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30 responses to “Can a Controversial New Treatment Reverse Memory Loss?”

1. The only problem with Bredesen’s protocol is the expense. It requires regular blood testing on a wide variety of measures in order to make needed diet/supplement adjustments. Many of these tests are not allowed by Medicare or insurance companies, and in fact conducting them even on a cash basis will get a practitioner thrown out by Medicare. So many of Bredesen’s practitioners who are convinced that the protocol works, at least to some extent, have had to leave Medicare and insurance. This means that following the protocol for now is limited to well-heeled.
   Medicare and Insurers may eventually come around, but it will take good results among the well-heeled for a decade before they do.

   Reply to David Hudson

2. Like everybody I desperately need the protocol if possible..I am amazed that there isn’t more publicity on this subject..please and thank you

   Reply to Louis trenary

3. Please send me the results of these 100 people and their success numbers.

   Reply to jay lester

   1. Sorry but we don’t have access to that information; this story was published three years ago. You might follow the links supplied in the article and see if you can get additional information that way. Good luck.

      Reply to editor

   2. What rot … at 65 and since my naval aviation days, I sleep 4 hours at most. mainly I avoid frozen or prepared dinners, and cook every meal from scratch. Also, I avoid those artificial sweeteners and watch what shampoos have aluminum in them. Still smoke and drink since 14 y.o. so this is bunk. As an engineer my brain is at almost peak to the IQ of 165.

      Try we work too long with no downtime…try these genetically altered foods the Government agreed too with the demise of our once great small farmers who fed the world…and try that most Americans are fat and lazy…disabled vet, I did not apply for a handicap spot, but these fat toads do … get off your but and go walk.

      Look life is fragile and genetically you have a limited life span…get over death and start living life. I was lucky to have seen the world in war and peacetime, work in Arabia for 8.5 years (the press is full of it about the Saudis), and have a home in Italy where your 24 hour stores are nil, family is home for the meal, and they drink and smoke … Mediterranean diet is as fake as kissing each other on the cheek.

      There are no 100 people and there is no Government oversight into these types of frauds as they get kick back monies from them all…

      Again, quit worrying about death and start thinking about living. You determine what you do and no one else in this country. Those blaming social inequality as their excuse for poverty are liars and cowards. Get off your arse and get with it – live this limited life span and ditch the Pepsi and fast food.

      Reply to J Yuna

4. A local neurologist has been certified in the Bredesen Protocol. She now charges $300 per consult and will not take insurance, tests, consult, and supplements are in the thousands . Alzheimers sufferers are the new golden calf / cash cow to be exploited by the medical community.

   Reply to Norman Noller

5. Link to Brednesen Protocol:
   https://www.apoe4.info/wiki/Bredesen_Protocol

   Reply to Robert Lawson

6. One really must question why in the heck the medical community’ and support organizations begrudge patients who get well! It appears that somewhere along the line, they’ve all lost sight of the fact that they exist to ‘heal.’ But veer from the narrow and short-sighted course of allopathic treatment – with true healing results – and that patient becomes the pariah.

   It’s high time these groups get up to date with the latest cutting edge research and begin implementing it – as many of us do on our own – or they’ll condemn themselves extinction.

   Reply to Janelle K

7. my grandfather, mother & aunts all suffered with this awful condition for many years .my brother,sister & self all in our 70’s have been doing most of the measures listed for several years & so far no sign of it.I will be 80 next year,

   Reply to suzy

8. I happened upon his study at least 2 years ago when my mom was in the throes of the end stages of ALZ. I have always been terrified that I would develop ALZ and now being a daughter of a mother with it, I thought that my odds increased greatly. So when I read this study and the protocol that was given to the women, I created my own protocol that was as close to Dr. Bredesen’s as possible. I even added in turmeric and magnesium at the recommended levels. What a difference!

   While I didn’t have a baseline before I started my protocol, I can certainly tell a difference in that I don’t stumble over words as i once did, and I can articulate myself much better than I have in the time before I started the protocol. I think there is real merit to the approach and if I thought at the time that it would have helped my mother, I would have added it to her routine. I will always wonder now if she could have been helped by this approach.

   I would love to have a pharmacy compound all my supplements into a liquid dose that i could take in the morning and at night. Now that would be awesome!

   Reply to sharon

   1. I would love to hear what your protocol consists of specifically. It is interesting to me that the article states that the alzheimers association recommended against attempts to use this protocol and I would be curious as to why that would be. I understand that it needs additional research before it can be fully considered applicable in the medical field but there is tons of research into each individual method so there is definitely proven value to the aspects. If you wouldn’t mind sharing your current protocol I would love to hear it.

      Reply to Katherine

   2. Sharon, can you tell me the protocol you used? My email is:
      rickpene@verizon.net
      Pene

      Reply to Pene Joslen

      1. Sharon my email is dlphns633@netscape.net
         I am wondering if this will work for my husband. Thanks

   3. Sharon , my wife was recently diagnosed with ALZ. Could you please send me the protocol and possibly converse with me about it.
      My email is arm333@aol.com.
      Thanks

      Reply to Ron Armstrong

   4. Sharon, I would also greatly appreciate it if you could send me your protocol.

      kjbell2006@gmail.com

      Please mention in the subject line – ALZ Protocol or something similar so I will recognize it.
      Thank you so much!

