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Strong links to low-fat diets and Alzheimer’s. I tend to believe that obesity, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s are all linked to low-fat. A minister in the UK health ministry said the UK should apologize for its now debunked and harmful advice to lower fat intake and increase consumption of “fat-free” foods.

Strong links to low-fat diets and Alzheimer’s. I tend to believe that obesity, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s are all linked to low-fat. A minister in the UK health ministry said the UK should apologize for its now debunked and harmful advice to lower fat intake and increase consumption of “fat-free” foods.

Yes, FreedomNotSafety -- Low carb High Fat way of eating improves a wide range of "western diseases" and Alzheimers may be one. Some call Alzheimer's "type 3 diabetes". Brain-cell insulin-resistance. Time will tell, in the meantime, I love my LCHF!

My wife’s family grew up eating fats
Still get Alzheimers

Strong links to low-fat diets and Alzheimer’s. I tend to believe that obesity, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s are all linked to low-fat. A minister in the UK health ministry said the UK should apologize for its now debunked and harmful advice to lower fat intake and increase consumption of “fat-free” foods.

Agreed. Low fat and high carbohydrate diets are the primary cause of metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is the precursor to Type II Diabetes and brain insulin disregulation.

Insulin disregulation is damaging at the cellular level and leaves to increased cysteine and iron binding in the brain. This also results in damage to the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB). Insulin resistance also disrupts the pyruvate cycle.

Alzheimer's is not a disease that occurs over a short period of time, but takes decades of damage before the onset of symptoms. The low fat high carbohydrate diet is the cause of the degenerative metabolic disorder that spans decades.

A better treatment than a simple pill, is to control if not reverse the insulin resistance with a low carbohydrate (VLC) or ketogenic diet. The diet should include median chain fatty acids (MCFAs) with a few supplements that are proven to remove iron and repair the BBB. MCFAs are found in coconut and palm oils. Coconut oil is not strictly and MCFA (60%), however it is shelf stable and provides sufficient nutrition to feed the diseased brain. MCFAs do not require the pyruvate cycle, but move from the stomach to portal vein and the liver. Once in the blood stream, the MCFAs enter the brain within the carnitine shuttle. This is a two step process versus 27 steps in the pyruvate cycle.

Two primary supplements are available and have been shown to stop and reverse some of the damage. One is Pantethine and the other is a special formulation of Curcumin (LongVida) being studied by UCLA. Pantethine is rapidly hydrolyzed (in digestion) to pantothenic acid and Cysteamine. Cysteamine crosses the BBB and binds the excess iron in the brain. Pantothenic acid has been indicated as a BBB repair agent. Curcumin blocks and reduces plaque formation as a host of other inflammatory responses.

We are on the cusp of a rapidly growing epidemic induced by government interference and junk dietary science. Recently our "government science" has doubled down on low fat diets and prescription of Statins (that is an entire different and horrifying subject). This will lead to far worse disease states in the general US population.