Participants: Paula Eakins, Curtis Eakins
Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL00137A
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00:01 Alzheimer's disease has reached
00:03 epidemic proportions. Drug therapy is at 00:05 best mediocre, stem cell availability is still 00:08 years away. However, God has something in 00:12 nature that will reverse Alzheimer's disease, 00:14 so our program is entitled 00:16 "Alzheimer's Disease Part 2" stay by. 00:45 Hi, welcome to Abundant Living I am glad that 00:47 you with us today our part II of our series 00:50 Alzheimer's disease and I would like to introduce 00:52 my wife Paula Eakins 00:54 wonderful wife of over 10 years. 00:56 I am, that's right. At the time it is taping on 00:58 this program maybe more after that. 01:01 You are doing now right today? 01:02 I am doing absolutely fantastic. 01:03 Okay, you are looking good too. 01:05 Thank you very much. You welcome very much. 01:06 Okay, as we get on the subject. 01:08 As we get on the subject. On the subject 01:09 of Alzheimer's, of Alzheimer's disease. 01:10 Okay, we met before and talked about this 01:13 before too, and so this time we're gonna do 01:16 just a brief summary because we have lot to 01:19 cover in this particular one of Alzheimer's, 01:21 so why don't you give our viewing audience 01:23 a little information about Alzheimer's 01:25 definitional term and the status. 01:27 Okay, just a quick review because this is 01:28 part 2 of a 2 part series, well one thousand people 01:31 are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, 01:33 one thousand every single day, and it starts 01:36 about 65 years of age from 65 to 75 about 2%, 01:41 from 75 to 85 about 20% and over 85 years of age 01:45 it can be up to 1/2 and of course the 01:49 baby boomers are, may turn 50 every 7 seconds 01:53 so of course the parents are now in their 70's 01:55 so that's why become more epidemic and the causes 01:59 we talked about the homocysteine levels, 02:03 this is a common threat for those 02:04 who have Alzheimer's disease. 02:06 They always have, usually have a high rate of 02:08 homocysteines we talked about how one can get 02:11 high homocysteine levels in their blood stream 02:14 by eating animal products of course methionine 02:17 is an essential amino acid. Once it is eaten 02:21 it converts into homocysteines. 02:23 And homocysteine is a trademark for those 02:25 who have Alzheimer's disease and those foods 02:27 are we mentioned about the chicken and cheese, 02:31 Cheddar, not Cheddar but Parmesan cheese 02:33 and Swiss cheese are high methionine contents 02:37 in those foods. Milk has twice as much as 02:39 soy milk, so all animal products you can 02:42 have that. Plant based products have it too 02:44 but not as much as animal products. 02:46 And then we mentioned about the diagnosis 02:48 of course brain scan when the person is alive. 02:51 There are several tests a person take as well to 02:53 determine whether or not they have 02:54 Alzheimer's disease. They would normally 02:56 rule out some other problems that would mimic 02:58 those symptoms such as thyroid problems, 03:01 deficient in B12, brain tumor, depression, 03:06 and so it's about 90% probable that a person 03:10 can have Alzheimer's disease while the person 03:11 is alive but of course autopsy would be 03:15 definitive and of course as caretaker would mention 03:17 about that we also really suggest caretakers 03:21 to really join support group, the loneliness, 03:24 isolation, depression, a guilt, distress 03:26 and so caretaker there are some funds, 03:29 scholarship funds. Alzheimer's disease 03:32 associations across the nation that may be 03:34 available so people can come in for maybe 03:36 four hours with that caretaker can take care 03:39 of their personal business on a daily basis 03:41 or a weekly basis. Very good, very good, 03:44 I guess we would like to see what exactly 03:45 Alzheimer's brain looks like, of course, 03:48 people who had Alzheimer's what their 03:50 brain might be looking like. 03:51 Okay, let's before we go into our first graphic, 03:53 there are two hallmarks for those individuals 03:56 who have Alzheimer's disease two hallmarks. 03:59 This is after an autopsy now folks. 