Timothy Smith - Reversing Alzheimers: How to Prevent Dementia and Revitalize Your Brain

Praise for Reversing Alzheimers

It is the dawn of the era of treatable Alzheimers and pre-Alzheimersafter more than a century of failure, reports are appearing documenting success after success. Reversing Alzheimers by Dr. Timothy Smith provides clear explanations of the disease mechanisms and a practical, useful approach to combat this scourge. I recommend this book wholeheartedly.

Dale Bredesen, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller The End of Alzheimers

Alzheimers is a dreaded and increasingly common diagnosis for millions of people and their families every year. Drawing on the most recent research and clinical applications, Dr. Smith provides an evidence-based, practical, and effective guide for individuals to prevent and even reverse early-stage neuropsychological disorders. His book is an optimistic blend of science and hope.

Kenneth R. Pelletier, PhD, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UC San Francisco School of Medicine, and author of Change Your Genes, Change Your Life

Alzheimers and dementia are often optional! About half the people diagnosed with Alzheimers dont even have it. They have other treatable conditions that are being missed. Meanwhile, research shows that metabolic factors have a profound impact on cognitive function, as well as Alzheimers risk and severity. Sadly, physicians are simply not taught about this research. This book will empower you to help you and your loved ones recover!

Jacob Teitelbaum MD, author of From Fatigued to Fantastic!

As someone working daily with cognitively impaired individuals and seeing great results, I can vouch for Dr. Timothy Smiths approach! He provides a powerful, practical, easy-to-follow road map to both prevention and reversal of Alzheimers disease! Highly recommended!

Ann Hathaway, MD, functional medicine physician, Bredesen Protocol researcher, and Director, Orthomolecular Health Medicine Board

The best health book I have read in years. Dr. Smith describes the neurodegenerative process in an easy-to-understand way. Dementia is not inevitable, and Reversing Alzheimers proves that.

Stephen Langer, MD, author of Solved: The Riddle of Illness

Utilizing the latest research, Dr. Smith reveals the real causes of Alzheimers and helps each of us create a personalized, comprehensive treatment program to ensure that our own central nervous systemincluding our brainachieves and stays in optimal condition.

Kani Comstock, author of Journey into Love

REVERSING
ALZHEIMERS

How to Prevent Dementia
and Revitalize Your Brain

Timothy J. Smith, MD

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Copyright 2021 by Timothy J. Smith, MD

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Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Smith, Timothy J., author.

Title: Reversing Alzheimers : how to prevent dementia and revitalize your brain / Timothy J. Smith, MD

Description: Includes bibliographical references and index. | Graton, CA: Hidden Path Publishers, 2020.

Identifiers: LCCN: 2020910412 | ISBN: 978-1-7350480-2-4

Subjects: LCSH Alzheimers disease--Prevention. | Alzheimers disease--Treatment. | Alzheimers disease--Research. | Alzheimers disease--Nutritional aspects. | Alzheimers disease--Physiological aspects. | Integrative medicine. | BISAC HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Alzheimers & Dementia | MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine.

Classification: LCC RC523.2 .S625 2020 | DDC 616.8/311--dc23

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This book is dedicated to Elizabeth Foote-Smith, my amazing motherand to each and every Alzheimers patient the world over, their families, and their caregivers.

Alois Alzheimer (18641915).
The original of this portrait is kept in the historical library of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany.

A s a physician, I have witnessed the horrors of Alzheimers countless times. The disease killed my mother and three of her four siblings. Watching my patients and loved ones slip into confusion and forgetfulness is dreadfulthe mental memory slates of their minds gradually and systematically wiped clean, including even their own identities. Perhaps more frightening is their inability to care for themselves and protect themselves from danger.

My mother, Elizabeth Foote-Smith, was an intelligent and accomplished womana college professor, author, researcher, musician, and artist. But despite her exceptional brain, Mom ended up completely dementedslumped in a wheelchair in a nursing home, her brain riddled with damageincapable of understanding who or where she was. No words can express how sad this is. I believe that if we knew twenty years ago what we know today, her Alzheimers probably could have been prevented.

Mom maintained an enviable level of physical and cognitive health through her seventies and early eighties, writing books and research papers, maintaining an active social life, managing a household with two dogs, and exercising every day. Mom was always feisty, but as she moved into her mideighties, she became withdrawn, irritable, paranoid, cantankerous, and argumentative; shed quibble over trivialities. She started misplacing things and forgetting names.

Searching for answers, I turned to the dementia literature. After all, about a hundred years had passed since Alois Alzheimer, MD, published the first accounts of the disease named after him, billions of research dollars had been spent, and thousands of researchers had generated tens of thousands of papersso I figured Id find some ideas that might help. I figured wrong. To my astonishment and disappointment, the literature pointed to no medication, no treatment of any kind, that could favorably impact the course of my mothers disease or even relieve her symptoms, and she slowly declined.