Roy was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s type dementia in 2015. His wife, Trish, explains how his cognition and demeanour improved after just 4 months on The Bredesen Protocol 12 month Alzheimer’s Reversal Program. Maria, a dedicated community advisor for Alzheimer’s Northland in New Zealand, explains this is the first time she has seen someone with dementia get better. Roy officially began the program November 2016. To learn more about this Protocol, click on How Is This Possible?
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The protective response causes APP (Amyloid Precursor Protein, the long molecule that protrudes from neurons) to be cut into four fragments, including amyloid-beta, that downsize the neural network and eventually destroy synapses and neurons. When the APP molecule is cut into those four pieces, it is not cut into the two pieces that nourish and maintain synapses.
Alzheimer's disease is a state of the brain in which there is an imbalance between the reorganization of synapses that have outlived their usefulness (and which the brain can stand to lose - healthy destruction) and the maintenance or creation of existing and new synapses (which the brain needs to sustain old memories and form new ones, as well as perform other cognitive functions). That imbalance comes from too many of the synapse- and neuron-destroying quartet of molecules snipped from APP and too few of the synapse- and neuron-sustaining duo of molecules snipped from APP.