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This three minute video introduces the Alzheimer's LifePlan, and an invitation to participate in the ending of Alzheimer's disease as have known it.

Now you and your loved ones can -  establish a baseline of memory fitness while they are healthy, open a dialogue with your doctors, and launch a vigil - testing memory fitness going forward for early cognitive health impairment. 

HOW TO FREE Memory Fitness Test

(2009 Update) My parents (91/90) are alive as well - living independently in a comfortable assisted living community. On mom's 91st birthday, she scored a 100% on a 26 image memory fitness test - and retired as the poster girl of the EATF 2012 project. Dad took his last memory fitness test on his 89th birthday - scoring 100% on his normal 16 image test. He doesn't like having anything to do with computers - so he does daily mental exercises. The EATF2012 has rolled all of its operations into the Alzheimer's LifePlan - promoting free memory fitness testing to online citizens.

(2006 Update) My parents (88/87) are living with Alzheimer's - meaning they have adopted the lifestyle habits that Dr. J. Wesson Ashford prescribes - and they have outlived all other family members (statistically people over 85 have a 50% chance of developing the disease - and my parents remain in the 50%  with no evidence of the disease developing), and longer than any of their ancestors (many of whom passed with dementia or Alzheimer's). My parents were also the first people over 80 years of age to participate in the Alzheimer's LifePlan personal memory fitness testing and vital fitness sign record keeping program.

 


 

The majority of Alzheimer's cases can be prevented and significant breakthroughs have all ready occurred - research is closing in on effective treatments while you are reading this.

There isn't a cure, yet. But there are reasons to hope in the next three to five years - we'll end Alzheimer's as we know it by the end of 2012.

Nothing to buy, to gain access to the information, memory testing, or research communities connected with the Alzheimer's LifePlan and the Memory Fitness Testing Center. There are however two very valuable services offered that make if much easier for you to manage your personal Alzheimer's Prevention program, and, always an invitation for you to contribute to the Dr. J. Wesson Asford's - Medafile.com work being done in clinical memory assessment.

Let's get started,

  • Alzheimer's is preventable.
  • Memory testing can identify the earliest onset of the disease process.
  • FDA approved drugs can slow the disease process - if they are administered in early Alzheimer's disease stages.
  • Inexpensive Memory Fitness Testing can effectively illustrate an individual Short-Term Memory and Learning capacity - making it possible for an individual's baseline (normal) memory fitness rating to be monitored.
  • Expensive brain imaging can monitor healthy brains as well as document disease development or response to treatment, even produce videos.
  • The Alzheimer's Vaccine, is in clinical trials, has all ready provided evidence that the disease process can be reversed - growing a new science - Immunotherapy. 
  • The Alzheimer's LifePlan offers the population free access to up-to-date information and research programs, free memory fitness testing, participation within an online community to usher in the end of Alzheimer's in 2012.
  • To support the truth behind these statements - you will find detailed information, interviews, video programs, articles and Neurological research data/events/seminaries the results of my personal quest to help my parents prevent their developing of Alzheimer's disease within this web page and those linked to it.

This web page is not aimed at teasing you with "cures" - there aren't any for Alzheimer's. Neither is this web page trying to sell you anything except knowledge and personal Alzheimer's prevention. If you want to establish your personal Alzheimer's Prevention memory fitness and vital sign record management account - after you have read this page and understand the value of these things - click on the "JOIN" buttons in the left hand margin or the "By Now" button at the end (bottom) of this page. There will be a $10 a year membership charge and this will keep you account active through 2012.

This web page is a story with two primary story lines. The first line follows my family and the effects Alzheimer's has had on past generations as well as my parent's. The second line matches my parent's lives to the efforts of doctors, scientists, researchers, technologists and care givers - whose collective efforts, make it possible for the population to end Alzheimer's as we know it by the end of 2012.

I produced the entire web page, and had the help of several individuals. If you read the complete presentation here, you will meet the people who helped unfold the mysteries of Alzheimer's while they helped write the ending chapters for the disease.

Even though I lived through the telling of this story - I am still excited and often overwhelmed with pride. The caliber of people I have had the pleasure to meet, produce communication for, get to know and in several cases, become fast friends united in cause- are second to none, and rank highest in my life experiences. The other special reward for studying my parent's anti-Alzheimer's lifestyle was that I got to assist them in calming their fears regarding the disease. You see both of my parents are over 85, and that means half of their peers either have/had the disease or will develop it in the near future. Neither of my parents have mild cognitive impairment, and they test their memory fitness every ninety days. If in the event they show the early stages of Alzheimer's, they will swiftly implement their personal treatment strategies. In short, these lovely people who have had dementia and Alzheimer's take their parents, siblings and friends - know they have lived longer than any passing before - and don't have symptoms now. This is peace of mind regarding Alzheimer's, and I wish it upon you and your families.

You will come to respect and admire them as well, and I thank you for taking to time to learn about the incredible journeys they have endured for yours and  our loved ones sake.

The Premise

If enough people adopt healthy lifestyle habits, exercise and monitor their memory fitness, and develop aggressive Alzheimer's treatment strategies with their doctors - we could reduce the number of Alzheimer's cases 60-90% - and as new treatments are developed - move towards the day that people live normally with Alzheimer's disease.

Read as much of this web page as you care to, follow my investigative reporting project that led me to the leading Alzheimer's doctors, researchers, technologists and brain/memory specialists - and hear their conclusion - you can  reduce your chances of ever developing Alzheimer's disease. You can also monitor your memory fitness - watching for mild cognitive impairment - the early signature memory loss of Alzheimer's.

Any individual at risk, should attempt to diagnose mild cognitive impairment as early in the disease process as possible - because, FDA approved treatments (drugs) slow the disease process - prolonging the individual's memory fitness and cognitive health.

Reducing your chances of developing the disease, and prolonging your memory fitness are important, because Immunotherapy, the Alzheimer's Vaccine has produced the first evidence that an inoculation can reverse the disease process. This isn't a cure, but it is a major breakthrough and raises the hope that within three to five years from now (2005) there will be effective treatments that at least prevent the damage to the short term memory and learning centers of the brain from developing.

I've researched all of this and produced articles/audio/video reports so the experts can address you directly. I've built the entire web page to assist you in helping older family members, who may not be comfortable using a computer, actually enjoy testing their memory as well as keeping track of their memory fitness and vital sign records.

I've also connected the Alzheimer's LifePlan project with the Neurological Disease Foundation's Memory Assessment Program (MAP) - a critical research project that measures the validity of memory testing in Alzheimer's disease diagnosis and treatment response.

Nothing is sold here and you are encouraged to make full use of those goods/services offered.

Where to begin? Right here.

Alzheimer's disease has mystified and terrified the population for 100 years. Working together, we can change that. 

