Let me tell you something! My father went to the hospital for a knee problem. He had a great memory always pleasant to talk too. They gave him "Dilaudid" and we could not recognize him , he was completely lost ,he was thinking we were 25 years ago on the farm... I said to the Dr they have to stop this pain medication, he said no your father has dementia. I had to fight to remove it. After he stop he became completely normal again🙏. Some Dr think they know everything 👎👎👺👎👎👎
Dr Paul Mason is one in a million ! In response to your shocking experience … IMO : Doctors will have their licence (livelihood) taken if they refuse to toe the Big Pharma line* which is … write prescription after prescription and do not question EVER .. even if your patient is destroyed or dies. Moral of the Story : KEEP AWAY FROM DOCTORS and even more - KEEP AWAY from HOSPITALS * personal experience.
My mother also lost her mind when given pain killer( lyrica) for shingles and tramadol for a hip issues. Later seroquel, which she was given for anxiety, caused a total break with reality. On all occasions I also was told that she suddenly manifested dementia. When the drugs were removed she slowly came back to reality. We need to monitor what drugs American doctors are giving to our elderly population and don’t always accept the standard diagnosis of dementia.
Similar experience here with my Mum. She was so bad that she kept repeating the same thing over and over every ten minutes. Forward to now, after I removed her and cared for her myself, she is back to normal function (aged 74)
I was sitting next to my wife’s grandma who has Alzheimer’s. She was fairly alert and responsive to our conversations. My mother-in-law gave her a Pepsi to drink and by the time grandma finished about a quarter of the drink, she became completely unresponsive and sat quietly with no expression on her face. I observed this but no one else did and I didn’t dare say anything because they wouldn’t have been agreeable to my observation. I still believe her condition could have been improved or even reversed with proper diet.
My father was diagnosed with Dementia with Lewy bodies, he lived with it for 7/8 years before he died. He was a vegetarian for 30 years, ate low fat (he was told to as he had heart disease triple bypass at aged 60), he was always slim but he ate high carb/high sugar his whole life. He also took statins. I believe that this lifestyle led to his dementia. His brother died from a similar dementia. I have been keto for 15 months and will eat this way for the rest of my life. Dementia is a terrible disease, for the last two years of his life, my Dad didn't recognise me.
I understand. My mom died with Alzheimer’s (she also had lung cancer which got her first). Watching her slowly lose everything to that disease has made me recently adopt a keto lifestyle. I don’t want my loved ones to have to go through what we did.
IMO NEVER EVER take statins 1. The brain is made up of a high % of cholesterol which needs to be replaced on an ongoing basis . This chol ismadein the liver👈🏿 2. Chol is also necessary for not only rebuilding brain matter regularly, but hormones, the integrity of your muscles and other things as well. Did your doctor tell you this? I hope he did. btw The sale of Statins Is a Trillion $$ income for the medical industry (Big Pharma) 3. Statin drugs work by preventing the natural production of chol in the liver ! (This has nothing to do with ingested chol from food) 4. Statins cause irreversible muscle destruction. They are given to protect your heart … wait for it … the heart IS a muscle. What ! 5. Statin drugs interfere with the production of coQ10 which is necessary for muscle function. (Statin drug users often develop pain in the legs progressing to an inability to walk … hence you end up using a walking frame (notice how ubiquitous they are now) Do you know a doctor who makes sure you take CoQ10 if you are put on statins ? ----- someone known to me was on statins for 5 years. he fell into a coma and his daughter said that he had ALL the symptoms of statin drug poisoning. he was unable to move a muscle, he had “dementia”. He died. An autopsy was performed and they found (among other things) that his brain had dissolved and “was in shards”. Obviously because the chol was prevented from being produced in the liver to rebuild his brain. Ano gentleman had been on statins and could now not walk without 2walking sticks. He visited a specialist. When he entered the room on his walking frame …the specialist said “You are taking cholest lowering drugs, aren’t you?” surgery. The
I started keto 4 years ago. Started OMAD 1 year ago and since January 2021 I don’t eat anything at all on Wednesdays. My mom is 91 and getting progressively worse from some form of dementia. Her dad, my grandfather and her sister passed away from Alzheimer’s. On my dad’s side of the family the heart is the big problems. Mind and heart are my motivators....I am in my late sixties, wish I would have started much earlier...hope it’s not too late. Hopefully if I do have the Alzheimer’s genes my healthy living will slow this terrible disease down.
