Alzheimer’s. Parkinson’s. Dementia. Science Has Found a Key — And Perhaps You Can Use It to Prevent, Repair, and Restore a Broken Brain.

Classification … LONGEVITY > #ALZHEIMERS, #HOWTO, #BRAIN, #NUTRITION … (FULL-SYSTEM)
Overview …
Some breaking news of a scientific discovery lays bare the relationship between the brain’s breakdown as seen in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neuroinflammatory brain problems that rob us of clear thought, memory, and shortens our lives. We now know a key factor to prevent, repair, and restore such damaged brains back toward normal functionality. Who would choose such a damaged life for themself or their loved ones? And now the prevention and cure are available. It requires no exotic therapy, no prescriptions. A common molecule already part of the body can do the job; and we also learn turning on that switch is fairly simple.

There’s a special kind of heartbreak that hits when someone you love starts to fade away. A forgotten name. A lost moment. A look of confusion. And inside you, fear mixes with helplessness … and something like stifled rage.

And then—sometimes late into the dark—another thought creeps in.

Or … what if it’s you?

That one lands like a stone in the chest. Because once the mind begins to slip, the world tells you the same cold story: nothing can be done.

But that story just blew apart.

Because out of nowhere—boom—the scientists kicked in the door with a discovery no one saw coming. They’ve uncovered a metabolic switch—hidden in plain sight—that lets the brain clean itself, repair itself, and come back online. And the shocker? This switch isn’t exotic, or expensive, or locked behind a prescription. It’s already inside you. Waiting.

You’ll see the whole thing laid out in the video and article below. And as you keep reading, you may begin to feel the first bloom of feeling possibility — when a “broken” brain starts waking up again — calm, steady, reconnected … and becoming more of the person you love. Again.

The Discovery that Changes Everything

Today I went to my morning task, to find that everything had been cancelled, and I had the morning free, went to see what the latest news was, and this outstanding video from one of my fave health-guys was right there on MSN.

Here’s the short and simplified version:

We’ve long suspected that keto diets helped with things like weight-loss and improves several brain-issue problems, but the scientists have finally discovered a strange and unexpected explanation about how that happens.

Quick explanation: Proteins are molecules your body uses like a tool to do this or that. Proteins are molecules that can fold, and how they fold determines in large part what they can accomplish as a tool. However, in certain inhospitable environments, proteins become damaged and broken and then they fold wrong, and that wrongly shaped tool causes damage to the body.

Now it happens that some proteins can be “soluble” and some are “insoluble,” and so in some cases the body can turn a soluble broken protein into a soluble one, and that may prevent a problem. But if you get a bunch of these lying around in a heap, it can become a brand-new problem. Like investing in cannonballs because the iron is valuable (a benefit) can then make living in your home hazardous (a problem).

If I understand this science correctly, I think it says that things like amyloid plaques in the brain are exactly that kind a hazard: abnormal protein deposits in the brain, associated with Alzheimer’s, interfering with the brain’s function.

And … it turns out … that the energy molecules from the liver’s breaking down of fats—called ketones—have an unusual, and hitherto unsuspected ability to do something quite marvelous. In short, as they wander around the body, they have the ability to identify those broken proteins—not all proteins, but just the broken, mis-folded ones—and the ketone can change them from insoluble cannonballs into soluble sudsy slush that the body’s regular cleaning routines can wash away and out of the body.

And what happens to an Alzheimer’s brain when the interfering problems are washed away?

Yep. You have guessed the answer.

And that is damn good news.

Now is this 100% certain? Well, more to be done say the scientists, as always. Do we have a cure? Though we actually don’t quite know yet for absolute certain, it sure as heck looks like one to me. And it fits with thousands of maximize-lifetime studies, so not much reason to dilly-dally. So what next?

Well, just below I’m going to insert the video. It’s a bit technical, but one of Dr. Nick Norwitz’s wonderful skills is that he’s strong on science, but he has the ability to spell it out really simply.

