New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function.

As convoluted as all of the twisting axons and dendrites and glial cells, so goes the findings and research and reporting of the human brain. It's true that brains get tired, but they also get revived . . . by exercise.  Alzheimer's foundations and brain researchers the world over fail to include this in their reports let alone acknowledge in print.  They remind me of high school kids who learn a new word or phrase outside of the classroom where they and use it with full force in the vein that the state prefers it used: to scare and control one another.  For a high school kid who is being bullied to finally step into his teacher's classroom and shout out, "Sir, you got Alheimer's!" just feels good.  Anyway, here is the article by Bec Crew.  

Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques - structures that are responsible for memory loss and a decline in cognitive function in Alzheimer’s patients.

If a person has Alzheimer’s disease, it’s usually the result of a build-up of two types of lesions - amyloid plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles. Amyloid plaquessit between the neurons and end up as dense clusters of beta-amyloid molecules, a sticky type of protein that clumps together and forms plaques. 

Neurofibrillary tangles are found inside the neurons of the brain, and they’re caused by defective tau proteins that clump up into a thick, insoluble mass. This causes tiny filaments called microtubules to get all twisted, which disrupts the transportation of essential materials such as nutrients and organelles along them, just like when you twist up the vacuum cleaner tube.

As we don’t have any kind of vaccine or preventative measure for Alzheimer’s - a disease that affects 343,000 people in Australia, and 50 million worldwide - it’s been a race to figure out how best to treat it, starting with how to clear the build-up of defective beta-amyloid and tau proteins from a patient’s brain. Now a team from the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) at the University of Queensland have come up with a pretty promising solution for removing the former.

Publishing in Science Translational Medicine, the team describes the technique as using a particular type of ultrasound called a focused therapeutic ultrasound, which non-invasively beams sound waves into the brain tissue. By oscillating super-fast, these sound waves are able to gently open up the blood-brain barrier, which is a layer that protects the brain against bacteria, and stimulate the brain’s microglial cells to activate. Microglila cells are basically waste-removal cells, so they’re able to clear out the toxic beta-amyloid clumps that are responsible for the worst symptoms of Alzheimer’s.

The team reports fully restoring the memory function of 75 percent of the mice they tested it on, with zero damage to the surrounding brain tissue. They found that the treated mice displayed improved performance in three memory tasks - a maze, a test to get them to recognise new objects, and one to get them to remember the places they should avoid.

"We’re extremely excited by this innovation of treating Alzheimer’s without using drug therapeutics," one of the team, Jürgen Götz, said in a press release. "The word ‘breakthrough’ is often misused, but in this case I think this really does fundamentally change our understanding of how to treat this disease, and I foresee a great future for this approach."

The team says they’re planning on starting trials with higher animal models, such as sheep, and hope to get their human trials underway in 2017. 

You can hear an ABC radio interview with the team here.

"Bad breath is due to protein breakdown"

The following came up in an online forum on FBO, fecal body odor, and I thought you might find it interesting.

When dealing with a problem which can have various causes and is not well understood by the medical profession we can find ourselves clinging to all sorts of theories in the hope of a cure. What I've learned is that the mouth is a perfect place for harboring bacteria. In order for FBO to get from the dudenum & small intestine to the mouth it must pass through various barriers including the pyloric & cardiac sphincters as well as the stomach content and esophagus.  FBO in the mouth is highly unlikely to be caused by fecal matter in the gut.  What I have learned is the following:  

The stomach

First, I'd want to know what the pyloric and cardiac sphincters are. Google Images can fix that:

Cardiac sphincter is located at the top of the stomach.  It stops food from going back up into the esophagus.  Pyloric [sphincter] is at bottom of the stomach, it stops bile and digested food from entering the stomach.

Just as excessive bacteria in your mouth is responsible for bad breath, so is a proliferation of bacteria in your digestive tract responsible for fecal body odor.  Fixing this requires two solutions.  One, an effective antibiotic. But which bacteria are causing the odor?  Not sure?  Then try nature's most effective antibiotic, garlic.  Eat it raw or brown it in butter and incorporate it into dishes.  

