Participants: Curtis Eakins, Paula Eakins
Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL00136A
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00:01 It's a disease of the brain, but it breaks
00:04 the heart. In fact the giddiness condition is 00:08 not good. Millions are destined to get it. 00:11 Our program today is entitled Alzheimer's 00:14 disease part one, we'll will be right back. 00:43 Hi, welcome to Abundant Living and this is my 00:45 beautiful bride Paula Eakins. How are doing it 00:48 today Honey. I am doing fine, thank you. 00:49 Oh that's great, good to see you there and that's 00:52 a nice blouse by the way is that new? No, okay 00:56 you had it for quite some time. 00:57 Yes, I had. Okay just checking. Now we are 01:00 talking today about Alzheimer's, yes. And 01:03 of course I guess people are saying is it 01:04 Alzheimer's or Alzheimer's. 01:07 Okay let's set the record straight. 01:10 Today it's going to be Alzheimer's and next 01:12 week this is part one, and now next week it's 01:14 going to be also Alzheimer's. But now if 01:16 you prefer Alzheimer's then you can say it as 01:18 well but we are going to us Alzheimer's in 01:20 today's and next week's program. 01:22 Well I guess we are. Let me first of all define 01:25 the term Alzheimer's disease what exactly 01:29 is it? Okay, Alzheimer's disease is basically a 01:31 progression deterioration of the brain 01:34 mental function. It affects the neurons 01:38 or brain cells, nerve cells there. It also 01:41 affects the access where the nerves interlock 01:46 with one and another, so that transmissions 01:48 of nerve impulses is interfered. So, that's 01:51 where you have several problems in that area. 01:54 It can be mild, it can also be severe just 01:56 depending on the type, the severity of 01:59 Alzheimer's diseases, and how long the person 02:01 has had it and diagnoses and that kind of thing 02:03 so. It's a very progressive disease 02:07 of mental function. 02:09 So, I guess we're gonna talk about the fact it 02:11 can be progressive, it can start 02:14 anytime in a person's life I guess? 02:16 Well, getting down to the statistics, 02:19 usually it starts around age of 65 years of age 02:22 but again as we grow older of course it can 02:25 be more progressively worse as we grow older 02:29 with age. And I don't want to get into stats, 02:31 but I just want to look at you know because I 02:32 there are times when I lose my keys, I can't 02:35 find them, I am going somewhere I 02:37 run down the steps, okay, and I get down to 02:39 the bottom of steps, and I can't figure out 02:40 what I was supposed to doing, so I run back up the 02:42 steps and it's somehow right in the middle of 02:44 the step you know half way up I remember 02:47 exactly what I was supposed be doing, so 02:49 that's the reason why it's kind of hard 02:50 at first I asked that question. 02:52 Okay if that's true then about 95 percent of us 02:56 have Alzheimer's disease, but Alzheimer's 02:58 disease is not when you forget where you place 03:01 your car keys, okay. Alzheimer's disease 03:03 is where you forget what car keys are used for, 03:06 I see, so there is a difference there. 03:08 There is a severe mental malfunction as 03:11 far as reasoning and that kind of thing so. 03:14 It's not just forgetting things but 03:15 it's more severe then that. 03:18 Well my daughter always says to me I am just too 03:19 busy, I guess that's the reason why I forget 03:21 things. But let's talk about the symptoms 03:24 of how does a person know that they have 03:26 contracted Alzheimer's disease? Okay, 03:28 now of course an autopsy is the most way of 03:32 determining whether a person has Alzheimer's 03:34 disease. And of course we have to have 03:35 brain tissue and looking under microscope. 03:38 Well that's best done when a person has 03:40 passed. So, when a person is alive, 03:42 a doctor will say you will have probable 03:45 Alzheimer's disease, about 85-90 percent, 03:48 it's not conclusive. But the question 03:50 is how it can be diagnosed, okay, 03:53 or the symptoms, the symptoms. 03:54 Okay the symptoms, okay, the symptoms 03:56 well first of all sometimes it first deals 04:00 with depression psychosis because we're 04:03 dealing with their frontal lobe, so if 04:05 that's the case then you have depression 04:06 and psychosis. Sometimes it deals 04:09 with the physical outburst, memory, lack 04:15 of visual perception because it deals 04:18 with also the hippocampus area as 04:20 well. So just depends on where it 04:23 deals with depending on what symptoms a person 04:26 may have. Now again you have outburst, 04:29 you have emotional outburst, 04:30 physical outburst, speech, lack of recall, 04:35 memory. This is short term memory, 04:38 not so much long term memory. So there 04:41 there are different symptoms that person does 04:43 have with Alzheimer's disease. 