How Insulin Resistance DESTROYS Your Brain & Causes ALZHEIMER'S / DEMENTIA! | Ben Bikman

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  @HeleneLouise · 5 years ago

  My mother suddenly developed dementia last year.  She also had several problems that I didn't associate with dementia, like losing her balance, and trouble swallowing.  During the holidays she went completely off the rails, and it suddenly occurred to me that her condition became much worse after the sugary holiday meals.  She and I both now are on the ketogenic diet.  Her improvement has been astonishing.  Besides coming back from dementia, she is no longer falling or having trouble swallowing.  She stopped hallucinating and is fairly well oriented.  She says she's been sleeping better in addition.  I thought she was going to have to go to a nursing home.  I've even been saying that our whole nation, young and old, is cognitively impaired because of the sugar levels in most diets.

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  @Spice-doc-1 · 4 years ago

  I’m a neurologist and I can attest to poor metabolic health in patients with dementia. Rarely, I see healthy individuals encountering DM.  Clinical docs- if you’re watching this. Please advise your patients accordingly. No one talks to patients about good basic nutrition. Where are we without good nutrition.  I think we need to have Bickman, Berry, Ali,  and a few others, need to perform grand rounds in various hospitals and educate us “uneducated” physicians.

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  @heathermylan3741 · 5 years ago

  I am 63 year old woman. I started ketogenic diet because of severe short term memory loss.  After 2 years that problem has disapeared but also I have gone from size 18 dress size to 10. Stopped my antideprsents which I took from the age of 35. Cut down my Lamotrogine medication from 200mg to 50mg a day with the intension of stopping it soon.  I am living proof that ketones are needed for a healthy brain.  Thankyou Ben for your work and thankyou Dhru for getting info out.

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  @Its_Mine-z10y · 4 years ago

  My dad was getting confused, angry, forgetful... Wanted to leave and walk without objective. I started cooking everything in coconut oil. It was refined so it didn't have the smell nor taste of coconut. By the 6th month he was totally fine. At 92 years old, too!

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  @lairdde · 2 years ago

  OMG! Thank you for helping me understand this! I have been diagnosed with early mild cognitive impairment at 58 years ago. Nobody at the Memory Clinic EVER suggested that I could control my insulin to prevent further decline! Thank you for your information 🙏 !

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  @BLACK-AUTUMN-MAGICK · 3 years ago (edited)

  I don't eat grains, I don't eat anything out of a box with a bar code on it...  I only eat whole foods...  cruciferous veg, leafy greens, real whole vegetables, fish, eggs, only whole meats (rarely red meats no processed meats), I don't drink anything but water, occasionally some chicken...  Been this way since 2017....  Never felt better in my life...  lost over 100 pounds...  I can fast for days easily without getting hungry much...  There was a time when I would become restless and uncomfortable by missing one meal...  I've always been told that the discomfort and hunger during a fast is because of a sugar addiction...  I don't even eat fruits, because of the fructose...  It's so much easier to concentrate when you sleep well and don't eat sugar...  There's nothing like fasting and meditation to clear your mind, and sharpen your awareness...  People who sell products with high fructose corn syrup should be incarcerated.  I would sooner smoke crack, consume high fructose corn syrup!!!  That's my health story, and I'm sticking to it!!!

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  @DF-ee8vt · 5 years ago

  This discussion is pure gold.  This is absolutely central to chronic disease of almost every kind.  If people took this information to heart, we wouldn't be going broke paying for health care!

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  @carlenekingery2246 · 5 years ago

  I’ve had these extreme blood glucose drops throughout childhood. I also had a very unhealthy, sugar heavy diet throughout childhood. Over the last 8 months I’ve switched to a keto diet to try to get healthy in my early 60’s, hoping to reduce my risk of dementia as it is in my genes. Thank You Dr. Ben B. for your videos that bring research-based information to the world!

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  @cookinthekitchen · 3 years ago

  Insulin resistance seems like such an important medical aspect since it leads to so many diseases

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  @robinengland5799 · 5 years ago

  I so appreciate Ben Bikman  and his immense knowledge and dedication to helping people. I think that I most admire his kindness and respect for people, even if they don't agree with him. A fine person.

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  @deborahsturgeonfci1628 · 5 years ago

  At <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P10Nlwp_us&amp;t=2580">43:00</a><br>1. Changing to a ketogenic diet to keep your insulin low. &nbsp;<br>2. Controlling Stress at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P10Nlwp_us&amp;t=2430">40:30</a><br>3. Controlling Inflammation &nbsp;at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P10Nlwp_us&amp;t=2460">41:00</a>-43<br><br>At <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P10Nlwp_us&amp;t=2390">39:50</a><br>Too much insulin causes insulin resistance. &nbsp;Keto diet controls insulin resistance, yet they also explained it also provides the ketones the brain needs. &nbsp;At <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P10Nlwp_us&amp;t=1185">19:45</a> ketones essential to the brain. &nbsp;Fasting or ketone diet create more ketones that are immediately utilized in the brain at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P10Nlwp_us&amp;t=1200">20:00</a>.<br><br>At <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P10Nlwp_us&amp;t=2240">37:20</a><br>The current &quot;processed american diet&quot; loaded with carbs and sugars has created insulin resistance. &nbsp;This began when they changed us over to a low fat high carb diet in the 90&apos;s. &nbsp;<br><br>At <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P10Nlwp_us&amp;t=1845">30:45</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P10Nlwp_us&amp;t=2040">34:00</a>. Insulin resistance is the common thread with fatty liver, infertility and cognitive decline. &nbsp;Address the insulin resistance instead of medicate the symptoms at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P10Nlwp_us&amp;t=2040">34:00</a>.<br><br>Indicators of insulin resistance <br>at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P10Nlwp_us&amp;t=2100">35:00</a><br>1. Belly Fat<br>2. PCOS<br>3. Fatty Liver Disease

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  @philipmyron8451 · 5 years ago

  Excellent review. &nbsp;There are a few noncommunicable diseases plaguing modern society that can&apos;t be be prevented, cured or at least greatly ameliorated through a combination of intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets. &nbsp;Unfortunately food processing and diabetes management are some of the most profitable sectors of the economy. &nbsp;It took me more than 20 years of cardiology practice before I fully recognized diabetes to be a completely preventable and often curable condition rather than the chronic, progressive disease it had been marketed to me as from medical school through my first 15 years of practice. The most satisfying part of my job used to be unblocking coronary arteries. &nbsp;Now it is taking people off of their diabetic and antihypertensive medications using the only medicine that actually cures...Real Food!

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