Vegan Diet for Alzheimer's Study Results Are In 

She's getting the dopamine she used to get from alcohol from exercise instead

amazing!

This is so beautiful to read.

Make sure she moves her arms too. Very important to brain function. Also standing up straight and working on balance and posture.

What a wonderful thing you did for your Mom. God bless you both 🙏.

Lol😂😂😂

😂❤😂❤

you better!

😂 Won't be there for long if you're vegan apparently.

I read that in professor Farnsworth's voice.

the elderly are incapable of taking care of themself, we decide what they eat, pouting be damned :P

Totally agree. PIty that advertising, propaganda, and a mcdonalds on every corner gets in the way of that.

The study was done on those who had early stage Alzheimer’s

It doesn’t matter what stage… I have worked with all stages. It is also generational and cultural. I have had patients in their 30s up to their 90s and to watch them eat would verify everything said here. My father won’t eat that way because that’s just not how he was raised or how his family ate. He got diagnosed with a whole host of things all related to diet as we know now that he could have the opportunity to reverse, but he literally refuses to eat differently because that’s just how he does it. It’s how he was raised. He also holds his diet as something that is very masculine to eat so much meat and processed junk. Eating vegetables or “salads” is what women do to maintain their weight. You don’t have to have memory impairment to refuse to eat vegetables. but it is very common for people whose memory starts slipping to want to just eat the things that provide them with the most dopamine or whatever is most familiar to them.

If they'd eaten veg all their lives they wouldn't be in that mess now

Can you tell us what you mostly eat? I would like to follow a diet similar. Thx

You give me hope. 60. Watched my mom start deteriorating at this age so I am wfpb for several years and hoping for the best.

well both my parents don't have dementia and while my father accidentally in good health at 93 - (without dementia) my mother has outlived all her siblings and while they got demential in their late 80s she is older and doesn't have it at all, and my parents were and are not vegans... so...I could say there's is the right way to live. No junk food and active. no smoking.

@@llt4000 I mostly follow the diet recommended by Dr. John McDougall’s “The Starch Solution”.

@@Petunia-fl9lu Genetics do play into it. Dementia was in my father AND maternal grandmother. But the dementia of Alzheimer’s has a vascular component, if one eating lots of meat has clogged arteries in their heart, there is a vert strong chance, that the blood supply to the brain is clogged up. Whether a person is starved of oxygen, no matter the method, brain cells will die. The reason a very low fat vegan diet works, is that it will normalize weight, get rid of visceral fat and clean up the arteries. Though I follow the Dr. John McDougall diet: “The Starch Solution”, I eat a lot of raw dark leafy green, know to help open up clogged arteries via the work by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. I used to have high cholesterol but got that down adding grapefruit to my diet. Actually all citrus works. Whatever also lowers blood pressure is good for the vascular system of the whole body. I also walk 5 miles a day, weather and health permitting, or do indoor exercises. Prevention is better than trying to reverse dementia.

Great job on making the change! I work at a rehabilitation hospital and 70% of our patients are post-stroke. We are seeing an alarming number of patients in their late 20s and 30s who are recovering from strokes. They are heavy meat eaters and eat fast food. The only vegan I've cared for so far was a 92-year-old vegan woman who had a fall. Clearly, it's not the vegans suffering from all these chronic illnesses. But the animals are and always will be the true victims of the meat/dairy/egg industries, not the ones who face the adverse health effects of eating them.

@@caliskaterboy also by my late 20's i started getting agonizing constipation and by my 30's started gagging and throwing up from most cooking oils. suffered through all that a long time until i started listening to vegans on yt. drs. would give me suppositories and tell me to take aspirin every day the rest of my life. i thought i was doomed since i have stroke and colon cancer in my fam history.

meat eaters literally live longer than vegans. lol. why lie?

@@sticksbass even though there’s a lot of very questionable medical and dietary advice on RU-vid, some people such as you and me found the right information and successfully changed our lives permanently for the better.

@@RiDankulous def a huge thing 2 b grateful 4.

