The race to find a treatment for dementia | Four Corners 

This was excellent. As someone who cared for an elderly relative with dementia while in my late 20s with young children its hard to see that we have not made much progress with treatment. But great progress is made by documentaries like this, sharing the hopes and joys and sadness with the public. Some of us will someday will be part of the community of dementia sufferers. Thank you sharing this.

I think the best model is Alzheimer's as "Type 3 Diabetes".... as in Type 2 diabetes, where hyperinsulinemia, caused by a diet of constant carbohydrates, creates "insulin resistance," resulting in a lipid plaquing that develops on coronary arteries, in visceral fat, on corneas, on the gums of teeth, and elsewhere. This can be prevented and even reversed in some cases by switching from using glucose and fructose for energy to using KETONES for energy. The brain, heart, and other organs thrive with ketones. This is the diet our ancestors ate for 6 million years evolving us from apes to humans. Please research the science ...lots of videos here on RU-vid to convince you of these exciting findings.

This is terrifying for people like me with no children or family or close friends nearby to keep an eye on me as I age. Who will give a sh*t? All I can do is try to stave off the inevitable by myself through exercise, eating well, having assistance measures in place at home, a good walker and cane by the door, and a keen interest in life and a curiosity constantly challenged to keep the grey cells busy as long as possible. This will be bigger than any covid stuff once the boomers truly age out.

This was very interesting. Dementia is the broad term. Picture an umbrella with word “dementia” above it and underneath are the various types of dementia. Like Lewy body, Alzhiemers, vascular, fronto temporal, etc. Ideas presented to change the way dementia is being treated sounds like progress. My Dad had vascular and Mom has Alzhiemers. Very difficult time when both had it together at same time. The care giver absolutely needs support too. Thank u for this presentation.

You’re courageous admitting your need for help, and for following through with treatment. You’ve taken a stand for your life and sharing the need for self-care. We are so proud of you for sharing this with hopes that someone else might be helped and for not allowing depressions battles to be in vain. Thank you to your doctor and team to allow your procedure to be documented and how they explain things. Love you so much bro. Keep on keeping on.❤

Grateful to see strong encouragement about lifestyle and other non medical strategies to prevent and manage these and many other conditions. I wish this emphasis would be reflected by the medical profession and allied health! We really need a more proactive culture around health and well-being please.

My mother is 98 years old but her memory is still very good, Alhamdulillah. The therapy is to frequently read the Qur'an and pray five times a day, as well as pray tahajjud. Also often pray "O Allah, give my mother health so that she can still worship you and don't give my mother a forgetful and senile attitude so that she will remember you".

As usual Four Corners is the best!! 👍

Several types of dementia...most common is Alzheimer... Mum had "senile dementia"..."lived" with it for ten long years....💞 Wouldn't wish any type of dementia on anyone... Horrible... I could get it too...or SVD (small vessel disease) in my brain or colon cancer could..or...? 🙏

Good job Dr Norman Swan and all the participants. thank you to all. Well told story.

But don't demonise the caregivers who can't cope. All these lovely benign folks living with dementia. The cranky, intolerant, combative ones clearly didn't volunteer to be interviewed. My husband has very mild impairment but he's become almost impossible to live with.

My mum had alzheimers . I can't express in words the sadness that this disease visits on its victims and everyone who loves them . However there is now good evidence that heroic doses of thc can restore the personality.and cognitive ability to a significant extent Not cbds, not low strength cannabis but mind bending levels of thc . I wish this was known when my mum was alive , the drugs she was given back then were not appropriate and not helpful

Until we can identify the 20% (!!!) of people who will have brain bleeds, that's one hell of a risk to take. Who is paying for the care of the folks damaged by it?

Thank you so much for this video!

Robert Lustig, John Yudkin. By the way, the chubby ladies in the film would be wise to take several months off work, fast, and get their waist to height ratio in inches less than 0.5, as well as getting their GKI down to 1.0 or less. Dementia is a slow motion emergency.

