The 10 WARNING Signs of Dementia

today we're going to talk about the 10 warning signs of dementia specifically Alzheimer's and I have some additional very important information to share with you that relates to your genetics for example if your grandparents or your parents had it does that mean you're going to have it I'm also going to touch on some important information relating to the actual cause of Alzheimer's um there's been some recent information on the amyloid plaque theory that is completely going to flip things upside down but before I touch on the warning signs I just have to say out of all the stresses that someone experiences a loss of a loved one a loss of your mother with Alzheimer's or your father is probably one of the most devastating things that can happen not just for you but for them as well because you're in a situation where you're gradually losing yourself and you're losing your ability to think and remember and locate things and navigate so it's very very unstabling it's very confusing and it's basically terrifying my wife's mother had Alzheimer's and Karen was so close to her mom I mean it was her best friend and it was just tragic to go to the nursing home and visit her you see all these family members trying to communicate and trying to connect with this person that they love I mean to this day that Karen just you know misses her and she thinks about her um all the time so today I'm going to talk about the warning signs and I'm going to give you some things that you can do to hopefully reverse the situation in a loved one and even in yourself okay so with that let's start with the warning signs first the first warning sign is a change in language okay uh coping for different words trying to look for different words that you can't remember and just realize as I go through this it doesn't mean that you have Alzheimer's or dementia it could be many other reasons it could be you haven't slept it could be your blood sugars it could be a B12 deficiency it could be many different things but these are just potential indicators that there could be a problem in this area when we talk about a problem with language we also talk about communication there's problems with communicating to the person they're not necessarily paying attention and then when they talk to you it could be kind of random and and for example you might ask them a question and you know a few minutes later you might get the answer so there's this lag time it takes a long time to sink in and to get a response number two navigation difficulty finding yourself around uh town uh around your house things like that so unfortunately over time that can get really bad to the point where you just basically lost all the time number three sensory so you might have a loss of taste smell hearing sight and before constipation what's interesting about that is my mother-in-law was on a stool softener right so realize constipation is part of the gut and there's a gut brain connection there that sensors a two-way uh communication Street one area can affect the other all right number five personality changes okay they weren't like they were before their personality is completely altered when you have Dementia or Alzheimer's number six mood changes and this can also occur because of the frustration that they know where they're going and it's very difficult to get certain words out and remember different things it can be very frustrating so that's why it's really important not to correct someone if they make a mistake with words or anything because that not only frustrates them but it can actually make it worse if you're constantly correcting someone even if they don't have Alzheimer's or dementia you basically kind of lock it in where they start to do it more and more and more all right number seven memories locating pictures and thoughts that you had before are difficult especially recent memories okay that could be one of the indicators number eight thinking the ability to solve problems now solving problems also involve having a memory of past similar situations that you're drawing on and if you can't access that data it's very difficult to solve problems so if someone can't solve problems they're going to have a lot more problems built up and that's going to be more frustrating all right number nine their overall awareness is affected so you can kind of even look in their eyes and see that they're not a hundred percent there they're that means their attention is not on the environment in the present it's somewhere else and number 10 they keep repeating themselves so they might have no idea that they just said something twice so again if they do that don't remind them because that'll make it worse just move on and just ignore it now there's some recent information I want to share with you and I'm going to put the link down below of a video that I did on this topic and basically there was a researcher in 2006 that committed fraud on this area of Alzheimer's and fabricated data that wasn't true and this related to amyloid plaquin causing Alzheimer's because the problem is that even people without Alzheimer's has this plaquing and they don't have Alzheimer's and so all the research money that is went to this Theory okay and this has not been fruitful I mean I'm talking like millions and millions of dollars and so now that cast a huge doubt on the actual cause of Alzheimer's so there's some new theories about Alzheimer's that makes a lot of sense and I did a whole video on it and that relates to the lysosome and what's a lysosome lysosome is a it's a little part of the cell that like the garbage disposal okay and