Can Alzheimer’s Be Prevented? Proven Lifestyle Shifts That Protect Your Brain

Hey, and welcome back to Everyday Vitality.

Or if you're new here, I'm so glad you're joining us.

Today, we're going to talk about something that's affecting so many of us.

We're going to talk about Alzheimer's and dementia, and we are going to talk about that.

The data now shows us, the science shows us that Alzheimer's and dementia can be prevented, it can be stopped, and it can be reversed.

And most of these things can be changed with, by doing things in our own lives, making lifestyle changes.

And it has great impact.

And so I'm going to share some resources with you, some tools, some really great books that I have and I've read, and then we're going to talk about some simple things that you can do.

If you're starting to experience cognitive decline or if someone in your life is starting to have early signs, or even if they're further along, years into it, there are things that you can do to minimize their mental or cognitive decline.

So I, and I just want to share with you.

I'm, I'm doing this episode because everyone I know has a loved one or multiple loved ones that are dealing with Alzheimer's, which is a form of dementia or with dementia.

And so it's, it's affecting everybody.

In just a minute, I will also share with you some data points about just how big of a problem this is.

Welcome to Everyday Vitality, the podcast that empowers you to live your healthiest, most vibrant life naturally.

I'm Kristen Fitch, your guide to natural wellness.

Over the years, I've learned the importance of embracing holistic health, from clean living to ancestral practices to help me feel my best and keep me improving my wellness.

In each episode, we'll explore how alternative health nourishing habits and natural therapies can enhance your energy, vitality and health.

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I want to start off today's episode sharing with you a quote, and it is, to me, it's kind of the crux of everything.

It's the crux of this, the reason for this show, and it's the crux of what I think we all want in our life, which is we want to be healthy.

We want to be able to do all the things that we'd hoped and dreamed to do as we age, as we get into the next decades.

And so the quote is by the ancient Greek physician Herophilus, who said, when health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight wealth becomes useless and intelligence cannot be applied.

And I know that if we understand how to stay mentally strong and how to minimize our cognitive decline, we are going to be able to keep contributing to society, to the world, to our families, to leave a better or stronger or more beautiful legacy and put the art we're meant to make into the world.

And that is what I want for all of us.

And so we're going to dig in now to today's topic, which is how to reverse, stop or end Alzheimer's.

And globally, 55 million people have some form of dementia.

And the data gets worse as we get older.

One in nine people that are 65 years or older are going to have or get dementia.

That's almost 11% of everyone 65 and older.

And then as we get older than that, for those of us that are still around at 85, 33% of people over 85 get dementia or Alzheimer's.

And the stats are not looking better if we don't, as a country and globally make big changes.

That is not great.

And so we've got to.

First of all, as I talk about in a lot of episodes, we have to be our own health advocates.

We have to become a slave sleuth.

We have to educate ourselves, and we cannot rely on a doctor to do that for us.

It's our job to be informed about health issues that we have or about common health things that are gonna.

That can happen to us.

And what can we do proactively so that we don't end up right with these memory issues?

We don't end up becoming a possible burden one day to other people.

And don't get me wrong, I am not saying that people are purposely getting any of these things, but what's happening is most of us do not understand that our everyday choices and things that even sometimes we're never told about are causing us to have cognitive decline.

And so that's what I'm talking about is if we educate ourselves, we're literally then have the tools and the capacity to, to prevent or reverse these horrible diseases.

Okay, so the first thing is there was a Harvard study, I think it was last summer, but it basically was kind of surprised.

And they said, wow, we've noticed that when people make lifestyle changes, right, they change their diet, they're moving more, they Change, you know, their sleep hygiene, those sort of things and other things, too, that people had such.

Had improvements with their.

All of their cognitive testing.

Right.

So in other words, they actually got better, you know, or somewhat better in that study.

And what people will tell you on the more holistic or natural side is they've been talking about these things for a very long time, right?

That it's.

It's what we do on our own, not when we step into a doctor's office and they prescribe something.

It's what we do day in and day out.

And that is why we want to educate ourselves.

That is why we want to learn information and then share it with other people.

We want to share it with our loved ones.

