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today we’re going to talk about the six

early signs of um

what was that um

dementia now before i begin i want to

tell you a little story about what

happened when i was in practice and this

relates to early signs of dementia that

weren’t really early signs of dementia

you see when you’re stressed or tired or

maybe you didn’t sleep you could have

all of the symptoms of dementia but not

really have

dementia and the worst thing you could

do is give your spouse or partner

the wrong diagnosis or even diagnose

them at all that’s really really bad and

this relates to a couple that came in my

office quite some years ago

with early signs of dementia and as i

was talking to husband i asked him

when did you first

notice signs of dementia he said i’m not

sure but i think it was when my wife

started to diagnose me and i was like oh

okay and i noticed when they were

sitting there they were going back and

forth and the husband was having

problems remembering certain things and

his wife was constantly correcting him

and telling him

honey you forgot again and uh you’re

mixing up your words and etc etc and so

i was brutally honest and i actually

just told her that’s going to make

things worse every time you remind

someone that you made a mistake

you’re just going to lock it in and

they’re going to keep making the mistake

over and over and over so i pulled the

wife to the side and i i said i want you

to do an experiment i want you to just

let him make mistakes and just don’t

correct him at all for one week and when

they came back after a week it was quite

amazing because

he was articulate he was sharp he didn’t

seem to have any cognitive dysfunction

at all

so i just want to bring that up because

when i cover these six signs

it doesn’t mean that you have dementia

if you have these occasionally and if

you know someone who has these symptoms

just realize it could be sleep it could

be

their blood sugars it could be any

number of things that is not real

dementia all right that being said what

is dimension it’s a mental decline and

what’s usually happening is certain

parts of your brain are atrophying

they’re shrinking

specifically a structure called the

hippocampus which i’m going to

talk about in a little bit but here are

the early signs okay

you have difficulty

organizing and planning things you have

personality changes okay there’s a

change in personality but again that can

happen in for any number of reasons

number three and this is interesting

constipation now realize just because

you have conservation does not mean you

have dementia but it is one of the early

signs

simply because of the connection between

the gut and the brain your gut is like a

second brain you have more nerve fibers

in your digestive system than you do in

your spinal column and a lot of

cognitive problems

actually can stem from your gut the

microbiome in your gut all those

bacteria

make neurotransmitters

in fact those little microbes make more

serotonin than your brain makes

serotonin and people that have

alzheimer’s or parkinson’s have a much

higher incidence of constipation

than someone who doesn’t have those

issues then the next symptom would be

sensory

dysfunction that can include issues with

smell

taste

hearing

your eyesight and it can also be your

appetite all of these could be

some of the early signs of a cognitive

decline and as it declines more and more

and more

the ability to focus the ability to

concentrate

and your overall memory is what really

shows up as being a problem all right

number five language problems which i’ve

already mentioned

like you’re trying to um

find words for certain things you tend

to repeat things over and over again or

you might be mixing up your words

this is a problem with the hippocampus

and there’s a lot more to this topic

that i’m not going to get into in this

video but like there’s one symptom for

example that a person is able to talk

and make sentences totally fine but it’s

incoherent what they’re saying does not

make sense and i’m sure that’s extremely

frustrating because the person is trying

to get out this communication but it’s

coming out very randomly and all over

the place this is mainly a problem with

this hippocampus and the hippocampus is

just

shrinking i’m going to show you what to

do if you have this problem or you know

someone who has this problem and the

last sign of early dementia is the

inability to navigate well in new places

so let’s say for example you’re going

into a new

place you’re trying to find a store and

you just cannot

for the life of you find this location

this is because in our brain we have a

gps that allows us to locate where we

are in space and when this area goes

down

you lose your gps so

your internal map is dysfunctional and

you just cannot find out where you are

so if you have a problem with that that

could be an early sign of dimension all

right now i’m going to show you seven

things

that you need to do

to correct this okay before it becomes

more advanced the best time to correct

this is right now

in these early stages as compared to

waiting before it becomes a real big

problem and i think you can correct it

if you get it early enough but the big

problem in medicine

is the lack of

importance

or significance that your diet makes

in this area of your body they don’t

seem to connect the dots between the

great importance of what you eat and how

that can affect your brain they’re more

like well this could be genetic could

just be some stress things just happen

and there’s really nothing you can do

about it your diet is key in preventing

and even reversing dementia if you can

get it early enough alright so the first

thing to know is

what would shrink your hippocampus okay

a really common cause of

a problem with hippocampus especially

when in atrophies is a thymine

deficiency that is a b1 deficiency and

you can look this up it’s well known but

usually that can happen from

alcohol but it can also happen when

you’re on a high carb diet if you’re

consuming a lot of carbohydrates you are

going to deplete vitamin b1 so the more

sugar you eat the more carbohydrates you

consume

the more

b1 your body needs the demand for

