Keto For Alzheimer's: A Treatment Whose Time Has Come
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
- Nutritionist Amy Berger literally wrote the book on using therapeutic nutritional ketosis from a ketogenic diet to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s dementia. Now Ms. Berger joins us to review two new studies about ketosis and Alzheimer’s disease and how they fit into the overall scientific basis.
Expert featured in this video:
Amy Berger, Certified Nutrition Specialist
www.tuitnutrition.com/
Twitter @TuitNutrition
Studies Referenced:
Ketogenic Diet as a Promising Non-Drug Intervention for Alzheimer's Disease: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37038...
Effects of a ketogenic and low-fat diet on the human metabolome, microbiome, and foodome in adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37017...
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I have been low carb for 3 years. My brother died at 75 with Alzheimer’s and my sister is on hospice at 74 with Alzheimer’s. My husband’s father and 2 aunts died from Alzheimer’s. We have lost a combined 280 pounds and are fighting with everything we can. Thank you for your work Amy!
If I had that family history I think I would be radically low carb.
@@dmmcmah1 trust me we are all radically low carb. Wished we have known about this way of eating years ago.
@@debjo715 Me too
My mom has Alzheimers now. I wish I knew about this years ago. I have already gone low carb to either prevent or stop the progression of Alzheimers if I'm doomed to get it.
@@jimrutherford2773 try MIND DIET.
DO brisk deep breathing (anulom vilom) exercise 20 mins morning, 20 mins evening.
Take supplements
Vit D 10,000 IU
Curcumin ( at least 100 mg curcuminoids)
vitamin b12 1500 mcg
Benfotamine 600 mg
Alpha lipoic acid 600 mg
Coenzyme q10 200 mg
Ksm ashwagandha 600 mg
There are so many supplements..
The problem is that sugar,starches are so addictive and the cravings are so strong especially with people who have any brain problem that getting them off those foods is very difficult.I looked after a friend who had brain cancer who couldn’t stop eating sweets and would become angry when he didn’t get any.He gained so much weight before he died.😞
That's interesting, I read a research paper that detailed how people with some types of brain cancer often see their blood sugar drop before diagnosis, because the tumor is using so much of their glucose. So in a way its the tumor driving the cravings for sweets. Very sad illness.
I tried getting my mom to eat more fat and protein but she wouldn't budge. She said too much meat and fats are horrible for cholesterol. She's 90 now and almost non verbal. 3 years ago she kept asking the same questions over and over and had no clue what year it was. I've been keto/carnivore ever since. I love Amy! 👍🏼
Well she’s been around longer than most . 🤷🏽♀️
@emh8861 very true but has been totally dependent on others for the past 8 years.
On the heels of the FDA giving approval to Leqembi, for Alzheimer’s treatment, one has to wonder if a ketogenic diet would be more effective, with less side effects. Unfortunately, it will probably be a long time before we know, as I’m SURE the pharmaceutical companies are in no hurry to find out……
Dr. Berg has plenty of info showing how keto and fasting treat and prevent Dementia!
Thank you for the continuing education. My mom died of dementia; I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes and jumped into a keto lifestyle. I feel 10 yrs younger and have dropped 55lbs in 6 months. These videos are important for me to remember why I’m living differently. I wish I had known earlier for my mom’s sake. ❤
There is a population of people in permanent care (with desperate family members) whose diet could be completely controlled and studied. You would have no compliance issues because they are already hospitalized and there diet is already controlled. There is no harm in trying this diet with them. We need doctors in facilities that treat these patients to try this. We could have answers in a couple of years if we started now.
The problem is the nutritionists and doctors at those facilities are wedded to the low fat high carb diet and now the "Mediterranean" diet.
Amy is the best. Her book is a great source of information & I learned a lot from it. I have an elderly relative who is afflicted with Alzheimer's & I would just love to get her onto a ketogenic diet but it is just not going to happen. Even giving her exogenous ketones on any kind of regular basis is beyond what we can do. First of all, there isn't sufficient buy-in from the rest of the family. Secondly she is well enough & capable enough to live alone & mostly take care of herself. (Ironically it would be easier if she was in worse health & in care where she was looked after 24/7 & had someone feed her as needed.) And thirdly, she is a creature of habit & we have struggled to get her to take supplementary minerals & vitamins never mind eat a completely different way. If only 20 years ago I knew what I know now it might have had some positive effect but sadly it is too late. Sorry if I sound discouraging to anyone else trying to help a loved one - & I would certainly urge you to try if you can! - but I have to accept that I can't save everyone & have to find a way to live with that fact. But please keep up the good work, Dr Scher! You will leave a legacy behind you for the next generations at the very least.