We want to go and get the book or the study so that we can have the information to.

To heal ourselves.

And that's probably another thing I want to say.

Our bodies are such a miraculous thing.

They're literally designed to heal themselves.

Much like when we get a broken bone, it is designed to heal itself.

Well, we're just.

We're also designed to clear out these bad cells, right?

Like when we get cancer cells, all of us are getting these old cells, but we need to get rid of them.

And if, if we have pathways that aren't working properly, if we're not getting enough sleep, if we get too much inflammation, these can cause these chronic conditions or it can cause.

It can become the path towards.

Right.

Cognitive decline.

Okay, so let's dig in here.

So the first thing is, is in general, they say that dementia in Alzheimer's, and at some point, I'm only going to use one of those words because like I said, Alzheimer's is just a type.

It's one of the subsets of dementia.

But it's caused by inflammation, right?

We have either chronic or some level, whether it's a low level of inflammation or a high level, our bodies are.

Are inflamed because of everything that we're exposed to and we're putting in them.

In some cases, it has.

It's because we're.

We have poor detoxification in our body.

And then a lot of times it's also things like we have poor blood sugar numbers.

In other words, we're not managing our blood sugar in a way that's good for our bodies.

And some people now call Alzheimer's disease type 3 diabetes, because our blood sugar, when we don't get that under control and we eat a lot of the wrong things, a lot.

So really high carbs, processed foods, seed oils, well, that has more to do with inflammation than the blood sugar.

Sweets.

Those things harm our blood sugar, which over time can harm our body and our brain.

Brains.

All right, so that's what it's caused by.

But what's great is the data shows that if we.

We start eating better.

So if we eat more like a Mediterranean diet, so more veget, more fresh vegetables and fruits, nuts, olive oil, not your other oils, Right.

There's only a couple good oils.

And if you're still eating things or salad dressings that have canola oil in it, safflower oil, saffron, sunflower oil, all of these, they are inflammatory in your body.

And the process to create them is pretty horrible.

It's very chemical driven.

But olive oil, right, Is literally pressed olives.

So you want to make sure you're getting a good.

Good one, right?

That it's.

It's clean.

But olive oil, fish, beans, whole grains, right?

So those are the types of foods we want to be eating.

And we want to limit purchased or packaged foods because almost every salad dressing, even the most of the good brand or the brands that seem good, they still have seed oils in them.

And seed oils, like I said, are like the corn oil, the safflower oil, all of these other things like that.

All right, so first, what we can do to improve our cognitive health is eat, have a better diet, right?

Of course, if we can eat organic or as much as we can.

That's important because most of our food nowadays has pesticides on them.

That's literally how they.

Well, first of all, they use pestides in commercial farming in a lot of cases.

But also they're spraying our crops, like our wheat crop and our corn crops and soy.

They're spraying them with what's basically Roundup or whatever, the glyphosate, as a desiccant, which means that they're using it at the end of the.

After the growing season to dry the crop.

So they're literally spraying poison toxin on our food before they then use it to create products.

Once again, it's just another toxin getting put in our body that we have to try to detox out.

And even organic food can have some residues of these things just because of fields being near other fields and that sort of thing, but it has a lot less.

Okay, so the first thing is food.

The next thing is we need to be moving short walks throughout the day.

Other types of exercise are really important.

You can do yoga, stretching, but we need to be moving our bodies.

It's really important for every.

So first of all, I should say all the things I'm talking about today and in general the experts are talking about, we should be doing, all of us should be doing these things.

Not just to not get Alzheimer's or to try to reverse it, but these are also recommendations for people that are starting to have cognitive issues.

Okay, so.

Okay, sorry, movement.

And then the next is we need to prioritize sleep because it's actually during sleep that our brain, first of all, well, so many things happen in our body right, when we're sleeping.

It's when we clear out the bad or the old cells.

And it's also when we, our brain goes through our memories from that day and then it decides which ones to keep.

But when we don't get enough sleep, we're harming that, that process when our body's trying to heal, right, when it's trying to rest and digest all of these things.

And so we do really need to look at our sleep habits or are we trying to sleep, but we're getting woken up a lot, so we might need to look at that also.

