[Conductor71]

FYI The book and concepts were introduced by LFAC and special diets have been discussed here many times. For those new to this, Dr. Wahl had MS and was wheelchair bound; she changed her diet and dramatically was walking again within a year. The book is very useful but hard to use (no index); this TED video is a great intro to her experiences.

http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxI...erry-Wahls-Min

Laura

[lurkingforacure]

And on the Alz. front: Dr. Newport who put her husband with Alz. on coconut oil and MCT oil (medium chain triglyceride oil, which is found abundantly in coconut and palm oil)...stable MRI, improvement on the mental exams, and in QOL: helping around the house, maintaining the yard, volunteering at the hospital where she works, things he was not able to do before.

Dr. Newport admits that if a cell is dead, that it is highly unlikely it can be brought back to life...but if it is merely sick, malfunctioning, stressed, it can be brought back to health. This seems to be borne out by her and her husband's experience with Alz. Her book is "Alzheimer's Disease: What if there was a cure?"

Not surprisingly, Dr. Newport has not been invited to speak at any of the Alz. associations...some of this is also chronicled in her book.

[Conductor71]

Originally Posted by lurkingforacure

Dr. Newport admits that if a cell is dead, that it is highly unlikely it can be brought back to life...but if it is merely sick, malfunctioning, stressed, it can be brought back to health. This seems to be borne out by her and her husband's experience with Alz. Her book is "Alzheimer's Disease: What if there was a cure?".

This brings to mind some interesting things about PD that are brought to light in neuroimaging advancements and the quest for biochemical measures in diagnosis.

When neuroimaging is done in PD, there is absolutley no correlation between disease severity and the quantity of Lewy Bodies, so someone who is barely symptomatic can have many more of these "markers" or neuronal death while someone more clinically severe may have very few of them.

The other oddity is that for 400 + years they have attempted to use Cerebral Spine Fluid to read levels of the Dopamine metabolite and they can not come up with consistent results nor, once again, does clinical severity correlate to these levels.


I wonder if this is because they are somehow suppressed rather than out right lost.

[wordsmithy]

I wonder if this is because they are somehow suppressed rather than out right lost.

Gee, I sure hope so! This is true of me. On my recent Datscan, the result was

"'Period-shaped' scan indicating normal anterior (caudate nuclei) dopaminergic function and greatly decreased dopaminergic putamena function bilaterally. This pattern is consistent with Parkinson's disease."

Greatly decreased dopaminergic function -- and all I have is minimal leg tremor.