  • You can read a summary eBook - Alzheimer's Prevention - where the medical star of Memory Testing and Prevention, Dr. J. Wesson Ashford, PhD., MD., shares the worth of over 25 years in pursuit of ending Alzheimer's.
  • I'll show you how SGI graphic brain scanning technology and the UCLA Neuroimaging School of Medicine have joined forces and allowed the production of the first animated film of living brains  being devastated by the Alzheimer's disease process.
  • I'll take you to Medafile.com, the site Dr. J. Wesson Ashford PhD., MD., has offered information about prevention and research supporting the validity of memory fitness testing as a diagnostic and treatment response monitoring technology.
  • We'll train you so you can take free memory fitness tests - introducing you to a memory fitness testing service ($10/year) that allows you to establish a record of tests taken - creating your baseline or normal rating of brain's ability to form recent memories. Any reduction in your memory capability is a serious matter - and you should discuss further testing to determine what the problem is - it may not be Alzheimer's.
  • I'll introduce you to Dr. Dale Schenk, PhD., the brilliant neuroscientist who developed the Alzheimer's Vaccine - which has produced the first evidence the disease process can be reversed.
  • We'll invite you to freely monitor the Alzheimer's LifePlan's progress in taking personal Alzheimer's Prevention management services to the online population, radio and television networks, community centers and Neurological Disease Foundation research community activities.
  • I will also offer you a Memory Fitness Testing Account - $10/year. Giving you:
     
    • Unlimited access to your personal memory fitness testing center/record.
    • Unlimited access to the news/archives/online events in which The Alzheimer's LifePlan participates/produces.
    • Limited access to Dr. J. Wesson Ashford's Medafile online consultation.
    • and more.....

The optional service we charge for:

1.  The $10.00 a year memory fitness monitoring service

There are only two points where you will have the option to make payment for something.

There is a memory testing service - which offers you free memory fitness testing - and if you choose, you can establish a personal memory fitness testing record system ($10.00/year). The value here is that your free test results are not stored in your personal account - meaning your results are mixed in with any and all visitors to the free testing site. You can of course enter the area when ever you like, record your test results on your desktop or on paper, still monitoring your normal memory fitness. Our goal is to assist you in monitoring your memory fitness - the personal record system makes it easier and provides additional access to Dr. Ashford's memory testing development group as well as participation in future Neurological Disease Foundation research projects. 

Members establish their personal data accounts, where they have unlimited access to a version of Dr. Ashford's clinical mild cognitive impairment screening memory testing platform. There will be ample introduction to memory testing and the memory fitness testing center, if you are anxious to go right to it - you can read the tutorial on how to take your free test here. Please note that the public testing platform is identical to the $10/year service - the difference is that the service allows you to establish an account with the testing center - so the system holds you test results and can presents a graphic representation of your baseline (history) of tests, all the data from each test, and the ability to "throttle" the number of images, length of exposure, sets of images taken in individual tests.

Today - Begin Living With Alzheimer's disease......

Right now:

  1. Researchers and doctors promote PREVENTION as the best treatment.

  2. You can test your short term memory and learning performance capacity, and monitor your baseline memory fitness - watching for loss of ability to form memory of recent events.

  3. Should you develop any reduction in memory, your doctors can test for mild cognitive impairment (the early signature of Alzheimer's disease).

  4. There are FDA approved drug treatments, which slow the disease process - if they are administered properly and as early as possible in the mild cognitive impairment stage of  disease progress.

  5. Great progress has been made in treatment development - The Alzheimer's Vaccine has produced the first documented reversal of the disease process in human clinical trials.

  6. A number of clinical trials in progress now, ranging from prevention treatment evaluation, memory testing validation, treatment development (pharmaceutical), and effective diagnostic methodology - promise more effective treatments within 3-5 years.

  7. Modern technology in brain imaging can precisely monitor tissue health, disease process, treatment response and recovery.

Summary:

Individuals can develop their personal Alzheimer's management programs, where they adopt healthy lifestyle habits (prevention), monitor for any memory disorder (memory fitness testing), develop strategic/aggressive treatment programs with their doctors, and live as active a physical/mental live as they can.

That's what the Alzheimer's LifePlan will empower you to do.
 

Paul D. Costa                    
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The Family  .  .  .

Both sides of my family has been ravaged by dementia and Alzheimer's. In the early days of my Alzheimer's research and continuing to this day, senior members of both sides of the family are institutionalized with the disease. This short film contains 8mm footage that I shoot in my boyhood, many of these ancestors fell to Alzheimer's.

The Alzheimer's disease process is still not completely understood, and prior to 2000, the diagnosis of the disease was difficult and often inaccurate. People just developed forgetfulness, accelerated senility, dementia, or the disease process went undiagnosed all together. The disease consistently robbed individuals of a dignified death.

2000  Met the Parents.....

The strongest motive behind the Alzheimer's LifePlan was to understand how my parents could reduce their chances of developing Alzheimer's disease. My parents were over 80 years old (2000) when they expressed concern for each others memory fitness. Both of my parents have lost parents and siblings to Alzheimer's disease, and they were living in fear.

Today (2005) they are 87 (Mom) and 86 (Dad), both have lived longer than any other family member - and neither of them have any signs of mild cognitive impairment - the early signature memory loss pattern in the Alzheimer's disease process.

The primary reason I have presented this web page to you, is to empower you to make the same kind of statement regarding your personal Alzheimer's situation. Let me share with you how I developed the Alzheimer's LifePlan, and how you can greatly reduce your chances of developing the disease process. I offer you free testing of your memory fitness, and the ability to monitor research and treatment development.  There isn't a cure yet -  but you can adopt effective treatments and with your doctors can:

  • Increase your chances of preventing Alzheimer's.
  • Test your short term memory and learning performance capacity establishing a baseline record.
  • Screen for mild cognitive impairment and identify the disease process at an early stage.
  • At early stages - speed FDA approved drugs that slow the disease process.
  • Monitor and track treatment response.
  • Make effective treatments available as these are FDA approved.

For 100 years, Alzheimer's was not treatable. Today, prevention is recognized as the best treatment.

For 100 years, Alzheimer's was diagnosed at autopsy. Today, memory testing and brain imaging provide vivid - allowing researchers and doctors. Dr. Ashford reported to the American Psychiatric Association's 2003 Annual Convention that his clinical memory testing platform was showing high probability of early detection of the mild cognitive impairment condition - perhaps five to eight years prior to the memory loss being apparent to family members. That is significant when you consider:

  • Anyone adopting healthy lifestyles like those Dr. Ashford suggests could slow, alter or reverse the slow the disease progress.
  • The FDA inhibitor drug treatments slow the disease progress.
  • If those people who will develop Alzheimer's in the next three to five years could prolong their memory fitness for three years - one third of the $125 billion expense of the disease could be saved.
  • If people slow or even arrest the disease process in the pre-mild cognitive impairment stages - they could prevent the disease from ever destroying their memory centers, thus living with Alzheimer's.

For 100 years, Alzheimer's was thought to be transferred within genetics - it is but not to the extent once feared. Doctors now know that less than 5% of the population carries the genetic condition of Alzheimer's disease. There are a number of these individuals being studied right now - trying to determine if the onset of their Alzheimer's disease process can be prevented. It is too early to tell, but several of these individuals are living longer then their ancestors. These individuals are also involved in clinical trials to see if the approved FDA treatments can slow or prevent the mild cognitive impairment area of the disease to develop.

Since 2000, I have been on a personal quest to understand the Alzheimer's disease process, learn how to test short term memory fitness (the ability for an individual to form memories from recent events - like what they had for breakfast), produce up-to-the-minute video programs containing interviews with the leading doctors, researchers, brain imaging technologists, and treatment developers.