Sunlight getting out in the sun is so important to our bodies.

We were designed, and for most of history, right, we were outdoors so much more.

But nowadays, especially if you're somebody that's struggling with cognitive issues, they're.

They're stuck indoors that nobody's taking them outside to get that sunlight.

But there's hundreds of processes that happen through our eyes and through our skin when the sun, you know, touches our body.

So it produces vitamin D, but it does so much more than that.

It actually tells our body, I think helps to produce melanin and other things, but it's what sets our circadian rhythm.

So it, so our body knows when to do what with what systems.

So it's super important.

And they've found that most of us are deficient in vitamin D actually.

And we want our vitamin D to really be somewhere closer to.

If you go and get it tested, right, it's a think, it's a blood test.

You want it to be somewhere between 50 and 100 for, for better health, because the lower your vitamin D level.

So if it's under, let's say, 30, right, and below, you are more likely to get sick.

And then you're more likely to get a disease or cancer because your body is, is depleted in vitamin D and you need vitamin D, you need that hormone.

So they say two of the two, Two of the many things you should get checked, though, if you're an older adult, is your vitamin B12 and your D. Because a lot of older adults as we age are low and both of those need to be increased, especially if we're having cognitive issues.

So that's something to look at.

Okay, so the next thing is people that tend to age and have a, I guess a vibrant mental capacity.

Usually you want to keep challenging yourself, right?

Drive home a different route, take a walk a different way, right?

So do things that you're not used to doing so that your mind has to work differently.

We don't want to have the same routine, the same pattern with everything in our lives every day because it's, it makes it too easy, right?

Our brain doesn't have to shift and work and, and try to figure things out and just use your brain.

So a lot of people, you know, they like doing challenges or maybe they read, but a lot of people don't.

We just.

Nowadays we all scroll on our phones or we watch hours and hours of Netflix or whatever our, you know, choice there is.

And that's okay to watch shows sometimes, but we need to be doing other things that challenge our brain and make us work, right?

Make our brains work, make new connections.

The next thing is we want to have a social life as we get older.

The data shows that one of the biggest indicators of living a long life, so having longevity and having a rich life is having deep connections.

Like in other words, having a few relationships with people, meaningful relationships that can be friends, it can be a spouse, it can be a social group, but it can be a cause, right?

Like you're a volunteer.

But what they found is more important than what you eat, more important if you exercise or any other data point.

They found that people that have strong social connections as you get older, they live typically the longest, you know, if everything else, if you will, is equal.

So that is huge.

But I think as we get older, sometimes we are more isolated and I think that's true.

More so because in the US at least, we don't have as many people living in homes where it's multi generational or next door to our parents or siblings.

So in those cultures that have that, as we got older, we were around a lot of people and different generations of our family a lot more than most of us.

Now most of us are more spread out from our families, so we don't get together every day or even every week.

So it really does make a difference.

And like I said, it doesn't mean you have to be around your family.

But I'm just pointing out that the way culturally or, or generationally a lot of people lived.

It was already set up that way so that as we got older, we were still social, right?

We still had purpose and meaning by being involved in the family unit and maybe making dinner or watching the kids or whatever it might have been.

Okay, so here is something else I shared at the beginning that we need to be our own health advocates.

But I'm going to share some stuff in a little bit with you about why we need to educate ourselves and why we need to know what can worsen our cognitive capacity, what's going to make it decline.

I think you're going to be surprised by some of the information.

But one last thing that I wanted to share with you is, before I share that, is that if you're having some chronic type of health issue or disease or if you're having the early signs of dementia, you need to consider one.

It can be tied to your gut, right?

Your gut is directly tied to your brain.

So that matters.

Right?

We want to get that straight.

But the other thing a lot of people overlook or don't even know is your mouth health.

Your mouth microbiome actually is so tied to your.

Your brain, right.

It's so close, right.

It literally shares so much right there.

Right?

The nerves and things.

So here's the deal.

If you're someone that's had either you have poor dental hygiene, meaning, you know, you don't.

You don't care for your mouth, or you don't go to the dentist regularly.

