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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">ALZHEIMER’S
DISEASE: SOME ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt">
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<p><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">"(Research) suggests to me that if everyone started
on a good nutritional program supplemented with optimum doses of vitamins and
minerals before age fifty, and remained on it, the incidence of Alzheimer's
disease would drop precipitously."</span></em></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial"> (
<st1:place w:st="on">
<st1:city w:st="on">Abram Hoffer</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">MD</st1:state></st1:place>,
PhD) </span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"><a href="../../hoffer_psychosis.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_psychosis.html</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Hoffer A: A case of
Alzheimer's treated with nutrients. <em>J
Orthomolecular Medicine</em> 8:43-44, 1993. Also: Hoffer A: Alzheimer's
- An Anecdote (letter) <em>Townsend Letter
for Doctors and Patients</em>, No.179, 107-109, 1998
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Dr. Harold
Foster’s book, <em>What Really Causes
Alzheimer’s Disease</em>, further discusses Dr. Hoffer’s work. The
full text of this book can be downloaded, free of charge, at <a href="http://www.hdfoster.com/publications">http://www.hdfoster.com/publications</a>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Choline/<span class="SpellE">Lechithin</span>
<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Supplemental choline has already shown promise in treating
Alzheimer's Disease. In <em>Geriatrics</em>,
way back in July 1979, lecithin was employed as a therapy to combat memory
loss. Studies at MIT show increases in both choline and the vital
neurotransmitter acetylcholine in the brains of animals after just ONE
lecithin meal. (<em>Today's Living</em>,
February, 1982) <a href="../../nerves.html">http://www.doctoryourself.com/nerves.html</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">It is important to use
enough lecithin to have a reasonable hope of success. You can personally try
taking a few tablespoons of lecithin granules (I take between 4 and 8 twice a
week, for I want to remember all my great-grandchildren’s middle names
and sweater sizes someday). Notice anything? You can feel the almost a
caffeine-like increase in your awareness. That is probably the effect
of an acetylcholine boost. Think what this might do for an
Alzheimer’s patient. Lecithin is a very safe substance: it is difficult
to hurt yourself with essential fatty acids and choline. Try lecithin
granules in yogurt, in a fruit smoothie (write for free recipes) or, if you
are really new to all this, on ice cream.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial"><a href="../../lecithin.html">http://doctoryourself.com/lecithin.html</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Vitamin B-12</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">B-12 deficiency may
be mistaken for, or even cause, Alzheimer’s disease. B-12
deficiency is easy to come by in the elderly: poor diet; poor intestinal
absorption (due to less intrinsic factor being secreted by the stomach in the
aging body, and possibly due to calcium deficiency); digestive tract surgery;
pharmaceutical interference, notably from <span class="SpellE">Dilantin</span>
(<span class="SpellE">phenytoin</span>); and stress all decrease B-12. It is
necessary to measure the cerebrospinal fluid, not the blood, to get accurate
B-12 readings.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Carper, Jean (1995) Your
food pharmacy (Syndicated column). November 1.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Dommisse</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">, John (1990) Organic mania
induced by <span class="SpellE">phenytoin</span>. <em>Can J Psychiatry</em>. 35:5, June.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Dommisse</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">, John (1991) Subtle vitamin B-12
deficiency and psychiatry: a largely unnoticed but devastating relationship? <em>Med Hypotheses</em>. 34:131-140</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>
<st1:place w:st="on">
<st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Murray</span></st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">, Frank (1991) A B-12 deficiency
may cause mental problems. <em>Better
Nutrition for Today’s Living</em>, July, p 10-11</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <br />
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Even marginal B-12
deficiency over a long time period produces an increased risk of
Alzheimer’s disease.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Close to
three-quarters of the elderly deficient in B-12 also have <span class="GramE">AD.</span> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Garrison, <span class="SpellE">Jr</span> Robert H. and <span class="SpellE">Somer</span>,
<st1:place w:st="on">
<st1:city w:st="on">Elizabeth</st1:city></st1:place> (1990) <em>The Nutrition Desk Reference.</em>
<st1:place w:st="on">
<st1:city w:st="on">New Canaan</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">CT</st1:state></st1:place>:
Keats, p 211.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Many popular dieting
plans are B-12 deficient, including the <span class="SpellE">Pritikin</span>,
<st1:city w:st="on">Scarsdale</st1:city> and
<st1:place w:st="on">
<st1:city w:st="on">Beverly
Hills</st1:city></st1:place> diets, among others. The elderly are
often dieting without intending to, simply because their normal appetite and
taste functions are reduced. Emotional factors such as isolation,
grief, and depression also contribute to their inadequate food intake, and
therefore <span class="SpellE">unhealthfully</span> low B-12 intake. To make
matters worse, B-12 deficiency itself causes further loss of appetite. And
these symptoms of B-12 deficiency are all to reminiscent of diseases such as
Alzheimer’s: ataxia, fatigue, slowness of thought, apathy, emaciation,
degeneration of the spinal cord, dizziness, moodiness, confusion, agitation,
delusions, hallucinations, and psychosis.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Injection or intra-nasal
administration of B-12 is recommended because oral absorption is poor. There
is no known toxicity for vitamin B-12. A minimum daily therapeutic dose is
probably 100 micrograms, and closer to 1,000 mcg daily may be more effective.
