<div dir="ltr"><div>I'd highly recommend people read "<a href="http://www.drperlmutter.com/about/grain-brain-by-david-perlmutter/">Grain Brain</a>" if they're interested in what really might be behind the sharp rise and earlier onsets of dementia and Alzheimer's Disease. Good Calories Bad Calories is also quite illuminating, and shows that many diseases (heart disease, many cancers, dementia) are based on the high amounts of sugar and refined carbohydrates in the modern diet. Increasingly, Alzheimer's is considered a "diabetes of the brain", and is linked to the brain's reduced capacity to absorb glucose. Fortunately, there are two fuels the brain is capable of processing, glucose and ketone bodies.  Ketone bodies are normally only produced during starvation or diets with highly restricted carbohydrate intake, however, some foods, such as goat milk and coconut oil contain medium chain triglycerides (MCTs). The liver processes MCTs into ketone bodies directly. The physician <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feyydeMFWy4">Mary Newport</a> successfully used coconut oil to treat her husbands pre-senile dementia and many <a href="http://www.amazon.com/NOW-Foods-100-32-Fluid-Ounces/product-reviews/B0019LRY8A/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewopt_srt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=helpful&reviewerType=all_reviews&formatType=all_formats&filterByStar=all_stars&pageNumber=1">reviewers on Amazon.com</a> claim the same.<br><br></div>Jason<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Henry Rivera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hrivera@alumni.virginia.edu" target="_blank">hrivera@alumni.virginia.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">This is mainly for Spike, but I sent it to the group because it's been a topic before. <div></div><div><br></div><div>There is a recent study addressing the etiology of the disease:</div><div><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/alzheimers-breakthrough-scientists-may-have-found-potential-cause-of-the-disease-in-the-behaviour-of-immune-cells--giving-new-hope-to-millions-10176652.html" target="_blank">http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/alzheimers-breakthrough-scientists-may-have-found-potential-cause-of-the-disease-in-the-behaviour-of-immune-cells--giving-new-hope-to-millions-10176652.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also, did you see CNN's Weed 3 (which got stellar ratings btw) that addressed cannabinoids as a promising intervention: </div><div><a href="http://youtu.be/QnVHxOPEbqc" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/QnVHxOPEbqc</a></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Henry</div></font></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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