Well, that's one concern.

The other would be if you go to the nurse regularly, but you've had root canals and you've had teeth pulled and just different mouth issues.

If that's been the case and you're having an ongoing inflammation or infection or a disease, you might want to look into going to a holistic dentist that's certified.

I think you can search Google and find a list of holistic dentists.

And there's actually not as many as you think around the country, but they are around.

But they will do a special type of scan that will see, and I don't remember the name of it, I'll try to put it in the show notes.

They can see if you have like these pockets of inflammation up above where you're not going to see it in a normal X ray that you do at the dentist's office.

But if that's the case, then a holistic dentist can help you or work with your doctor in them to try to clear the infection that you might not even know you have.

Because we're not talking about an active infection where like your mouth is swollen and it's red and it hurts.

We're talking about like this underlying deep in your tissue.

Right.

Like kind of in your jaw area.

But there are so many stories and documented information where someone had something going on with their mouth when they got it resolved.

Some of their health issues get better.

But I also, I, I think there's data that says if your mouth is not good.

And actually in one of the books I'm going to share, then often those people have more mental issues, like as we get older.

Okay, so I want to share two books with you that are really good books if you're someone that wants to learn more about this, this information.

The first one's called the End of Alzheimer's and it says the first program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline.

And it is by Dale E. Let's see.

Maryland.

He's the professor and founding president of Buck Institute and he's a professor at ucla.

But it's a really good book.

I think it only came out.

Let's see.

Okay.

Now, I only bought this last year, but it is a powerful book.

It talks about so many things.

It talks about.

Let me get to the beginning of the book and tell you a little bit about it.

It tells you about the Alzheimer's solution.

It says how to give yourself Alzheimer's, basically the things we shouldn't be doing.

It tells us what things you should be doing in your health.

So how do you reverse cognitive decline?

Let's see.

And then it's basically, it tells you tests you should do, it tells you supplements you should be taking.

It tells you.

Sorry, I'm just going through it real quick.

What, what you should be eating, exercise.

So it really goes through it and it's all research based.

So this is a really good book.

I highly recommend that.

And like I said, it'll be in the show notes the other book, and this one's older, I think, but it is chock full of great information.

And it's by Bruce, Fife and Dee.

And this book is pretty amazing.

I mean, I actually recommend you get both if you're somebody that's trying to help someone that has dementia or Alzheimer's or any of those other Neurodevelopments, neurodegenerative diseases.

So a couple things, I'll give you another little tip.

So in this book he talks about one of the things that we can do that that's pretty easy to add into our daily life and into our diet that can make a huge difference with people.

I mean, it's good for all of us.

But for sure, surely for people with cognitive decline is coconut oil.

So taking coconut oil and in the, you can take regular coconut oil, but also MCT oil, which is just medium chain type triglycerides.

So it's only that part of the coconut oil.

But he, he has studies in here and he has a, or case studies where people started taking the coconut oil and they had done like a cognitive test prior to starting it and just kind of like how poorly they did.

And then after taking it's 1 or 2 tablespoons or a couple tablespoons a day, I don't remember the exact amount, they then did the same test and they saw pretty big improvements in some of their cognitive ability, like recall doing the clock, where people that are really struggling with some of their cognitive areas can't as, as you get older and you're struggling with that, they can't draw a clock with the numbers and in the right places and the hands.

And so then after starting the coconut oil, they improved greatly.

Obviously he talks about all sorts of other things, but in his book he does have a whole section about dental health and the connection to cognitive decline.

Also he has a section about type 3 diabetes, which is basically insulin resistance can harm our whole body, our organs, but also our brains.

And what's a really great chapter in here that I think a lot of people, people just don't know is this.

I'm trying to find it.

He has a section that tells you what all medications, both over the counter or prescription, can actually harm your brain.

And I don't think doctors mostly talk about that or anyone.

Oops, here we go.

So first of all, so drugs, there's a whole section on drugs.

And basically first of all, if you have to have anesthesia, it's that can actually cause, after anesthesia, it can cause you to have issues cognitively.

And while you can reverse that, a lot of patients aren't told that.

Let's see.

