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00:48 hello and welcome to health for a lifetime.00:50 i'm your host don mackintosh, 00:51 and we are delighted to have dr. bernellbaldwin with us 00:54 today. welcome doctor. glad to be here.00:57 now, i understand that you are scientist and your specialty01:01 is the brain. right. 01:03 and you have studied the brain; youhave got some ongoing 01:07 research going on. yes. you've taughtmedical students 01:10 and all different types of studentsfor many years. 01:13 as i recall your ph. d. was... whatwas it that you focused on? 01:18 in neurophysiology. we map the brainfor influences
01:23 on the heart. ok. influences on theheart. 01:26 for instance, we got 90 minutes of arrhythmiafrom stimulation 01:29 of the cortex of the brain, and we stoppedthis in 2 seconds 01:34 by stimulation in certain spots.01:37 of the brain? right. 01:38 and it influenced the heart. so, thebody is connected. 01:41 hyper connected. very connected, wehope at least. 01:45 well, today there's something that hasto do with connections 01:48 again. we are going to be talking aboutdementia 01:50 and alzheimer's disease. well, who reallyworries about this
01:54 in america anyway, would you say?01:56 caregivers worry about this. 01:58 ok. and people who are losing02:00 their memory and faculties worry 02:02 about this. um-hmm.02:04 we really need to understand 02:06 what's going on so that we can prevent.02:08 most alzheimer's disease and most dementia can be prevented02:13 now. that's very good news. let's come back to that.02:18 but what is dementia? what does it cause? 02:21 what does the diagnosis mean: dementia?02:25 yes. dementia. in the medical sense dementia is02:31 loss of memory, loss of faculties, 02:34 loss of judgment, and loss of a capacityfor social and normal
02:40 communication in life. does the personusually recognize it? 02:45 sometimes yes, and often no.02:49 um-hmm. how big a problem is it? 02:53 it's common. alzheimer's disease isabout the #5 cause of death 02:57 of older ladies. this is a big problem.03:01 and the older people are the more tendency there is to get03:06 alzheimer's disease. we all need to understand this so that we03:09 can prevent it intelligently. 03:12 now when we were talking about03:14 this just before we started 03:15 you said there was also a03:16 problem with spatial orientation. 03:18 what do you mean by that?03:20 umm. a person who has significant alzheimer's
disease03:24 may not only forget how to find the bathroom,03:28 they even forget what state they're in.03:31 umm, ok. so someone is not knowing where they are03:34 in terms of what state or different things.03:37 what about so-called confabulation or making up03:40 sentences? yes. there are several modes of sliding into03:44 alzheimer's disease, and one of these could be psychiatric.03:48 and you could have confabulation and this kind of thing.03:53 and that would be when, for instance,
03:57 take the frontal lobe. if the frontallobe is 04:01 in such disarray and if so many nervecells are dead, 04:05 then confabulation would be just obvious.04:10 and when we say confabulation we mean what exactly?04:12 stories, lying. um-hmm. so, in other words,04:16 i don't remember something but i don't want to act like i don't04:19 know it so i make something up. 04:20 yes. ok, confabulate something.04:22 so, the common causes then of dementia or alzheimer's...04:28 what causes it? 04:30 very good question. no. 1: genetics.04:35 like 20, 25% of this can be genetics...
04:41 so if you have type e4 lipo- proteinsin your blood, 04:45 you are a sitting duck for alzheimer'sdisease. 04:48 but good news right there. let's takethe most dismal 04:51 negative fact in the whole area. allpeople that have bad 04:57 genetics do not get the disease...05:00 and in a few minutes we are going to find out why.05:03 well, let's come back to that e4 lipoprotein. 05:06 can you get a test to see whether ornot you have this? 05:09 yes. and they have... with a catch.05:11 you can't get it in an ordinary hospital because they don't05:13 want to discourage you.
