker, www.carbwarscookbooks.com Coconut Can ketones prevent & treat Alzheimer’s? A personal story A close relative called me recently to tell me that her husband had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and was rapidly getting worse. His doctor told them there was no cure and recommended he take Aricept, a drug that he said would not stop the progression of the disease, but might help him function slightly better than he would without it. The prescription was very expensive and she asked if I knew anything about it and if I thought it was worth trying. After repeating my usual litany (I’m not a doctor; I am not allowed to give medical advice; etc.), I suggested some other options they might want to explore and sent her some articles on the subject, including one about encouraging new research that showed ketones from fasting, a low-carb diet, or medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) could help Alzheimer’s and mild cognitive impairment “within hours to days.”
Here's a quote from the article: "...However, two points are clear – (1) AD (Alzheimer's Disease) is at least in part exacerbated by (if not actually caused by) chronic, progressive brain fuel starvation due specifically to brain glucose deficit, and (2) attempting to treat the cognitive deficit early in AD using ketogenic interventions in clinical trials is safe, ethical, and scientifically well-founded..." I also mailed her a package containing some supplements that support brain function and a bottle of Brain Octane Oil, the kind of MCT oil I use in my butter coffee every morning. The package was delivered to her PO address on Monday, August 29. On Tuesday, August 30, at 8:30 PM, I got the following e-mail from my cousin: “JUDY, (husband’s name) IS SHOWING IMPROVEMENT!!!! THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST & HELP!!!”! The Body’s Preferred Fuel You may have heard that sugar is the body’s preferred fuel, because whenever it is available, it is the first thing to be burned. Dr. Jay Wortman explains that this does not mean sugar is the best fuel for the body. It is burned first, because the body does not like it and needs to get rid of it as quickly as possible, either by metabolizing it for energy or converting it to body fat and putting it in storage to be used if and when food becomes scarce. But for most of us, the hard times never come and we live, year in and year out, with a high level of sugar and the large amount of insulin necessary to deal with it. Metabolic Syndrome, the inability of the body to properly metabolize glucose, is to blame for many of our modern plagues, including type 2 diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Parkinson’s, among others. Alzheimer’s is now often called “diabetes type 3” because it is characterized by the brain’s inability to access glucose for fuel. Sugar industry bought scientists to blame saturated fat Fat phobia altered our Western diet to be lower in natural fats, especially saturated fats, and higher in inflammatory, polyunsaturated fats and sugar than any ever documented in the whole of human history. The recent disclosure of historical documents from the 1960s has exposed how the sugar industry paid three Harvard scientists to conduct a review of research on sugar, fat, and heart disease. Their report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, minimized the known links between sugar and heart disease and shifted the blame to dietary saturated fat and cholesterol, a belief that shaped the first set of nutrition guidelines and continues to dominate medical practice to this day. (www.archinte.jama<strong>net</strong>work.com) Everything that has gotten worse in the past 50 years can be traced back to the time when the U.S. government and health agencies first instructed us to cut down on fat and eat more vegetable oils and carbohydrates. In addition, the widespread use of statin drugs that artificially reduce cholesterol has, no doubt, exacerbated the problem. The brain is made up mostly of fat and contains more cholesterol than any organ in the body. The brains of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease have become insulin resistant making them unable to access glucose for fuel so the neurons start to die of starvation. Luckily, the brain has an alternate energy source, one that actually makes it function better. Even a brain that has lost its ability to utilize glucose retains the capacity to use ketones, a byproduct of burning fat. The neurons start to regenerate once they are given this alternate source of energy, the one that is truly the brain’s preferred fuel. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) Super fuel for the brain Ketones are a more efficient source of energy especially for the brain Ketosis - Healthy or Deadly? Watch to learn more about ketones and the ketogenic lifestyle. By Dr Eric Berg Published on May 2, 2015 (to page 22)
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