Well it could be their use of eggs in a “vegan” diet. Almost like it shouldn’t be advertised as vegan because it’s not.

As Peter rogers point out, these medical pioneers are NOT even in the college textbooks

because meat eaters literally live longer than vegans.

@@GarudaLegends ya, no the the healthiest of the longest living people are low fat plant based

@@ejRecording false. btw you literally described meat eaters. Thank you for proving my point. 🤡

The keto research into Alzheimer’s is amazing. Ketones are the best thing for the brain. 🧠

@@RC-qf3mp Not true, being ketogenic limits the electrical signaling in the brain (because more fat = less oxygen). My mom was on this diet in the 50s for her epilepsie. Her and other children were taken off it because the other risks became too high even though the epilepsie events went down. Why someone with a healthy brain would want to limit oxygen and electrical signaling is beyond me.

@@11235Aodh they opened up the brains of people with epilepsy who were diagnosed on kids and lived their whole lives on keto, up into their 80s. After opening up their brains, doctors were amazed - their brains look like they were in their 40s, not 80s. Check out the research. There are better and worse ways to do ‘keto’. Loading up on salmon, sardines, avocados and seed sprouts is keto. So is loading up on processed CAFO meat junk and fake sugar foods. The healthiest thing for the brain is fat - from fatty fish, omega 3. The brain needs energy, and it gets that from ketones. Electrical signaling in the brain needs lots of things - mainly omega 3 and fat that comes from meat. Lots of record-setting Ultra endurance athletes - who need lots of oxygen in the body and brain - go on keto. Look up Zack Bitter. You don’t ‘bonk’ or ‘hit the wall’ on keto. See the research of Drs. Phinney and Volek on fat oxidation. Keto athletes have the highest levels recorded in human history for fat oxidation. You have been misinformed on a number of issues. For starters, look up the research on the brains of epilepsy patients on keto their whole lives. Then read about the benefits of MCT oil (which becomes ketones in the body) on dogs with Alzheimer’s and then tested on humans with Alzheimer’s. We have brain imaging to show where glucose in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s is lacking, but the ketones can fill in the gaps. The actual brain imaging. We know it works. Cognitive tests on people with Alzheimer’s proves it. Ketones > glucose.

@@RC-qf3mp such as..............................

@@cazzawazzadingdong5139. See Dr. Palmer’s research and lectures on keto for Alzheimer’s and other mental health conditions. He’s a psychiatrist and medical school professor at Harvard. The ketogenic diet was invented for epilepsy-the brain, and has been proven effective for a variety of neurological conditions, including Alzheimer’s. MCT oil is easily converted into ketones and so is used for tests on dogs with Alzheimer’s which was so effective it was used in people and with brain imaging scans. 100% proven. Look it up.

I would be more concerned about the carbs and sugars a long with all the preservatives. Not so much the real meat products

Thanks for sharing. It's not surprising considering all those animal products cause atherosclerosis, which as he mentioned earlier in the video is a cause of Alzheimer's.

@@JohnJohn-xb1sn Why comment under a video you haven't watched? Like, the first few minutes justify BusyLizzy_'s comment.

Just watched the whole dumb thing. No one will do a real meat based study. They always find people that eat absolutely garbage and call that a meat based diet.

Hamburgers with French fries and a milkshake is not a meat based diet

Makes sense, there is only 1 blood vessel that leads up to the ears (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinthine_artery), when it gets atherosclerotic like many other vessels you get hearing loss. Same for the eyes and spine, one major bloodvessel can cause a lot of problems when it clogs up. It's so annoying to hear people say "Ohhh it's due to old age!" when they stubbornly keep eating their meat and dairy (or high fat vegan would also work).

I'm out of practice, but now after 7.5 years of being vegan I can match pitch more easily than before when I was actually playing my instrument every day. Just an anecdote, but it's interesting that it improved without even trying.

I wish I had the clip but now on the news they are showing one of the subjects who had to quit orchestra due to his early Alzheimer's. HE IS NOW ABLE TO PLAY IN IT AGAIN!!!