05:15 i see. well, let's say it comes backpositive. 05:17 maybe we want to come back to that.but... 05:22 what are some other causes - oh, yes- of this? 05:26 the more common causes would be environmental.05:29 um-hmm. now, let's get right to the heart of something new.05:33 something vital and something relevant. 05:36 seventh-day adventist researchers called05:41 epidemiologists at loma linda university, 05:44 doctors geem and beeson and associates,05:49 they have published in the peer reviewed scientific literature05:53 precisely, journal of neuroepidemiology. 05:58 clear back in 1993 they presented informationthat
06:04 seventh-day adventist people who eata lot of meat 06:09 get 2.4 times as much dementia06:15 as seventh-day adventists who are vegetarians. 06:18 and the reason they study adventistgroups are because 06:20 there are those that don't eat meat06:22 and there are those that do. yes. 06:23 and they are in the data banks and theycan follow them 06:26 for years. ok. and they just plain findthat out. 06:29 so, what this means is that the betterthe diet 06:34 the better the brain. ok, so...06:37 it's not enough to just say well i'm eating the good kind06:41 of meat. go for the gold standard; go
for that...06:45 the optimal diet really basically. yes. 06:47 now let me try and explain that.06:49 we know by measurement in the laboratory that the more the06:53 xanthene in the fluids around the nerve cell the less06:58 acetylcholine it can make. xanthene is a common byproduct07:04 of meat. whereas vitamin e, 07:07 and i mean the whole complex,07:10 the alpha, the gamma, and the delta. 07:12 vitamin e as in whole grains: this willhelp the brain make 07:18 acetylcholine. so in the nebuchadnezzarprogram you 07:21 go down - the daniel program you goup.
07:25 because in the bible story... nebuchadnezzar,i assume that... 07:29 they ate a lot of meat - oh, yes - anddifferent things 07:31 whereas daniel said give me vegetablesand different things. 07:34 and he tried to push this off on danieland his buddies. 07:37 and you remember they stuck with theirprogram and they went 07:41 vegetarian. can alcohol consumptioncause alzheimer's 07:45 or dementia? uh, alcohol, of course,can kill cells 07:49 by the million. and one way it doesthis is through 07:52 acetaldehyde. alcohol is broken downinto acetaldehyde,
07:57 and this can kill little cells in thebrain. 08:00 hmmm... by the million. so that, ofcourse, would lead to that. 08:05 any other causes for dementia?08:08 things that would give us warning signals that this is08:11 developing aside from what you've mentioned? yes!08:13 now, this particular answer turns on something08:18 everybody knows... but not enough people are living it.08:23 and that is this: use it or lose it. 08:26 um-hmm. illustration - there is a famousstudy of nuns 08:31 and here's what they did: they comparedthe letters of
08:35 application for the nunnery08:39 with microscopic picture 08:45 of the brain 30+ years later.08:48 and here's what they learned. here's a young lady:08:51 i would like to be a nun. 08:56 my favorite aunt was a nun.09:01 she liked me. 09:06 sincerely yours, mary low voltage09:12 what do you mean by that? 09:14 just like the letter sounds. ok. thiswill clear up. 09:18 all right. now here is another letter.09:20 to whom it may concern: my considerations for applying09:24 to your institution are: philosophic, 09:29 ethical, religious, and personal.09:32 signed, up and at'em
09:35 high voltage. high voltage.09:37 so there's more involved in that... there certainly is.09:42 so the electronic action in the brain 09:47 produces nerve growth factors,09:51 and these biochemically prevent alzheimer's disease.09:55 hmmm. now let me list some of these growth factors09:58 because this program is not... we aren't 10:02 interested in propaganda... we're interestedin truth. 10:05 here are some of these nerve growthfactors: 10:07 1. brain-derived growth factor.10:12 nerve growth factor. glial-derived growth factor.10:18 colony-stimulating growth factor.
10:21 these growth factors keep these nervecells up and at'em 10:25 and busy, and it keeps them intact becausethe brain is 10:28 so dynamic that if the brain is notbeing used in a certain area 10:32 that area of the brain will shrink,atrophy, and die. 10:38 so the more varied different thingsyou can be doing 10:40 with your brain the better? and action.for instance... 10:44 take a zoo animal. have you ever seenan old-fashioned, 10:48 small, low-budget zoo? have you everseen the animals 10:51 pace in front of the cage. they go across...back.
