Lectures - Dr. Rath Health Alliance

Background
Everyone can take preventive measures against Alzheimer’s – you too!
means of which memory can be
improved and behavioural disorders
temporarily alleviated. Of
particular importance for patients
suffering from dementia, however,
is human care and attention,
appropriate ways of
handling odd and conspicuous
conduct, activity and occupation
for the patient and an environment
that is geared to dementia.
Alzheimer’s disease and cell
vitality substances
The course of Alzheimer’s disease,
and its prevention, can be
positively affected by the targeted
use of cell vitality substances.
Brain performance
B vitamins are especially important
for brain cells’ energy production
and use, and necessary
for maintaining the myelin
sheath of nerve cells. Coenzyme
Q10 and carnitine improve
energy supply in the brain’s
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nerve cells. Coenzyme Q10 also
simultaneously works as an
antioxidant to protect against
free radicals.
Enhancing information
links
In Alzheimer patients, acetylcholine
levels are often very
low. This most important messenger
substance in the brain is
necessary for passing on information
to other cells. Choline,
inositol and pantothenic acid
(vitamin B5) are important constituents
of acetylcholine.
Choline also enhances the effect
of vitamin E as antioxoidant.
Intercepting free radicals
Intake of antioxidants is an
especially effective and natural
way of intercepting free radicals.
For this purpose vitamins C
and E should be given. Vitamin
C is an energy supplier for nerve
cell metabolism and protects
against oxidation damage. Sele-
nium too, and pycnogenol, take
on defensive functions against
free radicals.
Lowering homocysteine
levels
Since Alzheimer patients show
increased homocysteine levels,
it is advisable to lower these
with the help of cell vitality substances,
since homocysteine can
be toxic to nerve cells.
Homocysteine is an intermediary
breakdown product of the
essential amino acid methionine.
There are two ways in
which homocysteine can be further
processed in the metabolism:
firstly, with the help of
vitamins B6 and B12, and folic
acid, homocysteine can be
changed back into the amino
acid methionine; secondly
homocysteine can be further
metabolised with the help of
vitamin B6.
The use of cellular medicine in
treating Alzheimer’s aims to give
an optimum supply of cell vitality
substances to both healthy
and already deteriorating nerve
cells. Only by this means can the
nerve cells regenerate and fulfil
their function. There are no
findings as yet from clinical or
pilot studies about the use of
cell vitality substances in
Alzheimer’s disease.
Janine Gehrt,
nutritional scientist,
Matthias Rath B.V.