Amy Berger of Tuit Nutrition has made her book, The Alzheimer's Antidote, available on Amazon Kindle. Introduction sale price of $6.99

Amy is a member here and posts on occasion.
Her recent good podcast interview with Robb Wolf on the topic of Nutrition and Alzheimer's at: http://robbwolf.com/2015/09/15/epis...and-alzheimers/






http://www.tuitnutrition.com/2016/0...ote-update.html

Thanks Janet. I've wanted to read this book but I hate e-books. I have a desk top computer only and find reading anything but relatively short articles from the screen difficult if not impossible. I have now pre-ordered it for Kindle on Amazon.

Jean

I've had this book for 10 days, but have other library books calling, and often just forget there are ebooks waiting in the iPad (first sign of dementia?). What I have read is good and look forward to getting back to it, now that I listened to this podcast with Dr Mary Newport.



Hearing her a few years ago, it was all about the coconut oil and the diet was secondary (she would mix CO into oatmeal) Her new book adds LC, and extends benefits to other neurological diseases.
This nutritional therapy group always keeps their radio shows to the very basics with simple explanations of the science.

The book: http://www.amazon.com/Low-Carb-Solu...s/dp/1591203813

If you have Kindle Unlimited, The Alzheimer's Antidote is free and delivered now. I'm currently reading it on my laptop using the free Kindle reader for PC.

I have read Amy Berger's book on my Kindle. The first part, which explains the science, is very interesting. The second half is practical advice about eating a low carb diet which didn't offer me anything new but for people unfamiliar with low carb it is useful. The more I read the more convinced I am that low carb is the only way to go for overall health.

Jean

AD is so linked with insulin, does not matter which comes first...agree that LC has so many benefits.

Brain insulin resistance identified as possible new link between Alzheimer's disease, diabetes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas...60407221709.htm

I have this on my Kindle! I love her writing style.

I have read Dr. Newport's book and also have had Mother on a ketogenic diet for over a year. She gets coconut oil every day and also sees a doctor who understands this science and has prescribed specific supplements to help with Alzheimer's. It may or may not have prevented her AD from worsening but until I see a book that describes a person already stricken with this disease and who has actually recovered memory from following some dietary or medical protocol, I remain unconvinced. I have not seen this in any lasting way, ever - not on YouTube, not in any forums - no where.

Study: almost half of Alzheimer's cases are due to hyperinsulinemia

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/309031.php

This may show up diabetes and pre diabetes, but it doesn't necessarily show up all hyperinsulinemia. As an example, I had symptoms of high insulin (with PCOS) from age 10, but nothing ever showed up on an A1C, even at the stage a few years ago when I started to get higher fasting BG - and this was because even once I had higher fasting insulin (110) my BG would get lower as the day went on, a common symptom with very high insulin levels.

While the pancreas is still throwing out huge amounts of insulin in response to insulin resistance it may never get caught unless insulin levels are actually tested (which we don't do in the UK at all, or very rarely AFAIK). A cheaper, easier, more reliable insulin test needs to be developed so that people with this issue are caught much, much earlier. The reality for me and many with this condition, is an A1C probably wouldn't have shown anything for many more years, so with a hard working pancreas maybe 40 years or more between onset and diagnosis - how much plaque is laid down during that period?

As Dr Fung says, it's the insulin resistance and the excess insulin that is the main issue in what later is diagnosed as diabetes - it's all the same condition, and from this it seems that for some alzheimer's is just an even later symptom of that condition.

People need to be diagnosed earlier, an A1C showing pre diabetes or diabetes is too late.

We all wish for a better home Insulin test but even Dr Westman and Dr Fung indicate that the existing fasting test has many limitations. I asked Dr Fung about it in Feb:



Everyone is talking about IR but no one has told me exactly how to know you have it...or according to Woo, maybe rather you are insulin sensitive now.

In fact IR came up in an intriguing study on Breast cancer last year. They did use fasting insulin and HOMA-IR to calculate "insulin resistance" and saw an increased risk of BC even for normal weight women with IR.

http://www.cavemandoctor.com/2016/0...er-and-obesity/