Your Optimum Health with Dr. Edmund Chein Part 3

Sam, you.

Well, welcome back to youo Optimum Health with Dr. Edmund Chen. And I'm Jeff Harrison. And we've been talking about your optimum brain health. And this is segment three. If you haven't seen the first two, you really should go back and see this because it's unbelievable about, hey, really, what does our brain do? And then really the second part was all about 10. And we don't, you know, Dr. Chen, I don't think for the most part that we think about, well, let's test our brain. You know, we do the ABCs, we do some spelling, but there's some things we could do at any age to start checking our health. I mean, we go to the doctor and do a physical, but for our brain health. Right? And you've given us some things. And before you leave, you want to stay at the end because Dr. Chen is going to show you how to tell you how to get ahold of these specific tests that you can start doing for you or even your loved one. Now today we're going to really get to the nitty gritty, okay? Today we're going to talk about those two big well known issues, and that's Alzheimer and dementia. In the last segment you said, and this was disturbing, by 2050, if something's not done.

Half of the US 65 and old will be be dealing with this. I mean, that just blows me away. Talk to us about Alzheimer's and dementia because you said in our first piece that these are all curable now.

Yes, it's curable. That's a shame. So basically your job is to discover it. If you don't discover it, nobody can cure you. So you have to discover it. And discovering it, meaning you have to watch out for signs, symptoms. You have to do the annual test that we talked about, the one leg stand, reversing the numbers, the five words and five minute test yourself every year until your doctor does it, you know, you do it yourself. And once you find that you fail, then you want to go into causes. You go to a doctor that care about your causes. Now that's the difference between Alzheimer's and dementia, actually. They are intertwined. And.

Alzheimer's specifically applies people who have, for example, the APOE4 gene, okay, if they tested positive, okay, that's genetically prone to have Alzheimer's. Okay? So if they have dementia and have APO4 gene, then the doctors say, okay, you have Alzheimer's, whereas if you don't have the plaques, the tau protein, the amyloids in your brain, on your MRI Then they say, okay, you have dementia, but actually it's just a matter of degree. When you get bad enough, trust me, your dementia will turn into Alzheimer's. Even though you have no apple E gene, we will call you Alzheimer's when you are that severe, have plaques and amyloids and tau proteins in your brain on MRI or PET scan. So basically it's a matter of degree. So that's why I linked it together. Okay. And it's very important for you to think about yourself. Well, am I a.

High risk person? Well, let's ask your history. You know, for example, did you have meningitis? Did you have brain trauma? You know, did you have herpes simplex infection? In fact, that was surprise me to find out from the conference that herpes from Dr. Brettson that they've isolated herpes simplex virus from the Alzheimer brains.

Interesting.

Interesting. Hey, a little skin herpes simplex that I will put a little zap on it and it goes away by itself. Usually, you know, Okay, I, I got shingles. Okay, okay. No big deal. No big deal. What's the big deal? Hey, if you had shingles 10 years later, 20 years, it may go to have gone to the brain and you may have Alzheimer's. Look at your history. Go to a doctor who helps you look at the history. And also look. Are you having problem finding words? Are you having problem calculations? Were you a math genius in high school? And now you can at 2x2. Is that happening to you? And are you losing directions?

Without the gps, Google Maps you can't go anywhere.

Wait a minute. I call that my never lost.

Yeah. Is that happening to you? And it didn't happen before and it's new. Whoa. That's a sign. Okay, the next is anosmia. We call it the peanut butter smell test. You take a cup of peanut butter or a can of peanut butter, take it about 6 inches away from your nose and.

You smell one nostril and you smell the other nostril and if that's different. Oh, oh. You may have Alzheimer's dementia. May not. Alzheimer's dementia. But it picks up very early. This happens very early. Wow. You know, and then aphasia, meaning that I can't think of that word or that name. Hi. Hi. Nice meeting you. I met you 20 years ago and I can't remember your name. You.

We take that so for granted. Like.

No, no, it's not. Yes, you can take it for granted if you go into the test and you pass. That's my point.

Okay.