10:56 across... back. yes. across... back.11:00 now, this is called stereotype behavior. 11:03 if you scan the brain or weigh it orx-ray it, 11:09 the brain has typically shrunk 25%.11:13 and even the cerebellum 15%. even the medulla is shrunk 10%11:19 because so many cells are dead. so one of the big reasons for11:24 losing your marbles is not rolling them. 11:27 i mean, you know, you don't use thesemarbles. 11:30 so if they let those animals out ofthe cage... they put them 11:32 back in the wild, would they live?11:33 no, they would starve to death 11:36 because the brain is wrecked.11:40 and look at this as a human bearing.
prisoners should not be11:43 put in dungeons: put them in a body and fender shop!11:47 see? you need tools; you need a trade; they need action.11:51 give them volleyball nets, see? 11:54 get them active; get them working. yes!11:55 recently, in a very rich and fancy state out south...11:59 west... they forbid the inmates 12:05 to work out in a gym. that is inhumane,that is unphysiologic, 12:09 and we need a class action lawsuit12:12 to stop that whole nonsense. one of the finest things12:17 that young men could do would be to work out in a gym.12:20 action is a law of the being.
12:23 and this is very good on the marblesin the head. 12:26 so... depression of the brain or differentparts... yes, 12:30 that's what you're talking about there?12:32 this can also be a factor. your question is doubly12:38 important because it's very important to differentiate12:43 in an older lady between depression and dementia.12:47 because many women - they haven't ruined the brain12:51 at all, they are just discouraged and they got behind12:55 on life and so life is very hard on them.12:59 so you think a lot of people then that
have been diagnosed13:02 with dementia maybe don't have it? they have depression?13:04 right. this is common. and not only that but13:07 other preventable diseases. how can you help someone13:10 like that if you are a family member? 13:12 very careful diagnosis. and just becausegrandmother 13:17 is not earning $5,000 a month13:22 is no reason for not taking good care of her.13:26 because if you take grandmother and take her to a real good13:29 physician, the physician will check her over13:32 and he will do a blood test. and he'll
say: "look at here!13:36 these red blood cells are too big. i think grandmother13:40 may have a b12 problem. " 13:43 and recently it has been learned thatmany older people 13:46 have b12 deficiency. and you give themadequate b12 13:51 because the stomach, you see, can wearout in old age 13:54 and the b12 goes down and then the cellulitegoes up 13:57 in the blood and it kills off thesenerve cells and gives them 14:00 a big lot of trouble. so there are preventablecauses 14:04 of dementia, a set of them, and theyneed to be faced
14:08 and dealt with properly.14:10 what about mad cow disease? does that have anything to do14:12 with dementia? of course! in mad cow disease14:16 you not only lose marbles but you are killed.14:21 and this is happening; 14:23 it has not stopped yet.14:25 the press is not telling you 14:28 as many people die, young people, 30years and less 14:33 clear down to 16 years of age, the mediaare not telling 14:38 you folks that as many people died withmad cow... humans... 14:44 last year as the year before.14:48 and more people died last year and the
year before14:51 than the year before that. so, the mad cow problem14:55 instead of going away is still with us.14:58 and it, of course, has spread to sheep, to elk in montana,15:03 idaho. chronic wasting disease of ungulates 15:07 is a wide-spread disease. and, of course,the squirrels 15:10 in kentucky are dying with preaud disease.15:13 and there is a cluster of dead and dying people in kentucky15:17 from eating the brains of the squirrels. 15:20 now how does that work? i mean, youhave a model of a brain 15:23 here. where does it attack you?15:25 can you show us in the brain what happens?
