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Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program

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Re: Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program

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tldr personalized techniques:

    - Optimize diet: minimize simple CHO, minimize inflammation. - Patients given choice of several low glycemic, low inflammatory, low grain diets.
    - Enhance autophagy, ketogenesis - Fast 12 hr each night, including 3 hr prior to bedtime.
    - Reduce stress - Personalized—yoga or meditation or music, etc.
    - Optimize sleep - 8 hr sleep per night; melatonin 0.5mg po qhs; Trp 500mg po 3x/wk if awakening. Exclude sleep apnea.
    - Exercise - 30-60′ per day, 4-6 days/wk
    - Brain stimulation - Posit or related
    - Homocysteine 500 - Me-B12
    - CRP 1.5 - Anti-inflammatory diet; curcumin; DHA/EPA; optimize hygiene
    - Fasting insulin

Re: Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program

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Post by giantg2 »

o_____________o wrote: post #3

tldr personalized techniques: - Optimize diet: minimize simple CHO, minimize inflammation. - Patients given choice of several low glycemic, low inflammatory, low grain diets. - Enhance autophagy, ketogenesis - Fast 12 hr each night, including 3 hr prior to bedtime. - Reduce stress - Personalized—yoga or meditation or music, etc. - Optimize sleep - 8 hr sleep per night; melatonin 0.5mg po qhs; Trp 500mg po 3x/wk if aw…

Should also add cobalt to the list of metals to look at if one has a joint replacement using it.

What is MgT?

Re: Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program

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Post by AussieWog93 »

o_____________o wrote: post #3

tldr personalized techniques: - Optimize diet: minimize simple CHO, minimize inflammation. - Patients given choice of several low glycemic, low inflammatory, low grain diets. - Enhance autophagy, ketogenesis - Fast 12 hr each night, including 3 hr prior to bedtime. - Reduce stress - Personalized—yoga or meditation or music, etc. - Optimize sleep - 8 hr sleep per night; melatonin 0.5mg po qhs; Trp 500mg po 3x/wk if aw…

Man, that sounds exactly like something you'd see one of the guests on the Tim Ferriss podcast talking about.

What ever happened to ballroom dancing and bridge?

Re: Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program

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Post by varelse »

wawayanda wrote: post #6

Maybe I'm a cynic but it strains credulity that the miracle cure is also a laundry list of fad health trends from the the last decade. Gluten free, intermittent fasting, yoga, melatonin, probiotics, etc etc

If what you're telling me is that eating healthy, getting enough sleep and exercising can halt or reverse Alzheimer's it's not going to exactly shock me. The real fad is how amazingly stupid Americans are about their own health.
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