Two, what can we do to keep our bodies from producing the bacteria in the first place?  Consume less red meat and animal products.  Our bodies need to produce enzymatic bacteria to help digest all the protein that we eat.  I was eating lots of protein a few weeks back.  So I stopped for a few days, eating only salads with a sprinkle of cheese.  Then I resumed the meat again and boy could I smell the difference. So if you want to bring the bad body odor to an end, you'll have to either stop or reduce your consumption of meat.  This is not an argument on behalf of PETA or vegetarians whatsoever.  I love my cow.  If I could eat it without troubling consequences I would.  But I think that our bodies produce a lot of bacteria as meat-eaters.  

Here is a preferred probiotic for leaky gut.  Not all probiotics are created equally.  Some work better on different conditions than others.  So when you search for a probiotic to address your specific condition be sure to type in a Google search also your condition if it has been diagnosed or describe the sypmtom along with "probiotic."

All cheese will immediately break down to smells within hours. In fact cheese will cause a faeces smell in your mouth. This is probably the most offensive smell you can have. This is because cheese is high in the amino acid Methionine and this amino acid breaks down to Methyl Mercaptan (faces smells). Milk also will break down to smells within hours. Milk is high in the amino acid Cysteine, and this amino acid will break down to Hydrogen Sulphide (rotten eggs smell). So if there was one food group I would tell you to eliminate right now from your diet it would be dairy. Also did you know that milk and cheese will increase the amount of mucous collecting in the back of the throat. I recommend that you use Rice Milk or Oat Milk as your dairy substitute. Sufferers of fbo should recognize that the cause may be multiple & they should list areas of the cause & come up with strategies to cater fro each area.If you are serious about tackling fbo from the mouth you could do the following:

1. Tongue Cleaning must be performed morning and night as part of your daily ritual. First you need to clean the tongue surface with a non foaming cleaning gel right to the back of the tongue. Most commercial toothpastes foam and are not designed to be tongue friendly, so choose your cleaning gel carefully. After cleaning the tongue with a non foaming gel or paste you need to use a tongue cleaner to remove all the waste product from the tongue surface. 

2. Flush the mucous from the throat every day. Mucous collecting at the back of the throat drips into the throat area and onto the gag reflex at the back of the tongue. The tongue cleaning will take care of the gag reflex, but only flushing hypertonic saline through the nose can clean the mucous collecting in the throat. The nose is the only way to get to the throat area. Anything going through the mouth only goes to the stomach. Just like you clean your teeth every day as part of your personal hygiene, you also need to flush the throat every day as a part of this hygiene routine. 

3. Review your food intake (as above). 

4. Bad breath is due to protein breakdown. Only consume carbohydrates during the day to prevent smell problems. Have proteins at night at dinner time. This seems to work fine because you will be doing a really good clean before bed to remove all the protein breakdown occurring in the mouth. Remember to do the cleaning regime just before sleep. Reducing the amount of bacteria on the tongue surface just before sleep will go a long way to eliminating morning breath when you wake the next day. 5. Don't snack during the day. Have breakfast lunch and dinner and if you are still hungry then have morning and afternoon tea. Snacking increases acids. This is regardless of whether the foods you snack on are healthy or not. It is the fact of putting food in your mouth that causes the acid. Saliva is the body's natural defence against bad breath. The more saliva you have the less of a bad breath issue you will have. Regarding fbo from the anus, this can have many causes & I don't profess to have the answers but what one can do a few things to minimize or reduce the severity.Trying something for a few days & giving up if you don't see results misses the point.Some foods for example continue to affect me days after having consumed them.What you can do is:

• Control your weight & blood pressure.
• Chew your food well.
• Eat away from the tv or pc where you can be mindful of the food you eat.
• Regular daily aerobics exercise & weights.
• Meditation, yoga or deep relaxation.
• Eliminate all processed foods including cakes, sweets, soda, burgers, take away, etc etc.
• Eat fresh fruit & vegetables & limit meat intake.
• Avoid processed meats such as hams, salami, mince & processed meats.
• Drink plenty of water every day.
• Avoid drugs & tobacco & limit alcohol intake.
• Allow an hour each morning as part of your regular routine to allow time to pass your stools.