so that part of the cell becomes dysfunctional in Alzheimer's patients where the uh cell cannot uh get rid of the garbage so the garbage keeps backing up you can imagine in your house if you never took out the garbage okay what would happen over a period of time it's going to get really toxic and that's exactly what happens with the neurons and there's a lot more data I want to share with you on this lysosome uh this angle of the cause of Alzheimer's because right now if you look at all the factors that align with that it all makes total sense what happens in the lysosome is a condition called autophagy and autophagy is the recycling of you know garbage to get fuel in the body and also to get new cells and so I'm going to get into a little plan to give you to show you how to improve autophagy but the current theory that makes the most sense with the cause of Alzheimer's is a dysfunctional autophagy or lysosome situation you know there's mixed data about this that there's certain specific genes that will cause Alzheimer's but since Alzheimer's is multifaceted there's a lot of different aspects to it and multiple causes there could be multiple genes that you can have mutations with that can cause this problem let me explain like for example mini strokes that can create a type of Alzheimer's called vascular Alzheimer's there's other causes where you have brain injury from some other cause and then there's another angle where you can have a problem with um methylation and without trying to get too complex basically if you have a problem with methylation you're going to build up a lot of heavy metals in the brain and that could be aluminum or even lead or even iron and that can create Alzheimer's so with all these different causes you have related genes that are involved with those causes and so recently A lot of people are getting their DNA tested and knowing your DNA as far as what mutations you have it doesn't necessarily tell you you're going to have that problem it just tells you have weaknesses within the genes so I think it's important to get that test but also know if one of your grandparents had this problem or your parents had it potentially you could have a weakness within your genetics which doesn't mean you're going to get it it just means that that Gene could turn on at a certain point in your life and then you could get it but there are so many things you can do to bulletproof yourself to make sure that Gene stays off and that's what I'm going to talk about so there are a number of genes that I've researched on this topic I'm not going to kind of give you all the complexity but I'll just talk about one of the genes it's called apoe and that Gene has to do with turning on late stage Alzheimer's so something you would get after age 65 but there's different forms of that Gene okay so you have the E2 version which helps protect against Alzheimer's and then you have the E4 version which is different if you have a problem with that Gene it will increase your risk of getting Alzheimer's by 15 to 25 percent okay and then you have another version of this APO e Gene which is the E3 version which will not have any effect on Alzheimer's so basically if you get your DNA tested and you have a problem with that Gene um specifically like E2 or E4 then it just tells you you need to be doing things to bulletproof yourself right now now there's another Gene called app that has a lot to do with what I said before on autophagy which is that lysosome cleaning up all the garbage in the cell if you have a problem with that then you need to be doing a lot more autophagy and strengthening the cleaning out process because you have a problem with detoxification if you don't do extra things the cells become very very toxic and then there's other genes involving the methylation and I've touched on that a little bit but if you have a problem with that Gene what you need to do to solve it is to take larger amounts of B12 not the synthetic version but the natural version as well as the natural version of folic so what happens if you don't have this good methylation problem you're going to build up heavy metals okay you're gonna have a hard time detoxifying Mercury so this tells us you shouldn't be eating certain types of fish okay this tells us that you should be very careful about taking too much iron especially iron in synthetic supplements especially iron in enriched flour products so understanding the weaknesses that you have can give you a lot of um Power in doing something about it because now you're aware where your weak links are now another heavy metal would be aluminum right and of course the aluminum deodorants and aluminum pans should be avoided so now the question is okay and I summarize this for you to make it really simple um let's say you have problems with all all of these genes okay that relate to Dementia or Alzheimer's what can you do and this would be good for any person with Alzheimer's they're very important and actions you can take that are epigenetic actions which are lifestyle actions that can help you control your genes just because a gene is mutated doesn't mean you're gonna have a problem with it okay so these genetic factors will keep things in check okay number one is to change the fuel that they're running on to the ketones okay you want to run the brain on ketones the brain loves ketones it's a preferred Fuel and I'm talking about going from glucose to ketones and the way you do that is putting the person on a low carb diet as well as doing intermittent fasting okay both of those will induce ketones and it will support the brain even if there's damage to the brain