04:01 This is very important. Let's go to our first 04:04 graphic here and this hallmark here as you see 04:07 the beta-Amyloid protein. Now, this is a type of 04:10 protein, it's called diffused plaque, 04:12 but let not get confuse with the plaque that 04:15 you normally find in the coronary arteries, 04:18 so this plaque does not consist of cholesterol 04:21 and fat, but consist of a particular protein 04:25 structure and what happens is that you see 04:28 the neuron at the bottom left hand corner 04:30 of the screen there that nerve impulse sends 04:34 a message from that neuron to the neuron 04:37 at the top right hand corner, however this 04:40 beta-Amyloid protein is like a little small 04:44 hole or vacuum, thereby the nerve impulse 04:48 cannot reach to the other neuron thereby 04:51 that's why a person have short term memory 04:54 is below par so that's a small hole in the brain 04:58 and again most brains about 1,300 grams 05:04 as far as weight is concerned. 05:05 Alzheimer's brain is about 300 or less that's 05:09 about 10% so those holes will create in a 05:12 brain as a result of free radicals, 05:16 causes inflammation, causes the beta-Amyloid 05:19 plaque build up in a brain thereby those nerve 05:23 impulses cannot get through to the other 05:24 nerve that's why you have problems was short term 05:27 memory so that's very prevalent. 05:30 This was discovered by Dr. Alois Alzheimer, 05:34 back in 1906. He knows a woman who died 05:38 unusual death, a mental ill health 05:42 and so he decided to do an autopsy on her 05:44 brain in 1906 and discovered that her 05:47 brain looked like that is one of hallmarks 05:50 of Alzheimer's disease, so again free radicals 05:53 is the major culprit of that. 05:55 Now you say, free radicals, you made a comment 05:57 about the holes in the brain. 05:58 Now, I remember we've been talking before 06:00 I mean I've heard lot about this 06:02 mad cow disease. Now that also is a one way 06:05 it says, indicative that there are holes also 06:08 in the brain or brain material, 06:10 so is there any relationship between 06:12 Alzheimer's and mad cow disease? 06:14 Okay, now folks I want you to hold on to your seat, 06:18 now I don't say that too often but hold 06:20 on to your seat. Now when a cow is said 06:24 to have holes in a brain and goes mad we call 06:27 that mad cow disease. But now when a person 06:33 has those same symptoms we don't say that 06:35 we have mad cow disease because we are not cows. 06:38 It's a human variant form so we called 06:41 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or sometimes by the 06:46 initials CJD that a human variant form 06:50 Mad Cow disease. Now hold on to seat folks, 06:55 Creutzfeldt-Jakob comes from two individuals. 07:00 Dr. Creutzfeldt and Dr. Jakob both them were 07:05 young associates of Dr. Alzheimer's in 1906. 07:12 They too discovered holes in the brains as well, 07:16 that's why there is a close association between 07:18 mad cow and Alzheimer's. They were associates 07:22 of Dr. Alzheimer's in 1906 and this is what 07:25 they found, this is the second hallmark of 07:29 Alzheimer's disease. Let's go to our next graphic. 07:31 Let's see what we are talking about. 07:33 There is the Neuron Tangled Tau, 07:35 now this is a neuron, when I say neuron, 07:38 meaning nerve cell. Neuron, nerve cells are 07:41 interchangeable words. The top right hand corner 07:44 is a normal neuron that's the way it suppose 07:47 to look but now at the bottom middle picture 07:50 there that neuron is now tangled and therefore 07:54 its just a awful mess there that's why that neuron, 07:57 that nerve cell cannot transmit any nerve 08:01 impulses to another neuron and that's why a person 08:06 have behavioral problems, physical problems 08:09 cannot function, cannot think, have depression, 08:12 psychosis, and that's why and again this neuron 08:17 is due to as I said before a lot of the 08:21 free radicals that has been accumulated in the brain, 08:25 so again this is very prevalent as far as 08:29 our mad cow disease and Alzheimer's disease, 08:33 closely associated. Now, that's very interesting 08:35 of I guess that we're wondering as our audience 08:39 and myself what about medications as far as 08:41 is there medications that can help with this situation. 08:43 Yeah, there are two top medications that has been 08:46 approved by the Food and Drug Administration. 08:48 The number one is probably tacrine, 08:51 T- A-C-R-I-N-E that has been improved by the FDA. 08:56 The number two medication is Donepezil, 08:59 that's also been approved by the FDA 09:01 but there as I said before in a tease, 09:03 at best they're mediocre, it causes vomiting, 09:07 has side effects, nausea, and diarrhea, 09:11 that's the good news and also causes 09:14 inflammation of liver. It's so bad that one drug 09:17 company manufacture has actually stopped 09:20 marketing, tacrine as a drug for 09:24 Alzheimer's disease because it's so bad. 09:26 And so you know, like I said, before stem cell 09:29 research is still years away so really we need 09:32 something else in its place because medication 09:35 is a best mediocre as far as Alzheimer's disease 09:37 is concerned. So therefore, there is not 09:40 much hope when you look at medication in 09:43 relationship to Alzheimer's disease. 