What Is the Physical vs. Energetic Basis Of Alzheimer's Disease?

This post is a companion to my recent posts about Obesity and Diabetes, which are metabolic conditions that may be associated with the development of Dementia later in life. The bad news is these conditions are becoming more prevalent in our busy, stressed out society. The good news is they may be preventable or reversible with newer therapeutic programs. Let’s take a look at: What is the physical vs. energetic basis of Alzheimer’s disease?

What is Dementia vs. Alzheimer’s disease?

Dementia is characterized by gradual deterioration in cognitive functions, such as thinking, comprehension, memory, language, numbers, orientation and learning capacity along with changes in emotional control, mood and behavior. But consciousness is not affected.

Dementia results from a variety of diseases and injuries that affect the brain. There are many different forms of dementia, but Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form.
There are about 50 million people worldwide that have Alzheimer’s or a related dementia, including Lewy body, vascular, Parkinson’s, alcoholic or frontotemporal dementia (below).

In the U.S., the proportion of people with Alzheimer’s disease is 4% at < 65 yrs; 15% at 65-74 yrs; 44% at 77-84 yrs; 38% at age 85+ yrs. Life expectancy after diagnosis of Alzheimer’s is 4-8 years (or longer). One in three seniors dies with some form of dementia. By 2050, the total number of people with dementia is set to triple to 132-152 million cases worldwide (below).

Dementia can be overwhelming for the families and caretakers in terms of physical, emotional and economic pressures. The societal costs are huge (est. $2 trillion in 2030 in U.S. alone).

What are the risk factors?

The strongest risk factor for dementia is advancing age. Other risk factors include genetics, family history, obesity, pre/diabetes, hypertension, unhealthy diets, smoking, alcohol, physical and mental inactivity, lower educational level, depression and negative beliefs about aging.

Scientists have noted that the damage to the brain starts a decade or more before any symptoms appear. When a person develops mild but noticeable trouble with memory, work, driving, concentration, etc., they may have mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
About 38% of those with MCI (especially with memory problems) develop Alzheimer’s dementia within 5 years. The goal is to identify people at this stage (pre-dementia).

Dale Bredesen, MD (“The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Programme to Prevent and Reverse the Cognitive Decline of Dementia”) wants to eradicate this disease. To do that, we all need a cognitive screening test (“cognoscopy”) at age 45 to determine our overall health status.

How can we prevent or reverse age-related cognitive decline?

The old approach to Alzheimer’s was just to treat some symptoms, because the disease was deemed irreversible. All single drug therapies have failed in clinical trials, because it’s not a single disease. Dr. Bredesen has pioneered a new approach to treat the underlying disease:

“Alzheimer’s disease is not a mysterious, untreatable brain disease — it is reversible, metabolic/toxic, usually systemic illness with a relatively large window for treatment.”

He has described three major subtypes of AD identified by various markers and tests:

Inflammatory subtype (induced by a proinflammatory diet or infections that cause systemic inflammation, e.g. leaky gut, leaky blood-brain barrier, poor oral hygiene, autoimmune disease, glycated proteins in fried or processed foods, ApoE4 driving inflammation).
Atrophic subtype (induced by deficient trophic factors, nutrients, vitamins or hormonal imbalance, as in early hysterectomy, menopause, hypothyroidism, adrenal fatigue; some people have both inflammation and insulin resistance or diabetes, called type 1.5 AD).
Cortical or toxic subtype (induced by environmental toxins in air/water, mycotoxins/mold, heavy metals, mercury fillings, Lyme disease, surgical implants and chronic inflammation. This form is new and different, a hidden epidemic showing up in people in their 50’s).

He devised a personalized therapeutic program (Bredesen Protocol™) to treat people with mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer’s disease with demonstrable success. It’s not one-size-fits-all. He said it’s more like a roof with 36 holes — plugging one hole is not enough.

This comprehensive, functional and lifestyle medicine program aims to optimize:

Nutrition (low carb, healthy fat diet; avoid gluten, dairy, processed and fried foods)
Supplements (various trophic vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, omega 3, etc.)
Fasting (at least 12-16 hrs between dinner and next meal; fast 3 hrs before bedtime)
Exercise (5-6 times per week for 30-60 min with cardio and strength training)
Sleep (8 hrs a night; treat sleep apnea; use melatonin as needed)
Stress reduction (music, meditation, yoga, pets, walk in the park)
Mental exercise (crossword puzzles, Sudoku, learn a new language)
Auditory physiology (binaural beat “meditation on steroids”)
Hygiene (oral, nasal, skin, nails, hair, gut)
Hormone therapy (as needed for deficient sex hormones, thyroid, GH, etc.)

The program can be used by healthy people to prevent Alzheimer’s disease and to optimise other areas of health at the same time, such as reversing obesity and diabetes, too. That means a longer life and a higher quality of life and less burden on society. It’s a win-win-win!

What is the energetic basis of Alzheimer’s disease?

Most people think Alzheimer’s or dementia is one of the worst things that can happen to us. Losing your mind, losing your bodily functions — what’s worse than that? That may be true from an incarnate human perspective, but not from the soul’s perspective.