Ironically, my work in television made it possible for me to pioneer Internet Broadcasting - that activity put me in contact with the leading eCommerce and enterprise (online community/business operations) owners. I will be giving you more details later - but Dr. Ted Langley, PhD., the lead scientist/developer of the Bowles/Langley alertness and memory fitness testing platform, introduced me to Dr. J. Wesson Ashford. Dr. Ashford agreed to interview my parents and review their lifestyle habits. This activity set the stage for the End Alzheimer's 2012 Task Force.

The Family 2002

In 2002, the End Alzheimer's 2012 Task Force had finished construction what is now the Alzheimer's LifePlan. My parents were the first "poster kids" of the LifePlan and by the time this video was produced - understood how their lifestyle habits were in large part responsible for them being as clear of mild cognitive impairment. The video picks up where the 1953-2000 video left off. Presenting the beginning of their ten year Alzheimer's LifePlan program. 

I'm hoping that many of you are like myself, concerned about their parents and in a position to assist them in developing their personal; Alzheimer's prevention programs. If your parents are like mine - they wanted nothing to do with the Internet, or computers, much less than becoming active in an online interactive community!

I promise not to put your parents in the limelight, without their permission.

Alzheimer's Research from Microscope to 3D Imaging

Few people realize that Dr. Alzheimer in 1906, relied upon a technological marvel of his day - the microscope - to confirm there were plaques and tangles causing devastation to the learning centers of disease patients. He (Dr. Alzheimer), developed memory tests for a series of patients that evidenced accelerated senility - later at autopsy (with the microscope) he documented that memory reduction had occurred in a sequential manner - and the plaques and tangles were in the exact physical location of the short term memory and learning functions were centered.

Dr. Alzheimer was only able to confirm his theory at autopsy and with the microscope. In the 100 years that followed, legions of researchers, scientists, doctors and technologist have continued to monitor the Alzheimer's disease process - and the majority of this research has centered upon the very same substances that Dr. Alzheimer's identified. There is a protein based compound in all healthy brains - a beta amyloid - that is the primary compound of the Alzheimer's process plaque.

In the 100 years since Dr. Alzheimer's correct diagnosis of the disease - we now know that the disease process is extremely complex, has many chemical mechanics running in a number of places. But, the one clear indicator that remains, and drives the most apparent symptom of the disease process is the excessive levels of plaque in the short term memory centers - those areas that allow an individual to form recent memories.

There have recently been tremendous progress in Alzheimer's research. Remember that doctors, scientists and medical researchers have been studying the brain, genetics, memory and cognitive reasoning/learning functions, body/disease chemistry, and treatment development and monitoring for response to treatment - for a hundred years. 

In the 1990's, several large technology companies allocated research development towards better brain imaging. In regards to Alzheimer's, this effort promised doctors and researchers physical proof and images of the disease process in living brains. The progress made here literally presents a picture of the brain's condition at precise points of time in the disease process. Doctors can "image" the consistent pattern of mild cognitive impairment all the way through to advanced stages (brain damage) of the disease.

Dr. Paul Thompson, PhD.
UCLA Neuroimaging Lab

We'll be talking more about the importance of brain imaging later, but I wanted to introduce Dr. Paul Thompson, PhD. to you - and let him explain how the powerful SGI Super Computers provide valuable imaging of the disease process, and how these images will play a vital role in ending Alzheimer's.

For a complete transcript of my visit with Dr. Thompson, click here.

Dr. Thompson's Press Room, click here.

Brain Imaging and the Role It Plays In Ending Alzheimer's

Most of Alzheimer's research has been conducted by individual doctors, or medical researchers - not only working in isolation, but often working with little or no funding.

When a researchers needs to "see" how or if a brain is diseased or responding to a treatment - there is a need for some form of physical evidence. Just as Dr. Alzheimer's used the microscope in 1906 to document the damages caused by the disease process- today's scientists and doctors can use powerful imaging technology to view three dimensional living brains - making it possible to monitor the disease process as well as identify treatment response in "real" time. 

As I was not entrenched in any medical research camp - I approached individual camps to see how their specific progress matched up. When I visited Dr. Thompson, living brain imaging was available, expensive, and yet to be a common medical clinic practice.

Dr. Thompson observed that great progress was now possible at the research center level - but there remained a great void between individuals in the population, the doctors in clinics, and the research labs developing treatments. He was one of the first researchers I met with that actually put the progress being made into perspective - looking at how all the disciplines of treatment development would form some sort of interactive community - where those individuals at the highest risk could be assisted in developing personal Alzheimer's Prevention programs, monitoring their individual physical and mental. health, gain as early a detection of the disease process developing, and rapidly employ as an aggressive treatment program as doctor's were able to deliver.

It makes sense. If members of the population can see what Alzheimer's is, and they are told how they can prevent it or at the very least reduce their chances of developing the disease - the number of cases developing would decline.

Alzheimer's The Movie

Dr. Alzheimer would have been amazed if he could see this short animated film - created from brain images of living/diseased Alzheimer's patients - all participating in a study that imaged the group's brains over a two year period.

The animated film shows the path of destruction the disease from mild cognitive impairment to complete withering of the brain - documenting the complete process.

This kind of physical monitoring of living brains - is proving itself invaluable - as researchers now have methods to accurately diagnosis the disease process, identify the precise condition of the diseased brain, monitor for response to treatments and/or track recovery. The days of speculation or waiting until autopsy to confirm theories if over - today feedback is vivid and accurate.

The Path Towards Alzheimer's Awareness - The Alzheimer's Association

For decades, the Alzheimer's Association has provided support, information, local programs, care giver support, and raised more funds for Alzheimer's related research than any other private organization. To say the association is an institution is an understatement.

My search for information and historical data about Alzheimer's took me to the Northern California/Nevada Alzheimer's Association in Mountain View, California. Since 1987 Bill Fisher has headed up organization of all concerned about Alzheimer's in this region. He has seen the complete turn over of doctors and research professionals who early on, thought it was pointless to even diagnose the Alzheimer's disease condition - for fear it would just agitate people.

Today, Bill fisher works with the leading team of doctors, including Dr. J. Wesson Ashford, to take the good news about Alzheimer's detection and treatment development to the people of his area.

The Alzheimer's Association Leads Funding For Alzheimer's Awareness/Research Projects

Like the millions before me that were dumbfounded about Alzheimer's - I sought out the Northern California/Nevada Alzheimer's Association.

I met with Mr. Bill Fisher, CEO of the Northern California/Nevada Alzheimer's Association, and heard first hand what his group is doing to promote Alzheimer's awareness and prevention.

Traditionally, the association has provided support groups, information, some organized community and patient/care giving programs - when there was nothing else.

The Alzheimer's Nation and Evolution of Alzheimer's Prevention

In 2000, the global Alzheimer's research community agreed that the majority of Alzheimer's cases were preventable. There is a significant amount of evidence (accumulated from research projects for other diseases) that an individual adopting healthy lifestyle habits can greatly reduce their chances of developing the Alzheimer's disease process.

Upon closer examination of the evidence, people will be quick to see that the individual should be reducing their chances of developing any disease - they make sense.

Since 1985, Dr J. Wesson Ashford has promoted that Alzheimer's is preventable, and he maintains a web page promoting his "Top 10 Treatments" at www.medafile.com.  I encourage you to review Dr. Ashford's web page - as he is one of the leading influences in public awareness of the memory testing, diagnostic, and treatment response monitoring section of the neuroscience industry.