And there are actually some supplements that you can take prior to a procedure and then after that help mitigate the impact of anesthesia on your body and on your brain.

And so that's important to know because no one's.

I've never heard that before.

And I know people that have had anesthesia and I had to have it for one of my sons because I ended up having to have surgery.

I mean that was, you know, 18 or almost 19 years ago.

So at that time I didn't know any of this information.

The next thing is anticholineic medications.

It says it inhibits the function of choleragenic neurons.

But those medications can harm, they block the neurotransmitter and they can harm our minds.

They can cause us to have more cognitive decline over time.

Let me see here.

So I was just trying to see if there's a couple, let me give you a couple examples of that.

Well, I think some of them, let's see, let me see if these are the anticlogenics.

Okay.

So some of the medications people are taking that they don't, they don't realize that they can harm you and lead towards possible cognitive issues.

Antihistamines are in that, in that realm but nobody's told that.

And there's people that take antihistamines possibly every day.

So that's something to look into.

And there might be some things that aren't but you need to look into, into it.

Tylenol, PM and let's see, children's Tylenol, cold, children's Tylenol allergy.

See what else the Benadryl allergy and cold medication, certain types.

So what it is is they, they all have ingredients in them, they have adverse effects on the central nervous system.

And while at Tylenol, I wouldn't recommend it in general anyways or, or over the counter pain relievers, the ones that can hurt our, our brains are like the PMS because of that or the anti histamines and things like that.

And so we want to be really careful.

Also NSAIDs, certain ones cause other neurological disturbances ranging from mental confusion and vertigo to Parkinson's, epilepsy.

But you need to get the book, it has whole sections on this.

And I think it's hard to find this information because I search many times and I try to go directly to look like what are the side effects for a medication.

But once again this comes down to we can't just assume our doctor knows because they were in medical school, they were taught what medications can help with what symptom.

But I don't believe in many cases that you're actually given this type of information how it's tied to our mental ability or the decline of it as we, as we get older or if we're just on a lot of things.

And yeah, he gives some other examples of anticholinergenic drugs, and there's other types of drugs that can cause issues, too.

But he said some of the most recognized ones on the market are Benadryl, Contact Fixed Formula, 44M, Zantac, Tylenol, Cold Relief, Tylenol PM, and more like that.

And I think he has a whole list of other drugs in the appendix and what drugs seniors should avoid.

But the other thing that I've seen and I've learned is as you get older, and let's say you have one condition, so the doctor's giving you a prescription, but then you start having another symptom.

So then the doctor gives you another prescription, and we end up with more, more and more prescriptions as we get older, if we're not careful or we don't ask questions, or we don't say, is there another alternative that might be more natural?

We end up on all these medications and we don't really know what it's doing to our brain.

We don't really know how they're interacting together.

Because in most cases, let's say someone's on five medications or more.

In a lot of cases, they have not studied putting those five specific medications together and then studied it for 50 years.

Okay.

I mean, even if they studied the medication individually, they I.

That I know of, they've never studied all of these different combinations together.

And so what is it doing to your body?

What is it doing to your brain?

How is it stopping your brain communicating properly with your body or stopping neurotransmitters from working properly?

Or maybe it's making them go.

Something go off all the time instead.

Right.

So that your brain doesn't have time to rest.

So that's the other thing.

We have to start asking questions.

We have to start saying, I'd really rather not go on this medication.

What is my options?

Start asking, if I take this, how will it change my outcome?

Because a lot of times if you actually press them or you do your own research, the numbers are not worth the cons of taking the medication.

So, for instance, I think I shared on the last episode that was about asking the right questions to your doctor.

Certain medications like statins have a lot of risk, right?

There's a lot of risk side of things, and a lot of people have side effects.

But if you take a statin, it doesn't actually.

It only extend your life by like a day or a couple hours.

And that's, that's their study, which I'm not even sure what that was based on.

So what I'm saying though is if that was the case, I would say, well, what supplement can I take?

Or what natural thing like beetroot powder can improve your blood pressure?

I mean, there's a lot of things that can, but that's absolutely natural.

It's just ground up beets that you put into your drink.

