Don Colbert - Dr. Colberts Healthy Brain Zone: Reverse Memory Loss and Reduce Your Risk of Dementia and Alzheimers

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DR. COLBERTS HEALTHY BRAIN ZONE by Don Colbert, MD

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For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

2 TIMOIHY 1:7

THIS BOOK IS dedicated to my mother, Kitty Colbert, and my father, Don Colbert Sr., who both battled Alzheimers disease. My father died of Alzheimers disease and pneumonia at age eighty.

He started having mild memory problems and confusion in his mid- to late forties. My sister and I remember when he drove us to the University of Mississippi and other towns in Mississippi and how he would become confused with directions and get turned around.

In his fifties he became even more confused as his memory deteriorated. Once he visited my home when I was newly married, and he tried to organize my garage and my house, but he stacked boxes and stuff in a corner, with the boxes too high, where they could all topple over. It was disorganized and haphazard.

He then started layering his clothing and would ask the same questions repeatedly. His memory worsened in his sixties, and my mother put him in a daytime Alzheimers care center. He then became paranoid and would hide things from my mother, including money and valuables.

By seventy he had to be admitted to a full-time Alzheimers care facility. In his seventies he lost most of his communication skills, but he still loved to sing and whistle. My fathers amazing ability to whistle beautifully was one of the last functions he lost.

He would love it when my brother, Dan, would come to the nursing home and play the piano. My father would sing and rock back and forth on his heels as he sang with all his heart. He especially loved the old hymns.

His condition continued to deteriorate, and eventually he could not communicate at all. Shortly before he died, I introduced my then infant grandson, Braden, to his great-grandfather. My fathers eyes lit up initially but then went back to their blank stare. He didnt comprehend who Braden was.

Shortly after that, he died of pneumonia. That was in 2009, and I had been searching for years for the answers, but there was no medicine or combination of medications that would stop the progression of Alzheimers.

Since that time, Dale Bredesen, MD, a world-renowned neurologist, has found that Alzheimers disease can be prevented and, in many cases, reversed if diagnosed and treated soon enough. He claims there are thirty-six metabolic factors that, if imbalanced, can trigger downsizing of the brain.

My mother developed mild dementia a few years ago that is most likely due to type 2 diabetes, which she has had for more than thirty years. She worked full time at a bank until she was eighty-two. Her brain was very sharp.

I started her on a good nutritional program years ago, and even though she has a sweet tooth and still eats some sugar, the program has improved her condition dramatically. She had some setbacks or temporary worsening of her memory, such as when she had hip surgery and received general anesthesia and again when she had COVID-19. However, I was able to give her the appropriate supplements that got her through these issues. My mother is now eighty-seven years old and going strong. She is not lacking for any conversation.

I pray this book will give you the road map to protect your brain or slow, manage, stop, or reverse Alzheimers and dementia.

YOU NEED TO know that Alzheimers and dementia do not have to be the end of the road. Also, because there is an amyloid precursor protein (APP) switch that turns these diseases on, it stands to reason that there is an APP switch that turns them off. (Read more on APP in chapter 4.) Here are some positive things to keep in mind as you read this book:

• Just as things progress downward, things can turn around and progress upward.
• Symptoms that show up can many times be reversed and go away.
• Ground that has been lost can usually be gained back.

Ive seen all this and more happen with hundreds of my patients. Patients with mild to moderate Alzheimers and dementia have improved, gotten their jobs back, driven again, and even been in remission with the disease. And even patients with severe Alzheimers and dementia have seen improvement in their memory and health.

In the pages that follow, you will find a proven and effective pathway to many times fix the underlying problems that cause Alzheimers and dementia. The best course of action is always preventive, and the second-best is treating it immediately. Dont wait until next year.

Bottom line: there is hope, which is something we all need.