Dr. Ashford's research promotes that lifestyle habits can greatly reduce an individual's chances of developing the AD process. He point out that researchers are now debating the degree of reduction a lifestyle of prevention can produce. The debate seems to settle on somewhere between 60% to 90%! I say a 10% reduction is enough to save $11 Billion dollars a year and 250,000 lives in America. 

Alzheimer's has robbed me of family members, and as I write this my last remaining Aunt is in a Nursing home, depleted of the money my Uncle and she worked so hard to accumulate, in advanced stages of Alzheimer's.

When my parents turned 80, that was 1998, I had a talk with my mother. Mom was frightened that she would develop Alzheimer's (her mother had passed with Alzheimer's at the age of 81), and she was afraid that Dad already had the early memory loss problems (Dad's father passed with Alzheimer's at the age of 79). Mom didn't know what to do, even after talking with her doctors about dementia and Alzheimer's disease. There was little I could do or say to ease her concern.

 Alzheimer's Prevention Program and Dr. Ashford's Medafile

 

Hearing Dr. Ashford Speak of His Personal Alzheimer's Prevention Plan....

Many doctors follow rigid physical/mental fitness programs, take vitamins and supplements, and frequently consult with their peers regarding Alzheimer's prevention.

Here, Dr. Ashford comments about the events in his career that led him to pursue better clinical understandings of the disease as well as the development of accurate memory assessment and memory fitness monitoring programs.

In 1985, Dr. J. Wesson Ashford, through what has now become Medafile, began promoting lifestyle and self administered treatments that would greatly reduce an individual's chances of developing the Alzheimer's disease.

Dr. Ashford and much of his work in memory testing is highlighted throughout the Alzheimer's LifePlan spaces. This is due primarily to the role memory testing plays in monitoring your memory fitness - on the watch for mild cognitive impairment.

But when I started studying Alzheimer's, I instinctively sought out doctors, researchers, care givers and treatment development scientists - who promoted prevention.

Dr. Ashford has been consistent over the years to promote what he calls his "Top Ten" treatments. These change as time goes by, primarily in response to new findings.

Below, is the condensed version of Dr. Ashford's current top ten treatments as they appear at Medafile:

THE TOP TEN TREATMENTS
(under development)
FOR PREVENTING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
J. Wesson Ashford, M.D., Ph.D. (April, 2005)

  1. Take your blood pressure regularly and be sure that the systolic pressure is always less than 130.
  2. Watch your cholesterol; if your cholesterol is elevated (above 200), talk to your clinician about appropriate treatment. Consider “statin” medications and be sure your cholesterol is fully controlled. Increase your dietary intake of omega-3-fatty acids (eat deep-sea finned fish at least 3 times per week) and nuts (especially almonds).
  3. Exercise your body, mind, and spirit regularly. Physical exercise best 10-30 mins after each meal for 10-30 minutes, 3 times per day. Do aerobic and strengthening exercises. Maximize your education. If you have spare time, do mental puzzles (like crossword puzzles). Stay active with your friends and in your community.
  4. Physically protect your brain. Wear your car seat-belt. Wear a helmet when you are riding a bicycle or participating in any activity where you might hit your head. Work to decrease your fall risk through physical exercise, making your environment safe.
  5. Decrease your risk of type II diabetes. Monitor your fasting blood sugar yearly. Keep your BMI (Basal Metabolic Index) in the optimal range (19-25):
    -------- BMI = 703 * weight (pounds) / height (inches) squared --------
    To optimize your BMI, control your food intake and exercise. If you have diabetes, make sure that your blood sugar is optimally controlled.
  6. Consult your clinician about your pains (treat arthritis with ibuprofen, sulindac, or indomethacin).
  7. Take your vitamins daily (folate - 400mcg, B12 - 25mcg, C - 250 mg, and E - 200iu's). Check with your clinician yearly to be sure your homocysteine levels are not high and you have no signs of B12 deficiency
  1. Discuss sex-hormone replacement therapy with your clinician (such therapy is not currently recommended for Alzheimer prevention, but may be used depending on circumstances).
  2. If you have difficulty getting to sleep, consider trying 3 - 6 milligrams of melatonin at bedtime.
  3. Monitor your memory regularly. Be sure the people around you are not concerned about your memory. If you think that you have significant difficulty with your memory, talk to your clinician about further evaluation. Consider therapy with cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine.

              CLICK HERE FOR FULL DISCUSSION

    Recommendation of Vitamin Supplements

    for discussion, see: Willet WC, Stampfer MJ, What vitamins should I be taking, Doctor, NEJM, 345, 1819 (2001)

    Take at the morning meals:
    Vitamin E 200 iu's
    Vitamin C 250 mg
    Multi-vitamin (with folate 400 mcg and no iron)
     

    If approved by your clinician: 1 enteric coated baby aspirin each day.

    DIETARY RECOMMENDATIONS

    OPTIMIZE:
    Fruits - citrus, blue berries
    Vegetables - green, leafy
    Fish - deep sea, finned, oily, at least 3x/week
    Nuts - especially almonds, chocolate

    MINIMIZE:
    Animal products - Red meat (more than once per week), Dairy.

 

Did you notice # 10 ?

Monitor your memory regularly. Be sure the people around you are not concerned about your memory. If you think that you have significant difficulty with your memory, talk to your clinician about further evaluation. Consider therapy with cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine.

When I read that - it was a bombshell - because it provided the individual an opportunity to monitor their personal memory fitness - identify if any memory reduction (ability to form recent memories) was occurring - and take action if there was any indication the disease process was taking hold.

We will soon be reviewing Dr. Ashford's memory fitness testing research, introducing you to an easy way to take a personal memory test. The test will be free and is actually enjoyable - programmed so you can assist older family members who may not want to learn how to use your computer.

What Dr. Ashford's Top Ten Treatment meant to the Alzheimer's LifePlan

As you will recall, I started my Alzheimer's research, to see how my parents could prevent getting Alzheimer's. My parents were moving into their 80's as I started researching into Alzheimer's. The fact that my parent's chances of developing the disease (statistically) was over 40% (at 80) and would start exponentially climbing higher than 50% (after 85) - to me, meant that half of the aging population was doing something differently than the other half - the half that was getting the disease at the 85 years of age marker.

I hope that made sense to you?

Let me see if I can say it in simple terms....

Several of my parent's parents, brothers, sisters and friends had dementia or Alzheimer's disease and passed at a younger age than my parents had all ready reached.

Researchers and scientists, and doctors like Dr. Ashford, were promoting that environmental and lifestyle habits played an important role in an individual's personal Alzheimer's disease process development.

When I came across Dr. Ashford's Top Ten Treatments, I decided to compare my parent's lifestyle habits to the "treatments" Dr. Ashford had described. I found that my parents were living a lifestyle very close to what Dr. Ashford had recommended. 

Setting the Stage for an effective personal Alzheimer's Prevention Program

Living a lifestyle like the the one that Dr. Ashford prescribed, my parents appeared to be on an "anti-Alzheimer's" drive. But how could I determine that factually? It would be one thing to say their apparent physical health was proof they were protecting themselves from all disease - including Alzheimer's - but so many people institutionalized in Nursing Homes are physically just as healthy as my parents (at least in the early and middle stages of AD).

But, the logic was straightforward. People aging well, with strong physical fitness, healthy diets, low stress and low blood pressure, and higher education (with continued learning) - develop fewer cases of Alzheimer's and live longer lives than those who do not integrate these things into their lifestyles.