04:45 A short term meaning something that you might 04:46 forget or someone says something to you 04:49 at that moment and you forget it, yes, rather 04:51 then something I might know or someone might 04:54 know from the past. 04:55 Right, yeah most people who have Alzheimer's 04:57 disease will remember things 10 or 20 years 05:00 ago, but not 10 or 20 minutes ago because the 05:03 memory is not there because the malfunction 05:05 of neurons that nerve impulse simply has 05:08 not been transmitted 05:10 to the next neuron in the brain. 05:12 Now you made this comment about outbursts, 05:14 you know there's lot of people who have 05:16 outburst continuously so what do you 05:18 mean by the outburst, is it like something 05:19 that the person might be in a normalcy where 05:22 they are always okay and all of a sudden 05:25 they act out. Yeah as far as their 05:27 voice and also as far as their physical nature 05:30 is concerned, we get more to that 05:32 part two next week. 05:34 We're gonna go right into the brain and we 05:36 will look at two of the major hallmarks 05:38 of Alzheimer's disease by autopsy. 05:41 But for this week only physical symptoms 05:44 or basically outbursts and we go more 05:47 into that next week, we go into 05:48 the brain and see how that works out. 05:50 So how is it diagnosed? 05:51 Well like I said before autopsy is the most way 05:54 of confirming of Alzheimer's disease 05:57 patient. But again there are some several 06:00 tests that doctor will take and sometimes 06:02 it's based on eliminating other 06:04 probable symptoms that mimics 06:06 Alzheimer's disease such as they will 06:08 rule out stroke, okay. 06:10 They will rule out deficiency of B12 06:12 because that deals with central nervous system. 06:15 They will rule out brain tumors or cancer 06:19 in the brain and thyroid problems, 06:22 they will rule out depression. 06:24 So, what's left is usually that give some 06:26 symptoms is Alzheimer's disease. 06:29 There are also some tests a doctor will 06:32 administer to a person such as a person who 06:34 has Alzheimer's disease cannot draw a clock 06:39 and put the numbers inside the clock because 06:42 again the visual perception, 06:44 so they can't do that. 06:46 Counting backwards from 100 by 7, 06:50 okay they have a difficult time doing that. 06:53 Some people have difficult time doing 06:55 that already, but anyway and or counting 06:57 the word world backwards, alright. 07:03 They can't really have a problem doing that 07:05 as well and if you put may be a piece of 07:08 string and a coin in a person's hand 07:12 they can't tell which one is the string 07:14 and which one is the coin. 07:15 Again that visual perception this is 07:17 the brain dealing with the frontal lobe or the 07:20 hippocampus dealing with memory 07:22 and visual perception. 07:23 So have a hard time getting off the exit 07:26 or the interstate, reading signs, so these 07:28 are some of things that are hallmarks as far as 07:32 diagnosing Alzheimer's disease patient. 07:35 Again this about 90 percent because it 07:37 cannot be conclusive until an autopsy is 07:40 done, taking some brain tissue and then look at 07:42 those brain cells, but until the person does 07:45 though he passes on then they can tell with a 07:49 certain degree of certainty that 07:51 person has Alzheimer's disease. 07:53 So, there is a battery of tests then is what you're saying, 07:55 exactly. And I guess a person... I am just 07:59 thinking to myself you know what would make 08:01 me to think to even go to a doctor. 08:03 I mean is there any kind of pain 08:05 or anything that goes along with that? 08:06 See there is no pain, that's where the 08:10 person's family members, alright. When they start 08:13 start noticing some changes as I just 08:15 mentioned, okay, outbursts, depression, 08:19 they are not themselves. 08:20 This is a change of personality, so the 08:24 person is not themselves, so therefore 08:27 the family member is usually the first one that 08:29 would detect something is going on with 08:32 my husband, mother or whatever the case maybe 08:34 because the person doesn't know it. 08:36 But the family member may pick up on it first 08:39 because it's not of their normal habitat and 08:42 that's where the doctor needs to go in and 08:45 check out... like I said before they would need 08:47 to eliminate certain things because certain 08:49 conditions can also mimic Alzheimer's disease, 08:52 so they rule out stroke, depression, 08:54 thyroid and deficiency in B12. 08:57 What would be the causes then of it? 08:59 Well let's go with the stats first and then I 09:01 would go with the causes. Going to stats, 09:02 now the stats are not good folks, about maybe 09:07 65 to 75 years of age about 3 percent of 09:10 of people have Alzheimer's disease. 09:13 So, starts around 65 years of age okay, 09:15 now from 75 to 85 it jumps up 09:18 to about 20 percent. 