Alzheimer's Disease: What If There Was a Cure? by Mary T. Newport

Alzheimer's Disease: What If There Was a Cure?

Mary T. Newport
478 pages
Basic Health
Apr 2013
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In this second edition Dr. Newport, a neonatal practitioner, continues the story of Steve's progress and provides the most recent research on such topics as possible causes of Alzheimer's due to the herpes simplex virus and nitrosamine substances and how infection, inflammation and genetic makeup may affect an individual's response to fatty acid therapy.
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This is a must read by everyone. Mary Newport's story is of her husband's early onset of Alzheimer's disease which progressed very rapidly to a point where his end was apparent, He was in his mid 50's when this happened. Dr. Newport, however, couldn't just sit by and watch him disintigrate. She did something about it, by researching the WEB and learning about any therapys that were being developed. As she learned more, she chanced on a site that told of a ketone regimine that was showing promise. She knew that ketones were manufactured in the body naturally by the liver's transforming medium chain fatty chains into ketones which then traveled to all parts of the body and to the brain, displacing the use of sugars in the cells and mitochondria. Mary knew that coconut oil is mostly made of medium chains fatty acids and decided to give her husband the oil in his foods. The results were literally miraculous, as here husband's Alzheimer's symptoms lessened and he came back from the brink of complete breakdown. In a second part of the book, Dr. Newport tells of her efforts to tell the world of this discovery, giving the experiences of her own husband and those of many others who also benefited. The last part of the book is to much of the research being done on causes and treatments of Alzheimer's using ketone therapy, and also research on possible causes of the diseas - the misunderstanding of the whole carbohydrate and fat debate and how our modern society of de-natured foods and the eating of low-fat diets, along with eating large amounts of processed sugars is likely the cause of a number of modern diseases of the brain and body. This book was the clincher for me, as my mother and sister both had Alzheimer's. They both were treated for high cholesterol for many years, probably with statin drugs, which research now shows destroys brain cells and is probably a main cause of brain diseases. I have started taking coconut oil daily, along with cutting out all processed c...

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Pages 478
Publisher Basic Health
Published 2013
Readers 3