Alzheimer's & Dementia A New Paradigm

Hi, I'm Dr. Dana Churchill. I wanted to talk to you about something that's very near and dear to my heart and something that is basically destroying the fabric of America, a certain pathology that a lot of people understand and know a little bit about that has had huge breakthroughs in the last two years, and that's Alzheimer's and also dementia. Alzheimer's is a horrific disease. If you really break it down and think about it, the person who, in the end stages of Alzheimer's, the person who has Alzheimer's doesn't know who they are, and their relatives don't know who they are, basically. They're walking, talking, sometimes not, and they have no personality. You don't know who they are. They can't remember anybody. They may walk off. They may get lost. They need care 24 hours a day, which is basically bankrupting families, bankrupting the medical community, bankrupting our country with huge medical bills that aren't being paid, over $350 billion a year is being spent to treat Alzheimer's patients now. And, you know, it goes on and on and on. I think a lot of people know this, and a lot of people have relatives and friends that are, you know, unfortunately have gotten to this stage, and what we've been seeing for the treatments haven't been the best in the world. I'll just put it that way. And some of them are even hurting patients. I'm talking about the pharmaceuticals, and there's been research on them and what they do. Not great yet. I don't know if they're going to have any breakthroughs or not. But what I wanted to talk to you about is in the last couple of years, it's basically just come to me. I didn't decide, oh, one day I'm going to just treat Alzheimer's, but I saw a huge need for it. I think everybody knows in this country, we're seeing more and more patients every day who have Alzheimer's and dementia, and there's really nothing to help them, or not a whole lot. So over the last few years, it's just basically come to me three different doctors who have amazing systems they're using to turn back the tide. The first one is Dale Bredesen at UCLA. He's teaching doctors all over the world his system to diagnose many different aspects of Alzheimer's. He talks about it as being a roof with 39 holes that basically all need to be fixed. And there's many, many different causes of Alzheimer's. There's many aspects of Alzheimer's. It's not just one day you get the plaques and the tangles in your brain, and then all of a sudden you have Alzheimer's. It starts way, way back in the 20s, 30s, and definitely in the 40s, you can start seeing on PET scans and other labs. The second doctor is Dan Goodenow, who I visited his lab just a few weeks ago, and he is definitely one of the most cutting-edge doctors I've ever seen. He's actually a PhD. He has very powerful new systems to diagnose with. He's got an amazing lab test he's doing. He's basically discovered a missing nutrient, a fatty acid called plasmalogens, which he's using to turn back the tide, along with three other different supplements. That's the second doctor. And the third doctor I just met yesterday is a doctor named Dr. Kiproff, who's doing apheresis, basically plasma apheresis, to put in new blood into patients and basically change the brain and a lot of pathology in the body as well. But he has new research coming out in just about maybe a month or less on a double blind he has done with using the apheresis with specifically with Alzheimer's patients. So now we have three new systems that are literally turning back the clock, have had amazing results. They have after and before with patients. They have imaging after and before showing Alzheimer's, basically the brain coming back to health. They have also lab testing to show it, improve it, and the relatives know it. And some of the patients, even though they had gone to a place where they didn't know anybody and they could barely speak and they were in a wheelchair in an old age home, got out, knew everybody again, and could name everybody on a wedding picture from when they were 50 years old. So these are some major breakthroughs I wanted to get out to the public. We will be doing a three-part TV series soon on each of these doctors, enumerating all of their amazing breakthroughs that they've been having, talking about the treatments. I'm starting to do two of the different systems, well actually three in a little while in my clinic here in Fullerton. So I just want to let the public know there is hope. And I know this is a horrific, debilitating illness, maybe the worst type of illness, because many of these patients, once they get to the point where they can't do activities of daily living, they don't know who they are, they don't know where they are, they can't feed themselves, they can't dress themselves, they basically could live for 10, 15, 20 years longer a lot of times, and someone needs to take care of them. And it's just heartbreaking and it's bankrupting so many families and so much, even the whole medical system is being bankrupt by this. So there is ways to treat this now for once and for all. We have three amazing systems with research backing it, so I'm going to leave it at that, but we will be putting out a three-part series soon on these three different doctors, and we'll have after and before pictures of patients, we'll have the labs, the imaging, a lot of amazing things. So you're the public, you decide, we just give you the information, the true information, and let you decide. Thanks so much for listening and have a great day.