1,000 mcg sounds like a lot, but it is actually the same as one milligram,
which is about one thousandth of a quarter-teaspoon.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Fisher and <span class="SpellE">Lachance</span> (1985) Nutrition evaluation of published weight
reducing diets. <em>J <span class="SpellE">Amer</span>
Dietetic Assn</em>, 85(4) 450-54.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Goldberg, Donald (1985) <em>Newsletter.</em> 33, September.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <br />
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Antioxidant vitamins</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">, such as vitamin E and carotene,
may slow down or prevent AD. Alzheimer’s patients have abnormally low
measurable levels of these nutrients in their bodies. This could simply be
because they don’t eat well, or because the disease increases their
nutrient need, or both. </span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">For more information, please search the DoctorYourself website from the <a href="" title="">main page</a> with the keywords "vitamin E Alzheimer's" using the website search engine. </span></em><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Vitamin C, folic acid and
niacin, as well as other nutrients, may also play a major role in combating
AD. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Balch</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">, J. F. and <span class="SpellE">Balch</span>,
P. A. (1990) <em>Prescription for Nutritional
Healing</em>.
<st1:place w:st="on">
<st1:city w:st="on">Garden City Park</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">NY</st1:state></st1:place>: Avery Publishing, p
87-90. (Has a very good section on AD.)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Kushnir</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">, S. L.; <span class="SpellE">Ratner</span>,
J. T. and <span class="SpellE">Gregoire</span>, P.A. (1987) Multiple nutrients
in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. <span class="SpellE"><em>Amer</em></span><em> Geriatrics Soc J</em>, 35(5):476-477, May.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <br />
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Choline</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">AD patients have a
deficiency of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine because they are deficient
in the enzyme, choline <span class="SpellE">acetyltransferase</span>, needed to
make it. This results in curtailed manufacture and presence of acetylcholine
in the brain. But there is a way around this: increasing dietary choline
raises blood and brain levels of acetylcholine. Choline is readily available
in cheap, non-prescription lecithin. (
<st1:place w:st="on">
<st1:city w:st="on">Boston</st1:city></st1:place>
U School of Med, F. <span class="SpellE">Marott</span> <span class="SpellE">Sinex</span>,
PhD)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">A large quantity of
choline (from lecithin) is necessary for clinical results. Lecithin is
non-toxic.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Alzheimer’s Disease
and neurotransmitters, <em>Lets Live</em>,
May 1983, p18.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Little, et al (1985)
A double-blind, placebo controlled trial of high dose lecithin in
Alzheimer’s disease. <em>J Neurology,
Neurosurgery and Psychiatry</em>, 48: 736-742.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <br />
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Vitamin C and Tyrosine</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Increasing the
body’s level of the neurotransmitter <span class="SpellE">norepinephrine</span>
may also help AD patients. <span class="SpellE">Norepinepherine</span> is
made from the amino acid tyrosine, which is made from <span class="SpellE">phenylalaine</span>.