15:27 yes. quite commonly in the back of thebrain 15:30 but normal prion is a beautiful spiral15:35 like this. ok. prion is a zig-zag 15:41 beta sheet like this: zig - zag - zig.15:45 and that's what's in the mad cow disease? right.15:48 and what does it do? and this abnormal particle15:52 protein particle gets in the brain and it sidles up to the15:56 spiral and it forces the spiral to become zig-zag.16:01 and so the zig-zag spreads to the brain until you're dead.16:06 gets caught in there? no no no no. 16:09 explain what happens. it imposes theabnormal shape - all right -
16:13 on the next protein so that the zig-zagspreads in the brain. 16:18 zig-zag, zig-zag until you're dead.16:22 now there's a cure for this. 16:24 heat your animal products to 600 degrees16:28 until on the inside of the animal product 16:31 it is black. if it is not black - brownisn't enough, 16:36 it's got to be black - then it willbe safe to eat. 16:39 we are talking with dr. bernell baldwin.16:42 we are talking about dementia and alzheimer's and things that16:44 cause it. and when we come back, what can we do to treat it?16:49 we hope that you will join us. 16:52 have you found yourself wishing thatyou could shed a few
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17:59 from wildwood, and we have been talkingabout alzheimer's 18:02 and dementia. it's a big problem, you'vetold us, doctor. 18:05 you've told us that there are some realproblems, 18:08 and many are concerned about this.18:11 but i want to talk a little bit more. there's another thing18:14 as we were just speaking together here that we haven't18:17 touched on yet, and that has to do with our blood vessels18:21 and dementia. yes. vascular dementia. 18:24 about 20-30% of dementia is18:28 due to this cause. what happens 18:30 is the blood vessels shut down, typicallyatherosclerosis.
18:35 so, anything that has to do with hardeningof the arteries: 18:38 high fat, high cholesterol, all thosedifferent things. 18:40 yes. the public does not know this.they don't realize 18:45 that when you get a bypass operationto relieve the heart, 18:51 that the atherosclerosis keeps righton going 18:56 and it ruins your blood vessels goingto the brain. 19:00 so that bypass surgery is palliation19:06 not cure. in other words, it just tries to keep up with the19:10 damage, it's not something that's going to fix it. yes.19:14 so let me ask you this question:
19:17 can you have brain attacks19:18 just like heart attacks? 19:20 oh, yes. common. and these brain attacks...19:23 there is good news about that. 19:25 when an older person, a middle-agedperson, 19:30 gets a sudden attack of paralysis,19:35 sudden loss of speech, sudden severe dizziness,19:40 if you take them to a real good hospital within three hours19:45 they can do a scan, 19:48 find out the kind of brain attack.19:52 and if this is a clot, they can go in there and dissolve19:56 the clot and save the brain of your relative,19:59 your friend, or yourself. so, like a
hematoma20:03 or is that different? no, that's another one.20:05 this is more like just in the vessel itself we are20:08 talking about? like a big wreck! 20:10 when the head is injured from a side-blowin a car, 20:14 from very severe whiplash, if you havebleeding 20:18 under the skull, this can squeeze down20:24 on the brain and damage it very heavily. 20:26 that's the sub derma. yeah. right.20:28 but these as well as these other small ones where you have a20:32 memory loss or different things they can be pinpointed with what20:35 like a pet scan or a cat scan or a mmr
or whatever? yeah.20:39 yes. the new scans will pick that up, 20:43 and diagnosis is very important. andit will save you money 20:47 and save you trouble to get a good diagnosis.20:50 so there are, then, types of dementia that are treatable?20:54 right. we have talked about depression, we have talked about20:57 vitamin b, we have talked about sub dermal hematomas21:01 that pressure. any other types that are treatable?21:03 another one is brain tumors. 21:07 ok. now 50 years ago some african scientistsproved 21:13 that you can take a fluid from a chicken'sbrain
21:18 who has got... chickens very commonlyget brain tumors. 21:23 if you take the fluid and give it toanother bird, 21:28 they get brain tumor, because of virusgoing through 21:33 this fluid, you see.21:36 so... that's what... that's why we say 21:40 what my wife gives me instead of21:45 the chicken materials she gives me soy milk.21:51 i see. and this avoids this problem. 21:54 it really, really helps. so this is...now, 21:58 regular checkups by a real good physiciancan find a change 22:03 of pressure by looking in the back ofthe eye.
22:06 and, a good brain surgeon can take out22:11 this little grape or even this walnut... sized tumor...22:17 ok... and save the life and save the brain.22:20 whereas, a few years of procrastination 22:24 and you have got a funeral.22:26 a big problem. so, diagnosis and checkups are very important.22:31 at what age should these be started? 22:33 as teenagers. really?22:38 not just for brain tumors but because of health in general.22:41 you should be seeing a physician since the time you are a22:44 teenager? more than a third, more than a third22:47 of school children are obese right now.