because the first thing to go downhill with Alzheimer's is damage to the hippocampus the nipple campus is all about navigation memory and things like that so a ketone fuel will bypass the damage feed the neurons directly because because at the heart of the matter is a shrinking brain a brain that's addressing a brain that has neurons that don't connect well anymore and so they're starving of fuel so if we feed them ketones we will instantly see at least some good Improvement all right number two you want to induce autophagy autophagy is not some cellular thing it's a condition that you put your cells into so they can recycle garbage okay and damaged proteins and the most potent way to stimulate autophagy is with fasting okay regular intermittent fasting with periodic prolonged fasting but you can also induce autophagy with exercise so you don't even have to go to a gym exercise you can be exercising at your home doing a mild version of it you know stretching things like that but any exercise is better than no exercise the next thing is green tea these phytonutrient treat it in green tea e g c g can greatly help you and also induce autophagy curcumin is another really good natural phytonutrient in turmeric that can help induce autophagy number three omega-3 fatty acids specifically the EPA and the DHA which your brain desperately needs and I would recommend getting it from cod liver oil make sure if you're getting your omega-3 from fish that you do the least amount of heavy metals or Mercury is possible because what we're trying to do is we're trying to eliminate all these extra things that can create problems and that would be number four reduce heavy metals okay so you're going to have to understand what fish that you can eat and one fish you can't selenium is the trace mineral that helps reduce Mercury so if you do have fish maybe you take selenium at the same time to lock up that mercury so it doesn't become a problem distilled water is something I would also recommend unfortunately this might be a pain but to get one of those distillers where you have stainless steel okay and not the plastic jug but glass and you can make your own distilled water and consume a good amount of the water being distilled water why because you have to realize what is in tap water I mean even like even builted water there's still all sorts of chemicals when you distill it you remove everything and so it's a really good way of drinking pure water without the heavy metals as well as pulling out metals from your body okay it's a great detox and then you can just put the minerals that you want back in so that's really important make sure you don't take uh supplements that are synthetic because a lot of times it has the wrong type of iron and that can really mess with all sorts of things because we don't want these synthetic vitamins and we don't want these Elemental minerals from supplements so it has to be really like food based or plant-based type nutrition not food I'm talking about the supplements themselves make sure that they're really like food based number five methylation I mentioned on that B12 okay you need a lot more B12 you can get a supplement with B12 and folate if you have this problem and so there's a real simple genetic test to see if you have a problem with methylation okay but then the solution is simple B12 and folate number six medications okay if your loved one is on medications you need to work with the doctor to get them off because even with my mother-in-law we found that she was on incontinence medication and she was on all these things that had side effects of memory loss so once we made those changes she did a lot better okay I didn't resolve the problem but it improved the problem then we have number seven vitamins now these specific vitamins have a direct effect over your genes okay so we have vitamin A I'm not talking about beta-carotene the precursor I'm talking about actual retinol from things like liver and egg yolk cheese things like that then we have vitamin D which will improve things like inflammation in your brain and then there's B1 okay don't get the synthetic version make sure it's from natural sources like nutritional yeast B1 is probably the most important vitamin for the hippocampus which is the first area of the brain to shrink when you have dementia vitamin C if you take an Alzheimer's patient they're nearly always deficient in vitamin C so vitamin C is really important too I would not get this synthetic version I would get a food base or just eat foods high in vitamin C the top vitamin C Food believe it or not is sauerkraut vitamin E very powerful antioxidant not just good for the heart very good for your brain especially the structures of the brain that relay uh you know memories things like that and then we have vitamin K1 and this is interesting because people were on like kumichin drugs which basically block vitamin K1 have a higher risk of getting alzheimer's than people that don't and you get a lot about vitamin K1 from dark leafy green vegetables and then number eight lion's mane which is a mushroom and it even has regenerative properties for brain tissue as well as neural protective properties as well but a lot of people have dementia report amazing changes when they take lion mane now if you haven't seen this video in Alzheimer's that I actually talk about the amyloid plaque not being the cause for it you should definitely check that one out next very important I put it right here

Channel: Dr. Eric Berg DC

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Length: 18min 16sec (1096 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 05 2022