@@11235Aodh recognizing pitch has little to do with blood vessels leading to the ears though, more to do with storing the memory of the actual pitch in the brain. But of course eating healthy and having better mental clarity and maybe even your brain working better is not a bad thing either.

​@@MictheVeganInteresting! I have raised two vegan from conception teenagers. Both are pitch perfect singers and extremely gifted ( prodigies ??) violinists. Hubby and I long time vegans, non musicians but play music constantly in the house and car. Kids heard it in the womb and practically came out of the womb playing instruments. Great blood flow to the brain and ear most probably.

It's the one my plant based doc recommends. I can see why Mic is annoyed with that choice, you have a company with a plant based Omega but they mysteriously chose to roll with fish on a vegan study. Sus.

I wish they'd take out the carrageenan on that one.

it's supplemented with vegetable oils.. if you read the label.

I came looking for this comment! I also take Nordic Naturals’ vegan omega-3 supplements. I suspect Mic doesn’t know that they make vegan products as well as animal derived products.

Deficient drug addict.

Now you’re conforming to the trendy social norm of veganism. Congrats on fooling yourself into believing you’re not conforming. Nothing wrong with meat if part of a we’ll formulated ketogenic diet. No processed meat, no cafo meat. Eat a variety of meats, and lots of fish. No sugar. No fake food.

I think these people are generally in a state of ignorance or unjustified optimism about how bad chronic and life threatening health conditions are. Though it’s crazy that that attitude is maintained even in the face of something as horrible as Alzheimer’s.

@@mb7626 by ‘these people’, you mean vegans who eat lots of sugar and deprive themselves of omega 3 fatty acids from fish - the good DHA/EPA, not the ALA from flax seed which has poor conversion. The omega 3 that goes to the brain and comprises of 25% of the dry weight of the brain? You mean ‘these people’ - vegans, right?

My mom said that about smoking. Had she known she'd die at 54 of lung cancer, I think she would have changed.

I relate to this so much. I didn’t like eating animals and would sneak my portion of meat to the dog under the table when my parents weren’t looking or into the big potted plant that my mother had in the corner of the dining room near my chair. She couldn’t understand why the dog was always getting into her plant… oops. It was in seventh grade that I was shown a video of a quadruple bypass on a guy who mostly lived on McDonald’s and he was in his late 30s. I asked my teacher “how can I make sure that doesn’t happen to me?” She told me “ become a vegetarian.” So I looked into it and went vegetarian that day. I asked her more questions… if I could be healthy because my parents said that I would stop growing or get really sick. She gave me some information that helped and in high school I learned about veganism and felt foolish for being just vegetarian. So then I went completely vegan and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life. I am in my mid-40s now. By my age, my dad already had a major heart attack and has been diagnosed with CHF, COPD and emphysema and has had a triple bypass and a pacemaker put in. Meanwhile, all of my doctors say I have the labs of someone considerably younger than myself. I talked to my mother into being mostly plant-based. She sometimes eats things that are considered vegetarian. She is only three years younger than my dad and she is not on any medication‘s and doesn’t have any health issues. She used to be severely overweight, but going mostly plant-based has changed that drastically... she was on her way to diabetes and high blood pressure probably followed by heart issues. Her side of the family has all kinds of cancer and heart issues. All of her labs and tests come back perfect. Meanwhile, my dad has to take so many medication‘s every day and each doctors visit comes with worse news. His heart function is around 20% and he is in his later 60s. He is tired and feels bad all the time and now he is to the point where it hurts to eat. It looks like he is coming to the end of his CHF journey. But eating vegetables is feminine and not how he was raised so he has refused to change. He still makes fun of me for being vegan. Unfortunate for him he won’t be making fun of me for much longer.

Because meat eaters live longer than vegans. No one cares about your silly vegan diet. The world is being more health conscience

At least CNN is covering it as well as Ornish on Fox.

