A recorded Functional Medicine Update (Jan–Apr 2015) led by Jeffrey Bland, PhD, presenting a four-expert series on functional neurology. Speakers emphasize that personalized interventions (diet, lifestyle, exercise, environment) can be more powerful than current drugs for Alzheimer’s and neurodegeneration. The program highlights recent March 2015 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition studies showing cognitive benefits from cocoa flavanols (chocolate), flavonoid-rich orange juice, and green tea catechin (epigallocatechin gallate) in MS and memory outcomes.
Chapters
Functional Medicine Update January through April 2015.
What an incredible opportunity we had to.
Capture some of the world's leading experts in functional neurology and get their opinions as it relates to the specifics of.
Diet, lifestyle, exercise and environment's impact upon neurological functioning.
And the message that came through, routinely.
Categorically through all four of our experts.
Was that these characteristics, these principles that lead to a personalized intervention are more.
Powerful than any drug that we have.
Available today for the treatment of Alzheimer's.
A really powerful concept.
So be it.
Either Dr. David Perlmutter, Dr. Dale Bredesen, Dr. Morris or Dr. Jaeka are four.
Experts that really brought their opinions from both a research and clinical perspective. It was a powerful takeaway of the.
Advantage that these concepts that we have.
Described in Functional Medicine Update now for.
34 years really are starting to be.
Proven correct in the clinical setting.
And that was further augmented by an.
Incredible series of four papers that appeared recently in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in the March 2015 issue.
The first paper was one that dealt.
With an interesting topic. In fact, the editorial file says Cocoa Flavonoids and Cognition Regarding chocolate in old age. Should people be eating chocolate flavonoids, flavanols as it relates to improving their cognitive function. So this was a controlled study done in Italy looking at memory and recall over a course of several months of a placebo controlled intervention with cocoa flavanols and what they found was demonstrably and statistically significant improvement in short term memory.
Recall based upon the consumption of these.
Neuro hormetic phytochemicals found in cocoa. A really powerful example of the role.
That these substances have in improving neurological function.
And then a companion paper that was.
Published in the same issue of the journal. In this case it's looking at the effects of various types of catechins that.
Are found in orange juice and the.
Effect on cognition again showing memory recall improvement. This was the chronic consumption of flavonoid rich orange juice associated with cognitive benefits in an eight week randomized placebo controlled trial. And then if that were not enough.
There'S a third trial looking at the.
Role of epigallocatechin gallate, the flavanol or the catechin like substance that's found in green tea and its effect upon relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis showing an improvement in neurologic function in Ms.
Individuals and lowered relapse rate.
These are extraordinary examples of what were described by our four clinicians in Functional Medicine Update as to this advancing science that's supporting that lifestyle, diet, exercise and environmental modulation are the principal tools that will really start to beat back the rising tide of neurodegeneration and provide a real path towards not only improving the prevention of these particular conditions, but actually leading to their remediation in early stage.
An extraordinary chapter in in the development.
Of our field and chronicled in our.
Functional Medicine Update Specific series on Functional Neurology January through April of 2015.