So, the concept was developed that my parents would become the "poster kids" for the first Personal Alzheimer's Prevention Program and that program would be developed into a public service to assist the population in preventing their personal cases of Alzheimer's from developing.

It appeared my parents had developed a lifestyle very similar to that which Dr. Ashford prescribed to reduce their chances of developing Alzheimer's disease. When I asked Dr. Ashford about this, he stated that there was a lack of research in this specific area - meaning that most information supporting prevention of Alzheimer's came about as a side effect of other research. For instance, in a sleep disorder research project- a group of senior citizens was given Melatonin to assist in them getting eight hours of sleep a night. It turned out that follow-up research on these seniors indicated that they developed 30% less Alzheimer's cases than their general population group.  It is really a significant factor, but not backed by substantial or dedicated research efforts.

Being a self motivated business organizer, I felt compelled to launch a task force to initiate Alzheimer's Prevention research.

The End Alzheimer's 2012 Task Force


This early video press release...marked the beginning of the Alzheimer's LifePlan program

Everyone involved in the Alzheimer's LifePlan, were first introduced to one another in an online community - the End Alzheimer's 2012 Task Force.

Through a series of weekly meetings membership grew as did the plan to distribute up-to-the-minute Alzheimer's news/information to the population, promote free memory fitness testing, organize an online research project - which would feed the Neurological Disease Foundation's research efforts.

In the early days of organization, the task force spent a fair amount of time, reviewing the findings of each participant, then searching online for any similar activities. Universally, there was a real shortage of researchers working on this problem.

Mining into the research community deeper, we found that those individuals working on brain imaging, memory testing, diet/lifestyle treatment (prevention), pharmaceutical and treatment technologies - were operating few and far between the industry.

In 2002, the task force had completed building what is now the Alzheimer's LifePlan Memory Fitness Testing Center and was ready to "go public" with a focus group phase of prevention promotion.

Let's revisit the Memory Testing areas - so you'll know how to test your memory, or that of someone you care about.

The Focus Turns To Prevention

Dr. Ashford tells of early observations that motivated him as a young doctor. As a young doctor, he observed the devastating Alzheimer's disease process.

He is now a leader in the memory testing and memory disorder diagnostic industry - an activist, freely promoting memory fitness records as vital sign medical records - knowing such monitoring of memory fitness would provide better early detection of Alzheimer's.

Dr. Ashford predicts that as many as 100,000 individuals in the San Francisco Bay area alone, all ready have Alzheimer's - and for the most part, these individual cases will not be detected until the disease process is well into the mild cognitive impairment stages. This costs the individuals valuable time of health as well as the most advantageous time to administer pharmaceutical treatments that may slow the onset of mild cognitive impairment stages.

Essential to Ending Alzheimer's is the public's awareness of:

Memory Fitness Testing

Researchers suggest that over half of the Alzheimer's cases go undetected through the early mild cognitive impairment stages. This is costing America and the families of Alzheimer's disease billions of dollars each year as well as tragic loss of quality living.

This is tragic and doesn't have to continue. Healthy individuals can easily test their memories, and over time create a record of their brain's ability to form recent memories - successfully recalling them when tested.  It turns out that the brain is our most resilient organ - and it has an almost endless capacity for learning. But, if you don't use it - you'll lose it!

NOTE: If you get nothing else from this web page. Please visit our memory testing center, read the tutorials there and take the free memory fitness tests. When you log-in to the testing center - use

User name: GUEST and Password: GUEST

That will enter you into the free public access test. This is an area for any visitor to acquaint themselves with short term memory testing as well as the personal memory fitness testing services offered at the site. For $10 a year, you can establish you personal memory fitness testing record account - also gain access to Dr. J. Ashford's testing programs being used in clinical applications. It will cost you nothing to review all the content at the testing center, take unlimited memory fitness tests, and monitor new information/service reports that come from the center.

 

How You Can Monitor Your Memory Fitness

Dr. Ashford presents practical memory testing as an Alzheimer's prevention tool.

With the FDA approved drug treatments being most effective at slowing the disease process - in the mild cognitive impairment stages of the Alzheimer's - isn't it essential that individual's establish their normal memory fitness and watch for any reduction in their ability to form recent memories?

This video will introduce you to the memory fitness testing center - where you can test your memory fitness for free - or gain your personal record account for $10/year; the test shown here is also similar to the personal memory fitness test used in the Alzheimer's LifePlan Membership accounts ($50/one time) where your vital signs, prevention program objectives, memory fitness testing results, and participation in online community activities are recorded. 


 

The Role of Prevention Is Defined

Dr. Ashford, holds the unique position of understanding the memory fitness of individuals, and how the early stages of Alzheimer's disease effect the memory fitness - prior to the mild cognitive impairment stages develop.

His concept and hope is that individuals can maintain a record of their memory fitness, establishing a baseline of their "normal" ability to form recent memories - and monitor this memory fitness level for any reduction in their learning capacity.

Meeting Dr. Ted Langley and Taking Dr. Ashford's Testing Platform To the Public

In 2000, I helped produce the live satellite coverage of the WYSIWYG Film festival, from San Francisco. Working on the crew was a very bright individual lending a hand in building the custom lighting system I had designed. This individual turned out to be Dr. Ted Langley, PhD in Neurophysiology. Ted overheard me talking about the Internet Broadcasting Network and several of the online web page networks I manage. He asked for an audience and when we got together, he introduced me to his partner, Henry Bowles, together the principals of Bowles-Langley Technology

In our first meeting, Ted and Henry showed me the Alertness Testing device that they had received a patent on. They wanted to review how testing people's alertness and/or ability to operate heavy equipment or work long shifts could be monitored through an online service - which is one of the strong technologies of the Internet Broadcasting Association. I really felt that the testing could be conducted over the Internet, but I felt it would be a "hard" sell and probably not offer a real advantage over on-site computer based testing centers.

In discussion of their basic testing technology, they mentioned that they had developed an effective short-term memory and learning performance testing platform with Dr. J. Wesson Ashford - and they thought that test could be an effective screening platform for mild cognitive impairment - the early signature of Alzheimer's disease.


Ted Langley, PhD (left) and Henry Bowles from Bowles-Langley Technology

       Under the direction of Henry Bowles, the group has come up with some innovative ways to evaluate shift worker's alertness, or rate the ability of an individual to function while on the job. This is very valuable in security, defense, and dangerous equipment operations. When you look at the alertness testing apparatus - it is an apparent  solution - looking for an application.

In one of our early meetings, Ted and Henry showed me a computer based short-term memory and learning capacity test. That test has changed my life. Seated at my computer, within a minute, I was captivated and drawn into a visual image matching game - then it was over. I scored 65%, because I didn't follow instructions.

I took the test again. Wait! Did I see that image in the last test or this one? Whew! I scored 100%. Then Ted asked me to take the test again - only this time we would throttle up the number of images from 26 to 40! After taking the test a half a dozen times, Ted and Henry then showed me the "My History" area - and there is was, my baseline record of memory fitness. Neat! Simple. But, I didn't see how it could be an industry.

Enter Dr. Ashford.....