Further, I am intentionally simplifying in this article, toward making clear what’s been found and how it works and how you can apply it, while minimizing long laboratory words. So remember this …

This scientific breakthrough doesn’t use any prescriptions, nor any corporate crap at all. Just ketones. Which your body can create. And there are three paths that you can take that turn up those ketones which, it seems, can wash away the blues.

All three of these things to do are easy. They’re fairly simple. I’ve done them all, for completely different reasons—all of these things trigger the body’s trash-removal (autophagy) and they all correlate with longer lifespan—and they’ve now become part of my life. Some people may not want to make these changes. But then, think about what most people look like, feel like, and get to experience as they get old. Think about what happens to the mind of someone who gets to experience Alzheimer’s.

That’s how simple the decision is: To investigate? Find a cure? Improve? Or not?

So after the video, I’ll cover the three ways you can get those helpful ketones, and good news—it turns out, all by chance—I’ve actually found ways to make all these things fairly easy to do.

Further down, I’ll spell out the three ketone-generating methods and refer you to the how-to info if you’d like to bulletproof your own brain, or to help the brain of someone you love.

Watch the Exact Mechanism that can Repair a Broken Brain

Dr. Nick Norwitz on Ketones and Alzheimer's (on MSN)

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Dr. Nick Norwitz on Ketones and Alzheimer's (on YouTube)

If you’re seeing these links on a printed page, or links aren’t clickable, here are the two links:
MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/dr-nick-norwitz-examines-the-new-study-on-ketones-and-brain-aging/vi-AA1KsLRI
YouTube: h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRaNzfHF_do (remove space after “h”)

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Summary of what’s in the video …

CORE MESSAGE

Dr. Nick Norwitz explains new research showing that ketones help the brain clear toxic metabolic byproducts, reduce inflammation, and slow age‑related cognitive decline.

KEY POINTS

• The brain accumulates metabolic waste as we age.

• Aging neurons lose the ability to clear damaged proteins.

• The waste-buildup triggers cognitive decline and neurogenerative diseases.

KETONES ACT AS A CLEANER-BURNING FUEL FOR THE BODY

1. When the body produces ketones (fasting, low-carb diet, exercise), the brain switches to a more-efficient energy source.

2. Ketones generate fewer oxygen-reacting, broken proteins than does glucose.

NEW STUDY FINDINGS

• Nick highlights a study that has discovered surprising new ketone abilities.

• Ketones increase cellular cleanup of damaged cells.

• Specifically, they target and remove broken proteins in the brain.

HOW AND WHY KETONES REMOVE TOXINS

• Ketones increase genes involved in detoxification.

• They improve blood-brain functions (to more easily wash away the troubles).

• They reduce inflammation of the nerves.

PRACTICAL WAYS TO RAISE KETONES

• Intermittent fasting, or whole-day fasting.

• Low-carb or ketogenic diet.

• High-intensity exercise (though I’ll show you how to make this easier).

WHO CAN BENEFIT

• Those with cognitive decline.

• Older people.

• People with insulin resistance, diabetes, pre-diabetes, or overweight.

• Anyone wanting their brain to keep on working.

HIS CLOSING MESSAGE

His closing message is to “try at least one ketone‑boosting intervention,” because even small increases in ketone availability can meaningfully support brain aging.

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Turn On the Repair Switch: Three Ways anyone can Raise Ketones

Turns out no fancy, corporate-enriching prescription is needed. In fact, corporations have profited hugely from selling you things that are helping to POISON your brain, and then they sell you pills that suppress the symptoms. Then those pills create side-effects and these same corporate cabals sell you new pills that suppress the new side-effects. It’s a great business model for them. But you are drained of cash and you die, so it’s not a good model for you.

However, you don’t need no damn pills. The answer is already built into your body. All you have to do is start fueling your body so it can wash away the problem.

It will require some changes. You’ll have to change some habits. But … you get to live.