Pomegranate juice.

Right.

Like, so there's all these things that.

Actually berberine is something.

It's a supplement from a plant that's known to help even out and lower your blood sugar and cholesterol naturally without side effects.

But the doctors aren't telling you that because it's not in their toolbox.

Right.

Their toolbox is the prescription medication.

I will say there are more doctors coming on board, traditionally trained doctors that are practicing lifestyle medicine.

Right.

Or practicing preventative medicine.

Instead of us going to the doctor and then them trying to provide us something once we already have an issue.

Right.

They're usually doing that and they're not really getting to the root cause.

And to be honest, they don't really have the time.

Right.

They're not given the time in our medical system to spend much time with a patient.

And that's why some doctors leave.

Right.

And then they end up doing other practicing in different ways because they don't really have the time to get to know their patients and to really help them on a deeper or a more long term level.

Okay, so the next thing I want to share with you is if you're somebody that's online, if you're on Instagram, there's some really good people you can follow.

But one of them is Dr. Clint Steele.

He is, I think, think he's a neuro.

I can't remember his exact title.

He doesn't say it right here.

Let me see if I can find out.

But he, what he does is he just shares tips on how to improve our cognitive health.

And so he's a really good person to share.

He has good tips and good ideas.

So I like him.

And his account is Dr. Steel, 56.

It's D R S T E E L. And he has over 600, 000 people following him.

So there's lots of people getting his content and they're just small clips, but they always give you a good tidbit.

And then there's another researcher I follow and it is, his name is Robert Love and he is a neuroscientist and he specializes in helping people prevent Alzheimer's disease with science.

So his account, I think is just Robert Love trying to see.

But anyways, if you're somebody that likes to get content that way.

Right.

And ideas, and he talks about supplements and things that we can do, that's a great.

Another account to follow on Instagram.

Okay.

And I do want to also mention something first.

If you're hearing this episode and you're thinking, yeah, right, it's not that easy, which I absolutely understand that.

My dad passed away several months ago with Parkinson's, and he did have, I think, Alzheimer's.

I can't remember if they called it dementia or Alzheimer's.

But regardless, he had cognitive decline and it had gotten worse, especially in the months prior to him passing.

And I absolutely get it.

Like, I've walked through that with him.

Sadly, by the time I tried to understand some of this information that I'm talking about and not.

Not diet, he.

He had a decent, good diet, stuff like that.

He tried supplements, but it was.

It was almost too late for him.

Right.

I mean, he.

His Parkinson's was very advanced and he was really struggling.

So physically and mentally, it was.

It was a big issue.

But he did.

Did have other issues, Right?

Like, he definitely had a lot of dental issues over the years.

I mean, so there was all these other things going on.

He definitely had high pesticide exposure in his lifetime and things like that.

But I only share this to say we just.

We have to start before we end up with these terrible diseases or if we're starting to have the early signs.

That's when we need to be so proactive.

Seek out the experts in these fields, go get the books, make the changes in your life.

It might seem hard, you might not want to, but if you want a chance to have full vitality and longevity and do it on your terms.

Right.

Living well, then we've got to start looking at what the newer science and the.

The doctors that are actually figuring this out are saying, and they are not saying what the basic doctor is saying.

So I want to share this little excerpt from you, from this book, the End of Alzheimer's, because I think it might encourage you.

So he's basically sharing how it's been pretty dismal, right?

Alzheimer's diagnosis.

We haven't really had any medications that have helped it.

It's just a horrible, horrible disease.

But then he says, if you have a high risk of developing Alzheimer's because of the genes you carry, if you have already developed it, or if you have a loved one who has, you therefore have every right to be very upset about the situation.

No wonder we have come to fear Alzheimer's disease as omnipotent, as hopeless, as impervious to any and all treatments.

But then he says, until now, he says, let me say this as clearly as I can.

Alzheimer's disease can be prevented and in many cases its associated cognitive decline can be reversed.

For that is precisely what my colleagues and I have shown in peer reviewed studies and leading medical journals, studies that for the first time describe exactly this remarkable result in patients.

