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So a high fat carnivore diet should help to protect one? My wife and I both carnivore for four years; we cook only with animal fat and eat an 8oz pack of butter a day between us. And going carni wd seem to have stopped my wife's "terminal" bone cancer (courtesy of the NHS, whose dreadful treatment of her breast cancer we are sure caused this metastatisation) in its tracks.

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absolutely a carnivore (and some cancer patients are put on a keto) diet is the best prevention and cure for many diseases! I am not eating a high fat carnivore way because I have fat to burn. I eat mostly high protein/moderate fat....but I play around w/ the fat amounts to break a weight loss stall. I am healing from a lifetime of carb eating and diets.

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I'm 73, carnivore at 69. Been blessed with good health all my life, and ate proper food, as it were, pre-carnivore. 6'5", 14 stone for decades. But dropped 20 lbs in 6 weeks once carnivore; visceral fat and water, I guess! So lean, very active so happy to have any fat to burn. Am on retreat at a (England) Benedictine Monastery, Buckfast Abbey, edge of Dartmoor, shortly off for my morning swim in the nearby River Dart. My wife and I got the cold water thing big time, last year 😊😊 and have a tub in the back garden. Looking 4wd to frost and breaking the ice to get in. Huge Endorphin rush and we both feel great after a dip

We all have to find what suits. I have always loved rare bloody beef, so wish I'd known about carnivore at 20, but better late than never. 73 going on 50 🙂🙂

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BRAVO!!! Like you, my husband is 73, ate pretty well but never knew that wheat was bloating him from teen years and beyond. He started bicycling to work (cycling 20 mi. a day) until he retired at 58. Started Keto with me in late 2017. His recovery time was boosted, his rides much easier, overall feels better than he did eating a high quality organic/wild/regenerative food way.

We don't cook our food in aluminum, don't have fluoride in our water and even filter our water and are very conscious of personal product, cleaning product and other products in our house for toxins. It all matters :)

Carry on my 50 yr old carnivore tribe member!

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Yes, we have a super water filter, no aluminium utensils; the farm we buy most of our meat from have been farming the same land in Somerset for over 300 years, and have wild deer meat and raw milk. Last bulk lamb we had raised by a local farmer friend in a field across the road. We are very fortunate with our food sources, and our local butcher visit all his supplier farms. All grass fed 😁

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sounds ideal. We love our food choices in Oregon. We buy 1/4 cow at least once a year...and we've had two half pigs which were delicious and a friend has a bison ranch 10 miles south of us. All pasture raised meats and local salmon, albacore tuna ( I can every summer), crab....yum!

I hate the politics of Oregon but the rural areas are not crazy so there is that.

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I'm a long time British Deadhead, so thanks to Kesey & the Pranksters, Oregon has a place in my heart. Maybe one day. Great news this morning, a Harris win wd have been a disaster for the USA,and the Western World. God Bless America!!

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I believe chelation will remove aluminum. Dr. Ana Mihalcea in Yelm Washington is the world expert on chelation. I will be taking chelation from one of her staff in 7 hours in Yelm. 88&8s,Dave

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I was chelated for a very long time as well. The side affects are remarkable. Can't even begin to list the conditions, gone. A feeling of well being, impossible to describe. You just feel healthy. Because you now are.

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The safest way to chelate aluminum from your body is drinking silica rich mineral water. For those not familiar with this, read the Substack by Dr. Exley and Dennis Crouse. Chelation therapies such as EDTA remove essential minerals from the body in addition to the Aluminum. Silica water eliminates ONLY aluminum from the body. The form of silica found in mineral water, forms, a tight bond with aluminum detoxifying it and facilitating its elimination from the body through sweat and urine.

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I’ve had my husband on a ketogenic diet for over a year. He had a stroke and has Alzheimer’s/dementia.

He will not stop drinking beer. He has slowed down, but hangs on to it. It’s breaking my heart.

I told him yesterday that I was afraid he was just gonna do it until I can’t do it anymore.

I believe it’s the beer that is interfering with his ketogenic diet. He knows it’s a neurotoxin, he know all the science. He just wants his beer.

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Beer in aluminum cans?

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I feel for you. My husband too won't stop drinking. I'd be okay with one a day...but he won't do it (but he has excellent health and bicycle rides many days a week to run errands around town). Alcohol is BAD! But...alcoholism is just like a sugar addiction.

