Hey folks! If this is your commencement see to my weblog after hearing me on Jimmy Moore’s Livin’ la Vida Low Carb Podcast, hither are some links to past times posts I’ve done regarding Alzheimer’s disease:
- Announcement nearly my e-book, The Alzheimer’s Antidote
- Rant About the American Academy of Neurology’s Brain Health Fair
- Alzheimer’s Disease: Type three Diabetes
- Follow-up Q&A nearly for certain dietary principles as well as Alzheimer's
And here’s a link to the About Me page hither on this site. In the podcast, I touched only briefly on how I constitute depression carb, as well as then if you’re interested inwards all the gory details of how “eating less as well as moving more” failed me for most of my adolescence as well as immature adult life, you tin dismiss read nearly that here. (You powerfulness also desire to hold off until yous have got an hr to spare. You volition run across from today’s post, or past times looking through the archives, that brevity is non my strong suit.)
And now, on to the post!
Jimmy Interviewed Me!
Nothing makes me happier than when people compliment my writing. I think I’ve mentioned hither on the weblog a fourth dimension or 2 that my undergraduate educational activity was inwards creative writing, as well as that, if Random House or Simon as well as Schuster always offers me a generous cash advance to remain habitation inwards my pajamas as well as write novels, my nutrition exercise would probable autumn past times the wayside. And since I have lots of emails from people proverb they similar my writing as well as my “voice,” maybe you’ll live interested to acquire that yous tin dismiss hear my real vocalization today, on Jimmy Moore’s podcast, The Livin’ la Vida Low Carb Show.
Due to his ain personal struggles amongst weight as well as health, Jimmy has locomote something of a controversial figure inwards the depression carb world. I’ve never met him inwards person, but we’ve corresponded via e-mail a few times, as well as he has never been anything but positive, friendly, warm, as well as supportive inwards those exchanges. All it took for him to offering me a invitee spot on his podcast was one tweet wherein I mentioned that I had written an e-book nearly Alzheimer’s as well as depression carb diets. Whatever your sentiment of him, Jimmy is absolutely dedicated to sharing lifesaving data nearly the low-carb, high-fat dietary approach, as well as to giving “little folks” similar me—a virtual unknown—access to his large listening audience, inwards club to aid convey attending to crucial topics similar this.
I have got been a large fan of his since I started listening to his podcast nearly vi years ago. In that time, thank yous to his stunning array of guests—a veritable who’s who of the low-carb, Paleo, Primal, WAPF, as well as functional medicine worlds—I have got received thousands upon thousands of dollars’ worth of costless education. As far every bit I’m concerned, this service that he provides is completely independent of whatever issues are interfering amongst his ain wellness as well as trunk composition at this indicate inwards time. Nobody’s perfect, as well as none of us knows what goes on inwards anyone else’s life, regardless of what it looks similar they’re doing inwards their Instaface-pintwit façade.
So, yeah. Whatever your feelings nearly Jimmy, I hope you’ll give the demo a listen. I must warn you, however, that if yous similar my “voice” through my writing, yous powerfulness really good loathe it when yous hear my actual voice. I cannot stand the audio of my vocalization on tape. But that’s truthful of almost everybody, right? We don’t fifty-fifty recognize our ain voices when nosotros hear them played dorsum to us, as well as we’re like, “That’s what I audio like?!” (As nosotros recoil inwards horror.) So I apologize if my New York accent comes out, or if I kinda audio similar a man. (I think I have got a relatively deep voice, for a woman.) I also spoke to Jimmy through a generic cheap-o headset I got from Best Buy. I have got no thought how the audio lineament came across. It powerfulness audio similar I’m shouting, or maybe it’ll audio similar I’m speaking from within a tin can. All this beingness said, I haven’t listened to the demo yet. I’ll hear it for the commencement fourth dimension when I download it from iTunes. So maybe all these caveats are for naught.
I do, however, desire to portion a few points that I think I missed during the interview. I had made several pages of notes to await at piece nosotros talked, as well as then I wouldn’t forget to advert anything important. But Jimmy has cutting his LLVLC shows downward from nearly an hr to just a one-half hour, as well as then nosotros barely had fourth dimension to scratch the surface of what I was hoping to verbalise about. Frankly, I could have got talked for two hours nearly Alzheimer’s, but Jimmy reminded me that nosotros don’t desire to tell everything, or people volition have got no ground to buy the book. (Like they said inwards the pic Never Been Kissed, “Nobody’s gonna wanna purchase the whole friggin’ H2O ice cream truck when you’re giving the popsicles away for free.” So, inwards that sense, he’s right. Probably meliorate to pique people’s involvement just plenty to acquire them to reckon purchasing the total thing.