thymine goes way up when you consume

carbohydrates because you need vitamin

b1 to metabolize carbohydrates

and the more alcohol you drink the more

b1 you need as well so number one start

taking b1 and nutritional yeast

is the best source of b1 and just make

sure that you get the kind that’s

not fortified with synthetic vitamins i

recommend going on the natural side

because synthetic vitamins might work

initially but they’re not a good

long-term solution now of course you

also want to do things that will prevent

a b1 deficiency and that would be

not drinking alcohol anymore and also

giving up some of these carbs

but i have some good news you can

consume

vegetable carbohydrates right so that’s

exciting all right let’s switch to

number two and i’ve already kind of

talked a little bit about this but you

want to fix the gut the microbiome

there’s some real interesting research

on alzheimer’s and parkinson’s and there

seems to always be a lack of diversity

in the microbiome

there always seems to be gut

inflammation in these patients as well

so one of the important things to do is

to increase the diversity of the

microbiome and one of the best ways to

do that is to start consuming different

types of vegetables not just one type of

vegetable over and over and over like

just salad but if you’re going to do

salad have a wide variety of different

types of salad different types of fibers

that have different phytonutrients that

can then

strengthen different strands so that’s

one way another way is to do fasting

fasting increases the diversity of your

microbiome now you would think if you

starved off the microbes they would get

weaker but they get stronger and you

have new strains that just kind of come

out and start to

thrive it’s part of the survival

mechanism that has been evolving for for

eons now also realize that your gut and

your brain is bidirectional okay through

the vagus nerve you have information

going from the gut to the brain and

information going from the brain down to

the gut so

if you have a problem with your brain

you’re gonna have a problem with your

gut if your problem with your gut you

can have a problem with your brain and

like i said before

a good amount of the neurotransmitters

are produced by your microbes a good

amount of the b vitamins are made by

your own microbes and

there’s been some really good research

on

getting people off gluten and seeing

huge improvements in dementia and so

gluten can actually worsen dementia and

i’m not just talking about going on a

gluten-free diet i’m talking about going

in a low-carb no grain diet and one

little point about gmo foods foods that

have been exposed to glyphosate which is

an herbicide which is connected to gmo

foods are not good for your brain simply

because glyphosate

works by destroying

microorganisms certain pathways in

microbes like bacteria well guess what

that can affect our microbes just like

it affects the microbes in the soil so

you do want to start consuming more

organic foods non-gmo foods all right

number three and this is pretty powerful

i found some great research on consuming

more sprouts like broccoli sprouts that

have sulforaphane now unique thing about

sprouts is that they come from these

little seeds okay

and if you were to consume the seed it

would be first of all not very available

to you as far as the nutrition in it and

so it’s very difficult to digest but

when it sprouts you have incredible

amounts of nutrition that’s released and

so if you’re consuming sprouts on a

regular basis

you’re not only getting some of the peak

nutrition that a plant has but you’re

also getting certain phytonutrients that

are not just anti-cancer like i’ve

talked about in other videos they are

super food for your brain so

sulfurophane in broccoli sprouts

is fantastic for any type of

neurodegenerative

disorders plus sprouts

are really good for your gut and with

alzheimer’s patients and parkinson’s

the incidence of

leaky gut is also very very high so

include sprouts in your salad on a

regular basis and they’re very very

cheap to to grow yourself all right

number four and this is also very very

important

ketones ketones bypass

the damage in the brain and feed the

neurons directly because think about

what’s happening in the hippocampus

you’re getting destruction of your brain

cells so we need to restore that we need

to feed the brain cells

fuel so apparently at that stage it’s

not getting glucose fuel

so if you feed it ketone fuel it can

thrive and so if you have any stage of

dementia at all you need to be doing

regular intermittent fasting as well as

periodic prolonged fasting and you’re

going to see

huge benefits

and for two reasons number one is that

you’re going to generate a lot more

ketones than you would even if you want

a low carb diet and you’re also going to

up regulate all sorts of genetic factors

that support your brain now i also

recommend

consuming like mct oil you can also do

exogenous ketones you can buy these

ketones as a supplement and so you just

take like one tablespoon of mct oil

maybe twice a day and that will help

your brain a lot all right dinkle biloba

has shown some significant

benefits for dementia patients

specifically the extract e g b

761

so apparently that extract gives you

some significant neural protection to

your brain all right number six this is

a good one

lion’s mane mushroom you know mushrooms

are just fascinating the research done

on lion’s mane it’s just off the charts

as far as

impacting your cognitive function i mean

it’s not insignificant it’s it creates a

huge impact on your brain so i’m going

to put that information down below and

then there’s the usual recommendations

that i always talk about in my videos on

your brain

that would be the omega-3 fatty acids

specifically dha

found in fatty fish and fish oil and

especially cod liver oil then you also

have vitamin d which has a huge impact

zinc very important exercise something

else that’s very important to increase

oxygen to your brain

and sleep if you’re not sleeping

you’re going to jack up cortisol you’re

going to be more stressed and you’re

going to deplete the brain of oxygen now

if you haven’t seen my recent video on

the brain

you need to check this out i put it up

right here