09:20 Now folks over 85 years of age it can be up to 09:25 one half of people have Alzheimer's disease, 09:29 one half. Over 85 years of age from one third 09:33 to one half, so and that's not good and now 09:36 again every seven seconds, okay, someone 09:38 turns 50 which means that those individuals 09:42 parents are now in their 70's, right, 09:45 right. That's why and people living longer, yes 09:47 so go of course right now there are about four 09:49 million people have Alzheimer's. 09:51 At that rate when people are growing 09:53 older by 50 years there will be 09:56 quadruple 14 million. 09:59 Now hopefully by that time it would be 10:01 New Jerusalem, but as the rate goes according 10:04 to plan it's not looking good at all. And so and 10:08 once person has been diagnosed with 10:10 Alzheimer's disease they have about 8 to 20 years 10:13 of life left. They usually die within 8 to 10:16 20 years, so again you know 100,000 people 10:20 no, 10,000, no 1000 people are diagnosed 10:23 with Alzheimer's disease every single day, 10:27 1000 people and the numbers are not getting 10:31 any better. So, unless the family actually 10:33 recognizes a difference or a change in their 10:36 parent or grandparent whoever is in the 10:38 household, then basically and have the... 10:41 then see to go have the test done. 10:43 So this is kind of one of those, 10:45 what do I usually use that word, 10:47 not known or invisible kind of things that can 10:51 happen as far as since there is no symptoms. 10:54 Well it grows progressively worse, 10:58 alright, so you will notice a change in a 11:00 person's character and personality, memory 11:03 things and how to turn on the oven, 11:07 how to turn on a microwave, 11:08 how to brush their teeth, comb their hair. 11:13 These changes would be first mark, or just not 11:16 being able to memorize or remember something 11:20 that just spoken to them, 11:22 let say 10 minutes ago. 11:23 You will cite to them a paragraph, okay. 11:26 And then ask them to recite as much 11:28 as they can remember 11:30 things in that paragraph. 11:31 A person who has Alzheimer's disease 11:33 cannot do that, or do it at a very 11:36 low state of, far reciting whatever you 11:39 said in that paragraph. 11:41 So what will be the causes then? 11:42 Okay, the causes for Alzheimer's now 11:44 of course that can be a program within itself 11:46 and its not conclusive as far as aluminum is 11:49 concerned, so let's just set that to rest. 11:51 It is true though those who have Alzheimer's 11:53 disease once the autopsy is done there is a high 11:56 amount of aluminum in the brain but they are 11:58 not sure whether or not aluminum cause 12:00 Alzheimer's or because has Alzheimer's that it 12:03 will retain aluminum, so it's not conclusive. 12:06 But there is one common thread that Alzheimer's 12:10 disease patients do have and when they do the 12:13 autopsy or those who are even alive they will 12:16 have a high degree of homocysteines 12:19 that would be in their blood. 12:22 This is conclusive across the board and you 12:26 just type, do at Medline Research just type in 12:28 Alzheimer's, type in homocysteines you get 12:31 a ray of clinical studies in medical 12:34 journals about homocysteines in blood. 12:37 Now there are two ways of increasing 12:40 homocysteines in our blood stream, okay. 12:42 Number one is what we eat, there is an 12:45 essential amino acid called methionine. 12:50 Now this comes from animal products and 12:52 comes from plant based products. 12:54 Animal products have a high degree of 12:56 methionine when we take in these foods 12:58 methionine converse into homocysteines. 13:03 Now the foods that are high in 13:05 methionine is chicken, cheese particularly 13:10 Swiss and Parmesan, milk has twice as much 13:15 as methionine than soymilk, 13:17 so again these foods are when going to the 13:20 system convert into homocysteines 13:22 and this is the trademark of all 13:24 Alzheimer's disease patients. 13:26 Then of course you have high homocysteines 13:28 level. Another way of having high 13:30 homocysteines level is of course not eating 13:32 enough of the folate foods. 13:35 It's not so much what you eat but 13:36 what you're not eating as well. 13:38 Again the folate foods will bring down 13:40 homocysteines and of course you get 13:42 those in dark leafy green vegetables and 13:44 also legumes, so and of course cigarette smoke 13:48 or caffeine and alcohol will also increase your 13:50 homocysteine levels. So again there are some 13:53 other medical journals that I can cite that 13:55 those who do eat chicken or flesh foods 13:59 have a high degree rate of or risk 14:02 of having Alzheimer's disease. 14:05 Now just to isolate one clinical study 14:07 to confirm this, 14:08 the Boston University School of Medicine, 14:10 they did a clinical study on 1098 14:14 healthy elderly individuals. 14:16 They tracked them for 11 or 8 years. 14:20 Within 8 years 111 about 14:23 10 percent had Alzheimer's diseases. 14:26 They discovered that in those 111 they 14:29 had a high degree of homocysteines and this 14:32 was even recorded in the most prestigious 14:34 medial journal in United States, 14:36 the New England Journal of Medicine, 14:38 February 2002. but all medical journals will 14:42 say the same thing basically, high rate of 14:46 homocysteine levels in the blood stream. 