Go home. You forgot Somebody's name in high school reunion, go back home and do that. Those three tests you pass okay then you're all right. But if you fail do that. That's pretty easy to do that 5 seconds counter 5. One extent test you fail. Oh, if you don't fail, it's okay. Fail, not okay. You know so you basically let things alert yourself and then causes we need to go into causes. There are multiple causes. Just I mean was just mind boggling what can cause and it's combination. It's not one factor. That's why Dr. Breslin says it will never the human nature, human species will never find one drug to cure Alzheimer's. It will never happen because it's not a one cause disease.

Alzheimer's and dementia is not caused by one thing. So if it's not caused by one thing, it's not going to be one drug that cures it all. So forget the drug industry. I'm saying bye bye. If I own a pharmaceutical company, I'll change my research, get into the field. You won't succeed there. You will not have a drug. So basically what are some of the common causes we talk about Apple E4 gene genetically a predisposed so you can do 23andMe genetic tests. Oh I got that. I'm likely to get that. Okay. Or next thing is inflammation infection. Okay. Of the gut. The most common infection inflammation that people don't complain about is in the gut. So you have to go to see a doctor here and you go to and Dr. Usually have a list of symptoms and signs to ask you questions on your gut. And then from the symptoms and signs you say oh yeah, you probably have a gut problem. And then that's when you have to check your gut. And if you have inflammation or infection of gut parasites sibo small intestinal bacterial overgrowth or intestinal dysbiosis or parasites or negative bacteria too much in your colon or you have constipation, you only move out once a week. You have toxic colon period. Those are toxins. Go to where brain. Okay. So you may not be having dementia if you had normal bowel movement. If you didn't have normal bowel movement for the last 20 years, you, you can end up having dementia. Those things are important. And then also another important thing that they talked about is environmental poisons. That is another big big, big problem.

So if I live near a toxic dump or if I live.

Oh yes. And you don't even have to live in a toxic dump. That's the sad thing. Glyphosate which is a. It's an herbicide that put up by. Is on every fruit, every vegetable, because it's.

It's sprayed by the stuff we think is good for us. The apples, the oranges, the fruits.

Yeah, exactly. The more veggies you eat, if you didn't wash, well, the more you likely get poisoned by pesticides and herbicides. And check, check it, you know, the urine test. So basically, and on top of plastics, by the way, plastics, you know, and certainly chemicals, petroleum chemicals, you know, and certainly paraben, certainly parabens from the dermatologicals that we use. All of these can contribute, combined contribute to cause dementia. And then certainly do not want to miss out the heavy metals. Okay, we get heavy metals. Mercury, lead, cadmium, tin, mercury in the amalgam, you know, in the mouth.

Right.

Go to a dentist, holistic dentist, and remove that. You know.

If it's not going to cause senile dementia, it's going to cause other problems. So check heavy metals. Get rid of heavy metals. And you can get rid of heavy metals once you have them, either with the nutrition or with chelating agents like EDTA or dmsa, and you can find the doctor and chelate them and then know that, oh, I'm exposed to it, so I stay away from it. For example, I love to eat fish, but when I go to China now, I don't because the fish there are farmed, raised, and the farm has been. The water's been there for a couple hundred years, and the mercury content gets higher and higher and higher and higher. So the beautifully bred fish that they have now, that's on the market, tastes beautiful, tastes great, they serve you, but the mercury content is very high. And I've been poisoned three times already. Yeah. Coming back and be poisoned with mercury. And how did I find out? I lost my hair. I mean, my hair just came out, you know, in shower and just boom. I said, what's going on with me? You know, what's going on with me? Why do I like. I had chemo. Yes, Dr. Chen, you had chemo. What kind of chemo? Mercury chemo. You just had a mercury chemo four weeks ago. So I had to chelate. That's how I found out. I checked my hair and I found out from fish for the fish. Yes. So all of these and the nutritional deficiencies that I don't want to miss that. I mean, people just don't know. They don't know that. Oh, you know, I have to. I have to have lot.

Nutritional check. Everybody should have a nutritional Check, let's say every five years or so to see their diet, the weight of their diet. Is there anything missing? And people miss nutrition because they cook their stuff. We cook it. We cook everything. We microwave everything. And so the nutrients are killed, dead.

