{"id":6192,"date":"2017-05-07T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywomanover29.com\/blog\/?p=6192"},"modified":"2017-05-09T21:16:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T04:16:48","slug":"alzheimers-disease-root-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywomanover29.com\/blog\/alzheimers-disease-root-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s disease: address the root cause to reverse symptoms (Microbiome summit)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dr. Jill Carnahan\u2019s interview on the Microbiome Medicine Summit 2<\/a>\u00a0covers cutting edge new information about Alzheimer\u2019s disease, based on the work and research of Dr. Dale Bredesen. They start with the gut-brain connection and Dr. Carnahan shares this:<\/p>\n

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we used to think of early-onset cognitive decline and dementias and mood disorders as being in their own bucket. And so, we saw psychiatrists or neurological doctors or neurologists to treat those diseases. And now we\u2019re finding as we knew for several years with functional medicine that, obviously, it\u2019s all connected.<\/p>\n

And the gut is especially important because this reservoir holds so many of our microbes and possibly pathogens and that speaks to the brain through the vagus nerve and through cytokines and through inflammatory molecules of all types.<\/p>\n

And so, this conversation between our gut and our brain is very profound and has a huge impact on things like multiple sclerosis or dementia, Alzheimer\u2019s, or even things like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders.<\/p>\n

So what we\u2019re finding is by addressing the immune system and the gut which are intricately connected, we can often get profound effects on areas in the body that are far from that, like the brain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dr. Kellman asks Dr. Carnahan to share a study that will be the slam dunk for really believing in this connection and she mentions a paper titled Microbes and Alzheimer\u2019s Disease<\/a>. It cites pathogens like herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1), Chlamydia pneumoniae, and several types of spirochaete which can affect the brain and play a role in Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

Dr. Carnahan then covers Dr. Dale Bredesen\u2019s subtypes of early-onset dementia which allows you to treat the root cause and actually reverse symptoms. She goes into it in great detail so I\u2019m going to give you the summary version here:<\/p>\n

Type #1 is inflammatory<\/em><\/p>\n