My Alzheimer's was diagnosed in Dec. 2017
I was very uncertain at that time if I would be able to vote or even understand what was going on with the 2020 election.
To my delight, I received my Florida mail-in ballot.
Very exciting as I have been eagerly anticipating getting the ballot.
Making the occasion even more special is that the Biden Trump debate begins in one hour 12 minutes.
I have already filled out my ballot.
Chasing rainbows in the pursuit of happiness
Let's hope it works.
I have an appointment with a naturalist who does the Recode protocol.
It's the cognoscopy blood work that I am most interested in.
The first visit is with the Doctor that founded the group.
I guess he gives up the pitch so we don't faint at the price.
Fighting Alzheimer's with Fortitude.
Title of the sixth book
GOP be careful about what you wish for.
I was a Republican until they became the
anti-science party.
I support free choice for women on abortion.
However, I am okay with President Trump's choice.
I'm also okay with SCOTUS repealing Roe vs Wade.
Technology has made abortion unnecessary if proper care is taken.
There are pills to take if unprotected the day after.
I say let the GOP get what they want.
I think it is like the dog that catches the car.
What will they do now?
I don't endorse this I just think we don't need to fight this emotional battle anymore.
Sometimes losing is winning
I think a conservative court overall is a good thing.
A good balance to when the Dems have the majority in Senate and House and the Presidency.
If a solid block of GOP conservatives overturns many progressive issues it will call for stuffing the court with three more justices by DEMS.
I don't think there is a solid far-right SCOTUS COURT.
I think confirming Justice Barret before Nov 3
will happen.
Ultimately I think GOP will be sorry they got what they wished for.
Homage to Covid19
No haircut since Jan 2020
I am thinking of taking another photo like this in December to put on the back of my next book
The Pursuit of Happiness by an Alzheimer's patient. Year 3
Photo from 1970 while in London for the summer working on Oxford street at Woolworths
I only take:
1- Lipitor 10 mg/d
2- Enduracin 1,000 mg/d
3- Lovaza 4,000 mg/d
On Low Carb High Fat diet 60% fat
I have DM2
1-Lab June 2020
Total Cholesterol 115
minus HDL. 74
41
minus LDLc 31
Remnants 10
3- Quest lab Feb 2020 link
This week I screwed up writing a check to my wife.
I filled it out to my last name rather than than her last name.
It looked worked but I thought it was okay.
The check was for $125 but I wrote One hundred twenty dollars.
Our bank let her have $120.
When I go to sleep I have routine
where I take two deep breaths and then I say
Peace
Serenity
Tranquility
Contentment
Two nights ago I couldn't remember the T word.
I made a memory bridge.
I would think of a train carrying Quails.
I remember the memory cue but could not remember the word till I woke up this morning.
It was disturbing to me during the night half asleep trying to remember the word Tranquility.
I wonder if my Alzheimers is getting worse.
It may be due to my higher Hgb A1c.
I recently began some ice cream and bagels.
My ketone level fell below 1.0 and my glucose levels went up.
It may be due to my low testosterone after stopping injections.
I started testosterone 100 mg/ week today.
I am going to get another skin glucose monitor again. Previously it helped me stay on my fasting.
I will use it again when I am tempted to eat a carb during the day.
Today after one cup of ice cream last night:
Glucose 171 (I had been running glucose 220)
Ketones 1.4
Weight 208.8
I have followed the advice from The End of Alzheimers by Dr Dale Bredesen with the following.
When I increased my testosterone link
What I do on Bredensen's ReCODE link
I am a physician and can do these complicated maneuvers.
For the average family they might have to be followed by their physician each month.
However Alzheimers is inexorable.
We can't really know if these items make any difference.
From The End of Alzheimers :
Previously I wrote about being fired by my former Endocrinologist link
Today my new Endocrinologist gave me some surprising advice
Here are my last Hgb A1c results
My review of The End of Alzheimer's Program by Dr. Dale Bredensen.
The First Protocol To Enhance Cognition and Reverse Decline At Any Age.
I read Dr. Bredensen's first book, The End of Alzheimer's. Here is my review:
I am less pessimistic about the course of my Alzheimer's since I have completed nine months of my YEAR THREE book.
Thus I feel more charitable towards Dr Bredesen's books.
I was very upset with the title The End of Alzheimer's.
His Avery publisher probably wrote the title of the book.
I was most impressed by my finding of his data the Julie Gregory may be the first survivor of Alzheimers.
The second book was published in 2020 and is dedicated to her (Julie G).
Part II of the book is co-authored by her.
8 years of reversal of Alzheimers by Julie Gregory that is well documented
according to published articles.
A year ago I would have argued she was impaired by anxiety not Alzheimers.
Certainly only an obsessive compulsive person could maintain such adherence to the many facets of the ReCode program.
Presently, I am more willing to accept her case as it is presents itself now,
since I myself have done better on my tests in the 8th month of my third year since my diagnosis since December 2017.
The program book is very good at explaining details of how to achieve the goals of improvement of cognition.
For these reasons, I have increased my rating to 3 stars.
His diet is impossible for the average person compared to Atkins.
Page 88 The End of Alzheimers Program 2020
Low Carb High Fat Diet Pyramid that I follow
This summer I seem to have done better on my annual visit to KUMCR and Memory center.