These proposed changes are not all that difficult. I’ve actually done all three of these, though it’s almost by accident, because I did them for a very different reason. All the same, my body has dropped almost 90 pounds, back down to post-college weight, and everything my doctor can measure is better than before.

So here are the three changes to make, that can prevent, repair, and reverse the damaged proteins that are messing up brain functionality …

EAT LIKE YOUR BRAIN WANTS TO LIVE

Stop feeding the brain the stuff that’s breaking it.

Just a few generations ago, people prepared their own meals from single ingredients, because, after all, before 1890 half of all Americans lived on farms, and even after industrialization and expansion of cities, before 1955 half of all Americans still had a garden. The grocery stores mostly sold single ingredients, the produce, meats from their butcher, vegetables and fruits in cans. Not that different from a farm storing summer produce in jars and cans for the coming winter. But it changed.

Because with growing corporate control of agriculture, distribution, grocery stores, radio and television advertising, they invented more and more new “foods,” for the first time selling “convenience.” What we eat today is a highly processed mélange of food-like substances, and 95% of all products sold in grocery stores are made of a high-carb, additive-poisoned mixture of things that trick your brain, addict you, and boost corporate profits. And do these food-like substances generate ketones?

They do not.

So you have to break the chain. It’s not convenient, but “convenience” is the trap that led our nation into this health-catastrophe. Boils down to this: Give up convenience, and you can lose Alzheimer’s.

I’ll give some helpful links below, but what works?

• Avoid all poisonous fast carbs and processed junk foods.

• Eat no seed-oils, only the healthy fats (true olive oil, butter, ghee, coconut oil, lard, and tallow). Your body cloned from ancestors over a period of 200,000 years was designed to eat these healthy fats. It doesn’t work well on seed oils, many of which were actually engine lubricants till corporations sweet-talked people into eating them. This fattened corporate profits and the populace, and it directly contributed to the current health pandemic all around you. Eat meals made from single ingredients. Low on carbs. Eat clean, simple, moderate amounts of protein. Especially avoid sugary or processed foods.

• Diets and cookbooks? Try the approach given for Keto, Paleo, the Wild Diet, and others that take you off the carbs. Fastest if you completely cut out all grains, all sweets. After a bit of time, you’ll enjoy the things in your new way as much as you used to enjoy things in your old way. Except that the new ones will not kill you.

STOP FEEDING THE CLOCK: LET TIME HEAL YOU

Let time itself become your healing tool.

Again, I’ll give some helpful links at the end in the “Further Research” section, but here’s what works:

• Stop eating all day long from morning to night. Change to “Intermittent Fasting” where you eat only within a time-window, usually 6-10 hours a day. (If you’re no longer addicted to the fast carbs, this will be easier than you currently imagine.)

• Once that becomes comfortable and easy and obvious, which can take weeks or months, depending on you, try a one-day fast. (Free of carb-addiction, and out of the habit of eating every damn minute all day long, I found this surprisingly easy. Because, after all, the human body was designed to do this. That’s how our ancestors survived.)

• And—think about it—in your kitchen you have to prep food and you have to take out the garbage. If you only eat, and never take out the garbage, well, it’s not going to be very nice. And same for your body. It needs to nourish, and it needs to get rid of stuff. Time to let your body get rid of broken cells. And, in a wisely designed body with operations refined over 200,000 years, what would be a good time to move from digestion to taking out the trash? Why, when the human is not eating! So stop eating all the time, and your body will resume taking out the trash!

MOVE YOUR BODY, AWAKEN YOUR BRAIN

Move your body in ways that accelerate your brain’s repair.

Again, in the “Further Research” section, I’ll give helpful links but here’s what works:

• If you do some kind of exercise before eating in the morning, you’re off to a good start. I do. About 10 minutes of balance exercises, stretching, some tension exercises, about 16 of them. I took this up because at 82, I do still need to improve my balance, but I was surprised at how it improved my mornings.