We get plenty of phenylalanine from protein our diets if we eat protein
foods, but the conversion to tyrosine and ultimately <span class="SpellE">norepinephrine</span>
may not take place if there is a deficiency of another coenzyme: vitamin
C. Vitamin C increases <span class="SpellE">norepinephrine</span>
production. Vitamin C may therefore be of special value in the treatment AD.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <br />
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Aluminum Toxicity</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Unintentional
aluminum intake may increase the risk of AD as well. Aluminum cookware,
aluminum foil, antacids, douches, buffered aspirin, and even anti-<span class="SpellE">perspirant</span> deodorants may all contribute to the
problem. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">A single aluminum
coffee-pot was shown to have invisibly added over 1600 mcg aluminum per liter
of water. This is 3,200% over the World Health Organizations set goal of 50
mcg per liter. Aluminum is known to build up in the bodily tissues of persons
with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis. Aluminum is a known neurotoxin. Aluminum is also a
component of so- called silver amalgam dental fillings. Composite (white)
fillings do not contain aluminum (or mercury, for that matter.) Most
baking powder contains aluminum. Rumford brand baking powder does not,
however. Neither does baking soda, which is a different substance
entirely.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Jackson, J. A.; Riordan,
H. D. and Poling, C. M. (1989) Aluminum from a coffee pot. <em>Lancet</em>, I (8641) 781-782, April 8.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <br />
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Artificial kidney
dialysis has been known to produce dialysis dementia, a state of confusion
and disorientation caused by excess aluminum in the blood stream. Animals
injected with aluminum compounds will also show develop nervous system
disorders. Conversely, Alzheimer’s disease can be treated with metal
bonding (chelating) agents, such as <span class="SpellE">desferrioxamine</span>,
which remove aluminum from the bloodstream. In appropriately high doses,
vitamin C is also an effective chelating agent.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">There have been many
studies on the relationship of aluminum toxicity to Alzheimer’s
disease. A Medline search will promptly uncover a large number of
references on the subject. Some examples include:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Martyn</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">, C. N.; Barker, D. J.; Osmond,
C.; Harris, E. C.; <span class="SpellE">Edwardson</span>, J.A. and Lacey, R. F.
(1989) Geographical relation between Alzheimer’s disease and aluminum
in drinking water. <em>Lancet</em>, I
(8629): 59-62, Jan 14.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
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<p><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">McLachlan</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">, D. R.; <span class="SpellE">Kruck</span>,
T.P. and <span class="SpellE">Lukiw</span>, W. J. (1991) Would decreased
aluminum ingestion reduce the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease? <em>Can Med Assn J</em>, Oct 1.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <br />
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Calcium and Magnesium </span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">significantly slow down aluminum
absorption, and that’s good. Supplementation with 800 mg of calcium and
400 mg of magnesium every day may be therapeutic for AD patients. Here are
two good presentations on the subject:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Garrison, <span class="SpellE">Jr</span> Robert H. and <span class="SpellE">Somer</span>,
<st1:place w:st="on">
<st1:city w:st="on">Elizabeth</st1:city></st1:place> (1990) <em>Nutrition Desk Reference</em>.
<st1:place w:st="on">
<st1:city w:st="on">New Canaan</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">CT</st1:state></st1:place>:
Keats, p 78-79; 106; 210-211.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Weiner, Michael A. (1990)
Aluminum and dietary factors in Alzheimer’s disease. <em>J Orthomolecular Med</em>, 5(2):74-78 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Lead Toxicity</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Dooley,
<st1:place w:st="on">Erin</st1:place> E. (2000) Linking lead to Alzheimer’s
Disease. In: <em>Environmental Health
Perspectives</em> 108 (10) October, writes:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Scientists from Case
Western Reserve University and University Hospitals presented evidence at the
April 2000 annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology that people
who have held jobs with high levels of lead exposure have a 3.4 times greater
likelihood of developing Alzheimer disease. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">People can be exposed to
lead on the job either by breathing in lead dust or through direct skin
contact. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Lead has adverse affects
on brain development and function, even at very low levels of exposure.
Lead, unfortunately, is permeates out environment because of decades of
adding it to gasoline. The good news is that very high dosage of vitamin C is
known to help the body rapidly excrete lead.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">I believe that aggressive
use of therapeutic nutrition could substantially reduce the incidence and
severity of Alzheimer’s disease. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">
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<p><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">FACT: More than
half of nursing home beds are occupied by AD patients.</span></em></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><em><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">FACT:
Alzheimer’s disease is the Number 4 Killer of Americans, causing over
100,000 deaths each year in the
<st1:place w:st="on">
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> alone.</span></em></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"> <br />
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