09:45 So you almost kind of like making a bad thing 09:47 worse really when you think about it, 09:49 I mean you know.. Well, it tends to enhance 09:52 somewhat the memory and behavior skills, okay, 09:55 but again you have the downside of the 09:57 side effects which all drugs held with them, 10:00 some more than others. What about herbal medicine, 10:03 okay, is there anything in herbal medicine? 10:05 Yes, there is now, this is very interesting, 10:08 this is one that's very dear to my heart 10:10 because I think what happens is that like 10:13 I said before Alzheimer's disease 10:14 is now has reached epidemic proportions. 10:17 There is something in nature that 10:19 God has provided that has been proven very 10:22 effective for the management of 10:25 Alzheimer's disease and this has been used for 10:30 years in China. This is a herb we called 10:33 a clubmoss and they have extracted this herb 10:37 and extract from this herb is call Huperzine A. 10:41 we'll spell it for you later on in the program, 10:43 Huperzine A. And Huperzine A 10:46 has been used very effectively as for as 10:48 Alzheimer's disease in improving the memory 10:51 and also protecting the Neuroma and also gives 10:54 a person more mental function as well. 10:58 Let me give you a time line as far as this 11:00 extract herb is concerned. Back in 1993 the first 11:05 landmark clinical study in China was done in 11:07 Beijing Institute of Mental Health 11:10 and they looked at several individuals, 11:12 a hundreds individual who had Alzheimer's disease 11:15 and they gave these individuals the 11:18 Huperzine A in this clinical trial here, 11:22 and it was actually published in a remarkable 11:25 landmark clinical journal there in Chinese. 11:28 Let's go look at this clinical study and see 11:31 the results of the Huperzine A 11:33 in relationship to Alzheimer's disease. 11:35 Here is a double-blind study; after 4 weeks 11:38 treatment of Huperzine A, over 70% had improvement 11:42 as measured by "MQ" that means memory quotation 11:46 and cognition tests, 70% this is remarkable, 11:51 and so this was done at the Beijing Institute 11:54 of Mental Health and it was also published 11:56 in a major medical journal as well emphasizing 11:59 that particularly clinical study. 12:00 That's in back 1993, 1994. Well, at 1996 because 12:05 Huperzine A is a Chinese herb and all the clinical 12:09 studies being done in Chinese over a 100,000 12:13 Chinese in Medical Journals in China. 12:16 It takes a while for that information to get over 12:18 here to United States but guess what, 12:21 it's here now, amen, back in 1908, that's an amen. 12:25 We need that. Yeah, we need that, 12:27 now back in 1996, a Professor by Kozikowski 12:33 he was a Professor and still Professor at 12:35 the Georgetown University of Cognition. 12:37 He standardize the Huperzine A for further 12:41 clinical studies in this country and so also 12:45 this is so remarkable that those individuals 12:48 who did a clinical study in that was even published 12:51 in a Peer Review Medical Journal in this country. 12:55 Now medical journals do not normally publish 12:59 herbal medicine if they do usually it's not 13:02 always positive but this Peer Review 13:06 Medical Journal called it the journal of the 13:08 American Medical Association. 13:11 In 1997 of March, says that this Huperzine A 13:16 can be even more effective than the Food 13:19 and Drug Administration approved drug for this 13:22 disease which is Tacrine and Donepezil, 13:25 that is very and highly unusual for a 13:28 Medical Journal to say that about an herb, 13:30 a Chinese herb in it's relationship and being 13:34 better then a Food and Drug Administrations 13:36 drug approve for this disease, 13:38 and they've mentioned in their articles so that's 13:40 very profound. I just talked to before we came up 13:44 here to the major researcher in 13:48 Washington DC. Right now this year, 13:51 this in 2004, I'll go ahead and state that, 13:55 right now 23 universities across this country 13:59 here in United States are now beginning to go 14:03 through clinical trails with this Huperzine A 14:06 in Alzheimer's disease, phase I, phase II 14:11 and phase III. Phase I, usually about 20 people 14:15 involved in phase I, they deal with that and 14:18 also the side effects in adults, that's phase I, 