You can have CoQ10, for example, in your whatever fruit veggie it is, but once you microwave it, that CoQ10 is dead, gone, denatured. So you can be CoQ10 deficient, vitamin D deficient, magnesium deficient.

And glutathione deficient. And all of these nutritional deficiencies cause dementia. All you need is a little intestinal inflammation coming in. Boom, the explosion happens. So basically, finding out the causes is very important. And then once you find out the cause and you have to symptom, you have to sign, then you have to see the doctor that is good with knowledgeable about Alzheimer's or dementia and then do tests, imaging to prove it. Okay. Because it's an investment to go through the treatment program if you don't have the diagnosis. So the imaging tests are the standard golden standards. And it's mri, okay? It's called volumetric mri. Your brain shrinks, and the MRI can show that it shrunk or that three years ago it's this much and now you lost more. Your brain actually is shrinking and the size of it is seen on the mri. So MRI shows the.

Volumetric change and then there's the SPECT scans. So that's another test. Brain test. Why do I need to do specifically? No, because you want to see. Are you having perfusion problem that's making it shrink?

Okay, because when you say perfusion problems.

What do I mean? Blood vessel.

Okay. All right.

So are you having an arteriosclerosis through sticking in the artery or plaques all over your brain in addition to you have an Alzheimer problem. So you can treat that. Shrink Alzheimer. If you don't shrink the arterial sclerosis, you're not getting successful because you have no blood supply going. There. You are about to have a stroke start or ma', am, Because PET scan tells you the perfusion is coming down, meaning oxygen. It's not getting enough oxygen. Well, that means you are getting a stroke pretty soon. Gotcha. So. So people say, well, can I just. Just do one test? It's so much money. I want to do two tests. No, no. If you want to do, you know, you, you know, try to, try to. I just want you to know if you don't do it, if you don't do it, you know, you are giving up. What. What are you giving up, you're giving up another cause. They may be missed because you said.

Right away it's like, you know, Dr. Brettson in his study said there is no one cause. So there's no one drug that you can be taken. So that's why you're suggesting the multiple images. Yes, the testing.

Okay. Because this makes sense. Checks different things. Checks volume shrinking, checks perfusion. And there's a PET scan that shows the temporal local on a dialogue part of the brain that if the PET scan is positive there PET scans are radioactive, call them radioactive, but it's actually very mild radioactive test. And if it's possible, it's diagnostic of Alzheimer's. So the doctor will say you have Alzheimer's. No, no, no, Doc, I have dementia. No, you don't have dementia. You have Alzheimer's. Why? Because your amygdala shrunk or positive PET scan on the amygdala. So those are what distribute distinguish you from the dementia group. Okay. Now you got a diagnosis. You got a crown that says I have Alzheimer's now on top. Okay? So it's important to have these tests.

So that you can invest your time, money to reverse that, efforts to reverse that.

So you want to make sure that hey, this test is almost like saying, hey, just because I have a map and I want to go to Phoenix, if I take the wrong freeway, yeah, I'm not going to get there. So this, these define hey. Which where do you want to put your effort and your time and your money to reverse or eliminate and eliminate these signs of Alzheimer dimension.

Right? Exactly.

Total sense.

So basically, and on top of it, the picture gets more complicated. If you have leaky gut, leaky gut causes the toxins or the food, the beautiful food that you eat, the nice apple goes into the blood and the blood becomes. The bodies perceive these apple and these fruits as enemies antigens and form antibodies against them. And then boom, it goes to the brain, it can attack the brain and causing contributing to that. So now you need to do the food sensitivity test. Now you got to do the leaky gut, which we talked about. Check the video on. Was a very well done video on leaky gut. Go through the leaky gut. Do I have leaky gut? If I have leaky gut, it can cause dementia, Alzheimer's. Treat that. You got to treat it, you know, and heavy metals, check. Heavy metal, check. Urine. We talk about that only when you've done all of that. Now we can come to treatment. And treatment is very simple. It's just check your hormones, make sure you have hormones are optimum. If not replace them in all the nutrients that are missing from your nutritional ul, you know, and then, and then. And exercise, not.