Dr. Paul Mason is an extraordinary doctor with a deep understanding of the human body, its biology and with an open mind. He makes the hardest medical concepts to look like a fine literature. Very easy to understand. Thank you, Doctor, for your great contribution to improving humanity' health.
It is really hard to talk to people who aren't informed about the advantages of keto and LCHF diet. Even when the conversation ends with a pseudo-supportive comment (after grave concern for our choices) like, "I'm glad you found something that works for you."
I appreciate the calm manner in which you share detailed information, Dr. Mason ... It's a lot to digest, but I am determined, at my age of nearly 73, to keep on learning so I can keep healthier in my aging process. Keep up the great work! Your ability to understand data and translate it to our public ears and minds is such a gift. Thank you!
I totally believe this I’ve lost 100 pounds stayed down for over three years and don’t ever want to go back to eating carbs I feel wonderful and that’s the most important I need to lose about 40 pounds more but I’m in no hurry since I know this is the Goodway
Congratulations and my best wishes to You, Your relatives and friends. I did the same with my diabetes, high blood pressure and weight . Feel very well 3yrs after starting of severe Diab2 with 21 days of blindness now I can drive car, bicycle, still working as a psychologist....Greetings from Slovenia, EU.
I took care of my grandmother with Dementia. She scored 0 to doctor's tests. Oh my God, I wish nobody will have to suffer what we suffered and endured with our grandmother. 6 years of suffering and misery. I am so glad that I came across this information 2 years ago. I am so glad for the keto/carnivore diet. 25 years of vegetarianism/veganism almost destroyed my brain, my cognition, my memory. I am always advising my friends to quit this destructive diet, but they dont listen. They all say the same..you didn't do it right! What a funny joke. But the laugh it's on their health. Pity.
My mother too, I'm not worried about myself but my daughter has become a vegan and that means she's into the carbs in a big way. I am worried about her.
Let's all try to keep our ethical, local ranchers in business and encourage keeping cows healthy in the ways most conducive to them! From a former vegetarian/rarely red-meat-eating to becoming a LCHF lover of beef, I can say I am still working on integrating some changes (like eliminating suspicious lectins, since it was just brought to my attention) but see so much improvement in how I feel after only a few months. Keep the info coming, it is greatly appreciated!!
What a brilliant lecture. It’s great to have young intelligent people looking into prevention of the big killers. I have been ketogenic for 11 months now and I would never go back to eating in an unhealthy way. Pico from Queensland Australia
@@susanf.2248 I look at carbs now as poison. They're just as bad for you as cigarettes, and also just as addictive. Eating one muffin is like having one cigarette - it never stops there. It's easier to stay with the program if you look at it that way.
Thank you Dr. Mason for another compelling presentation. What this presentation so expertly proves is that with every passing day, as honest researchers and physicians start to look at the accumulating body of data, that diet and lifestyle is far more important than medical interventions when it comes to both the prevention and treatment of most physical disorders. The point Dr. Mason makes, near the end of his presentation, of how researchers DELIBERATELY hid results that were unfavorable to their biases towards low fat/high vegetable oil diets was particularly disturbing. Its instances of this sort of scientific dishonesty and malpractice that demonstrate the need for more investigative journalists to have oversight over the research community. That is why people like Gary Taubes and Nina Teicholz are so important. We can no longer adhere to the naïve hope that our scientific community is somehow magically objective and immune to dishonest acts. In both politics and in business reporting, we expect our journalists to hold those in power to account when they mislead the public, and we excoriate the media when they fail to do this. Similarly, we should expect our science journalists to be just as skeptical of the findings of the research community, and not simply act as blind stenographers who repeat whatever the research community tells us as if it were an infallible truth.