• The number one exercise for longevity is resistance training. This can be weights, but I use heavy-duty stretchy bands, because you can fatigue muscles quickly (which triggers strength improvement) with super-low injury rates. You can also use high-intensity training, of which there are several kinds, but, again, if you compare the science to the science, those heavy-duty bands come in very nicely. Boost ketones, longevity, growth hormone (which repairs the body daily). If you’ll do some kinds of sprints, or going all out in some way, even if brief it works even better.

• Steady cardio comes in next for upping ketones, but not as effective for overall life-extension, and it takes more time to do steady cardio. I find it boring. It’s a good thing to add in my opinion, but I find that hiking up the 4-block hill back of my house does the trick and not so long that it becomes boring. :)

• Turbocharge! … Exercise on fasting days!

• After a couple years of resistance bands and hiking up the hill, I joined a local men’s group that exercise on Sunday mornings. Frankly, I just wanted to hang out with some guys because my work is solitary, and I thought the different exercise would probably be beneficial. Wow! The guy leading it, Scott Rodrigues of Stoneway Athletics in Mount Shasta, has a degree in Kinesiology, and he really knows functional movement, and so it’s different every time. Has helped with my joints, balance, endurance. Now, am I great? I am not. In fact, I wanted another dose midweek and the only class that fit my schedule was the teenager’s class. Can I keep up with them? Only very occasionally. But, by coincidence, my two days a week are high intensity training sessions hitting completely different muscle groups and training, by chance, on two fasting days! Life is good!

• Resistance training, done right, and high-intensity sessions burn up the carbs stored in muscles (called glycogen), and then your body relearns how to burn fats, and incidentally restores your ability to create ketones, which keeps your brain strong. And all at no extra charge.

BONUS: A SIMPLE JUMP-START ACCELERATOR TRICK

MCT oil, a strange fat that does occur naturally (in coconut oil) is a “Medium Chain Triglyceride” oil, and these natural fats have the trick that they burn as fats, but won’t store as fats, as can butter or bacon-fat. And, of the different MCT oils, the absolute most effective one is called M8 (also known as “caprylic acid”). It is the shortest-chain of all these “medium-chain” fats.

These medium-chain fats burn in the body quicker, convert to ketones quickly, and of all of these, M8 is the fastest to burn and creates the most ketones.

The stuff is tasteless.

I add it to my morning coffee. Studies show it jumpstarts your body toward fat-burning (and therefore ketone-creating) first thing in the morning.

And if you imagine yourself as somehow cheating by taking advantage of this odd little factoid, why, then you add the joy of piracy to your new adventure!

What Happens When the Brain Finally Gets Clean Fuel

When ketones flood in, the fog begins to lift.

Ketones give your brain cleaner energy, reduce inflammation, help with cellular cleanup, and support aging brain cells. Ketones prevent, clean up, and repair Alzheimer’s and other brain-damage problems.

Remember back to days when you, and your loved ones could think clearly, never worry, recall things easily, and none of that was an issue. None of that was a concern. Now and then, those very people may have annoyed you, but hey, that’s family and friends. It’s like, their job.

But remember how there was no worry. Brains were working.

Remember that time?

Good. That’s what happens when those ketones get in there and work and do their job. The brain starts working like it’s ‘spozed to work.

The way you want it to work.

That’s what happens.

Would you like that?

A New Reality: Repair, Clarity, and Hope

What happens when a person removes the poison from their brain, and starts fueling it with clean-burning fuel which cleans out the brain’s engine?

Look. For most folks, this is an annoying, and a wonderful thing, all at once.

On the one hand, you can regain optimum brain function, feel better, live longer, and probably slim down at the same time.

But it means you can no longer eat peach pie all day.

You have to make changes.

The changes you make will be good. You’ll like them after you make them.

But for now, thinking about those changes, you’ll probably resist them, because it’s different from what you do now. But think of this …

“All growth happens outside of your comfort zone.” — Tony Robbins

And you get to decide what your life will look like.

Regardless of any grumbles, that’s a good thing.

