Alzheimer’s Dementia is treatable
It just takes 21st Century Medicine
“This is Lexus, she is New Zealand’s first Alzheimer’s assistance dog. She is my wife’s dog, Ann is one of the first people in the world to survive end-stage Alzheimer’s”
People hear the word “Alzheimer’s” and make sympathetic noises. Their mindset on Alzheimer’s is fixed, Ann’s dying and it’s sad news.
“I don’t think you heard me, Ann is recovering from end-stage Alzheimer’s… and it’s no accident”.
I have this conversation daily as Lexus and I, now often with Ann in her wheelchair, walk about the town. Ann went into full-time care with advanced early-onset Alzheimer’s four years ago and, despite the best attempts of the Alzheimer’s medical establishment, has survived and improved albeit seriously disabled at this point.
Three months after her admission, Ann was assessed by a consulting neurologist as having three to six months to live, his words at the life insurance assessment consultation, “She definitely won’t survive six months”. “Six months” was three years ago, March 2018. Ann has improved beyond recognition and we’re planning to bring her home later this year.
In 2012 at the time of Ann’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, she and I entered a world of medicine mired in a hopeless, fantasy-based, drive to find a cure for Alzheimer’s, a magic pill. For those with a passing knowledge of the science behind what causes Alzheimer’s, this is a deluded and homicidally dangerous groupthink that is killing millions of people every year. Hundreds of drug trials and billions (yes billions) of dollars spent and the magic pill is no closer. A handful of medications are registered with the FDA (around five) with no discernible or lasting effect on cognition or life expectancy for Alzheimer’s sufferers. Despite this these “experts” keep doubling down on the hunt for a cure.
We know that humans are subject to illogical groupthink, but these medical people are professionals with many patients coming to them every year for help only to be told “we’re the experts and nothing can be done”. Think on this, if you take your car to an expert, service technician, and you were told “we’re the experts but we don’t fix any cars”, you’d go elsewhere. Similarly, if your auto service technician was as vague and slap-dash as these doctors, you’d fire them on the spot. Your service technician uses sophisticated data analysis covering all the functions of your car, an Alzheimer’s specialist uses vague guesswork and collects very little, if any, meaningful data.
Ann was lucky that access to Doctor Bredesen’s ReCode protocol became available in New Zealand just before she went into care. We found out what was wrong and how to treat it, but by then she was in the clutches of the Alzheimer’s medical establishment. We’ve spent the intervening years at war with these “experts” and Ann has suffered as a result. Despite a dramatic turnaround three months into Ann’s time in care, a rest home doctor ignored test results and sabotaged her well documented treatment program supported by over 70 scientific papers spanning 20 years. Ann has suffered hugely as a result, so much so that her final state of recovery is unlikely to approach a semblance of normality.
Enough of the negative stuff: Ann’s survived where 25 million others haven’t, and that’s a wondrous thing! 25 million? Every year 7-8 million people are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and it’s increasing. It’s a fair guess that the same number die annually (end-stage Alzheimer’s) as very few people live longer than ten years after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
Here’s the really good bit: Professor Bredesen’s teams are achieving a success rate (arrest and reversal of symptoms) in well over 80% of their early-stage Alzheimer’s patients. Compare that to the “experts” with a firm and static score of 0%.
The final takeaway: Doctor Bredesen reports that of the patients they treat, each has a different combination of between ten and twenty five of around forty identified causal factors of Alzheimer’s symptoms.
What is Alzheimer’s? More on that next time…
Also coming: Dr Semmelweiss, a dramatic breakthrough in 1847, history repeats…
Kia Kaha (Stay Strong)!
Peter