I agree with Amy about the microbiome. I too am a microbiome skeptic. At least when it comes to people attempting to modify it for specific health effects.
While I agree that the gut biome is just a result of your diet and ideally plays a minimal role in health, however, if you have leaky gut, that changes, and it matters a lot on the types of microbes you have colonising.
We can at least agree that we should all strive to achieve a healthy microbiome whether it's just for Alzheimers or other health effects.
Love Amy and her message. She and Dr Westman helped me get my health back on track. I love her no nonsense " keto without the crazy "she looks at each individual situation and does her best to try to help that person. Much appreciated
Autophagy also increases the number of mitochondria. So intermittent fasting, with a period of fasting exceeding seventeen hours, could have a beneficial effect on dementia.
Absolutely!!!.....I have the "gene" for Alzheimers' I do take the MCT oil - but a really easy way to get into "ketosis" is in intermittent fasting.
Sorry she didn't mention the actual diet suggestions and intermittent fasting. which is so important.....I eat two meals a day...I finish eating about 4 p.m. and don't eat until the following morning at about 9 a.m. which is 17 hrs of not eating! so simple to achieve...Hope this may help someone.....
Whats harder than a keto diet , is dealing with mental health symptoms it gives real respite from. Its a Godsend .
MCT c8 oil ,exercise & Intermintent Fasting Have helped me and I am APe 4 positive.
What is that? I was reading and listening from some lady she mixed Mct and coconut oil
I think going low carb/keto or carnivore and supplementing with MCT oil early is probably the best bet rather than waiting until you have MCI.
Wonderful information, I wish people would pay attention.
Brilliant & well articulated in explaining the fundamentals of Health. Seven essentials for good health must be part of our daily schedule
Ban sugar!
I'm a microbiome sceptic. Most of the research I've seen is much weaker than the headlines imply. It's correlative, even the correlations are not strong, not well sample controlled (as Amy points out), and uses soft intermediate end points. There's potential for this to be helpful as more research is done but it's currently dramatically overblown hype. I think it's worth looking for the fingerprints of the meat-free behind it too.
It's pretty common that something is initially presented as some great breakthrough but over time the benefits are not so impressive and/or there's a significant downside. Rogaine aka minoxidil doesn't really do much long term for most balding men. Cinnamon doesn't really do that much for diabetics. Drinking wine for the resveratrol is stupid because you would have to drink so much wine to get a meaningful amount of resveratrol that the alcohol would kill you first. And there's something in cinnamon that is potentially harmful too if you overdo it which many people are likely to do if they believe it's really good for the diabetes etc.
@@jackschitt6235 and yet, despite utter lack of evidence to start with, some things persist for 50+ years, like "eating saturated fat will kill you with cardiovascular disease". Not
Thank you.
Dr. Mary Newport with coconut oil and MCT too.
Mct oil has given me back my memory. During the first ten years of this century i had stopped smoking for ten years. My memory kept fading till hardly any short term was left and I thought, maybe it was quitting smoking. So I started smoking again thinking it was nicotinamide shortage that was the cause. So a slight improvement not knowing anything about the hippocampus and insulin resistance I kept drinking 4 teaspoons of sugar in my coffee. Then last year I discovered insulin resistance and most of my mental functions have returned with mct oil and a huge reduction of sugar. Way less in coffee, way less candy. Am looking for dextrose since fructose is the offending sweetener. Will soon take taurine and ss-31 peptase to return my mito back to full function. Am 75.
Suggestion for a sugar substitute > allulose.
0:29: 📚 This video discusses the use of nutritional ketosis as a treatment for dementia, specifically Alzheimer's disease.
3:40: 📚 The speaker wrote a book on low carb and keto diets and found a publisher interested in it.
7:40: 💡 A ketogenic diet can be seen as a disease-modifying diet that addresses underlying causes and offers multiple potential benefits.
11:49: 🔬 The speaker expresses skepticism about the role of the gut biome in cognitive function and questions whether changes in the biome are reflective of overall metabolic changes.
15:44: 💡 The discussion brings attention to the importance of nutritional ketosis in preventing Alzheimer's disease and managing mild cognitive impairment.
Recap by Tammy AI
Amy, what do you think of a ketovore or carnivore diet? It is an almost zero carb diet. On paper it should do wonders for type 3 diabetics or overweight people.
We can't speak for Amy, but in our experience, a carnivore diet tends to demonstrate many, if not all of the same benefits as an omnivore ketogenic diet as they can both improve metabolic dysfunction and induce ketosis.