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For some reason, folks think Beer is a benign drink, most, some, don't drink wine or hard liquor. My son shows the obvious sign of too much beer, a bloated face and a belly hard as a rock.. It's cheap and lasts longer than a bottle of booze. I worry as well, all the time.

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The reason the ketogenic diet is not working for your husband is because the keto diet is not treating the cause of Alzheimer’s. The cause of Alzheimer’s is aluminum and following a ketogenic diet treats one of the symptoms of aluminum toxicity, hypometabolism. Here is an excerpt from a write up Dennis N Crouse did on this subject. I will post a link to the full evidence based write up. Perhaps your husband can change to non alcoholic beer which can be high in silica and silica removes aluminum from the body. "Aluminum inhibits the first step of carbohydrate metabolism called glycolysis1. Inhibition of glycolysis promotes the conversion of carbohydrates to stored fats (e.g. lipogenesis)2.

· Aluminum inhibits the biosynthesis of L-carnitine3-6. L-carnitine is required for mobilizing stored fat as long chain triglycerides for mitochondrial energy production7." https://prevent-alzheimers-autism-stroke.com/2021/07/14/why-drinking-silica-water-is-an-alternative-to-following-a-keto-diet/

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He does drink beer out of aluminum cans. I think I’ll buy some non alcoholic beer in the bottle and see if that will satisfy. Yesterday he only drank about five beers. He used to drink at least a case. I feel it’s the only thing he has left that makes him feel good, or at least it feels that way to him. Thank you for the information and taking your time to respond. I really appreciate this.

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BS! Keto works...as does a carnivore way of eating because carbohydrates ARE NOT ESSENTIAL for a human diet. Essential macronutrients: amino acids - protein and fatty acids- fat....animal meat is protein w/ fat! It is in all textbooks!

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I am talking about preventing and treating Alzheimer's. In order to prevent or treat a disease you must the cause. The cause is aluminum. For Alzheimer's the Keto diet (ketones) will only provide palliative relief !

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I am too. There is no Essen carbohydrates in a human diet. The body only needs 4 grams of glucose in it at all times to be in homeostasis. The liver makes glucose by way of gluconeogenesis when the body needs it.

Therefore, anymore than 1 tsp of glucose in the body is knocking the body out of homeostasis.

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wrong!

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And no there is no scientific evidence that ONLY ALUMINUM is the cause of alzheimers

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You are incorrect. Aluminum is the primary cause of Alzheimer’s. Read unbekoming’s interview with Dennis N Crouse. Dennis has written two evidence based books proving aluminum is the cause of Alzheimer’s. In the first book, he applies Bradford Hill’s criteria of causation, and all the criteria were met for aluminum causing Alzheimer’s. In his fourth book, he uses Causal Inference and found that all of the biomarkers which have been identified for diagnosing Alzheimer’s are caused by aluminum. Here is a link to his website and I have made a 10 minute video in this regard and will post a link.https://prevent-alzheimers-autism-stroke.com/description-of-books-by-dennis-n-crouse/

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I'm not incorrect. You are. "impaired insulin signaling has an important role in the pathogenesis of AD and the proposal that AD represents “type 3 diabetes.”5" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2769828/

If you want to prove that you are correct provide studies please.

Your link.....here is the crap that is glaring! "These zones are called “blue zones”. The environment and lifestyle of these zones can potentially teach valuable lessons that may allow us to achieve healthy longevity by preventing and possibly healing diseases that can shorten our lives, such as Alzheimer’s disease,"

Bull! Another lie. This website is not studies! Sorry!!!

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Here is a link to the interview of Dennis N Crouse by unbekoming. https://open.substack.com/pub/unbekoming/p/interview-with-dennis-n-crouse-phd?r=1be2vl&utm_medium=ios

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I think a tiny piece of this puzzle may be DMSO. DMSO can stop a stroke in seconds if you rub it on the carotids when an attack first happens. It's a good idea to dab a small amount of 70% DMSO/aloe vera on your carotids (and perhaps your temples) every day as a preventive measure. It certainly has helped my cognition, which had become slightly impaired from heart issues 6 years ago. Aluminum's major impact is in collapsing zeta potential, due to its incredibly strong positive charge. DMSO improves zeta potential, though it takes much more DMSO to balance out the effects of a tiny bit of aluminum.

