The End of Alzheimer's -book review

Dr. Dale Bredesen's book connecting blood sugar levels and brain inflammation could have saved lives sooner, will we listen now?

Dr. Dale Bredesen MD’s book “The End of Alzheimer’s” (Avery Press 2017) was groundbreaking for many reasons, among them no upper limit to cholesterol levels! Unheard of in today’s anti-cholesterol pharmaceutical establishment. He discusses the idea of looking at genetics for evaluation of increased risk, and he is very clear about how nutrition and dietary choices absolutely impact the health of the brain.

This book review is especially timely and important as very recently decades of research about Alzheimer’s disease and treatment was turned upside down. Turns out the “groundbreaking finding” 20 years ago of beta amyloid plaques in the images of the research papers associated with Alzheimer’s disease may have been photo-shopped. (!!!!) Billions of dollars towards research based on a faulty foundation and millions of families who lost loved ones, perhaps unnecessarily, as this misguided approach took us down the route of “find the magic pill to reverse the disease process”. Even when medications were developed and tested that were able to dissolve the plaques, this did not reverse the progression of the disease. As we are coming to realize, this “dis-ease” is actually a culmination of exposures and life choices.

This is an inflammatory and a metabolic disease, aggravated by environmental impacts that exponentially magnify what is out of balance. We can change our choices and our outcomes.