     Technology has a way of evolving all by itself - but, technology in the hands of those who need it to evolve - moves it in new and accelerated directions. Ted and Henry collaborated with Dr. Wesson Ashford, MD, Ph.D. Dr. Ashford has a long history with memory testing and perhaps more one-on-one experience with patients suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's disease then most memory assessment specialists. 

  

 

        The trio made significant improvements to the methodology of testing, results compilation, storage and reporting of the original BLT test. The results - the BLT/A Short-Term memory and learning performance test platform. 

 

Enter Mr. Peck.....

     Some time went by and the iBHEALTH.net SVP of Business Development, Ron C. Peck made a presentation to me regarding the current status of doctors using the Internet for electronic medical records (EMR) and how one of our network sponsors, NovaSoft, had successfully developed a HIPAA compliant electronic medical record management service (online) for the medical industry - could this not be applied to the BLT-A Short-term memory and learning performance testing platform? 
       The general consensus was that it could - and work was begun on the programming required for such a system. Presently, the clinical treatment support and networked research project short-term meaning and performance tracking services are available to the research/care-giving communities.

 

Enter Mr. Tim Galligan.....
     By then we had all ready built an online BLT/A testing platform as a subscription service. Tim Galligan, and excellent webmaster and Cognitive Engineer, developed the specifications of a short term memory and learning performance center that could serve the population. The test was constructed from day one to be the "first-to-market", meaning this version wasn't scientific but the foundation of the testing system could be expanded and customized to meet the needs of researchers who would join us later.
 

 

Enter Mr. Geoffrey Kennedy.....

    
Shortly after Tim Galligan had programmed the population version of the testing center, it became apparent the entire platform needed tutorials, public information and reference materials - to aid in the promotion of memory testing. Mr. Geoffrey Kennedy, was placed in charge of making the original Memory Fitness Testing Center spaces. Geoffrey has also taken over re-programming of all the clinical/professional versions of the test which must be on a JAVA platform and maintain high security and reliability to meet HIPAA regulations. 


Calling Upon a Founding Sponsor, Re-Enter Mr. Mason Warner....

      Back in 1999, when the Internet Broadcasting Association
-iBA, was producing NAB 2000 and IBC 2000 Global Internet Broadcasting Demonstrations - Novasoft Systems donated several thousand dollars worth of server space and some web streaming capacity. Mason Warner, the Founder of Novasoft had shown me robust database enterprise backrooms that he had built and operated for clients. One of these was a network that connected a series of medical offices and occupational medicine clinics together. As, the test team at BLT provided specification for the population based testing platform - Novasoft provided code security and some architectural guidelines - resulting in the memory test results being compatible with all of the Novasoft data management programs. In short form - this made the test platform secure, very robust and scalable - meaning it could handle a small number of participants and quickly grow to handling larger groups on demand. 

     The testing platform was also constructed to fit into the iBHealth/Novasoft Electronic Medical Record Management system - the thought being that clinics and doctors could eventually integrate the Personal Memory Fitness/Baseline Record in with the patient's HIPAA compliant medical record management service - both being online services. So we looked at the potentials of integration - basically creating the potential for an Internet Broadcasting Network that would be dedicated to supporting individuals in the pursuit of testing their memory fitness as well as providing clinical treatment support functions. 

From Internet Broadcasting to Memory Fitness.....
 
   
    
         What started out being a an experiment in Internet Broadcasting and e-commerce has turned into something quite unique. The Trustees of the iBA and the sponsors who have made the End Alzheimer's 2012 Task Force a reality - extend an invitation to all of the medical community who can use the community, communication, business administration and research/treatment support functions made possible by this enterprise. 
          At the end of this three year process - everyone involved is now anxious to see and hear the reaction of the population and the medical/research communities. A network, dedicated to supporting the population's personal self-healing endeavor - and integration of the doctor's and care-givers support to the individual - is really something of great potential. The same network has extreme potentials to connect doctors with their patients and the research communities. The electronic medical record management and the individual memory testing and baseline record management systems alone can streamline and revolutionize the way doctors and their staff deliver higher levels of care with reduced operational expenses. 
     All of this work has been situated within the Alzheimer's LifePlan and represents a collective enterprise effort, the sponsors, affiliates and ultimately the members of the population that visit the spaces will benefit, as public awareness and professional standards are improved. You are welcome to be an observer, participant, sponsor, leader - this is a network of common grounds. We believe most disease can be prevented and promote that to the populations. We also believe that talented genius is hard at work to remove those areas of mystery that still surround disease. We are proud and happy to be one service that can appraise the individual's memory fitness, present baseline and points of reference for that individual's care givers to monitor, and to the best of our abilities, end disease where ever possible.


Mase Warner masterminded and oversees
 operations of the network's Electronic Medical Record
Management Program....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How Memory Disorder, Memory Testing
       and Alzheimer's Detection Work Today?

The value of being in a program, like the one presented above, is that over time a record of your normal ability to form recent memories can be established. The average performance level can become your "baseline" of normal memory performance. Any reduction in your ability to form short term memory suggests there could be a serious problem. If repeatedly score lower than your normal, you should consult your doctor. It isn't necessarily Alzheimer's disease - as memory loss can be caused by a wide range of things. But reduction of memory fitness is a serious thing and not to be ignored.

Your Introduction To Memory Fitness Testing

The primary goals of the Alzheimer's LifePlan include an individual's personal memory fitness monitoring. The operations can increase public awareness regarding memory, memory disorders and the vital role memory testing plays in the early diagnosis of serious disorders or disease.  These activities all can play a role in an individual's personal quest to live a healthy, disease free life. They also add the strength of community and collaboration to the industry and professionals who have built the memory testing industry and now offer services to the medical/care giving environments. 

The visitor will find direct connection with the leaders of a dynamic community. It is inevitable that memory fitness monitoring will become a standard if not required component of the average person's medical record. There is no longer a question about the importance of early cognitive function decrements and/or the reduction in short-term memory and learning performance capacities that occur - prior to more severe mental/physical disorders. As doctors become more and more familiar with the available testing procedures - some inexpensive and accessible to the online public - they should rely on these valuable tools in making assessment or screening for early signs of mild cognitive impairment. 

It is now known that reductions in a person's ability to learn and remember recent events - that is the short-term memory and learning performance capacity - occur before most ailments. Indeed, fatigue and disruptive body chemistry shifts can cause them also. In the case of degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease - mild cognitive impairment is the early signature and a critical time to detect the disease. 

Two testing services are available directly through the Memory Fitness Testing community: 

An essential part of the brain's function - that of memory.

Every second of our lives, our brain is working and administering control over our minds and bodies. Stimulation requires processing. Processing sometimes prompts the brain to generate involuntary muscle responses/commands. Sometimes there is confusion, then an answer or directive response. In the case of a learned situation, a memory is formed.

The forming of a recent memory, like how you got to this web page, is called your short term memory and learning process. It turns out that the brain wants to learn new things all the time. For those who exercise this mental muscle - there doesn't seem to be a limitation to what can be learned. Like a muscle - the more you use it the higher your performance can be. This doesn't seem to be reduced with aging either. So, the concept of forgetfulness, disorientation, and memory loss being part of getting "old" isn't really a truth  in life. It appears that "If you don't use it, you'll loose it", is an accurate statement about an individual's senior year memory fitness.

The Alzheimer's LifePlan Focus Groups

If you will recall, my brother-in-law assisted my parents in them joining the Alzheimer's LifePlan online community - which included their personal memory fitness/vital signs/ and prevention program objective record keeping account.

