Red Herrings

Over the last 10 years or so there has been a lot of research on the three major Neuro degenerative disease leading to dementia Alzheimer’s disease, Frontotemporal dementia, and Lewy body dementia. In these three diseases the standard thinking is there are three main proteins Amyloid-is Alzheimer’s, Tau-is Frontotemporal Dementia and Synuclein- Lewy body Dementia/Parkinson’s. Treatment nowadays is leaning towards getting rid of these proteins, which we know gum up the neurons in the brain, so messages are garbled. Well, the research for the last 10 years in some of these Biochemical journals is saying here is something that they have noticed. A factor called brain derived neurotropic factor or BDNF. It regulates the nerves in the brain and the spinal cord it gives them their plasticity meaning their ability to adapt to injury or traumas. It gives the nerves the ability to regenerate or to replace brain tissue that has been lost because of a disease or an injury. BDNF, we have found has greatly diminished in people with Neuro degenerative diseases, especially these Dementia type of diseases.

Deep within the brain in an area called the hippocampus there were diminished nerve pathways. The hippocampus is involved in memory, emotions, behavior, sex hormones and the ability to learn. The researchers also noticed a reduction in BDNF in the hippocampus. Basically, you might say the very center of everything we do comes out of that hippocampus. So, what researchers did is they gave them purified BDNF and nothing happened, because BDNF cannot cross the blood brain barrier. So what they did next is to give them neural stem cells and an amazing thing happened, the stem cells made BDNF and they built new nerve pathways in the hippocampus and the memory all came back. All the tangles in the brain caused by amyloid, TAU and synuclein proteins were unaffected.

Taking this information, we took three patients with the three main types of Dementia and treated them. Average age 82 all were greatly confused, could not drive, could not be left alone.

We treated them with the neural stem cells via the vertebral vascular system. For two of them the Dementia was completely resolved in sixteen weeks. The third patient had the ability to understand and was able to speak in sentences, and things were  was greatly improved, but the short-term memory we are still working on.

Your Doctor has access to all the studies that I followed to reverse these Dementias. They will be glad to work with you and your loved ones and do the same things I have done in reversing these Dementias.

Dr. John Young, MD

(727) 545-4600, Largo, FL