14:21 then next we go to phase II which 14:23 encompasses about a 100 to 300 people 14:26 that's in phase II, still monitored the 14:28 side effects and then phase III the last type 14:32 of phase in clinical trail which is over 14:35 1000 individuals, I just talked to her, 14:38 Sally Walsh, there in Georgetown University, 14:39 she said that Huperzine A has already passed 14:43 phase I with flying colors in this country, 14:47 phase II is going on the way as I speak right now. 14:51 There is other almost a dozen or two dozen 14:54 clinical studies going around throughout this 14:56 country emphasizing Huperzine A 14:59 and the benefits of improvement 15:02 Alzheimer's disease as far as short term memory, 15:05 behavior and learning skills as well so you see 15:09 and hear more about Huperzine A further on as 15:13 this topic is be more promoted in the near future. 15:17 That's, that's very, very good and that means 15:19 there is some hope once again. 15:20 Yeah, there is some hope, there is some hope, 15:22 and let's go to our last graphic and let's see 15:25 how it works the Huperzine A, 15:26 this is very more remarkable. Number 1, 15:29 Huperzine A, it protects the brain neurons 15:33 or nerve cell, remember tangled tau we saw 15:35 as our tangled, where Huperzine A goes in 15:38 and protects the nerve cell, the neuron 15:41 so it stays intact. Number 2, it promotes 15:44 neuronal growth, what, that means that one neuron 15:48 sends a nerve impulse to next neuron. 15:51 In Alzheimer's disease patients the impulse 15:54 is short. It doesn't reach to next neuron. 15:56 Huperzine A extends that impulse to the next 16:00 neuron thereby is more efficacious and 16:03 at number 3, it increase acetylcholine. 16:05 Acetylcholine is a thing that once it's increase 16:08 it also increase the function of brain, 16:11 mental activity, so you can see that's why 16:14 Huperzine A is at the fore front now you know 16:17 it was ginkgo biloba that's still good but 16:21 ginkgo biloba doesn't come close to Huperzine A 16:24 as far as Alzheimer's disease in reversing 16:27 the process. Huperzine A is that gonna be, 16:31 is it out now, I mean its studies and tests 16:34 are being done. So I mean like before you would go 16:37 and purchase certain types of herbs. 16:38 Can you purchase you know, should a person 16:40 get it now and. Okay. Let me, good question, 16:43 yeah, the dosage, number 1, based on 16:45 clinical studies. There has being several clinical 16:47 studies you just go to clinicaltrials.gov 16:51 type in Huperzine A, Alzheimer's you see 16:55 a whole list of at the timeless tapping, 16:57 23 clinical studies being done in this country. 17:01 You can even be involved in these clinical 17:02 studies by the way but let me go back 17:04 and say that based on these clinical studies 17:06 100 micro grams per day has being very 17:10 effective for reverse or improving the 17:14 Alzheimer's disease symptoms and folks 17:16 you can get it at the regular health food store 17:20 and is less than $20 a month. 17:26 Most health food stores will have that Huperzine A, 17:28 alright, it's extract from the clubmoss. 17:31 Well, you don't want to clear up because the 17:33 reason I don't want to clear it up for 17:34 two reasons. Number 1 is that a lot of times 17:36 when people watch this program 17:38 and here us say things, they say you know 17:41 I think I got Alzheimer's or something that 17:42 so be us go ahead... I can't find my car keys, 17:44 it does not... you want to go 17:46 and see a physician, that's true and you want 17:47 to make sure that it is diagnosed, right. 17:49 You want to get the brain scan 17:52 that was more definitive other than you know 17:56 of course the autopsy and also have some tests 17:58 and rule out some other things to be, 18:00 they want to be properly diagnosed. 18:01 That's the bottom-line and the bottom-line is that, 18:02 lets get the word out. Now the thing is also 18:05 we talked before about the plant based diet, 18:07 the diet of the creator God, our creator God 18:09 has given us. Nuts, grains and seeds shall be 18:12 your meat, eating good foods and good vegetables 18:14 and whole grains and staying away from, 18:17 member staying away from the dairy kingdom. 18:19 Okay, the milk, the meat, the cheese not the eggs 18:21 on that stuff and so once again we want to 18:24 go into the kitchen and you know you trying 18:26 to figure are we gonna cook? 18:27 The answer is yes. Alright. We're gonna fix 18:28 an enchilada casserole so you want to get 18:31 your paper and pencil, and stay by. |
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