14:48 So that's one thing that we can do to cut down 14:51 on the flesh foods, again chicken or fish 14:54 which has a lot of the methionine which 14:57 converts into homocysteine 14:58 once we eat them, and also the dairy 15:00 and cheeses as well. 15:02 I think we have a graphic lets go with 15:03 the summery of how we can also avoid 15:06 Alzheimer's disease at this time. 15:08 Alright avoiding Alzheimer's disease. 15:11 We didn't talk about this but mental 15:12 gymnastics, there has been some research 15:15 in the science of medical journal called 15:17 Neurology where those individuals who do, 15:20 let say more crossword puzzles, reading, 15:24 studying, used their brains more actively had 15:28 a lower rate of Alzheimer's disease as 15:31 opposed to those who did not do anything or 15:33 watched maybe more television, alright. 15:35 Number two a plant-based diet and we mentioned 15:38 out there getting rid of the flesh foods and also 15:41 the dairy products too, there by you get 15:43 that methionine but it's not as high 15:45 as animal products. 15:47 And in number three the increase of antioxidants. 15:50 We're gonna talk about more about that 15:52 particular one in our next weeks program 15:54 about antioxidants, how antioxidants will reduce 15:58 the rate of free radicals in the brain because 16:01 free radicals are also prevalent in those 16:03 those who have Alzheimer's disease. 16:05 Well we've talked a lot on plant-based diet and 16:08 all that is going to be things we would be 16:09 constantly saying over and over again that's 16:11 right of course here on Abundant Living, 16:13 we talk often about the plant-based diet. 16:15 How important it is because its actually 16:17 desired by the creator God himself. 16:20 That's, true, alright. 16:21 And now my next question is gonna be about the 16:24 caretaker because with all this going on with 16:27 that individual, that senior individual in our 16:28 home what kind of stress or does it 16:31 put stress on the caretaker? 16:33 Yes it does, right before this program I 16:36 called the Alzheimer's Association in 16:38 Huntsville, Alabama and I asked the same 16:40 question I said what is the main concern for 16:43 a caretaker, because remember are folks 16:45 70 percent of people who have Alzheimer's disease 16:48 are being taken care of in the home, 70 percent. 16:52 So I ask her what is the number one 16:54 concern for caretaker? 16:56 She said is loneliness and isolation, and you 16:59 can, you know assume that would be the case 17:02 because they deal with the person one on one, 17:04 this is 24 hour care, alright and they have 17:07 been diagnosed and they can do brain scans to 17:09 the brain activity whatever and so isolation. 17:14 So we suggest a person who is care taking this 17:17 Alzheimer's disease patient 17:19 to go with their Support Group. 17:21 Now let's go to our last graph and 17:22 let's highlight this. 17:24 There are some benefits of 17:25 Support Group at this time. 17:26 Number one you will discover available 17:28 resources, I didn't know this but she said 17:30 there are many Alzheimer's Associations 17:33 across the country they actually have funds 17:35 and scholarships for people can come in and 17:38 sit with that person for four hours, so that 17:41 caretaker can take of their personal needs 17:43 here and there when they need to. 17:46 So there we go for that. Learn coping skills, 17:49 sharing information how to cope with different 17:53 individuals, and you know we have what we call the 17:56 sundown syndrome where in late afternoon 17:58 is very trying for those who are care taking 18:02 Alzheimer's disease patients. 18:03 Number three also achieving emotional wellness. 18:06 Caretakers they have they go through 18:10 depression, fatigue and emotional upset because 18:14 they may have feeling some guilt and anxiety, 18:18 so again Support Groups are very efficacious for 18:22 those particularly as Alzheimer's diseases 18:24 patients dealing with those, how to write out 18:26 our living will, a power of attorney these things 18:29 need to be in place because you never know that 18:32 you will need this when a person really gets 18:34 progressively worse, so that's the one 18:37 great thing that all Support Groups can give. 18:41 Well I know we not finished with this subject 18:43 so you know we're gonna 18:44 I mean this is pretty heavy. 18:46 We gonna continue this program talking 18:48 more about Alzheimer's and what's going on with 18:50 individual and the caretaker and I know you 18:53 are trying to figure out all we gonna cook 18:54 on this program and the answer is yes. 18:56 And of course talk about plant-based foods, 18:58 so today you wanna get your paper and your pencil. 19:00 We wanna ring somebody on the phone 19:02 and knock on someone door they will know that 19:04 Abundant Living is on, and we are going into 19:06 to make a Salad Bread Bowl 19:09 with all those fixing, so stay by. |
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