Try One Step. Just One. See What Happens.

Start small. Start today.

Read up, pick one thing. Do it.

Do it some more.

Start coming back.

A Quiet Goodbye … and a Brighter Beginning

Others have done this. We finally know exactly how it works and how to work it.

You probably don’t actually want to lose your brain, to feel it all slipping away.

You may even have a horror of such a thing. For your loved ones. For yourself.

Well, it’s fixable. The clear and simple road map is right here.

The door is open. Walk through it.

Further Research

How to Regain your Ideal Weight

This gives the fairly simple sequence that I stumbled upon that led to rather easily giving up addictive foods, narrowing the time of day when I ate, and then transitioning into full daylong, two-day, and three-day fasts, all without unusual effort, maintaining high energy and mood, and no particular hunger issues.

An Unusual, Strange Way to Live Longer: Caffeine, Nicotine, Creatine

This may or may not be related, but this peculiar and non-intuitive approach proven to extend longevity seems to be compatible with and possibly related to ketone production. Hundreds of studies show it does extend life, done as described here, in spite of what ya mama told you about cigarettes, but in my personal experiment, it seems to make the endorphin-release while exercising your muscles come more quickly, which I’m pretty sure is related to the chemistry that releases growth hormone to grow your muscles, and my guess is that this makes your exercise easier and your ketone production higher, either in one way, or in another. :)

Eat Sardines Five Days. Live Long Time.

Another outstanding article idea I got from Dr. Nick Norwitz. Apparently, ketones from consuming sardines—especially beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB)—do far more than provide energy when carbs are scarce. This specific ketone from sardines acts as both a brain-preferred fuel source and a powerful signaling molecule. I tried this. It’s way cool. Plus it’s weird. Always an attraction.

The Tyranny of the Taste-Bud Trap

How the corporate food-cartel enslaves you with evolution’s trick! And, as it spells out how to break free of this all-around-us situation, it just happens to spell out how to free yourself from the brain-poisoning diet which ketones can repair.

Can Exercise Prevent Alzheimer’s?

As you may by now suspect, it damn sure can. ... But that’s IF you also stop poisoning your brain with the corporate-profiting poison diet and restore your body’s natural ketones to flush away the damage.

Most-Efficient Exercise for Strength, Blood-Pressure, Longevity, and Balance

It doesn’t actually require much to be stronger and live longer! And, oddly, it turns out that the same kinds of exercise that give these benefits also turn out to be exercises that … boost ketones!

Arnold’s 20-minute Routine Using Only Dumbells

Minimal time, no trip to the gym, works in a small space. And this is the guy that knows the stuff. Muscle strength is one of the best predictors of longevity. And … you can boost ketones at home with this simple routine. Why not?

X3 Bands for Resistance Training at Home

Resistance training that builds strength is the #1 research-tested approach to increase longevity, and the X3 Band system allows you to do this effectively, and quickly, and without a trip to a gym. At home or in your office or even on while travelling. Because of how it works, it’s very difficult to injure yourself, which can be an issue with free weights. It provides whole-body exercise which is better for strength than isolated muscles on gym machines. And because of how bands change their resistance throughout the movement, you can exhaust the muscle more quickly, which is the trigger for the body repair and strength increase which give you the longevity. And so this is the fastest, safest, at-home way to get exercise ketones. (I have no financial interest in these folks; I just use their bands and they work great.)

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Want more fascinating breakthrough health and longevity from Dr. Nick Norwitz?

Visit his “StayCurious” Substack here: StayCurious METABOLISM

And if the two links to his Alzheimer’s video above aren’t clickable, here they are spelled out …
MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/dr-nick-norwitz-examines-the-new-study-on-ketones-and-brain-aging/vi-AA1KsLRI
YouTube: h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRaNzfHF_do (remove space after “h”)

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Alzheimer’s. Parkinson’s. Dementia. Science Has Found a Key.
And Perhaps You Can Use It to Prevent, Repair, and Restore a Broken Brain.

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