Grass fed beef for the environment, carbon sequestration, keto diet, vitamin B12 and heme iron.

Yes!!! 🎉🎉

​@@RC-qf3mp How's that better for the environment when CO2eq-emissions are so high? Ketosis is evolutionary selected against. For that and other reasons it's probably not good on a societal level but there might individual reasons to go keto. Just no reason to be unscientific about it and include a food that checks all the wrong boxes. And how is it good for B12 and iron you can easily get otherwise without unnecessarily killing a sentient being (and without the negative health effects)?

@@tofu-munchingCoalition.ofChaos Exactly true, i wonder if these people even ever contemplate why the Inuit have LOST their ability to get into ketosis. Clearly it wasn't so good after all.

@@RC-qf3mp Grass fed? Here in the UK unless you use hardy rare breeds they have to be kept in barns in the winter and fed silage. Silage is horrific for the environment and is responsible for the demise of hay meadows and ground nesting birds whose nests are destroyed by the frequent mowing. Even in the summer most grass fed animals are not naturally grazed (rough grazing/hay meadows) but in fields which have been ploughed, sprayed and sown with around six species of grass which are then dressed with artificial fertiliser which is not fully utilised so it runs off into our waterways stimulating excessive algal growth which then decays causing oxygen deficiency which kills the fish.

Get them off carbs sugars and processed foods. Put them on Good fats like sardines and fatty cuts of beef. The brain is made of fat and cholesterol

@@JohnJohn-xb1sn That doesn't mean it's the preferred source of nutrient. Especially glut4 transporter is solely glucose dependent.

@@JohnJohn-xb1sn It doesn't matter what the brain is made of, the only thing that matters is what it needs to function properly. And it has been shown time and time again that it gets impaired by the same things that cause arteriosclerosis. Which you recommend to eat. It's okay if you don't want to eat the way science shows is best for you, but please let suffering people alone with your stupidity.

@@JohnJohn-xb1snall the data points the opposite direction, we aren't designed for animals Anyways

@@JohnJohn-xb1sn If you had watched the video, sugar and processed food were not the diet.

Maybe the national Institute of health will decide it’s a worthy cause and spend money on a large long duration study. I think at least one is worth the money.

See my comment. They study includes doing everything that's healthy. I don't think that kind of study will get much funding. And if it did get funded, you would want to study much more than just cognitive markers. Strange study.

Were you doing clean keto? No fake sugar? Eating fatty fish3-7x per week? Using blood ketone meter? Keto shown to be best diet for epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s . But must be clean anti inflammatory keto.

​@RC-qf3mp The idea of clean saturated fat is laughable...

@@JappaKneads Yeah, like "lean" protein...

Keto almost killed me, and I was a vegan keto... The bottles of oils just went to the garbage can...

@@JappaKneads you can do keto without eating saturated fat. So what’s laughable is your comment that fails to understand what keto is or what saturated fat is with respect to keto. But where’s the support that saturated fat is bad? I’m sure it’s bad if you combine the saturated fat with a high carb diet. But where’s the research that shows saturated fat is bad on a clean keto diet? Science and facts matter - if you just don’t like the idea of eating food that has faces, then that’s a prejudice and bias, not objective science.

the incidence rates are climbing because we are living longer. there's just more older people over 80. The prevalence rate of dementia is declining due to improvements in the prevention and management.

Alzheimers is now known as type 3 diabetes.

It’s hard to change some ppl tho I’m trying to get my dad on it as he just found out has decline and it’s hard ppl are so stubborn you would think everyone would jump on it

Thankfully I was young enough to not register that I was almost bludgeoned.

Part of the reason that it’s rising is because of increasing age of the American population

@@RiDankulous American life expectancy us actually falling.

This study doesn't provide evidence that the vegan diet was the cause of the improvement in the intervention group.

Not the conclusion of the study. Read the paper

Dr Cutlets xD

Starchivore City!!!!

Truth! Thank you.