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I wish there was a way you could attach/include a button where the articles can be read on our site for the seeing impaired. Thank you for all of the good articles. I read what I can with my limited ability.

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So I am thinking... why not fast the Alzheimer patients? Has anyone done significant fasts with them? If it truly is type 3 diabetes, then fasting can be curative? Since it can be curative for type 2.

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A ketogenic diet is a work around for aluminum toxicity. A decreased rate of brain glucose metabolism is a biomarker of AD. Aluminum inhibits the first step of carbohydrate metabolism called glycolysis. Inhibition of glycolysis promotes the conversion of carbohydrates to stored fats (e.g. lipogenesis). ·Aluminum inhibits the biosynthesis of L-carnitine. L-carnitine is required for mobilizing stored fat as long chain triglycerides for mitochondrial energy production.

Here is an excerpt from Dennis N Crouse's Book 'Finding A Cause and Potential Cures for Alzheimer's' Rung 5 'Brain glucose metabolism as a biomarker of AD' . This excerpt explains why Alzheimer's has been called Type 3 diabetes.

"Intraperitoneal injection of aluminum chloride (8-10mg/kg/day for 30days) in rats decreases insulin secretion and causes both significant insulin resistance (i.e., type 2 diabetes) and lower GLU4 expression, reducing both GLU4 mRNA and GLU4 protein levels by 30-40% in skeletal muscle466,467. Aluminum also damages pancreatic B cell function impairing insulin secretion and may be a causal factor of type 1 diabetes466,467. Aluminum in drinking water impairs hippocampal neurogenesis resulting in hippocampal atrophy in rats, that is a diabetes-related complication468. Hippocampal atrophy is also a biomarker of AD in humans (see table 3 and 5).

Therefore, since aluminum accumulation and toxicity are involved in the etiology of AD and both types of diabetes, it is perhaps not surprising that some scientists call AD “type 3 diabetes”469,470. However, since aluminum is a causal factor of the following diseases, they are all best described as the pathology of chronic aluminum toxicity:

• Alzheimer’s Disease

• Accelerated Brain Atrophy Including Hippocampal Atrophy

• Decreased Glucose Metabolism

• Type 1 Diabetes as impaired pancreatic insulin secretion

• Type 2 Diabetes as insulin resistance and lower GLU4 expression"

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Articles like this, albeit very informative, make me crazy angry. Billions spent on research for a preventable condition. So rather than eliminating the toxic conditions that created said disease in the 1st place, they put credence in ways to cure something that should never have occurred that they deliberately installed for profit. The science has been in for at least 50 years. Chelation has been demonized for 100 years, the cure of all cures for toxicity.

It has always been the aluminum and nagalese in our diet. It has always been the low-fat, eliminate all "deadly" saturated fats, from diets. I have yet to see a truthful analysis coming from the FDA. I had a doctors chastise me like I was a child for using coconut oil and not taking a statin. I told that little puppy to read a book and learn something. In the meantime get TF out of my room. One can lose their manners in the presence of abject stupidity, which on occasion, I succumb to. A weakness I can't seem to overcome.

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Alzheimer's is called TYPE 3 Diabetes. The scientists/doctors call it that because the #1 cause of brain starvation is TOO MUCH GLUCOSE.....NOT ENOUGH FAT (animal fat). The brain is a cholesterol HOG! It contains over 30 percent cholesterol which means it NEEDS it. Just look at what hospitals serve to patients and eat the exact opposite of their "food" (potatoes, corn, peas, margarine, low fat milk, orange juice/all juices, bread, jello, pudding, cakes, Ensure, pasta, rice, sodas- regular AND diet, cereal, oatmeal, waffles, pancakes, salad dressings on their industrially grown veggies-GMO, etc....)

Aluminum for certain does not belong in the body (brain) but just stop any injections of so-called vaccines and you're already better off. But CARBOHYDRATES is the real culprit of Alzheimer's and other lifestyle diseases (diabetes, obesity, cancer, etc).

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When disease is suppressed by medications it is driven deeper into the body. The hierarchy climbs from skin to lungs then joints to heart. The brain is the deepest seat for disease.

I believe Alzheimer's is the result of a lifetime of suppressing disease with drugs. I'd go as far as saying senile dementia is an iatrogenic disease.

Cholesterol lowering drugs are a big contributor to brain shrinkage.

Crazy that this book is attempting to put the benefits of a ketogenic or carnivore diet into a pill!

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