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Pearls of Wisdom

BETTER MEMORY, ANYONE?

Reversal of Cognitive Decline Has Arrived

by Nancy Lonsdorf, MD and Mimi Guarneri MD FACC

VER FORGET A NAME, BLANK
Eout on a word or walk into a room
and forget why you’re there? Sure,
we’ve all done it, and most of you un-
der 40 don’t think twice about it.
For the rest of us, such slipups
can leave us wondering, worrying,
rationalizing, and otherwise wasting
precious energy trying to convince
ourselves that we are NOT careening
down the slippery slope of no return
called “Alzheimer’s disease.”

Game-Changer Ahead
Fortunately, the memory changes
of Alzheimer’s vs. “normal aging” are
readily distinguishable, and most “se-
nior moments” are not harbingers of
decline to come. For example, a lapsed
name, word or item popping into your
mind later is a good indication you’re the pioneering UCLA Professor and eventually returned to her high-level
exhibiting “normal aging” only. Alzheimer’s researcher who discov- job fulltime.
Yet, the grounds for deeper ered it.
Alzheimer’s fear relief is here. The Under the soft southern Califor- Medical Mind Bend
impossible-- slowing, stopping or nia sky, dining at dusk, she related Soon after hearing this medically
reversing memory decline-- has now the dramatic story of her best friend, mind-bending story, Dr. Lonsdorf
become a reality. Yes, you heard us “Patient Zero” (PZ.) In short, PZ is had the fantastic opportunity to study
correctly, research now suggests that a globe-trotting, high-level consul- in person with Dr. Bredesen at the
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is revers- tant who speaks seven languages, yet Institute of Functional Medicine’s Ad-
ible, especially if you act early. called her friend (BFF) one day in a vanced Clinical Training in Reversing
And the solution is not the usual panic—she couldn’t remember what Cognitive Decline. To Dr. Guarneri,
high tech medical breakthrough of country she was in. PZ’s eventual di- Dr. Bredesen was already a colleague,
expensive drugs, immune or gene agnosis was not good. She had early and had seen videos of his patients be-
therapy you might think. Rather, the Alzheimer’s disease (AD.) fore his work became world renown.
effective approach is an amazingly low Devastated. PZ confessed she was In fact, Dr. Guarneri has featured
tech, multimodality, natural approach going to commit suicide rather than Dr. Bredesen at the annual Natural
that is within reach of every individu- suffer, as her mother had, a long, pro- Supplements conference and has him
al right now. tracted death from AD. scheduled to speak in San Diego at the
As a result of her friend’s urgent AIHM conference September 2018.
The First Patient referral, Dr. Bredesen agreed to try While we both had helped reverse
Sound unbelievable? We would his multimodality research proto- memory loss in a handful of patients
never have believed it either, if we col for the very first time, with PZ. with heavy metal toxicity, B12 defi-
hadn’t first heard it directly from a Amazingly, within a few months, her ciency or memory-damaging medica-
close colleague of Dale Bredesen, MD, memory began to recover, and she tions, to learn a reliable protocol with

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