Podcast: New Research on Alzheimer’s from Dr. Dean Ornish

[@bonniebryan2541]

I'm sitting on the couch next to my dad who has advanced dementia. I'm eating banana, oranges and black grapes. I've only been WFPB for 10 days but feel realky good. Healing my gut from IBS-D already. I'm hopeful this new lifestyle will help with the dementia that is on both my maternal and paternal families.

[@AmroNaddy]

Keep it up! It only gets better. Remember to supplement with D and B12

[@KJSvitko]

You are what you eat. Your diet impacts your health. Lower stress, reduce obesity, get enough sleep and more exercise are key to a healthy life. Obesity in children and adults is rising across the world. Fast food and sugary drinks including fruit juices are contributing to the problem of poor health and obesity. Eat a healthy plant based diet and exercise regularly. Reduce or ELIMINATE cows milk, eggs, cheese and meat. Eat more salad greens, beans, fruit and vegetables. Eliminate fast food, snacks like cookies, cakes, chips, and sugary drinks and juices. Every adult and child should own a bicycle and ride it regularly. Regular exercise will help you sleep better. Yoga is a great stress reducer. Obesity is all too common today. Get off the couch. Get off the phone, ipad or video game. A variety of stretching and other exercises help with increased mobility. Ride to work, ride to school, ride for fun. Every city should be a bicycle city. Speak up for bicycles in your community

[@catlyn777]

Great job! Keep clearing that cholesterol from your body. It’s caused by a poor diet more than your genetics. My mom died from Alzheimers. What a nightmare disease.

[@jencollier8306]

I have 2 grandparents, one maternal and one paternal, that have died from Alzheimer’s. I have been vegan for 10 years and WFPB more recently cutting way back on salt, oil, processed foods. I exercise daily and walk after lunch as a rule. Hoping these things pull me thru… so much thanks Dr Gregor and team for the hard work on videos like this that help keep us motivated to stay the course.♥️♥️♥️

[@CessnaPilot99]

That's a hell of a motivator to keep you on track with the Whole Foods diet

[@jasontaylor500]

@@CessnaPilot99 Everyone needs a big why. I'm hoping you know what yours is.

[@elizabethmadness5277]

Thank you to Ornish, Greger and many others for going head to head with the hospitals and pharmaceutical companies that have pulled the wool over our eyes about the reversibility of many if not all conditions. We are in control and our choices and heart/mindset does matter!!! 💚🙌🌱✨

[@KJSvitko]

Hospitals, doctors offices and schools should be places where good nutrition is taught and provided not places that contribute to disease and obesity. It is crazy the hospitals are feeding people the very food that caused the heart disease, high blood pressure or cancer that they are treating. Every person in the hospital should receive some nutrition education before being released. Every doctor visit should be an opportunity to educate patients about how food choices impacts their health outcomes. The fact that doctors do not get nutrition training as part of their training makes no sense. Medicare and Medicaid should require nutrition education as part of patient care. Focus should be on food choices. Fasting should be investigated as a treatment for disease.

[@busybeeteach]

Once upon a time health clinics were run by nurses. Then the AMA got involved. The focus changed to treatment from prevention-then everything changed!

[@CessnaPilot99]

It is all going exactly to plan. There are nefarious forces at work that don't want Americans to be healthy, and it all comes back to money

[@soilikasanen]

​@@CessnaPilot99 Yeah, dairy industry goes well with osteoporosis foundations funded by also big phatma. It's unbelievable how NHS is used to spread dairy propaganda offered by those instances. In Finland osteoporosis is very common and no other nation consumes as much dairy per person as us. No one notices anything.

[@carmadefries3729]

The worst thing was privatizing and approving for profit medicine. If we had universal healthcare, I can’t help but think we would ALL be taught Dr. Greger’s knowledge. 💯

[@naftalibendavid]

I am weeping about the recovered functionality. Wow.

[@catlyn777]

Our healthcare system is a risk to our health because it is designed to generate more profits, the opposite of improving health.

[@catlyn777]

@@naftalibendavidmy mother died from Alzheimer’s. If only we had known about this. It’s a nightmare to lose your mom to the disease and a terrible ordeal for the patient.

[@soojeongkim1127]

Thank you so much!

[@kiwifeijoa]

That's wonderful, listening to the man's joy at regaining his musical memory, priceless. So grateful to Dr Dean Ornish for doing such amazing research that could help so many older persons, plus relieving the anxiety of those who fear getting that condition. WFPB scores yet again.

[@FungalNetwork]

Covered the nuance well I feel like thank you!

[@youganon]

Best channel

[@Alexander-ok7fm]

Thank you! 😊

[@jonisolis9645]

Plants, plants, and more plants! Yes! And the more different kinds of plants the better! Grow some plants and eat them!

[@merrynlonsdale5178]

did you forget.....PLANTS?!?!

[@Auguur]

I look in my backyard and find at least 10 edible, nutritious "weeds" growing in addition to the stuff I planted. The variety is astounding!

[@merrynlonsdale5178]

W

[@naftalibendavid]

Keeping me motivated. Thank you. My children thank you.

[@ddutton4716]

Dr. Dale Bredesen has gotten similar results for over ten years and has three best selling books.

[@catherinekasmer9905]

Dr. Bredesen promotes high fat keto diet. My dad tried his protocol 8 years ago for Alzheimer’s. He charged 30K for his program. Initially the Cleveland Clinic dept of Functional Medicine was supporting it and we went to a doctor there quarterly. However, the program did not work and they dropped their support suddenly with no explanation. In my dad’s case, his vascular issues got worse and his Alzheimer’s got worse too.