      Kimberly

      Reply to Kimberly Bell

   5. Hi Sharon, would you be able to share your compound recipe? I just lost my mom in April and I am worried. I have already lost 2 aunts as well. I have 31 first cousins on that side of my family….
      Thanks!

      Reply to Marianna

   6. Sharon, my 52 yr old son has just been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. I just read Dale Bresedens book and would appreciate if you would share your protocol. Thank you, Barbara Kozakiewicz. My email isbkozakiewi@aol.com

      Reply to Barbara Kozakiewicz

   7. Hi Sharon what combination of compounds are you taking? I would love to research them and see if they can work for my husband and I.

      I am an environmental teacher and advocating plant based diets and healthy eating regimes so this would fit nicely into my background. Thanks, Lori Shaw sw florida!

      Reply to Lori Shaw

   8. I would love to have a copy of Sharon’s protocol as my sister of 65 years was just diagnosed with Alzheimers

      Reply to MEGGIE MUNROE

9. I do not understand this one at a time nonsense. The only one-at-a-time testing that makes any sense if to withdraw treatment components one at a time and check for any decline in mental health, basically a slow and tedious “work out the fine details later” approach. R A Fisher, who put experimental design on a scientific footing, had it right:

   ”
   No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a time. The writer is convinced that this view is wholly mistaken. Nature, he suggests, will best respond to a logical and carefully thought out questionnaire; indeed, if we ask her a single question, she will often refuse to answer until some other topic has been discussed. [see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial_experiment ]
   ”

   Medical researchers would do well to pay attention to Fisher’s insights. Drugs can be great when they work, but they work as one at a time medical bandaids. Interactions from drugs taken in combination are commonly bad. For the interventions that Bredesen is suggesting, any interactions are likely to be benign in their effects.

   Reply to John H Maindonald

   1. The research appears to be backed by a lot of other research that has been done on the individual components behind the protocol anyways, so in my opinion, there is already research into those areas as individual protocols. This is just a more whole body approach to accomplishing all of the goals

      Reply to Katherine

10. The idea that we should wait is nonsense.
    We will have some of the answers is thirty years and all of the answers in 300 but that is a tad late for us.
    So we must act now.
    The HFCS or the WHEAT BELLY or the high fibre or the trans fat Ω 3 6 9 theories might all be wrong
    but what can we lose?
    I am not sold on Co E Q 100 nor melatonin but what is wrong with exercise and good sleep and rest. Or fasting?
    I am treating all my metabolic syndrome patients which includes Alzheimer’s with Burkitt Taylor Cleave Yudkin Pritikin Moss Taubes Wm Davis M Mosley diet and have added Bredesen to that list.

    Reply to Dr Alexander Jablánczy MD

11. Dr Bredesen is to be applauded for sticking to his guns.

    The notion that one has to test ‘one drug at a time’ is nonsense, and this whole flawed approach is holding back medical progress across the entire spectrum of chronic disease.

    Firstly, why does the cure for all chronic disease have to be ‘a drug’? Or even ‘several drugs’? Why do otherwise intelligent medical researchers fail to see the elephant in the room?

    Is arthritis caused by an Ibuprofen® deficiency? Is elevated cholesterol caused by a Simvastatin® deficiency? Is hypertension due to an Atenolol® deficiency?

    A disease is caused by whatever factors cause that disease in that particular person. Disease is cured by removing the causative factors.

    A deficiency of patentable pharmaceuticals is NOT the cause of disease! Pharmaceuticals do have a place as temporary ‘band-aid’ treatment while the true causes are investigated and addressed, but they are NOT the ‘cure’ for chronic disease. (In ACUTE disease, pharmaceuticals can indeed cure e.g. antibiotics for bacterial meningitis. Chronic illness is quite a different matter.)

    Secondly, the whole ‘single cure’ idea for chronic illness is taking the medical model of antibiotics for acute bacterial infections, and applying it to chronic disease which is multifactorial and usually strongly linked to lifestyle factors such as diet, hydration, stress, smoking, exercise, sleep patterns, mental attitudes and – ironically – long-term use of pharmaceuticals!

    So it makes sense that a multifactorial approach is used. Get people well by optimising ALL their physiological functions simultaneously, and then work out the fine details later. Sufferers from AD and their carers simply haven’t got 50 years to wait for every single factor to be tested in isolation, nor do body systems work in isolation anyway!

    Reply to Grumpy Old Geezer

12. Fascinating. And there’s no reason not to adopt the measures listed. All of them, it would seem, will improve our health overall.

    Reply to Roz Warren

13. The results of Dr. Dale Bredesen’s finding was
    done with such a limited number of patients. A
    larger number of patients would have been
    more convincing.

    Reply to Mary Elande

    1. Now 100 people have been through his program, with 99% effectiveness in reversing Alzheimer’s.

       Reply to Jessica

       1. I would like to receive the above protocol also. Thank you.

       2. Where are you seeing 99% success? According to this article it is 50% of 125 patients, whch means that 50% did not improve. https://www.karenvrchota.com/healthnews/2018/3/9/the-end-of-alzheimers-dale-bredesen-md-review-by-karen-vrchota-md

14. My mother had Alzheimer’s I seem to have the start of that disease.

    Reply to A-Mirchin

15. Thanks you for sharing this important article. I have a strong family history of Alzheimers: aunt, uncle, mother all had it – so I am most interested in practical real-life research like this. The recommendations by Dr. Bredesen are nothing if not healthy for all of us as we age!!!

    Reply to Kathy Roselli