SEED OILS, margerine ... fake oils

But the best diet for Alzheimer’s is a very “fatty diet” - a diet rich in fatty fish w/omega 3 fatty acids (DHA/EPA, not the weak ALA found in flax seed). Alzheimer’s brains have been shown with imaging scans to lack blood glucose in various regions, and to be characterized by inflammation in the brain. A ketogenic diet, high in fat, low in carbs, produces ketones that can reach the areas of the brain low in glucose. So no, you are wrong, a ‘fatty diet’ is not bad, but optimal for Alzheimer’s patients as shown in various studies, experiments and brain imaging scans.

@@RC-qf3mp Show evidence in the form of clinical trials, peer-reviewed

What’s doing the magic is the fish oil, lifestyle, and reduction of ultra processed junk from a SAD way of eating/living. You’d get better impacts on Alzheimer’s by eating an anti-inflammatory fish-based keto diet. Throw in some MCT oil too for more ketone production. Alzheimer’s is characterized by inflammation in the brain leading to lack of glucose in the brain, as seen in brain images. Ketones can go where blood glucose has trouble reaching. Ketones fuel the brain and protect the brain. 🧠

The fish oils go rancid so fast, I was wondering about that kind of damage as well.

haha good joke

Meat eaters still live longer.

@@GarudaLegends This is literally disproven by statistics. Lifespans are roughly similar but healthspans benefit from plant based.

True, are you interested in a socialist D¡scord server?

not the conclusion of the study

saturated fat stops you from getting alzheimers, your brain is literally made out of it

Vegan diets have no cholesterol, no plants contain cholesterol

what is your brain made out of ? saturated fat , so what do you think would be useful for it?

actually think it's more to do with higher fibre, constipation has been linked to dementia, going plantbased will increase fibre so will show improvement in systems.

@@layladarby1994 not likely, what's more likely to cause dementia constipation or seed oils and sugar

@@lightninggornall sorry but I worked with dementia patients for years, constipation was the theme, and know doctors are saying the same thing.

If you follow the Ornish diet you will be more likely to get cancer or stroke before you are old enough to reach the age of when people get Dementia. Dean Ornish young wife of 49 who now has cancer from following the Ornish diet and Dr. Clive McCay, Nathan Pritikin, Andy Kaufman, and Robin Gibb shows the truth. Also Esselstyn study top star client Dr. Joe Crowe who died at 72 shows the evidence.

How can you conclude she got cancer from following the Ornish diet??? There's something called a controlled experiment. If not on the Ornish diet, she might have gotten cancer years earlier.

Go to bed!

Dr. Bredesen had similar results with a Mediterranean low carb diet.

The highest AGE concentrations found from fried chicklings. People eating baby birds is a fairly new concept, starting from 1948 and exploding in 1970's.

@@soilikasanen anything that’s cooked at high temperatures.

@@campersruincod6134 There are huge differences between cooked foods. Meat leads this unfavourable statistics.

@@soilikasanen no shit. But I you shouldn’t use dry heating methods for vegetables and grains, either. Overarching piece of information; high heat cooking is bad.

@@campersruincod6134 Agreed! Most plant foods incl. nuts and seeds are best as they are, just fresh.

Yep. For me it started with Forks Over Knives and pretty soon Earthlings & Dominion got into the algorithm and opened my eyes the rest of the way 😳

That’s a great idea.

margarine and vegan butter are both horrific for you , raw butter easily the winner

@@lightninggornall Medical evidence of dairy butter being better for us than plant butter?

@@roku3216 plant butter is seed oils, they destroy your health when are you going to learn, rancid oils in a block is what your consuming, high omega 6 causes inflammation, raw butter vitamin A, C, D, K, your brain is made out of fat

I thought they were the same thing. Not that I use either of them, but if there is a difference it would be interesting to know about it anyway.

There are different kinds of dementia and Alzheimer’s, some are directly caused by specific genes, and if you have those genes, doesn’t matter too much what you eat or your lifestyle.

Wow!!

Cheaper too, which may have factored in to the choice of going with the fish based versus algae based. In terms of operating budget for the study