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Jamieson
Health Center Newsletter
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January 7, 2010 |
Volume 2, Number 1 |
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Dear friends and patients, Happy New Year! I wish you
all a healthy, joyful and successful 2010! As your doctor, I promise to
do my best to teach you how to stay
healthy and well and live a long and healthy
life. That’s why I want to draw your attention to one of the most
dreaded diseases which also happens to be non-responsive to drugs:
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). You may think: “Why Alzheimer’s?
I’m way too young for Alzheimer’s!” That’s exactly why I want you to think
about it today: Alzheimer’s is irreversible, but with early diagnosis and
critical treatment, Alzheimer’s Disease can be slowed down or stalled. Here are a few statistics
about the disease: § AD affects about 10% of the people
between the ages 65 and 85. § AD affects 40% of the people over
the age of 85 § The brain changes characteristic of AD happen in the early 40s and 50s. § The course of AD and the rate of
decline vary from person to person § On average, patients with AD live
for 8-10 years after diagnosis, but may live as long as 20 years. § If one parent has AD, half of the
children will also have it. § In the next 50 years the rates of AD
are expected to go from 4 million people to 14 million. I urge you to take the early symptom
test and give me a call. If you show symptoms, let me help you stop the degeneration
of your brain before it is too late. Yours in good health, Dr. Samuel Jamieson, D.C. |
Avoid Alzheimer’s Disease while you still can. Take this test and identify early symptoms
of Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s is an age-related,
irreversible brain disorder that gradually erases memory, thinking and
understanding. Over time, as neurons in the brain degenerate, patients are showing
severe cognitive dysfunction, personality changes, and eventually loose
function of their body. The timing of the diagnosis
is extremely critical. When detected early, it can be slowed down. A very
easy way to identify whether you are showing early symptoms of Alzheimer’s
Disease is to take this quick test and answer the following questions
truthfully: 1. Do you have a declining loss of
visual memory? For example you can’t remember places you have been or have
difficulty finding a place you’ve been before? 2. Do you have a declining loss of
verbal memory? For example people start finishing your sentences because you
are searching for words? 3. Do you have memory lapses? For
example you have trouble focusing on what you’re saying and go all over the
place when someone asks you a question? 4. Do you have impaired creativity? 5. Do you have diminished
comprehension? 6. Do you have difficulty calculating
numbers? For example subtracting 7s starting from 100? 7. Do you have difficulty recognizing
objects and faces or people’s phone numbers? 8. Do you feel like your opinion about
yourself has changed? 9. Are you experiencing excessive
urination? 10. Are you experiencing slower mental
response? If you answered yes to 5 or
more of the above questions, you are showing early signs of Alzheimer’s Disease.
This is very serious and we strongly recommend that you set up an appointment
so we can help you stop the degeneration of your brain, and stall the
progress of Alzheimer’s. Our brain and memory
protocol, including holistic chiropractic treatments and brain supplements,
is designed to stop the inflammation in your brain. There is only a short
window of opportunity to make any changes. If left untreated, soon all the
damage to your brain will be permanent. For more information, call
our office at 408-517-0706 or visit
our website at www.jamiesonhealthcenter.com. |
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Your memory uses different brain regions. ·
Your Short-Term
memory or Working memory is used when you are learning and is engaged by the
Frontal Cortex. Symptoms like depression, procrastination, laziness, can be
caused by an underdeveloped frontal cortex. ·
The Short-To-Long-Term
Memory conversion happens in the Hippocampus. When you forget where you
parked your car, or your keys, or you can’t find a place even when you’ve
been there before, these are all symptoms of a hippocampus that is degenerating.
This is the first area affected by Alzheimer’s. · Your Long-Term Memory or Declarative Memory is engaged by the Temporal Lobe. Declarative memory is knowledge of discrete events and information that can be recalled with a conscious effort. · Procedural memory is implicit knowledge based on performance. When procedural skills and habits like driving a car or handwriting are performed, the cerebellum of the brain is engaged. |
How Alzheimer’s affects your brain. When you show early signs of
Alzheimer’s like the ones above, the hippocampus of your brain is affected. This
is where your brain is affected first. Plaque is building up, neurons die,
and this area of your brain starts to degenerate and shrinks. If not treated
appropriately, the disease will progress from the hippocampus to the frontal
cortex and then the temporal lobe. When the frontal cortex is affected, you
will start having severe learning difficulties, fall into depression, have
constant mood swings, lack motivation and drive, and slowly you will not be
able to perceive the losses you experience.
Once the temporal lobe is
affected, your long-term memory will be impaired and you will not be able to remember
names, events, places, etc. It is at this point that Western medicine
diagnoses patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and there is no treatment for it. Live a healthy life and avoid Alzheimer’s Disease. Although there is a genetic
component to Alzheimer’s Disease, many great physicians of this time believe
that genetics is only a blue print and not what determines whether or not you
will get a disease. It is how you live your life and what you expose your
body to that ultimately defines the outcome.
Therefore, my recommendations
to avoid Alzheimer’s are: ·
Stop any non-fat
diet immediately. ·
Eat a healthy
sugar-free, low-carb diet. ·
Include fats in
your diet (your brain needs fats to function, except trans-fats, which are
deadly) ·
Supplement with natural
whole food Essential Fatty Acids especially Omega-3 oils. ·
Change your
lifestyle to avoid any physical and emotional stress. ·
Get regular
exercise and daily sun exposure. ·
Live green by
not exposing yourself to unnecessary toxins. ·
Get regular
preventative holistic chiropractic treatments. ·
If you detect
early symptoms of Alzheimer’s, call us immediately. For more information, call
our office at 408-517-0706 or visit
our website at www.jamiesonhealthcenter.com |
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JAMIESON
HEALTH CENTER
Applied Kinesiology Nutrition Emotional Stress Relief Total Body Modification 1175
Saratoga Ave, Ste 8 San Jose, CA
95119 Phone
408.517.0706 Email drjamieson@sbcglobal.net We’re on the Web! |
Seminars we’ve taken. Since I want to make a difference in
your lives and that of your children, I’m constantly trying to keep up with
the latest developments in healing practices and new discoveries in the area
of alternative holistic medicine. To that end, I have attended the following
seminars and conferences over the last several months: ·
Functional
Neurology for the Primary Care Provider ·
Neurotransmitters
and Brain ·
Applied Brain
Concepts ·
Practical Blood
Chemistry ·
The
Thyroid-Brain–Immuno Connection ·
Restoring
Gastrointestinal Health ·
Restorative
Endocrinology: Balancing Female Hormones in Menopausal Women ·
Restorative
Endocrinology: Balancing Hormones in Cycling Women ·
The Impacts of
Estrogen on the NeuroEndocrine-Immune Axis ·
Restorative
Endocrinology: Balancing Male Hormones ·
Advanced
Nutrition Therapeutics for Addictions and OCD |
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