Thank you Dr. Mason. Truly appreciated information. The resistance to the changes Keto brings to my family's habitual diet is my frustration. After a heart attack 5 years ago, keto has changed my whole physical state..... saved my life !
is this the problem with our old people in nursing homes? they get fed biscuits and cake, cups of tea with sugar, and sandwiches. and carbs and more carbs. and more carbs. is just making our old peoples dementia worse? And what nursing home is going to feed someone keto food? none. its too expensive. Carbs are cheap. seed oils are cheap.
It is a tragedy. I try to encourage my 80 year old mother to reduce carbs, sugar and seed oil, but she has more trust in her Dr. It saddens me as I am witnessing her decline. I started keto in 2016, 2018 Igot a concussion and am thankful I had some knowledge about this diet, I'm convinced i recovered to about 95% due to it.
Yes, I'm completely agree with You. My father died in 71, his sister in 73, their father in 70. They had high blood pressure for decades, after they came from Germany working camp in 2.WW 1941-45. A lots of stresses from bombing British & USAF with very low food, starving and coldness fear to bi killed for no reason by nazi instancies - didn't do so much hram than later overeating of carbs
Father nad dementia for last 3yrs and several heart stranke & one mild brain stroke died after one of heart attacks. Aunt had 1 mild foloved with another severe brain stroke. She daš not demented, but third vascular incident in brain was last one, she died in koma after few months. I'm now 61+, had also a high blood pressure for 40yrs and severe diabetes type 2 since 26 July 2017 with 630 mg/dl blood sugar at that day and with blindness for 21 days very so on after starting metformin. But then with home made mediterranean food and esoecially Intermittent fasting since 23 Oct 2019 completely reverse insulin resistance. Need no medication for diabetes, reduced weight from 127kg to 95kg, medication for high BP reduced to only 25% of former daily dose. All my mentioned relatives and me were misleaded with lies of harm of fat and with complete silence about main poison: industrial sugar and other aditives in processed food and fake food with no nutrients. As insulin resistance make diabetes, also is a main cause for high blood pressure! If we knewed it before, my aunt and father could be still alive! Wall, there left >10yrs to my 71st birthday. I hope to be healthy, maybe even in better condition than today, doing intermittent fasting 16-23hrs daily. Greetings from Slovenia to all of You, wishing a good health and thanks.
I just texted a friend who was just diagnosed with early cognitive disorder and I am going to share this with him. He is a scientist who works with genetics so I know he will have some great questions and comments but he will love to know that this is a potential reason his brain is starving...
Also to add to your concluding sentence, not just a nutritious diet will help but also A WALK or visit per day, COMPANIONSHIP, AND HYGENIC environment will make them live longer too!
@@KuatoWe are more like collateral damage. The Pharma companies and the sugar industry pay our congress very well to maintain their profits, regardless of the damage to the rest of us.
@@pattyorourke8068 Collateral damage doesn’t make sense. The whole reason big Pharma and big sugar exist is because they make products designed for humans, the primary targets.
The very first improvement I saw from a keto diet(within the first 2 weeks) was mental clarity. It's the reason I've stuck with LCHF diet.The weight loss is just cherry on the cake🍰.
Started keto 6 days ago and have been horribly sick with keto flu (and probably sugar withdrawal), in spite of doing all the treatments for it. Discouraging but won't give up..😕
yes!! i agree his delivery is something...just wowwww!!! i first discovered him ..a few days ago ..on the carnivore diet discussion ..as i am following this diet and wanted to know the benefits and the possible downside from a medical point of view. That video was 1h 30 min long ..let me tell you i didn't even feel it...because he has such an interesting way of talking and explaining! im so grateful for having access to free knowledge!