My worst nightmare is my mom developing dementia.. But i think she is, at 69 she shows a lot of the early signs.. And the more time that passes, the more sure I get..

This was very good I used to set with a few lines that had it they didn't have it really bad but it's so hard to know what they used to be and what they are now I hope they get Is Curson or slow it down

Why isn't this pointing to the idea that amyloid plaques are just a symptom of the disease and not the root cause?

fix the food, fix the problem: some foods are causal of switcing to a protective mode that produce protein (amyloid) created in an attempt to protect the brain, there are foods that assist the brain to chelate those insults ..if you continuosly break a bone and only focus on the method of recovery but not on the method of ceasing the breakage, broken bones continue until recovery cannot be achieved ...the insults placed thru the mouth on a daily basis have produced a dramatic increase across developed nations and leading contributor to all-cause mortatlity vesus just 40 years ago, leaky gut, heme iron across the blood-brain barrier, pesticides, animal proteins and retro viruses, simple low-lying triggers...fix the food inhibit the triggers

Dale Bredesen David Perlmutter David Amen Thomas Seyfried Richard Johnson Mark Hyman for starters. Wish you all the best

How do they expect a person to remember all the commands.When the lady was getting the man to do the excersize with the colored plastic pieces?

Thank you, Dr Swan...💐

I thought that the large US study with the nuns demonstrated that amaloid plaques was show not to cause AD in some. What about Tau and Lewy body? What about where the changes start: gut; ear, nose or throat or liver? Or indeed the blood brain barrier.

When this channel isn't spreading misinformation, they have some somewhat good videos

Too late for both my grandmothers, unless somehow it's reversible.

Not intending to stay around for this. "aging is a privilege" my a$$.

Is it okay to admit that we have dietary solutions to this? Or should we continue to talk about pharmaceutical solutions?

But why does ammoloids accummulate in the brain in the first place? Prevention should be first priority then a cure.

I am 81 years of age I noticed that people dident drink wine hardly at all before 1970 and I never came across any body who had alzheimer's before 1990 but my wife has alzheimer's and she drank wine with her dinner but did not I have found out that wine has lots of chemicals in it including anteefreez since the year 2000 it seems alzheimer's has increased to a very large extent this is just a possibility I am just a nobody as far has being an expert or an adviser I am probably wrong it was just an observation

How is the plaque in the brain aneloid, related to amyloidosis? Could the trial med treat that disease too? Right now its not curable…

in the 60 thre were some concern about mental deficiencies they blamed homogenised milk please investigate

The title should have said, "The race to find treatment for "Alzheimer's"". 😥

My mom is only in 50 but she also have an Alzheimer disease.

Dementia is the gradual degradation of the persona (Latin for mask) in preparation for moving on. The problem is not this natural process but the culture and its extreme fearful ignor-ance of the topic of death. Modern industrialised civilisation was never interested in educating people in the nature of existence but rather focuses solely on preparing humans to serve the machine. Once service is retired you are on your own without the natural wisdom that once informed communities prior to industrialisation. Prior to the industrial age, humans lived in extended families which meant the elderly maintained meaningful activities and relationships throughout their lives. Even in their final years there was always the grandchildren and the simple domestic chores conducted in an atmosphere of familial caring. Within the present cultural landscape perhaps the best preventative to this suffering born of not understanding the mind is meditation. Meditation is the practice of resting as mind prior to the persona's arising. The more the pracitse, the more the peace of mind. Let go people! It's ok to forget stuff. There is no need to suffer ideas.

No, because the amyloid is just one part of the disease.

It might be too late for Joe Biden, but I’m sure the treatment can be found for future patients x

too late for my mum..nano\microplastics, we breathe in, eat and drink a credit card in weight per week, cant be good to have blood permeated with toxic chemicals pumping through the brain or our other organs.. looks grim.

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