What I Would Do If I Had ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis): Lou Gehrig’s Disease – Dr. Berg

I'd like to discuss ALS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis it's not very common but there's not a lot of data on it and I stumbled on this incredible book on this topic I want to share with you some amazing things about this disease now what is ALS it's a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects different muscle groups and it's fatal and uh people last between 3 to 5 years roughly about 20 th000 people a year develop this so it's not very common but boy if you have this you need all the data presently if I'm not mistaken there's only one treatment that only extends your life by five months and the cost of it is like $1,400 a month so the information I'm going to share with you sounds very very promising very exciting and it's from a book called ALS puzzle solved so the person who wrote this book has a very unique way of looking at things very similar to how I look at things you know you list at all the unique things with this disorder and you start to pull a string what's behind this what's behind that what's the connection between this and that and they did a really good job of connecting the dots so I going to share with you what this person found so the first thing is the onset of this disease is between 60 years old and 70 years old it doesn't happen when you're younger so that's interesting it's usually higher in men than women except for when a woman goes through menopause the ratio goes up where it's like a one: one ratio so that's very interesting there's something about menopause or aging that triggers this disorder there's also data that shows that there's a potential mutation in certain people with this disorder the mutation has to do with sod and that stands for super oxide dismutase not that you need to know that but that's a an enzyme that's a very powerful antioxidant which is going to raise the level of oxidation in free radical damage and that's called oxidative stress which makes sense because that's going to affect the nervous system that affects the muscles to a certain degree there's some mixed reviews on whether it's an autoimmune disease or not um the jury is still out because typical immunosuppressant drugs don't work with this condition so that makes me believe that it's probably not an autoimmune disease also it spreads gradually from a certain point there's some data that suggests that it could be stemming from an old injury to the spinal column there's other data that shows that there's a calcium buildup in certain parts of the spinal column there's more data that shows that there's heavy metals involved the solution is to take certain B vitamins uh so I'm not going to get into that but I just wanted to bring that up but overall as we age there's definitely a shift from antioxidants to more oxidation then um the book goes into some really interesting hormone Al shifts after menopause or even with a man uh as they get to be 60 years old or 70 there's all sorts of hormonal shifts that go on for females we're going to see a plummeting estrogen hormone right we're also going to see a plummeting progesterone hormone but even more than the estrogen we also have a drop in melatonin maybe you remember melatonin being a sleep hormone but melatonin also helps the inside of your cells as an antioxidant there's also other hormones that decrease like they're called precursors to all of the sex hormones like DHEA and another precursor called prone all of those decrease but there are two hormones that greatly Spike and go higher and that would be a follicule stimulating hormone FSH and luteinizing hormone LH so those are the ones that are going high the way you have to look at hormones is is not individually look at them on a pathway on a circuit and so if we're getting massively high levels of LH and FSH that usually means that there's very very low um sex hormones estrogen progesterone testosterone so that kind of makes sense well check this out progesterone is one of the most potent neuroprotective hormones and some additional data is that there's some experiment done on mice and it shows that uh when give mice progesterone uh there seems to be a greater uh level of autophagy in the spinal column so if you have damage going on in a certain part of your body autophagy can kind of clean it up and make new cells clue number two is melatonin you probably know that melatonin helps you sleep but you may have not known that melatonin also is one of the most potent antioxidants inside the mitochondria and as we age that melatonin go goes down and melatonin stimulates that sod antioxidant enzyme but the problem is it's too low to do its work right to overcompensate for this mutation that apparently could be causing this whole problem in the first place uh as you age you lose this protective antioxidant uh Network and you lose certain hormones that protect the nervous system and let's say there's an old injury in your spinal column that could get triggered with various things but I think the biggest thing is this shift in hormones which then relates to this shift in antioxidants and protective factors so the first thing you'd want to supplement is melatonin what we want to do is we want to bring your melatonin back to where you were when you were 20 years old because anything we can do to kind of bring back these hormones potentially we can maybe put this thing in remission so you might need levels you know 75 milligram 100 milligram I don't know but but that's for you to kind of do some research on I would also do infrared therapy just because infrared can increase melatonin but I don't know if it's going to be enough to really bring your melatonin high enough to really create this change because melatonin suppresses that FSH follicule stimulating hormone as well as lutenizing hormone the LH melatonin also enhances progesterone what a coincidence but in addition to taking melatonin and doing infrared I would also recommend to take the precursor to Progesterone pregnet alone that way we can give your body all the material so it can make as much progesterone as it needs pregnant alone is an available natural thing you can get anywhere and you might need like 100 milligrams of that I mean it would be good to get your levels tested so you could see how low you are and work with someone to get the exact dosage also what's recommended is Resveratrol Resveratrol has many different different really amazing properties one being a powerful antioxidant which can also decrease the toxicity going on in this condition what's also recommended is vitamin K2 which could help balance out that soft tissue calcium that could be developing as well and just make sure you're taking enough B vitamins but in a natural form that is the summary of This what I think is an amazing book in a discovery and definitely a solution to try since there's not a lot of solutions out there for this terrible terrible disorder if you have not seen my video on melatonin I think you'll really like that and I put that up right here check it out

Channel: Dr. Eric Berg DC

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Length: 7min 47sec (467 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 28 2024