Yes, I know it flouts decades of conventional wisdom to claim that cognitive decline can be reversed, that there are hundreds of patients who have done just that, and that there are steps we can all take now to prevent the cognitive decline that experts have long believed to be unavoidable and irreversible.

He says these are bold claims deserving of healthy skepticism.

I expect you to exercise that skepticism as you read about the three decades of research in my lab which culminated in the first reversals of cognitive decline in early Alzheimer's disease and its precursors, mci, which is mild cognitive impairment, and sci, which is subjective cognitive impairment.

I expect you to exercise that skepticism as you read the stories of these patients, patients who climbed out of the abyss of cognitive decline.

There's one other thing I want to mention that this book, the End of Alzheimer's, talks about.

He says by following the protocol I described, those with cognitive impairment that is not yet Alzheimer's disease, as well as those who are already in the grip of Alzheimer's, can not only halt but often actually reverse the cognitive decline they have already suffered.

For those stricken, progression to severe dementia has until now been inevitable, with nothing but bad news from every expert.

But he says the anti Alzheimer's protocol my colleagues and I developed consigns that bleak dogma to that dustbin of history.

But he also says this.

There is another group of people that might be reading this book and if you have the gene variant called the ApoE4, which is the polypop protein E, he says if you have that, because it's a strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's I see here.

Well, so if you.

Either you have it from one parent or both.

So anyways, he's talking, if you have that right.

So that's going to be some people that are listening to this or some people you know, that are dealing with this.

He says the vast majority of people with the Apoe 4 carriers don't know about this potential ticking time bomb in their DNA and typically find out only after the onset of symptoms.

Let's see, he says it's certainly understandable that as long as there's no preventative or treatment for Alzheimer's, most people would not want to know their APOE status.

But he's saying, hold on.

The reason I'm bringing this up is because in case that could be you, I just want you to know there's also hope in the book for people like that.

So I guess we'll just leave it at that because there's a lot more information about that and I can't go into all that right now, but I really just wanted to come on and share some of this information for you.

I wanted to give.

Give you hope, to say.

I hope you hear something in this episode today that that's a little glimmer for you.

Maybe it's that you're going to go grab the book or read about one of these people's research or what they've uncovered or unearthed.

Maybe it's that no one's told you that there might be hope for you or your loved one to possibly improve your mental state.

And I get that it's different for everybody.

And the more conditions we already have and, and the more medications we might be on, that path back might be harder.

I understand that.

But I just want you to know there's hope.

And I also want to share with you.

I will be having experts come on this podcast that they're going to dig deep into the topics that I care about and I think you care about as well.

I'm lining those up for the next six months, coming up soon.

And if you're an expert or you know someone that is that I might want to talk to, I'd love for you to reach out.

So head over to KristinFitch.com and I have a podcast contact or podcast guest form.

And I also just want to leave with this.

If you're somebody that is, you know, stepping into the midlife state or later, I have a great download on my website called the Five Day Midlife Reset.

Energy Reset, I should say.

But it's just some really simple things you can do to try to up your energy and feel better.

Better.

Right.

Like lower your stress and all of those things.

Because for all of us, it's going to be all about the daily choices we make.

The water we're drinking, the food we're eating, educating ourselves.

Not just, you know, being a consumer, that's not paying attention.

It's what we're putting on our skin.

It's the environment we're in.

Are we stepping out into nature and turning off or giving away from all this emf, our electronics, right?

We're.

We're in houses all day long with lights that our bodies don't really like and with all this electronic electromagnetic energy fields, right?

Like, we have to realize that the way we're living now is not helping our body's natural state.

And so we have got to start making changes if we want to live and have every day be vital and live our best lives and do what we want to do and not have to be constrained right into being ill as we get older.

So that's it.

I just want to share that with you today.

But like I said, I'd love to hear from you.

I'd love to hear from you if something in this episode spoke to you.

If you have other data that I should share with the listeners, maybe there's other information.

I mean, no, there's other information.

There's so much that could have been shared in this episode, but I wanted to just start off with some highlights and some thoughts for you so that you can maybe take one of these things and dig a little deeper.

Thanks again for listening to Everyday Vitality.

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