The soul comes here to experience things in human form — the good, the bad and the ugly, too. It incarnates with a specific life plan that may include dealing with things like cancer, obesity, diabetes, stroke or Alzheimer’s disease at some point in life.
The soul arrives with specific psycho-spiritual programming, which sets up the conditions it wants to experience in human form. It may decide to fully experience and die from the condition. Or it may wish to overcome it in some way. All is choice. All is experience.

What we need to remember is that we are NOT our body or mind or personality. We are more than all those put together. The body is just a vehicle or a car that the soul drives around for a while. The soul has pre-planned the timing and manner of potential exit points from this life, according to Guy Needler (“The Anne Dialogues”).

Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia are simply other ways to depart. But in these conditions, the soul has chosen to leave the body in a gradual way.
The day-to-day functionality starts to deteriorate. The person gets problems with memory, because the ego (personality) starts to move out of the body and the memories go with it. But nothing is lost, because everything is recorded by the soul’s Higher Self.

Susann Taylor Shier said it’s almost like the person is getting used to “going to heaven” again, to forget what it’s like here, because it’s been so intense. They go out of body, then they come back, they go out and come back and go: “Oh, did I miss something?” Her suggestion is:

As family and caretakers, see it creatively. Love them and be with them while they’re in those other spaces, even if it seems like they’re not here. You can communicate with them on a soul level, even when they’re “out” on the Other Side. We can do that any time.
Give them permission to be there and say: “I know where you are and it’s a beautiful place, and you have permission from me to be there.” You are not going to say: “Oh my god, get back here in your body!” They are creating their own crossing over process as long as it might take. It’s their process and they will leave when they are ready to do so.
If someone lingers (e.g. coma), it’s because they have a strong desire to stay incarnate and not let go of physicality. The ego is trying its hardest to stay incarnate, because the ego disappears when the human form demises. But the soul goes back to its Higher Self.

Some souls want to get more “evolutionary brownie points” by experiencing life with and without certain abilities and functions. This allows others to play the caretaker role, which is hard and gives them more evolutionary content as well. Both parties benefit from it in the end.

Some people don’t like to take the super-fast roller coaster ride to the Other Side!

Cartoon by Mark Parisi

“Where you have been will start to feel farther removed, much like if you examined a past life experience. It will be easier to see the purpose of it all, and you will have little desire to drag any old energies with you, because you know they simply do not apply any longer. You will begin a fresh phase…This will feel very freeing for you!” (Excerpt from Archangel Gabriel Daily Message – Tuesday, November 6, 2018 through Shelley Young).

For more information, please see:

Dale Bredesen: The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Programme to Prevent and Reverse the Cognitive Decline of Dementia, 2017

Dale Bredesen: Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program & Reversal of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease. & 36 ‘Holes in the Roof’ The Dawn of the Era of Treatable and Preventable Alzheimer’s Disease | Clinical Education

Bredesen DE, Sharlin K, Jenkins D, Okuno M, Youngberg W, et al.: Reversal of Cognitive Decline: 100 Patients. J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism 8: 450, 2018

Dale Bredesen: Metabolic profiling distinguishes three subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease. &
Inhalational Alzheimer’s disease: an unrecognized – and treatable – epidemic. & Direct Transcriptional Effects of Apolipoprotein E.

Clinical Lifestyle Medicine Strategies for Preventing and Reversing Memory Loss in Alzheimer’s. – PubMed – NCBI & Ayurvedic Profiling of Alzheimer’s Disease. – PubMed – NCBI

The clinical practice of risk reduction for Alzheimer’s disease: A precision medicine approach – Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association

Precision Medicine for Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention

Reducing the Global Burden of Dementia: The First Alzheimer’s Survivors – YouTube

Dr. Steven Gundry interviews Dr. Dale Bredesen about “The End of Alzheimer’s” – YouTube

AHS16 – Steven Gundry – Dietary Management of the Apo E 4 – YouTube

Can Ketones Help Rescue Brain Fuel Supply in Later Life? Implications for Cognitive Health during Aging and the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease

Amy Berger: The Alzheimer’s Antidote: Using a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory Loss and Cognitive Decline, 2017

Guy Needler: Home – Guy Steven Needler | The Dawn of a New Age of Science (new website) & books: The History of God, Beyond the Source – Book 1, Beyond the Source – Book 2, Avoiding Karma, The Origin Speaks, 2015, The Anne Dialogues, 2016

Susann Taylor Shier: Susann Taylor Shier: Ignite Your Soul Fire and Activate the Divine Power Within (“Beyond the Ordinary Show” with John Burgos, September 19, 2018)

Ulla Sarmiento: “Spiritual Guide To Our Multiverse” In Paperback – Big Picture Questions.com & “Spiritual Guide To Our Multiverse” Is Now Published! – Big Picture Questions.com (Kindle) & “Guía Espiritual a Nuestro Multiverso” Is Now Published! – Big Picture Questions.com (Kindle & Paperback in Spanish edition)