[@catherinekasmer9905]

My mom went plant based after going through Pritikin cardiac rehab following a heart attack 5 years ago. She is stricter than Pritikin- more like Ornish. 100% compliant. She also takes atorvastatin and blood pressure meds. Perfect weight and walks daily. Sadly she is now having mild cognitive disorder with memory issues.

[@SherylPaulFTP]

Thank you

[@rwpresley]

It's no silver bullet, I'm sad to say. My wife and I have been vegetarian for 50 years, and whole food vegans since 2011, and my wife is slipping into dementia. She hasn't had a cold in years, and she is on no medications at the age of 79, but her memory is declining. We walk every day, and meditate, too. No alcohol or thc. Maybe declining more slowly than she would be on a SAD diet, but who knows.

[@l.w.paradis2108]

Make sure you know what her diagnosis is. I don't know what your diet consists in, but vegans are often deficient in vitamins D and B12, and iodine. Check that, it's standard testing for older vegans.

[@rwpresley]

@@l.w.paradis2108 Her D , iodine and B12 are perfect. She has been diagnosed with dementia.

[@ladym.9268]

Who knows but that she could've showed signs much earlier on a SAD diet. I hope you enjoy each day as it comes and have many good times ❤️

[@saritakumta5958]

I would recommend exercise including resistance training , breathing exercises , some supplements like Phosphatidyl serine , curcumin, ashwagandha , omega 3 ( vegan DHA) , B1, B6, B12, Folate , D3 , Magnesium, astaxanthin etc . Also trying to do puzzles , sudoku increasing social interactions

[@each1teach141]

@@rwpresley Many of us vegans are omega 3 deficient. We need that in our diet! Either supplement or flax/chia seeds to get the daily recommended dose.

[@dumisanibhengu599]

This is very encouraging, thanks Doc...greetings from Durban, South Africa 😊

[@Jeffs60]

The people in the study had very low cholesterol levels which means they must have been on statins which is what caused Alzheimer's disease. There is a chance they were already on a low fat vegan diet but the study did not say what they were eating for the last 70 years. Take your pick either 1) the low fat vegan diet or 2) the unknown diet with statins which lowered their cholesterol both destroyed their health. The study also had people using 14 unregulated synthetic supplements which eventually in time will destroy your health.

[@abetterlivedlife]

Will we get a study where both have the non-dietary lifestyle interventions? It would be good to see the effect size of going vegan vs being more social and mindfulness exercises. If they then combined the results of the studies, we should learn a lot.

[@melanie.3837]

Great information. I follow WFPB and have found so many benefits for my body, digestive tract, LDL cholesterol levels and overall wellbeing. I wonder what Dr. Greger thinks about the use of Photomodulation and the NIH studies indicating the benefits of specific LED nm levels placed on the head and its impact on dementia/Alzheimer's and other brain diseases.

[@TheSuperTeacherStudent]

Ive been striving to eat according to Dr. G for almost 3 months. I'm not perfect at it, but I have been successful at the elimination of processed foods and animal products with the exclusion of occasional fish and eggs. I'm working towards ditching those as well. But the trouble I've run into is trying to find the time to do all of this chopping and cutting and planning and shopping. I am a high school teacher, and like most teachers, I also have a side hustle. I find on days I take the time to cook, I have no time to exercise. And trying to keep up with all the health stuff while maintaining relationships leaves no time to clean my house or do other things. It has become a heavy burden, but I NEVER want to go back to eating garbage, so I stay stuck in this feeling of overwhelm and always trying to catch up.

[@annissagraves3076]

It gets easier! Keep it up! Everything else falls into place when you put yourself and your health first.

[@TheSuperTeacherStudent]

@@annissagraves3076 Yeah. I really appreciate your reply. I do tend to batch cook, and it helps some, but my husband and family insist on eating my cooking even though they supplement it with meat and processed foods. I can't tell them NOT to eat it because I want them to be healthy, and I figure that some healthy food is better than none. They do help with dishes and some prep, but it is still a huge burden. I'm hanging in there with the hope that it will get better though.

[@heatherpomerenke8684]

Also rely on frozen veggies and fruit - just a quick defrost and you can add to pre cooked grains or oats. Keep it up, it’s worth it 💕

[@TheSuperTeacherStudent]

@@heatherpomerenke8684 That's a good idea, but I rarely see KZbinr vegan cooks using frozen vegetables. I'm not even sure I know how. It's hard to disassociate frozen from processed, but I will try it.

[@heatherpomerenke8684]

@@TheSuperTeacherStudent www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/4060/#:~:text=Research%20has%20revealed%20that%20frozen,%2D%2D%20as%20compared%20to%20fresh.

[@SherylPaulFTP]

Most interesting, I wonder if plant based will stop vkd from getting worse. My mother, my sister (now on dislysis), and me all have ckd. I am just now starting to lose protein. Would l9ve to know if any research has been done

[@ddutton4716]

Dr. Sean Hashmi has over a hundred YTs on plant based kidney health.

[@oddopops1327]

👍👍😊😊

[@rwpresley]

A whole food plant based diet is the only way to live, but it isn’t a silver bullet. We’re all gonna die of something. It won’t prevent 100% of dementias. Even false hope brings some relief, I suppose.

[@CrazyMaryJo]

And oral estrogen, Including post-menopause, protects heart and brain 🧠 and keeps you out of nursing home for a longer period of time.

[@gregmeissner9960]

The more testimonial-based you get the less legitimate you sound. It pains me to say this but it is true.

[@ladym.9268]

Thank goodness he tells us the science and studies behind these personal experiences.