What I Wish I’d Said
It’s been a few weeks since nosotros recorded the show, as well as I don’t retrieve for for certain what nosotros addressed as well as what nosotros didn’t. I do retrieve beingness disappointed when nosotros were finished, though. So hither are a few of the issues I think slipped through the cracks, or to which I wishing I’d given to a greater extent than emphasis:
Empower Yourself & Be Optimistic
 |
There is a lite inwards the darkness. |
The failure of modern conventional medicine
Something Jimmy asked me nearly is why doctors are as well as then reluctant to give acceptance to a low-carb diet for Alzheimer’s, or fifty-fifty to think that nosotros can do something nearly AD, whether it live a low-carb diet or another intervention. Why do they keep the seat that AD is a total mystery, as well as that nosotros don’t know why it happens or how to (potentially) preclude as well as halt it? I got flustered, as well as I limited my reply to a focus on food. I explained that it’s hard for doctors to roll their heads around the thought of eating to a greater extent than fatty as well as completely eliminating all those “heart salubrious whole grains,” non to advert greatly limiting other foods that most people would to a greater extent than oftentimes than non reckon to live “good for us,” such every bit fruit, potatoes, as well as beans. It is absolutely anathema to a conventionally trained physician inwards the 21st Century to entertain the notion that someone tin dismiss live inwards optimal wellness past times eating butter, sausages, kokosnoot oil, as well as prime number rib. Even if a MD understood the therapeutic value of ketones for cognitive function, he/she would in all likelihood dismiss the really depression carb strategy out of hand, because they would (mistakenly) believe the boost inwards encephalon business office would come upwards at the expense of cardiovascular health. In that trouble of reasoning, what’s the indicate of improving someone’s retentiveness as well as behavior, only to have got them croak from a pump assault instead? *Headsmack.* Anyway, the reply I gave Jimmy was that most doctors merely can’t understand—let lone endorse—a diet that eliminates the foods they’ve been led to believe are the most wholesome as well as nutritious, as well as specifically emphasizes the ones they “know” Pb to obesity as well as pump disease.
This was only one-half the answer, though. The constituent I left out is genuinely the to a greater extent than of import one: Alzheimer’s is a mystery to doctors. To them, it’s this mysterious, intimidating, frightening thing. It’s so mysterious, as well as so complicated as well as complex, as well as modern medicine is so clueless nearly it, that it can’t possibly have got a solution every bit elementary every bit a really depression carb, high fatty diet. (And to a greater extent than sleep, to a greater extent than physical activity, to a greater extent than omega-3 fats, as well as less stress.)
But it’s non a mystery to researchers. To the people who do the studies, who mess amongst the petri dishes, who watch the PET scans, who dissect the brains (post-mortem, of course!), as well as who empathise the role of glucose, oxidative stress, as well as glycation inwards the brain, addition the whole-body ramifications of long-term peripheral hyperinsulinemia, Alzheimer’s is non a mystery at all. How as well as why it occurs is genuinely fairly simple. Yes, it’s multifactorial, but that doesn’t hateful it’s beyond our understanding. And that is why I wrote my book. When yous know what’s going wrong, as well as why, it’s a lot easier to piece of employment backwards as well as seat a solution, or multiple solutions. I guarantee yous the bulk of loved ones as well as caregivers of AD patients have got non been told that AD is “diabetes of the brain,” or that it has anything to do amongst glucose handling inwards the brain. And the affair is, that constituent of AD is non nether dispute. That is absolutely non controversial at all. The ground is only inwards what’s causing it as well as what to do nearly it. (And the answers, according to also many doctors—neurologists included!—is, “We have got no idea, and, nothing.”) FFS.
Move more, but non for the ground yous think
Another of the things I wishing I’d had fourth dimension to address meliorate is the role of exercise/physical
activity inwards failed as well as then many of us for as well as then much of our lives. We moved on to other things earlier I had a adventure to tell that I was non talking nearly increasing physical activeness for the purpose of weight loss, which most of us know from personal experience, is bunk. I wanted to advert it because of the role of physical activeness inwards supporting/enhancing mitochondrial biogenesis as well as metabolic flexibility. In my agreement of AD etiology & pathology, these are a big, large deal. I’m non an exercise junkie past times any stretch of the imagination, as well as I think also much is just every bit harmful every bit non enough, but I volition tell yous right here: sitting on your duff all 24-hour interval every 24-hour interval is NOT GOOD ALZHEIMER’S JUJU.
Exogenous Ketones & ApoE4 Genotype
We touched briefly upon the topic of exogenous ketones. I think they agree a lot of hope inwards AD treatment, but at that spot are a number of concerning factors every bit well. That’s all I’ll tell nearly it here, since I have got an epic multi-part rant post nearly this specific number coming upwards adjacent week. (Or perhaps after this week.) If I recall correctly, nosotros also talked just a niggling nearly the number of the ApoE4 genotype, as well as its influence on increased jeopardy for AD. More on that inwards the upcoming posts, too.
“Too old” for a dietary change?
One to a greater extent than affair I would have got liked to verbalise about, as well as I don’t retrieve if I did or not, is whether at that spot is whatever AD patient too old, or too far-gone to bother trying a really low-carb diet to improve cognitive function. What nearly your severely demented, 92-year-old grandparent? Given their age, is it worth trying to wrench the bagel from their mitt as well as switching it out for a plate of kokosnoot oil-fried eggs as well as bacon at the breakfast table, or should yous just exit good plenty alone, as well as permit them alive their lastly few years eating whatever they damn good please? I address this inwards my book, as well as I have got to a greater extent than to tell nearly it inwards the upcoming Alzheimer’s posts I just mentioned. (But inwards my opinion, at that spot is no ane as well as then far gone, as well as no citizen also “senior,” that they should live considered a lost cause.)
Thank you, Jimmy!
Last, but non least: Jimmy as well as I spoke for a few minutes earlier nosotros started recording, as well as it was during that warm-up that I told him how valuable his piece of employment is, as well as what a large fan I’ve been for years. So ane time the demo got underway, I didn’t plow all fan-girl as well as shower him amongst praise, since nosotros had already done that. But I would loathe for people to think I finally got to verbalise to him as well as felt that it was all nearly me. I wishing I would have got expressed my thank yous on behalf of all his listeners piece nosotros were recording.
Okay! Whew! Here’s hoping I hitting on to a greater extent than of these points than I retrieve doing. But inwards example I didn’t, reckon this post an addendum to the podcast.
Remember: Amy Berger, M.S., NTP, is non a physician as well as , LLC, is non a medical practice. The data contained on this site is non intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or preclude whatever medical condition.