Have learned so much from every single Diet Doctor episode and love how there is such clear explanation given in a calm way , not the screaming over the rooftops manner in which much of fitness propaganda is wont to be at times. This talk is yet one more jewel and eye opener which i shall store in my library to refer to again and also to share. Much appreciate the uploads with such a spectrum of amazing professionals , thank you. I have made some significant changes , even if what i considered what a healthy way of eating , now i try be as LCHF as possible , with IF and some 24 hour fasts. Seed oil consumption was always low, but now ,have switched to cold pressed.More than this, have started using much more fat : homemade white butter, homemade ghee, cold pressed coconut oil and full fat milk , i shudder to think i would have skim milk or consume smaller meals few times a day
Thank you Dr. Mason. I love your straight forward description of the facts as you see them. Your last part of this discussion (the part where you are interviewed) regarding Maternal gestational diabetes and the increase in childhood autism is fascinating to me. Autism is a growing condition, just like the conditions we are all trying to help reduce and they all seem to be related....overweight/obese...then diabetes then Alzheimer's and yes...autism....these children born to mothers with diabetes or are insulin resistant, probably pass that to their fetuses through the same blood supply....? Does that make sense to anyone but me? I am just really blown away with this information. I am 70, been on a ketogenic diet for a year and can never...ever go back to eating sugar or seed oils...low carb/ high fat is my choice.
Amazing, Thank you, Thank you SO MUCH Dr. Mason for dedicating your time and effort to educate us about this. Incredibly well explained, slow enough like for no experts.
Hi all. Fantastic lecture Paul. I really liked it and I would like to thank you for choosing the subject as I have type 2 and vascular dementia and living very well with it. I will be passing this onto people I know. I will follow up on some of your references. I have a bug at the moment (not covid) so sugars are up to 9 mmol/l and Ket are 1.4 um/l Im hoping the bg comes down as the virus disappears . However I have been foolish taking more sugars for a good few weeks. Im hoping to make another permanent lifestyle change that lasts more than 4-5 months. Thanks again for an inspiring lecture.
Everyone must remember that insulin resistance prevents one from producing ketones and over eating fats will never overcome the effects of over eating carbs.
Dr Bredersen is my hero ! He uses low glycaemic, mild ketogenic diet. I am being guided through his protocol now, its my only hope. I am APOe4 pos by the way.
Diet should be first course of action, not drugs. It's when diet doesn't work (rare) that you'd turn to drugs. Let food be thy medicine. Stop consuming high inflammatory foods like sugar, grains, seed oils and junk food.
You're Awesome Dr. Paul Mason. Thank you sharing this lifesaving knowledge. Listen well folks, sound functional nutritional advice doesn't get any better than this... 8v) Share this valuable info with your loved ones. Your body is an amazing self-healing machine created by an omnipotent intelligence designer. THANK YOU and God bless you.
Dentists are now making a connection between poor oral health and alzheimer's disease and in particular the gingivitis bacteria. So that makes a further connection between poor diet choices and brain deterioration. Bad food combined with poor oral hygiene is a disastrous combination.
If the dentist pushes the pick/probe too far below the gum line when measuring gum pockets, endocarditis can erupt, and very likely cause blood infection that can cause a fatal heart attack (endocarditis).
Bacterial infections in the gum may pass into the bloodstream and translocate in the brain which would cause inflammation. An inflamed brain is problematic on myriad levels
Yes, my son has autism and I stopped sugar and he's on a whole foods diet. It has to do with his MAOA enzyme being compromised. He's getting better, even his doctor noticed. Low amine diet. He stopped toe tipping and is now learning.
Thanks. Totally interesting and important. Not reporting research findings because they are disappointing seems to be echoed in research, or lack thereof, into basic substances such as vitamin D and zinc in staving off covid-19
My Hb a1c was 13% ( suicidal). After 4 monthsdoing following doing : total 10 km daily walk to shops and return , daily intermittent fasting ( 16/8), 30 min threadmill , my HbA1C 4.6% now . Yes I stay away from carbs , sugar, processed food , sugary drinks , beer , pasta , rice etc .
As always you blow my mind. Thanks, yes I do think diet has all to do with autism. Pre and post natal insulin, glucose, fruitose, colesterol and saturated fat are factors in proper brain development. pardon the spelling.