Our bodies are fragile systems which we punish everyday in a lifestyle in which we eat for taste rather than nourishment & nutrition. Many of us get by but some fall by the wayside with all kinds of symptoms.Devote yourself to doing all these things as though you are preparing for an Olympic event.It all comes down to how badly you want to improve your life.Even if this regime doesn't cure you I guarantee your symptoms will be less severe & you will have the strength to live your life. Good luck with the future. 

I like this. 

What this does is allow you to see a dentist over the web.  For a diagnosis of pain or tooth structure and so on, you don't have to schedule an appointment to see a dentist.  It can be done during any of your waking hours.  Or later if you prefer to have someone in another country speaking the same language to assess your teeth.  Pay $15 or less to have a dentist look at your teeth.  This will give you insight on how well your own dentist does at diagnosing your problems.  

The site is Oh Gizmo.  The product is ProPhix, a toothbrush that comes with a live-streaming capable camera in the handle of the brush that follows wherever it is that you put your toothbrush in your mouth.  Expect more of this as the diagnostic technology gets more and more expensive and as treatments and the professional guilds become more and more futile.  Here come the black markets!  Are you prepared?

Imagine sending a video or a handful of pictures to your dentist. Perhaps you want to add comment(s) to the pictures with a dedicated screencapture, explaining your concerns to your dentist. Your dentist may not like having to forego charging you $100 or more for a visit, but this will certainly put the fire of competition in his practice.  Other dentists will incorporate this service into their practice.  He will save customers money.  Word will get out. Markets in diagnosing dental health will expand to other countries. You might think "Well, those other countries just don't have the education and training that can serve the patient/client."  Maybe. Maybe the American Dental Association has been fraudulently controlling information and options to dental hygiene in this country and has not been serving the customer/client for over a hundred years.  Maybe dental amalgam fillings using all kinds of toxic metals are so good for your overall health, particularly brain health.  Maybe. 

To see what options exists for caring for your teeth, see this list:

1.  On Tooth Cavitation.
2.  On Root Canals, Nutritional Support, and Holistic Resources.
3.  Remineralize Your Teeth.  Remineralization basically consists of getting sound nutrition: protein, fat, and plant enzymes found in leafy green vegetables like kale, spinach, and others. 
4.  Vitamin C and Your Teeth.
5.  Pineapple to build Alkalinity before, during, and after dental work.  

No Coffee, No Restaurants, Fats, and Vicks Vapor Rub

No coffee or caffeinated drinks of any kind--just water.

No Chinese restaurants or Mexican or Indian restaurants.  Food chain is too toxic.

Oranges help with opening up lungs. Valencia oranges seem sweeter and a bit more healthy than Navel oranges. Citrus fruits with their bioflaanoids are really good for blood vessel repair.

Vicks vapor rub is good for eliminating hard skin on your caused by fungus.

Get olive oil, coconut oil, and fish in your diet.  In fact, 85% of what you consume should be fat.

• 75 to 85 percent of your total calories as healthy fat
• 8 to 15 percent as carbs, with twice as many fiber carbs as non-fiber (net) carbs
• 7 to 10 percent of your calories as protein (high-quality grass-fed or pastured meats and animal products)

Sources of healthy fats include: 

olives and olive oil	Coconuts and coconut oil	Butter made from raw grass-fed organic milk, and cacao butter
Raw nuts, such as, macadamia and pecans, and seeds like black sesame, cumin, pumpkin, and hemp seeds	Organic pastured egg yolks	Avocados
Grass-fed meats	Lard, tallow and ghee	Animal-based omega-3 fat such as krill oil

"If you force the world's hungry to forego GMO foods because you think they're Frankenfoods, then you are the monster."


h/t Robert Wenzel @ TargetLiberty

GMOs are Frankenfood? 

The most tested products in agricultural history.  They're no riskier than any conventional plant technique.  GMOs could save the world.  End Vitamin A deficiency.  Much bigger yields.  Save biological diversity.  But if you force the world's hunger to do the same, you are the monster.