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There is research indicating a cocktail of B Vitamins help, but only when the patient has high homocysteine levels.
When Dr MacDonald spoke at the London launch of the Spirochaetal Alzheimer's Association here, we learned about a patient who had severe Alzh symptoms reversed after antibiotic treatment for his Lyme Disease.
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Below is the vit b research. As mentioned it is "...the beneficial effect of B vitamins is confined to participants with high homocysteine". Elena
"Preventing Alzheimer’s disease-related gray matter atrophy by B-vitamin treatment
Gwenaëlle Douauda,b,1, Helga Refsumb,c,d, Celeste A. de Jagerc, Robin Jacobye, Thomas E. Nicholsa,f,g, Stephen M. Smitha, and A. David Smithb,c
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Edited by Marcus E. Raichle, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, and approved March 29, 2013 (received for review January 29, 2013)
Abstract
Is it possible to prevent atrophy of key brain regions related to cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease (AD)?
One approach is to modify nongenetic risk factors, for instance by lowering elevated plasma homocysteine using B vitamins. In an initial, randomized controlled study on elderly subjects with increased dementia risk (mild cognitive impairment according to 2004 Petersen criteria), we showed that high-dose B-vitamin treatment (folic acid 0.8 mg, vitamin B6 20 mg, vitamin B12 0.5 mg) slowed shrinkage of the whole brain volume over 2 y.
Here, we go further by demonstrating that B-vitamin treatment reduces, by as much as seven fold, the cerebral atrophy in those gray matter (GM) regions specifically vulnerable to the AD process, including the medial temporal lobe.
In the placebo group, higher homocysteine levels at baseline are associated with faster GM atrophy, but this deleterious effect is largely prevented by B-vitamin treatment. We additionally show that the beneficial effect of B vitamins is confined to participants with high homocysteine (above the median, 11 µmol/L) and that, in these participants, a causal Bayesian network analysis indicates the following chain of events: B vitamins lower homocysteine, which directly leads to a decrease in GM atrophy, thereby slowing cognitive decline.
Our results show that B-vitamin supplementation can slow the atrophy of specific brain regions that are a key component of the AD process and that are associated with cognitive decline.
Further B-vitamin supplementation trials focusing on elderly subjets with high homocysteine levels are warranted to see if progression to dementia can be prevented." ----------------------------
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I read pot can reverse it too.
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Well, there's a grain of truth in it, because some recent research is showing that **extremely low levels of THC** may help in alzheimer's. THC is the psycho-active compound in cannabis.
Note - it's not the levels in a joint - it's tiny levels. Normal levels could well make dementia worse.
What's interesting is that Markus Fritzsche long ago related Borrelia to endocannabinoid receptors in the brain.
There's an article on this issue on Medscape here - if you scroll through the comments, you'll notice I've got comments up there re the Borrelia angle.
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The articles you have quoted show very indirect and somewhat speculative evidence for candida as a cause of Alzheimer's.
AIDS sufferers get catastrophic systemic forms of candidiasis, including brain infections causing meningoencephalitis. But they do not show the pathological signs of Alzheimer's.
Dr. MacDonald's latest evidence for Borrelia, on the other hand, is as solid as you can get - Borrelia spirochaetes identified by state-of-the-art Molecular Beacon DNA probes in Alzheimer hippocampus (a memory region of the brain notoriously involved in dementia).
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Cool!
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When I first saw my PCP, he knew it was too sudden of an onset to be Alzheimer's but I could have been diagnosed as such.
I couldn't answer simple questions he would ask me nor could I remember many of the questions he had just asked me. Thankfully he knew me from work.
Antibiotics did help greatly. IV and orals. Thyroid meds helped tremendously also.
BTW - My PCP checks any of his patients with early/sudden onset dementia for Lyme. Also if they have plaques on MRI. He has reversed a few of his patients with IV antibiotics.
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