What to do About Short Term Memory Loss

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What to do About Short Term Memory Loss
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• In the past decade hundreds of clinical trials,
  at an aggregate cost of over one billion dollars,
  have been conducted to find the ONE cure for
  Alzheimers Disease. But they all came up
  empty.    It turns out that there is a cure for
  early Alzheimers, including short term memory
  loss but its not one particular drug or
  toodling with one specific gene. In fact, its
  not ONE thing at all.

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• In a small joint study, scientists from UCLA Mary
  S. Easton Center for Alzheimers Disease Research
  and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging
  found that memory loss may be reversed, and
  improvement sustained, using a lifestyle program
  that involves comprehensive changes in diet,
  brain stimulation, exercise, meditation,
  supplements and multiple additional steps that
  affect brain chemistry.

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•   Sounds almost exactly like the program I
  developed for myself in 2004 when evidence of my
  mental decline became progressively worse. My
  symptoms were very much like the early part of
  Alzheimers Disease that had claimed my mother
  ten years before I was making copious notes
  because of short term memory loss I didnt ask a
  question because Icouldnt remember if I had just
  asked it and my tongue kept tripping on words,
  if I could evenfind the word.

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• Some of the ten participants in UCLA/Buck
  Institutes study had symptoms similar to mine.
  For example, patient 3s memory was so bad that
  she used an iPad to record everything, then
  forgot her password. Her children noticed she
  commonly lost her train of thought in
  mid-sentence, and often asked them if they had
  carried out the tasks that she mistakenly thought
  she had asked them to do.

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•     The study was conducted by Dr. Dale Bredesen,
  UCLAs Augustus Rose Professor of Neurology,
  director of the Easton Center and the papers
  author. Although other chronic illnesses such as
  heart disease, cancer and HIV have been improved
  through the use of combination therapies, this is
  the first time a clinical trial has been
  conducted for Alzheimers by combining a number
  of therapies.

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• Dr. Bredesentheorized that, rather than a single
  targeted agent, the solution might be a
  multiple-component system approach. The existing
  Alzheimers drugs affect a single target, but
  Alzheimers Disease is more complex. Imagine
  having a roof with 36 holes in it, and your drug
  patched one hole very well, he said. The drug
  may have worked, and a single hole may have been
  fixed, but you still have 35 other leaks, and so
  the underlying process may not be affected much.
  Dr. Bredesen added that although the findings are
  very encouraging, the results are largely
  anecdotal and a more extensive, controlled
  clinical trial is needed.

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• Of course, integrative functional medical
  practitioners have been combining diet and other
  lifestyle and healing techniques for decades to
  successfully reverse mild impairment associated
  with Alzheimers. They just did not have the
  necessary financing for clinical research
  studies.    In the UCLA/Buck Institute study,
  cognitive decline was reversed in nine of the ten
  participants. The patient who had been diagnosed
  with late stage Alzheimers did not improve.

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• The global burden of dementia is astounding, and
  on the rise. Alzheimers disease is now the third
  leading cause of death in the United States,
  after heart disease and cancer. There are
  currently 5.2 million Americans with AD, and 75
  million young Americans with the most important
  genetic risk factor, APO-e4, the Alzheimers
  geneI inherited.    Cognitive decline can be
  reversed.I did it with my program of mind body
  spirit practices I developed and began using in
  2004 and shared with the world in the books I
  have published. Today, at 81 years old, I am
  strong and healthy in mind body and spirit and
  very grateful.

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• Ellen Wood of Taos, NM is an inspirational
  speaker and award-winning author of Think and
  Grow Young. Her new book is Joy! Joy! Joy! 7
  Mind Body Spirit Self-Help Practices to Relieve
  Stress and Anxiety, Reverse Memory Loss and Live
  Happy. Contact her at ellen_at_bookofjoyjoyjoy.com.

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