Prominent Alzheimer’s Video Sends Mixed Messages

Alzheimer’s disease, the devastating brain disorder, takes away your mind and your independence. Next to cancer, Alzheimer’s is the most-feared illness in America and with good reason: By 2040, as many as half of all seniors who reach 85 will have it.

To raise awareness and inform, HBO worked with the NIH, Alzheimer’s spokesperson – Maria Shriver, and many scientific teams to create The Alzheimer’s Project, which includes documentary video.

Regrettably, the project conveys compromised messages. For example, consider this video segment, featuring an overweight scientist talking about Alzheimer’s risks: The Connection between Insulin and Alzheimer’s.

 

She discusses obesity and explains her MEAL study, comparing people who eat a horrible diet to a group that’s considered healthy. If LivingTheCRWay members ate the “healthy” diet that she recommends, our glucose levels would skyrocket, along with our Alzheimer’s risk. Since, Alzheimer’s risk increases with obesity, high glucose levels and insulin resistance, what kind of message does this spokesperson convey?

We recently served breakfast to a reporter, who visited the CR Way Longevity Center. His glucose started a bit too high, at a fasting level around 98. After eating a CR Way very-complex-carbohydrate breakfast of sprouted grain bread, almond butter, hulled barley, fruit, and nuts – his glucose actually declined to an extraordinary 86.

This demonstrates dramatically how a truly low-GI diet can substantially lower glucose, as well as, Alzheimer’s risk. Now you may be able to measure your Alzheimer’s risk by looking at retinal health.

Find out more by looking at the following resources:

Eyes Predict Alzheimer’s and Rate of Aging

Optical Coherence Tomography as a Rate-of-Aging Gauge

And attend the upcoming Expert teleconferences:

 

Wednesday, November 5, 7:30 PM (ET)

Dr. Michael Patella, Vice President of Clinical Affairs, Carl Zeiss Meditech

Open to Full Contributing Members

Focus: Interpreting your Eye/Rate-of-Aging Tests

 

Monday, November 10, 7:30 pm (ET)

Joel S. Schuman, MD, FACS, Eye & Ear Foundation Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology,  University of Pittsburgh

Open to Full Contributing Members

Focus: Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Ocular Aging, and Glaucoma

 

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