Dean Sherzai - The Alzheimers Solution: A revolutionary guide to how you can prevent and reverse memory loss

Praise for The Alzheimers Solution

The Alzheimers Solution is an empowering guide to the lifestyle factors that are directly linked to cognitive decline. Thanks to Drs Dean and Ayesha Sherzai, we finally have a roadmap to prevent and reverse symptoms of a disease that has been misunderstood for too long

Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and bestselling author of The Blue Zones

Excellent nutrition trumps heart attacks and strokes. The same is true of Alzheimers; it is not predominantly genetic or the inevitable consequence of ageing. The Alzheimers Solution supplies everything you need to know about the development and prevention of this easily avoidable disease

Dr Joel Fuhrman, six-time bestselling author of Super Immunity, Eat to Live and The End of Diabetes, and president of the Nutritional Research Foundation

The Alzheimers Solution is the best, most professionally informed book of its kind for this much-feared disease... the protocol recommended by Drs Dean and Ayesha Sherzai is a very important message to convey to the public. Please, read this book

T. Colin Campbell, bestselling co-author of The China Study

In common with the other major chronic diseases that plague modern societies, Alzheimers is overwhelmingly preventable with an application of lifestyle as medicine. In this thorough, thoughtful, empowering and timely book, leading experts Dean and Ayesha Sherzai tell you everything you need to know to mind the health of your brain and defend yourself against one of the great scourges of modern living. Every family should own, and apply, The Alzheimers Solution

Dr David Katz, founding director of Yale Universitys Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, founder and president of the True Health Initiative, and author of Disease-Proof

We dedicate this book to two of the greatest men

weve ever known: our grandfathers, Dr Zahir and

F. M. Zikria, who planted the seeds of knowledge

and discovery, and ultimately lost their lives

to the very disease we set out to cure.

If you would have told us fifteen years ago that wed be writing the first book about the only scientifically proven solution to the international epidemic of Alzheimers disease, we never would have believed you. Fifteen years ago we were young neurologists practising medicine the way wed been taught. We were hopeful that the billions of dollars donated to fund Alzheimers research would soon result in a cure, some kind of tablet that could affect the pathology wed learnt so much about. We pursued the most prestigious fellowships in our field at the National Institutes of Health and the University of California, San Diego and worked with leading researchers at the forefront of the fight against Alzheimers. We wanted to find a solution. And we did, eventually just not the solution we expected.

It was during those fifteen years that we uncovered promising scientific research about the factors that significantly influence Alzheimers disease, research we will reveal to you in Chapter Two of this book and that revolutionized the way we practise medicine. It was during those fifteen years that we conducted one of the most comprehensive studies on the incidence of dementia and designed a ground-breaking protocol for Alzheimers treatment and prevention, work that began at Loma Linda University and then took us to Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles before we returned to Loma Linda to continue our research and serve communities throughout Southern California and beyond. And it was during those fifteen years that we treated thousands of patients suffering from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimers disease with our innovative NEURO Plan, helping them reverse symptoms, prevent further decline, add years to their lives and change the trajectory of their health.

So many of these patients have shared their stories with us. Theyve told us that their parents or grandparents had Alzheimers, and that developing the disease themselves was their single greatest fear. Theyve told us about the humiliation of having to rely on carers to meet their basic needs. Theyve assumed there was no treatment, that they would be ostracized if others found out about their condition. Some of these patients are in denial. Some of them are having trouble remembering names or have gotten lost in a familiar place. Some of them already have a formal Alzheimers diagnosis when they arrive at our clinic, unable to express themselves or recognize their loved ones. If youve picked up this book, then theres a good chance you or someone you love has one of these stories. You may be feeling little hope for the future. We know you are looking for something, anything you can do. We know you are incredibly afraid.

There is reason to be afraid. While every chronic disease you can think of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, stroke, HIV is in decline, deaths due to Alzheimers have increased by nearly 87 per cent in the last decade. The next decade could be even worse: in the US 10 per cent of people over sixty-five years old will develop some form of dementia, and people over eighty-five years old have a 50 per cent chance of developing the disease. Many of us can reasonably expect to live beyond eighty-five years old, especially as treatments for cancer and other major diseases continue to improve. This means that almost everyone, and certainly every family, will be affected by Alzheimers.

. Some researchers believe that Alzheimers is underreported on death certificates. The official cause of death for a person with Alzheimers may be a dementia-related condition like aspiration pneumonia. The question is no longer if we will develop the disease, but when .

. The demands of this disease could crash not only the health-care system, but the entire financial system.

Fifteen years ago, we had no idea our field of study and research would play a crucial role in our health as a species. Back then we accepted the conventional approach to neurology, though we could see it came up painfully short for patients with cognitive decline. That approach went a lot like this: Patients were examined, put through comprehensive neuropsychological testing and sometimes underwent brain MRIs. A diagnosis would be made based on the stage of cognitive decline, and in a follow-up appointment with family members, patients would be told that their disease was chronic and had no treatment. They were given pamphlets for nursing homes and encouraged to make major life decisions now, while their faculties were still intact. Many of these patients were then passed off to GPs, as it was believed there was very little a neurologist could do beyond diagnosis and symptomatic treatment. Because of this conventional approach, patients assumed their symptoms were completely driven by unfortunate genes. They believed decline was inevitable, that nothing could be done. The whole process was devastating for our patients and it was devastating for us.

If this sounds familiar to you, we want you to know there is hope. There is a way to prevent cognitive decline, to slow its progression and improve quality of life for those who already have a diagnosis. What conventional medicine hasnt told you or your loved ones, or any of the nearly 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK, or the 47 million people living with Alzheimers worldwide, is that within the normal life span, 90 per cent of Alzheimers cases can be prevented. This figure bears repeating: 90 per cent of grandparents, parents, husbands and wives should have been spared. Ninety per cent of people living with Alzheimers or dementia didnt have the resources or knowledge they needed to prevent this devastating disease. Ninety per cent of us can avoid ever getting Alzheimers, and for the rest of us, the 10 per cent with strong genetic risk of cognitive decline, the disease can potentially be delayed by ten to fifteen years.