When I realized that many seniors where like my parents - having children or relations that could guide them through the joining and account management stages, and that online computers are popping up everywhere; I decided to find a community center that would allow me the opportunity to run a focus group for Alzheimer's LifePlan Workshops.

It was a great pleasure, and the group is still meeting after two years. A steady stream of new folks come to the monthly meetings, and all the activity has given us ample feedback for design of literature, individual Alzheimer's Prevention program management, and now a dramatic opportunity to partake in serious research - ushering in the end of Alzheimer's as we know it.

Reaching the Populations

The people that are at highest risk - are often those who have the least amount of online/Internet or computer usage skills.

While Seniors are rapidly using the features of e-mail and web page surfing - it is the Seniors that aren't using their memory and learning functions that have the highest chance of developing Alzheimer's.

The online community - Alzheimer's LifePlan - has been designed so information, free memory testing, joining the subscription/membership services - can easily be "presented" to seniors as they visit younger family member's homes.

 

Alzheimer's Research - Or The Lack Of.....


Drug and Pharmaceutical Alzheimer's Treatment Progress

For 100 years, doctors, researchers and care givers have sought a cure - or even an effective treatment - that would slow, arrest or reverse the Alzheimer's disease process. Until the end of the 20th Century, there were no FDA approved Alzheimer's treatments. Doctors like J.Wesson Ashford were instrumental in introducing treatments at the clinical level, while another group of researchers were pushing innovative treatment concepts into their laboratories.

Until the 1980's most Alzheimer's research was conducted by individual doctors or researchers, who worked in isolation and often without funds or equipment. As more and more was learned about the disease process and its relationship with a healthy body, a number of pharmaceutical treatments were developed.

There are a handful of organizations that raise funds for research, as well as conduct seminars, manage research projects, and distribute educational and/or informational programs regarding ending Alzheimer's. I have established relationships with these groups and would like you to visit with them as well. The organizations and the individuals maintaining them, in some cases compete with one another - but always unite in the common cause of ending this terrible disease.

Alzheimer's Research Forum -  This group regularly conducts seminars, debates, and publishes discussions as well as progress reports. This group collects the research and opinions from the leading neuroscience doctors, researchers, technologists and treatment development specialists - a must visit if you are interested in the latest Alzheimer's research findings.

Registered Researchers of the Alzheimer's Research Forum

Alzheimer's Education and Referral Center - This multi-facetted online collection of reports, publications, videos, is operated by National Institute on Aging and holds vast archived information as well as free booklets, regular updates on FDA approved treatments and often information about NIA funded research projects.

International Brain Research Organization - This is not only a good source of historic and generic information about Alzheimer's (brain) research - if represents a collection of schools, research projects, researchers and institutions working in Alzheimer's related fields.

Dr. J. Wesson Ashford's works within the laboratory and the clinic environments. He has seen the development of FDA approved drugs come into practice while he was developing his memory testing and mild cognitive impairment screening programs.

Alzheimer's Drug Treatments and Their Role In Early Stage Treatment

Since the 1980's doctors like Dr. Ashford, have helped make the first significant clinical and research lab breakthroughs towards effective treatments of the Alzheimer's disease condition.

Dr. Ashford reflects on the scale of personal, financial and social damages caused by Alzheimer's. All of this adds value to the tremendous effort being managed by the medical research and care giving industries. Now, with better understanding of the disease process, the brain's memory fitness functions, and effective treatment strategy, the hope that Alzheimer's can be prevented arises.

Reference page for FDA approved Treatments, click here.

Medical Doctors have traditionally (for the past 100 years) been the front line of Alzheimer's detection and treatment strategy development. Unfortunately, the doctors have had little of no access to effective Alzheimer's screening tests - and less awareness of treatments - even the FDA approved treatments.

The FDA process (clinical trials) that bring treatments from the laboratory to the doctors), are conducted under strict confidence - to protect the patients and the research/treatment development group's liability. As recently as 1999, I conducted online searches for doctors, treatments, clinics and cures for Alzheimer's - and I found several posted articles, testimonies, and clinical "treatment" centers offering more than hope to the online reader.

I tried to investigate or visit each of these promoters and only found a few that were sincere. In some cases, the promoters were little more than health and fitness zealots - promoting the truth that the right diet matched to the right physical/mental regimes - promotes health. Others were out and out misinformed promoters. I wasn't the only one checking around for an effective Alzheimer's treatment platform.

As the 2000 Stockholm Alzheimer's conference, the research and medical communities agreed to agree that the Alzheimer's disease process was accurately diagnosed by Dr. Alzheimer in 1906, and that all of the research that followed his diagnosis led to the overwhelming conclusion that Alzheimer's was a degenerative process - meaning caused by environmental and individual lifestyle elements; and that changing an at risk individual's lifestyle habits towards those that reduced that individual's chances of developing the disease (PREVENTION), was the best treatment yet developed.

Short of press releases and an occasional story leaked by the leading doctor's or their PR firms, little information trickled to the to Medical Doctors who examine individuals at risk of developing Alzheimer's.

I asked Dr. Ashford to comment on the FDA approved Alzheimer's disease treatments, and how he felt they could help end Alzheimer's.

Dr. Ashford recalls his early observations about Alzheimer's and drug treatment development...

In the past, senior family members have developed memory disorders - forgetting how they got to a room, forgetting what they had for breakfast, or what the person's name is that they just met. Often, the victim will go into a doctor's office for exam - having the doctor ask, "How are you doing? Do you have any memory problems?" Sadly, the victim can not remember he or she has a memory problem - and they feel fine answering, "I feel fine". A simple scenario that has reoccurred far too many times.

So, regular testing of your brain's ability to form recent memories should be as common as taking your blood pressure, or weighing in at the scales, or stress treadmill testing.

How can it be? How can so many people be robbed of their memory, dignity, worth and independence, and not have adequate advocacy to merit serious funding and a concentrated research effort?

There is probably a million answers to that question. From my point of view, it seemed to be a matter of awareness and money. Awareness in a global sense that Alzheimer's costs Americans $125 Billion a year - and it could be prevented if self administered treatments are promoted between the doctors and the populations.

The pharmaceutical industry uses a set of rules/guidelines and business practice disciplines - basically a handbook - when developing drugs with high financial values.

Part of these guidelines - the part that moves a drug from the clinical trials into clinics - presently constitutes a massive marketing effort on the half of the drug companies. I'm not making any judgment here -I'm simply the messenger. And, I'm reporting that companies spending/investing $200-700,000 on the developing of a new drug/treatment - have to generate their return on investment by any means available.

The FDA strictly monitors and prescribes (which is kind of ironic - the FDA prescribing practice policies to the doctors)

The Alzheimer's Vaccine and Immunotherapy

Dr. Dale Schenk, PhD.,

Comments on events leading to the development of the Alzheimer's Vaccine and the overview of continuing clinical trial research - forms Dr. Schenk's opinions regarding  Alzheimer's Treatment.

Dr. Schenk, speculated that a conditioned amount of a beta amyloid injected into the body - would call up an anti-body response - stimulating the body's immune system to remove excess a beta amyloid plaque from the body.

In clinical trials, the compound has proven to be the first treatment that modifies the disease process and produces an effective clearing of the a beta plaque compound - research continues to see how this process effects the quality of life for the patients.