I thought it might be that testing has become much less stressful for me.
However after reading Dr. Dale Bredesen's new book The End of Alzheimer's Program that he may have found the first Alzheimers survivor by the name of Julie Gregory.
p62 "since Julie who is apoE4/4 positive (homozygous), has reversed her own cognitive decline"
from the second book Program.
From the first book The End of Alzheimers published 2017 on page 219 Julie writes extensively on her routine using the ReCODE method,
"At age 49 she became lost in familiar places, failing to recognize faces, and losing her memory."
p 220
"her cognitive evaluation showed her to be at only the 35th percentile for her age when she started treatment. However after several months on the program, she noted marked improvement, and her cognitive evaluation rose to the 90th percentile. It remans that 5 years later (and counting)."
This was written in the 2017 edition.
The second book was published in 2020 and is dedicated to her (Julie G).
Part II of the book is co-authored by her.
8 years of reversal of Alzheimers by Julie Gregory that is well documented
according to published articles.
A year ago I would have argued she was impaired by anxiety not Alzheimers.
Certainly only an obsessive compulsive person could maintain such adherence to the many facets of the ReCode program.
Presently, I am more willing to accept her case as it is presents itself now,
since I myself have done better on my tests in the 8th month of my third year since my diagnosis since December 2017.
I believed I maintained my status with Namzaric for the first two years.
This third year I was on Intermittent fasting for 14 hours a day for 8 months with increases in my ketone levels. Normally I have always been in ketosis greater than 1.0 since 2011 when I started Low Carbohydrate High Fat diet.
With Intermittent Fasting I would reach much higher levels of ketosis.
Perhaps this is the key to my improvement, which is a major component of THE PROGRAM.
There is another possibility.
For one month I took Cialis every other day. My testosterone level also was very high and I had a very strong libido.
My Ten Step Program link
My vitamin D level went up to 88 with bolus doses of 10,000 units each weekend times 4 on top of a lower daily dose.
Vitamin D link
On the negative side I did have a concussion.
I also increased the amount of Zinc I was taking in addition to the multivitamin pill I took each day.
By June 15, 2020 I began having more Hope about my prognosis with Alzheimers as I was 30 months into my diagnosis and I had not expected to do so well.
I am gaining more respect for Dr. Dale Bredesen and his books.
My first Amazon review was in April 2019.
I was brutal.
One star.
What I agree with Dr Dale Bredesen on. link
I actually do much of what Dale Bredesen MD advises.
I am now reading the second book in the series:
The End of Alzheimer's Program
The first protocol to
Enhance Cognition and Reverse Decline
At any age.
I am less pessimistic about the course of my Alzheimer's since I have completed nine months of my YEAR THREE book.
Click below for
Thus I feel more charitable towards Dr Bredesen's books.
I was very upset with the title The End of Alzheimer's.
His Avery publisher probably wrote the title of the book.
I will start my review of his book briefly now.
I have done better on my MOCA test scoring 30/30
MOCA test link
I find my switch to Bigalow green tea is endorsed in the book.
I will go back to only eating 72% coco chocolate.
I will still drink my glass of whole milk each day
I was on 14 hour fast each day on LCHF 8 months.
Months of ketone level on IF link
Last 2 weeks of IF my glucose went up link
Anxiety from stress of fasting link
It may well be that the 8 month Intermittent fasting with high ketones levels did improve my cognitive ability.
However I also started a Cialis/testosterone plan for a month till the my testosterone was too high.
I have stopped the Cialis, Testosterone and Intermittent fasting.
I got lab work to see if I can resume testosterone. I have n0 libido
Alcohol
My See No Evil bar link
I have been having bagels in the morning and some ice cream at night, as comfort food in this time of Covid 19 shut down.
Subsequently my morning ketones run around 0.5.
Thus I will experiment with exogenous ketones as Dr Bredesen advises.
At the beginning of I am waiting for when I forget I have Alzheimer's, I wrote about an uplifting dream I had.
Last night I had a disturbing dream which I think was a metaphor for my future with Alzheimers.
I arrive at this place with luggage.
I enter through a gate and pass though a large yard.
Later when it was time to leave the dogs had been left out.
They were large hairy dogs probably similar to my Newfoundland but more amorphous.
We have 3 Newfoundlands in the family but if I had recognized them I would have called out their names.
When I left the building and closed the door they impeded my progress to leave. They didn't bite or hurt me, they just overwhelmed me physically slowing my progress to the gate. At times I was crawling through them.
Finally outside the gate I realize I forgot my luggage and I have to go back through the dogs.
Inside the building the staff tell me they don't have my luggage.
Nonplussed(meaning I was surprised and confused so much that I was unsure how to react)., I set out to get through the dogs to the street.
When I woke up, I told the dream to my wife.
I tried to piece the fragments of the dream together which was difficult but the emotional content was unmistakable, I was disturbed about the experience.
I interpreted the dream as a metaphor for my future as an Alzheimer's patient.
Life will be a struggle just to accomplish simple things.
Dealing with people will get more difficult in tedious ways that make communication impossible.
I won't understand what is happening.
And the subsequent feeling will not be pleasant.