@@jselectronics8215 I think it's mostly metabolized in the liver, but not exclusively. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall a portion being metabolized in the gut.
Any researcher who alters or buries a study because he/she doesn't like the results should be fired from their job and called out in the medical community and by his or her peers.
Caution. The brain is made of very different cells, neurons but also astrocytes and gliacells... Some must have glucose, others not (i guess the reason is that they are fermenting). But the liver can supply this glucose.. so no problem.
Dr Steven Gundry and Dr Dale Bredesen both say that people with the ApoE4 allele also have to avoid saturated fats and instead to eat a ketogenic diet with the fats coming from olive oil and avocados.
Bad food and Autism - it's closely related! 2 yrs later now and a lot of people (more specifically medically trained people) are starting to see this relationship! Medical Doctors belong to a very stubborn crowd! Okay, so be it! Being right is usually more important than helping patients!
If you look at all his videos you will see he touches on it. He said he eats when he is hungry. A low carb or keto diet decreases hunger so you can easily go longer without eating.
I mean if you eat primarily animal based and low-zero carb you will naturally gravitate towards 'intermittent fasting'. Its not even really a real thing. Long term fasting would be more interesting to see a deep dive into. I've tried a 2 day fast but just haven't been sold on giving fasting a proper shot. Maybe when I'm more well adjusted to the diet.
a Wonderful overview !. I was interested in your comments alluding to L-carnatine 26:04 supplementation. I have been experimenting w/ Low dose Li oratate which in addition to promoting neuro plasticity might have an Affect on heart health [see older literature on B13]. One hypothesis has been the neuron potential variance is reduced since Li ions remain where Na ions are discharged after reuptake. I suspect it is deterioration of BBB that is more primary in the progression of this disease than just brain shrinkage and (or) amyloid depositions.
Thank you very much for the information. Wouldn't this be worth a nutritional study, in a retirement home specializing in dementia? I wonder if for initialization a dietary supplement with ketone salts or ketone esters as external ketone source could be beneficial. As an argument to get into low carb or keto diet.
I agree. A nursing/retirement home would be the PERFECT place for a study. Very controlled environment. I pray some Doctor is brave enough to do this!!! Our seniors deserve the attention ♥️
I find a ketone meter to be more useful. If you are producing ketones for even a small part of each day it is pretty sure that your basal insulin levels are physiologically appropriate. Blood sugar fluctuations are certainly a good thing to measure for diabetics, but insulin is more important. One of the biggest errors in diabetes management is using insulin to control blood sugar. In reality we should be using glucose to control insulin. Type 1 diabetics will eventually develop Type 2 diabetes even with "good" blood sugar levels if they overuse insulin. Insulin pumps will make this even more common especially if the pump doesn't have appropriate alarms for excessive insulin dispensation. You manage what you measure. If insulin is the problem, measuring glucose may not give you successful treatment.
Keto is great, however if you want to go full bore; look at carnivore. I did, the change to mind and body were almost magical. Also, the rush to cut cholesterol with diet and statins, is the most likely cause of the explosion of dementia and parkinsons, as well as other neurological issues. Statins degrade the coating on nerve fibre, cascading to the issues we have in excess today.
Both my mother and grandmother had dementia. They both ate what we would call palio diets. No fast foods, everything fresh and cooked themselves. Doctors are saying that we should stop eating foods high in fructose. That means stop eating fruit as about 10% is fructose. We should stop eating unsaturated fats, after telling us that saturated fats were bad for us . What fad will they come up with next? As a nutritionist I would advocate eating a bit of everything. Not too much of anything - processed foods / takeaways/ etc. If you want to loose weight eat less. There were no fat people in Belsen as they say. People are making a living out of dietary nonsense. I don't honestly believe that we have a clue what causes dementia (except if you have the gene) . However being overweight , smoking and drinking too much alcohol has proven health implications. We are living longer and so are more likely to get dementia. The most important factor in life is being happy. Stop worrying about what might be and get on living.