But what causes the lack of fuel source to the brain? Even if the person was eating junk their whole life there was glucose the brain used. Why cant it still use that glucose from the junk diet later in life? In other words, what causes the brain to stop using the junk energy it has been using for that person's whole life?
Good question. Cells in the brain can express insulin resistance just as cells in the liver and muscles can. Not only can that prevent brain cells from using glucose, but it can also hinder glucose getting into the brain. So even when plenty of glucose is in the circulation, the cells cant efficiently use it to create ATP.
@@metabolicmind Thank you !
Leading cause of death in the UK 😢
Can the carnivore diet keep me in a ketogenic state?
Carnivore is a step further from keto, so yes.
@@mingkee27 thanks
@@jerrycash5606 One caveat - milk is rich in lactose so if milk is your thing you will have to limit it to stay in ketosis. Otherwise, carnivore is almost zero carb.
@@simonround2439 milk isn't a beverage. Only an occasion ingredient. Thanks, good to know.
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And yogurt
Even whole milk has few grams of sugar (lactose).
Go for aged cheese if you want dairy
What is really a ketos diet
Ketosis is a metabolic state where your body switches from using mostly glucose for energy and starts using fat for energy and, in the process, creates ketones. Your brain can then use these ketones as a more efficient fuel source. Eating a keto diet and fasting are the most common ways to get into a state of ketosis.
What is really a bot?
I ma just getting to know keto...it is not making sense compared to other diets I have been on!
We commonly refer to ketosis as a metabolic state rather than a diet. Compared to other "diets," it has the most pronounced effect on altering our metabolism and changing the fuel source for our brain and body. People can be in ketosis as vegans, vegetarians, carnivores, omnivores, etc. So it can fit with just about any diet. I hope that helps clarify things.
Keto doesn't address the underlying cause of AD. AD is defective glucose processing in the brain. This is why keto may help. However, aluminum in the brain has been shown as having a major association with AD. Mary Newport advocates keto for AD and wrote the book "What if there was a cure for Alzheimers." See Dennis Crouse PhD for silica water and AD.
But if the theory of insulin resistance of the brain is the cause then surely a keto diet could potentially prevent it?
@@markmacdonald1849 Yes.
@@markmacdonald1849 But what is the cause of insulin resistance? Aluminum has been implicated for that. I think keto can slow the progression of AD as Mary Newport said, but it doesn't stop it. Removing the cause, Al, goes further.
The aluminum theory has been debunked, long ago.
@@bobthrasher8226 removal of carbohydrate (especially processed foods) reverses insulin resistance generally, over time. The cause is mostly many years of too much carbohydrate, eaten too many times a day.
Y'all smarties finally wakin up. Think parasitic plant/water born bacteria. I can get a Nobel Prize for this one. U read it 1st here.
How odd to choose a mental heath treatment that increases both your cancer and ASCVD risk.
It is conclusive that the brain is preferential to glucose over ketone bodies.
"Keto" is turning out to be a hammer that sees every disease as a nail.
I look forward to a discussion on how keto can lower apoB when several lines of research has shown that saturated fat drives apoB levels up.
Even if that were true the question is choose your disease. My dad is 85 and he won’t die from any of that. But his brain is going fast.
🙄
The problem is that the brain is insuline resistant, and therefore cannot get the glucose in the cels. The alternative energy source is then the best way, and therefore you have to increase the availability of ketones.
Diabetes is the number one risk factor for heart attack and stroke. Obesity is a huge risk factor for cancer. These are both metabolic diseases (elevated insulin levels). Low carb and ketosis is good because it lowers glucose and insulin levels. Ketones are your brains preferred energy.
@@GMAAndy333 You are incorrect. The number one risk factor for ASCVD is a sustained elevation of the LDL lipoprotein apoB. ApoB is the only lipoprotein that invades the walls of arteries and deposits the cholesterol that it transports as plaque. Several lines of studies have converged to demonstrate a linear relationship between apoB and ASCVD. Period. The debate is over on what causes ASCVD.
There are three actions a person can take to reduce one's apoB level:
1. Reduce your weight to a normal BMI.
2. Reduce your saturated and trans fats.
3. Consume soluble fiber.
The studies have been done. The evidence is clear. You can eat any diet you want, but to avoid ASCVD (without drugs) you must include these three actions. A common and simple blood test will tell you your apoB level.
BTW, these three actions will also alleviate diabetes, obesity, and reduce your risk of cancer too. Look into it instead of dismissing out of hand. Your supposed to be the 'expert'.