You can sing along to your favorite song from 30 years ago without missing a single word…
But simple tasks like balancing your checkbook… or calculating the tip on the dinner bill… have become a CHORE.
You used to be SO SHARP – until the fog started to set in.
You’re not just “distracted”…
And you’re worried that something more serious could be going on.
Even if you DON’T have a family history of brain-draining diseases like Alzheimer’s, you could still be in the crosshairs.
And once your doc diagnoses you, you know what comes next.
Drugs… drugs… and MORE drugs!
Big Pharma has already invested too much time and cash into trying to develop Alzheimer’s meds – NONE of which have worked.
They’re not giving up. In fact, they’re coming up with every excuse in the book as to why they’ve all FAILED.
But here’s the kicker…
In their attempts to FIX their past mistakes, they may have STUMBLED across a non-invasive therapy – one that’s been showing some promising results.
Pharma execs are HOPING that this therapy might help their drugs actually WORK…
But it looks as though this new technique may actually work on its own, WITHOUT drugs!
The great escape
What one expert told MedPage Today really says it all: “We have a lot of great medications for treating diseases in the brain, but we cannot get the medications there.”
I don’t know how “great” any of those meds ACTUALLY are, but he’s right about one thing…
It’s not easy getting ANYTHING inside the brain.
That’s because it’s protected by what’s called the blood-brain barrier – and thank goodness it is!
The BBB keeps lots of toxins and pathogens OUT of your brain.
But it’s a double-edged sword…
Because that barrier can also BLOCK the entry of nutrients (and yes, drugs)… and TRAP toxins inside your brain!
So, what scientists have been working on is a way to try to open up the blood-brain barrier – particularly at specific sites, like the hippocampus.
And they’re doing it using low-intensity focused ultrasound.
That’s right — sound waves can ZERO IN on the part of your brain that’s CRITICAL to memory!
Researchers are excited at the prospect of helping pharmaceuticals PENETRATE the blood-brain barrier… and that removing this obstacle will suddenly allow their drugs to work their magic.
I’m not so sure about that…
But there’s ANOTHER action at work here that could DEFINITELY benefit an Alzheimer’s brain.
Once that barrier becomes a bit more porous… even for just a few hours… the immune system could PUSH toxins OUT of the brain!
I’m talking about tiny pollution particles… heavy metals like mercury… and maybe even those misfolded proteins that form “plaques” and “tangles.”
And the body could ELIMINATE them, just like any other waste product.
Researchers have observed this exact action in animal studies, where NO drugs were given to the subjects.
In a study published at the end of last yea r, Austrian researchers found that another type of ultrasound therapy — single ultrashort ultrasound pulses (transcranial pulse stimulation, TPS) – was associated with significant improvement of memory and verbal skills in older gals who received the treatment.
And afterwards, brain scans showed increased activity in the corresponding parts of their brains, including the hippocampus.
Now, the science is REALLY new here. The first patient only just received this focused ultrasound therapy in November 2018.
But this type of focused ultrasound has been successful in treating other neurodegenerative conditions, like essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease…
And with NO adverse effects.
That’s right – it can reach DEEP inside your brain, with ZERO damage to the normal tissue it passes along the way.
I’ll offer ANOTHER possibility for focused ultrasound therapy that NOBODY is talking about in the mainstream.
If it can help drugs reach the inside of your brain… it could ALSO help deliver brain-saving nutrients where they’re needed most!
And we know that crossing the blood-brain barrier is a challenge for certain compounds with larger molecules.
Or, you can CIRCUMVENT that obstacle by supplementing with a nutrient whose molecules are SO MINISCULE… they can ALREADY pass through the BBB!
I’m talking about SAFE… AFFORDABLE… and READILY AVAILABLE supplements, like…
- honokiol
- magnesium threonate
- luteolin
- fisetin
- and more.
Focused ultrasound therapy will have to go through more clinical trials to prove its effectiveness before it can actually be offered broadly to Alzheimer’s patients.
But based on what we know now, I’d like to see more researchers try it first WITHOUT drugs to see what it can do on its own!
To letting the good stuff in and the bad stuff out,
Melissa Young