22:51 and early care, you see, can nip thatin the bud. 22:55 but especially with dementia and alzheimer's22:59 you want to just in there and get checked, and see what's23:02 causing problems and rule out this or rule out that.23:05 anything else about diagnosis you need to know?23:07 what kind of a doctor should you see? a general practitioner or23:09 an internist, a neurologist? what should you see?23:12 a very good internist or general practitioner. 23:18 and be free to ask for referral to aneurologist for this. 23:25 like for instance. when an older personstarts to lose memory...
23:29 if this diagnosis23:33 or assessment is done early, 23:37 many times they can do one of two things:23:40 turn around the loss of memory or slow it down.23:44 turn it around. that's good news, isn't it?23:48 yes. ok. you know, let's say that you go23:51 and they, unfortunately, get the diagnosis of a type of23:54 dementia that's not treatable... yes... what would you say23:57 to the person that is needing to care for that individual?24:00 the caregivers? right. 24:03 it's very simple.24:04 one:
24:07 find a professional home24:13 or a professional facility 24:17 for alzheimer's patients.24:19 look at the bottom line price, 24:22 and here's what you'll find.24:24 that it is so expensive that there is not 1 in 100 that24:28 can afford it. it's out of sight. ok. 24:33 so... for every year you can keep themout of that facility 24:38 you might save $8,000 at least... ormore. 24:44 and it could be $20,000 a year to takecare of such a person. 24:49 ok. so, here's why i suggest that approach.24:54 if you will get someone to help you every week,24:59 one full day and a part of another one,
25:04 then the morale of the caregiver canbe kept intact. 25:10 whereas, if they try doing 168 hoursa week of care 25:16 to an alzheimer's patient, it's aptto give you 25:20 alzheimer's disease.25:24 in out last minute and half here or two minutes25:26 i want to, i want to ask a question. what can we do25:29 to prevent alzheimer's? 25:32 number 1 would be genesis nutrition.25:38 get back to the original program in genesis.25:41 fruits, nuts, grains? what about vegetables? 25:43 excellent. ok. excellent.25:45 number 2: activity throughout life.
25:50 number 3: use it or lose it.25:54 and next, mental stimulation. 26:00 you see. using the mind, maintain theactivity, 26:05 you see. and this will help keep thebrain alive and with it. 26:10 you talked about the genesis diet. whatabout soy? 26:13 soy is so important we really need todiscuss that in depth, 26:18 but the late news in soy chemistry isthis: 26:21 there are compounds in soy that helpthe brain make 26:25 acetylcholine. and this helps the brain26:30 to stay with it instead of sliding out of it.26:34 you said we should check vitamin b12?
26:37 that means we need to have sources ofthat. 26:39 let's say that we are eating all vegetableslike you have said. 26:42 yes. where are we going to get our vitaminb12? 26:45 now, here's where my wife and i getit. 26:47 i have a little bottle of b12 powderon the breakfast table. 26:52 forumer yeast? no, no. pure stuff.26:55 pure stuff? ok. yes. i take a clean toothpick26:59 and i stick this in the soy powder a little ways and then27:02 i go "tick" on the granola. i see. 27:06 and this keeps my b12 in tip-top shape!27:09 how about vitamin e. is it important?
27:12 certainly. and the way to get that is27:13 whole grains and walnuts. 27:15 ok. whole grains and walnuts.27:17 well, you have given us some practical guidelines27:21 to prevent it, yes, and how to find it.27:24 would you recommend them getting that lipoprotein test?27:28 people getting that? 27:30 in select cases if the nervous systemof the patient 27:34 is stable this would be a good idea.27:36 see, this runs in families you see. 27:39 and so if it is an alzheimer's family,27:42 they ought to go to a neurology clinic in the finest university27:45 they can get next to.
27:47 we have been talking with dr. bernellbaldwin. 27:50 i know that this has been a practicalprogram, 27:53 and i hope that you can use this andhave health for a lifetime.