The complete interview with Dr. Schenk, click here.

The first reversal of the Alzheimer's disease process - has been documented from the first human clinical trials of the Alzheimer's Vaccine compound. Over 300 Alzheimer's patients were inoculated with the Alzheimer's vaccine in clinical trials. A small percentage of them developed inflammation in the memory centers of their brains. The dosages were halted for safety reasons - but the research continues.

Now there has been published autopsy reports, from very credible doctors - providing evidence that the beta amyloid plaques were cleared from the disease brain's memory centers.

Continued research of the living patients provide evidence that the memory fitness - the patient's ability to form recent memories - either stabilized (didn't get worse) or got better!

Doctors and researchers have the first foundation to investigate further - and they are. The Neurological Disease Foundation hosted " The Great Debate" during the 2004 Neuroscience Convention in San Diego California. This one hour debate contains the Con arguments of Dr. Todd Golde, MD, PhD of the Mayo Clinic, and, the Pro sides presented by Dr. Peter Davies, PhD of Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Pathology and Neurosciences.

The convention was attended by thousands of researchers and doctors - and over three hundred of them attended the debate. I was there and produced a complete video of the activity - I urge you to show it to your doctors - and, if you are interested in hearing the best researchers in this area outline their current approach to ending Alzheimer's - you will find this fascinating.

There are still mysteries of this complex disease, but so much is know now and associated technologies like memory testing and brain imaging - researchers now have effective ways of measuring monitoring diseased as well as healthy human brains. Dr. Alzheimer and most of the researchers that followed him, had to wait for diagnosis confirmation at autopsy. We've come a long, long way.

The development of Immunetherapy has caused a revolution within the Neuroscience community. I'll try to summarize why.

  • Until recently, researchers only speculated about the role a beta amyloid played in healthy as well as diseased brains. Today, not only is the role beta amyloid plays in healthy brains understood (normal levels), the relationship between the normal levels, excessive levels and blood chemistry provide additional evidence of disease onset. 
  • When Dr. Schenk developed the Alzheimer's Vaccine theory (first in mice then moving into human trials) - there was a common assumption that the blood/brain barrier - the isolation of the brain from the circulatory system's anti-body and immunity systems) - prevented the basic immune functions within the cranial cavity (skull). The first participant (was administered the vaccine in clinical trials) to die (not from clinical trial related issues), at autopsy provided evidence the middle stage plaque deposits were cleared from the disease brain. A growing number of research projects have now duplicated Dr. Schenk's mice models - and are advancing their research towards human trials.
  • After initial inoculations, a small percentage of the over 300 patients developed inflammation - so dosage was halted - but the research continued. It was found that patients who received the vaccine, had their memory performance stabilize or get better.
  • The Alzheimer's LifePlan, Dr. Ashford, and The Neurological Disease Foundation, have joined forces and launched the Memory Assessment Project - which validate the clinical versions of Dr. Ashford's short term memory and learning performance testing platform within Alzheimer's treatment clinical trials.
  • Clearly, the mechanism of stimulating the body's anti-body/immune responses that clear the beta amyloid plaque from the short term memory forming areas of the brain - have a positive effect for the patients - and could lead to an effective treatment - not a cure - but a treatment that allows people to live normal lives with their Alzheimer's condition being managed.

Of course, the promise of promises would be that early inoculation with a safe vaccine to those at high risk of developing the Alzheimer's disease process - could prevent development of the disease in their remaining lifetime.

The Great Debate

Is Beta Amyloid the Cause of Alzheimer's Disease and Is It The Best Treatment?

 The Neurological Disease Foundation hosted " The Great Debate" during the 2004 Neuroscience Convention in San Diego California. This one hour debate contains the Con arguments of Dr. Todd Golde, MD, PhD of the Mayo Clinic, and, the Pro sides presented by Dr. Peter Davies, PhD of Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Pathology and Neurosciences.

Comments on events leading to the development of the Alzheimer's Vaccine and the overview of continuing clinical trial research - forms Dr. Schenk's opinions regarding  Alzheimer's Treatment.

The complete interview with Dr. Schenk, click here.

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he Alzheimer's LifePlan Online Memory Fitness Community

You can open a personal Memory Fitness Testing, vital sign and personal disease prevention fitness program record account when you join the LifePlan Online Community.

There is a $50 one time fee for this, and your membership will extend through 2012  - at which time we hope to open the service to all online visitors adopting the Alzheimer's Prevention programs.

Here is what Members have to work with:

  • A Personal data (profile) record - set to record the results of your memory fitness tests - which allows you a wide latitude of control over the number of images, length of exposure, and sets of images - so you can develop a "Mental Muscle Building" program - or create the right test that consistently rates your memory fitness at near 100%.
     
  • When you wish, you can produce a "Printer Friendly" report - containing all of your personal account information - even your vital signs history in graphic form. This is a perfect way to give your doctor much more information about your "normal" fitness conditions - in medical terms this is called your baseline data.
     
  • You can also print out your graphic history of memory tests results. Each test records about 250,000 pieces of information, rating your brain's performance and if you take the same test every 90 days, you will establish your normal baseline of memory performance.
     
  • You have control of your account - and can access it anytime through an online browser equipped computer - which are becoming common in community centers, libraries, public buildings, sometimes even in shopping centers.
     
  • You will have access to the internal publishing service - where all of the continuing research, video, and research community events (like the Neuroscience conferences) form the backdrop for these historic developments ending Alzheimer's.
     
  • The Alzheimer's LifePlan members will have direct access to the research projects organized by Dr. J. Wesson Ashford, MD, PhD., and those research projects.
     
  • An excellent reference and support service if you are trying to "train" your older family members to adopt healthy lifestyle habits, obtain peace of mind regarding their fears and concerns about Alzheimer's, and build a bridge between the health of those at risk and their doctors. Your membership is easily "shared" with other family members - or each member of your family can have their "private" membership - where they feel comfortable reading/viewing the content presented, and managing their own vital sign/memory testing accounts.
     
  • There is the opportunity to form online fellowship, as you meet new people, are introduced to new activities, and perhaps even craft your own Alzheimer's LifePlan affiliation - it is a good thing to share with your neighbors - right next door as well as online.

Please understand that membership (meaning paying $50) isn't necessary to have access to all the news, information, videos, articles - content - that has been produced and will continue to come from my studios.

It is far more important to me that you learn about your personal Alzheimer's risks and adopt a lifestyle that reduces your chances of developing the disease - that is my goal - and I hope your goal as well.

My wife and I funded the entire Alzheimer's LifePlan and Memory Fitness Testing Center projects, and had some very valuable help from people I have mentioned earlier.

I continue to pay for the operations and still have an obligation to pay some of those people for helping me get everything up and running. Then there is the ever-growing need for money to go towards research. On that note I am committed to helping Dr. Ashford continue his groundbreaking work in memory assessment and early Alzheimer's onset diagnosis.

Enough of the sales pitch - thanks for taking charge of your personal Alzheimer's situation - I hope I have saved your life or the life of a loved one - together we can make a difference and I greatly appreciate your efforts in ending Alzheimer's - Let's do it by the end of 2012!

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If you've made it this far - you are really interested in Alzheimer's

Thanks again for taking the time to hear my story - I consider you a friend and pray that Alzheimer's will never develop in you or your loved ones.

Visit anytime.

Paul

 

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