Fighting Alzheimer’s in a Nutritional Way

Odds are that you know of someone who suffers from this terrible disease. I myself can name many, not to mention the ones who suffer right along with their loved one as they watch them deteriorate.

A recent ABC news story reports that 18% of all Baby Boomers (that’s 14 million people) are expected to develop Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s is growing at an alarmingly accelerated rate. Currently 5.2 million people have the disease, of which 500,000 are under the age of 65.

Wow! Those are frightening statistics to say the least! Why are there suddenly so many people with this disease? Where did it come from? What causes it? Conventional doctors will tell you that age is the only risk factor. Well, we can’t avoid getting older, and if age is the sole cause of this disease, then why was this disease unheard of before the 1970’s? People have been getting old since the beginning of time. Yet the fact is that this disease was not known to exist before then, not even under another name.

So what lifestyle changes did we make in the 1970’s that could have contributed to this epidemic? Dr. Joel D. Wallach asserts the following:

“Alzheimer’s appears to be a physician caused disease, because doctors have encouraged people, in fact demanded people to give up saturated fats and cholesterol and move to a cholesterol free diet to get their cholesterol down below 200. They have created no less than 25 cholesterol deficient diseases and to me Alzheimer's is one of the big ones.”

“75% of our brain weight is pure cholesterol. It’s called myelin, and it’s that fatty stuff which insulates each nerve fiber, the brain, and the spinal cord. We can only make about 10% of our daily need of cholesterol. The other 90% must come from our diet. And if a person is very, very good at giving up chicken skin, red meat, and eggs like a doctor would have them do, after about 6, 8, or 10 years they are NOT going to be able to keep up with the maintenance and repair needs of that cholesterol which is needed for the insulation of the myelin, brain, and spinal cord. And so you can just expect a person is going to develop one or more of these 25 physician caused diseases.”

“The best way to avoid Alzheimer’s disease is to eat a couple eggs every morning for breakfast, not cooked in margarine or fried. You want to consume as much as 72 ounces of red meat every month. I know that sounds like a lot, but that only amounts to just one quarter pounder per day. You want to supplement with the 90 essential nutrients. When you get to the Vitamin E level you want to have at least 2000 IU, and you want to have 500 micro grams of Selenium. And if you do that, even if you already have Alzheimer’s disease you can expect a significant amount of return of memory.”

On his DDDL (“Dead Doctors Don’t Lie”) radio program dated March 18th, 2008, Dr. Wallach talked about Alzheimer’s disease. He discusses how there is a high correlation between cholesterol-lowering drugs and Alzheimer’s disease. Click the link to listen. It’s very informative!!!