Ellen Wood's say there is a cure for early Alzheimer’s– but it’s not one particular drug or toodling with one specific gene. In fact, it’s not ONE thing at all. https://goo.gl/ub1nnd

2. In the past decade hundreds of
clinical trials, at an aggregate cost of
over one billion dollars, have been
conducted to find the ONE cure for
Alzheimer’s Disease. But they all
came up empty.
It turns out that there is a cure for
early Alzheimer’s– but it’s not one
particular drug or toodling with one
specific gene. In fact, it’s not ONE
thing at all.
In a small joint study, scientists
from UCLA Mary S. Easton Center for
Alzheimer’s Disease Research and the
Buck Institute for Research on Aging

3. found that memory loss may be
reversed, and improvement
sustained, using a lifestyle program
that involves
comprehensive
changes in
diet, brain
stimulation,
exercise,
meditation,
supplements
and multiple
additional
steps that
affect brain
chemistry.
Sounds almost exactly like the

4. program I developed for myself in
2004 when evidence of my mental
declinebecame progressively worse.
My symptoms were very much like
the early part of Alzheimer’s Disease
that had claimed my mother ten
years before: I was making copious
notes because my short term memory
was fragile; I didn’t ask a question
because Icouldn’t remember if I had
just asked it; and my tongue kept
tripping on words, if I could evenfind
the word.
Some of the ten participants in
UCLA/Buck Institute’s study had
symptoms similar to mine. For

5. example, patient 3’s memory was so
bad that she used an iPad to record
everything, then forgot her
password. Her children noticed she
commonly lost her train of thought in
mid-sentence, and often asked them
if they had carried out the tasks that
she mistakenly thought she had
asked them to do.

6. The study was conducted by Dr.
Dale Bredesen, UCLA’s Augustus Rose
Professor of Neurology, director of
the Easton Center and the paper’s
author. Although other chronic
illnesses such as heart disease, cancer
and HIV have been improved
through the use of combination
therapies, this is the first time a
clinical trial has been conducted for
Alzheimer’s by combining a number
of therapies.
Dr.Bredesentheorized that, rather
than a single targeted agent, the
solution might be a multiple-
component system approach. “The

7. existing Alzheimer’s drugs affect a
single target, but Alzheimer’s Disease
is more complex. Imagine having a
roof with 36 holes in it, and your drug
patched one hole very well,” he said.
“The drug may have worked, and a
single hole may have been fixed, but
you still have 35 other leaks, and so
the underlying process may not be
affected much.” Dr. Bredesen added
that although the findings are “very
encouraging,” the results are largely
anecdotal and a more extensive,
controlled clinical trial is needed.
Of course, integrative functional
medical practitioners have been

8. combining diet and other lifestyle
and healing techniques for decades
to successfully reverse mild
impairment associated with
Alzheimer’s. They just did not have
the necessary financing for clinical
research studies.
In the UCLA/Buck Institute study,
cognitive decline was reversed in nine
of the ten participants. The patient

9. who had been diagnosed with late
stage Alzheimer’s did not improve.
The global burden of dementia is
astounding, and on the rise.
Alzheimer’s disease is now the third
leading cause of death in the United
States, after heart disease and
cancer. There are currently 5.2 million
Americans with AD, and 75 million

10. young Americans with the most
important genetic risk factor, APO-
e4, the Alzheimer’s geneI inherited.
Cognitive decline can be reversed.I
did it with my program of mind body
spirit practices I developed and
began using in 2004 and shared with
the world in the books I have
published. Today, at 81 years old, I
am strong and healthy in mind body
and spirit – and very grateful.

11. Ellen Wood of Taos, NM is an
inspirational speaker and award-
winning author of “Think and Grow

12. Young.” Her new book is “Joy! Joy!
Joy! 7 Mind Body Spirit Self-Help
Practices to Relieve Stress and
Anxiety, Reverse Memory Loss and
Live Happy.” Contact her at
ellen@bookofjoyjoyjoy.com.