The regular exercise that we mean by exercise. Okay. Run, jog for 10 miles. No brain exercises. There are three brain exercises that are. By the way, I want to share with the audience. I think one's called Brain Elevate. It's on iPhone. It's free Brain hq. Like IQ Brain hq Luminosity. These three are free on the iPhone. So when you have time, you can actually start training your brain. And the reason, the more you play these exercises, the connections are being made, restored cells are being born. New daughter cells are being born in your brain. That atrophy can be reversed in a new brain cells, of course, growth hormone, we talk growth hormone will make the brain cells grow back.

So all of these are part of things that you have to do.

As part of the treatment.

Are these items like, okay. I mean, we've all probably heard of luminosity where it's like, okay, yeah, train your brain. But you say this is after we've determined what's going on. Let's say, for instance, my wife comes and says, hey, Jeff, I want you to start doing luminosity because you're forgot my birthday again or whatever. And if we don't treat the symptoms, it's that same thing is we're just masking it, aren't we?

Not masking. You probably have no result. You are probably on the sue Luminosity to say, hey, your game is a fraud. Failed. No, the game is not a fraud. You have problems getting results from the test, you know, and then, and then of course, the nutrients. Very important. Getting rid of inflammation and getting all the nutrients that are necessary. Excellent. Very long list.

Yeah. Well, now, Dr. Chen, we said at the very beginning there are some tests that can be taken right at the very beginning. So if you haven't seen those yet, call Jordan now. She's in the office. Call her now. She's on the phone and she'll send you. There are several tests. Tell us what those tests are.

Well, the ones will help you out. The two. One is the five words five minutes test, which is moca. We'll send you the whole mocha. Mocha is more. Because it's more tests than just five words and five minutes. And then the other one is the reversing numbers, the reverse numbers. And basically Jordan will teach you how to have your friend or relative test.

You.

You mentioned that that could contribute to that were amazing. If you Forget that. Go back. Well, you shouldn't forget it, but go back and watch this video. And now we're going to talk about something that we, I think we've forgotten. You know, as a kid, we all did this growing up. As, you know, we're, you know, Pee Wee football, Pop Warner, this, and, you know, a lot of stuff. I mean, I can't tell. Many times I crashed on my bike. When you were talking about this earlier, I'm thinking, geez, I can't remember how many times I fell on my head on my bike. And I was in a bicycle accident when I was 13 and went through a car windshield. And so I think, geez, I can't wait to take this home and do this test and find out what's going on. I passed the 5 second balance test, by the way. But in this next one we're going to talk about what.

Well, we're going to talk about a couple of trauma. Trauma to the brain, a brain injury, because that's the next high number, traumatic brain injury, which includes cte, which is limited to football only. That term unfortunately should not be. We should put all the football under traumatic brain injury. But the CTE was discovered by the doctor who studied the NFL football, the retired ones, and found out that they have cte, Chronic traumatic encelopathy. We're going to talk about that. We're going to lump them together and lump them to a traumatic brain injury, including the soldiers that come back now from doing tours in Afghan or Iraq just by simply.

Being there, seeing the explosion going off, just, you know, just seeing it survive it, seeing it, be around it sufficient to cause traumatic brain injury. Wow. Yeah. And have personality changes and everything. I said, I think earlier I said that the treatment is never a drug. Okay? Never. It will never be a drug. But funny enough, marijuana is a treatment.

Thank goodness we live in California, folks. It's all legal.

Exactly. It is a treatment. And marijuana is a treatment for. And that's why a lot of these soldiers get on the marijuana and before they get into trouble. And judges don't understand why they go on marijuana or why they go on alcohol and all that. Because the substance abuses have to do with preventing them from going into.

Different mental states. That.

Ptsd. Yeah. Very severe depression or suicidal. The marijuana can stop those thoughts. And so. And the alcohol can and the drugs can. So that's why they go. They went into drug addiction. So we're going to talk about that next session.

I look forward to that. Dr. Chen, thank you so much and thanks for joining us on another session of youf Optimum Health with Dr. Edmund Chen. We'll see you next week.