How to prevent & reverse dementia: Psychiatrist Kat Toups, M.D. | mbg Podcast

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I had a stroke and was diagnosed with dementia. I did the execises🎉 to regain my strength and use my brain and became normal. It was tough but with determination , it can be done, never give up.

My mother’s second husband was not functioning well, leaving cigarettes all over the house, memory bad, could not find his way home. He didn’t want to drink water and lived on coffee, soda and beer. Whenever he fell and had to go to the hospital, he could converse and understand fine, and we realized it was because he was hydrated with a drip. My friend who worked at a nursing home said the patients don’t want to drink much because they don’t want to lose control of their bladder. They mostly were just sitting in a stupor in the halls. A new girl took it upon herself to give all of them a glass of water, and a half hour later most of them were up walking around and talking, but the staff had to go chasing after the few that decided to leave out the front door.

Dr.Dale Bredesen, a researcher is also source of incredible knowledge about dementia, Azheimers and their reversal. These people who have problems must educate themselves and apply these simple rules:1. 1. Clean diet: keto recomended, no gluten 2. Everyday excercise increase BDNF: HIIT, weight training, 3. Reduce stress and increase BDNF: meditation, love someone something 4. Oral hygiene 5. Sleep 71/2 hours 6. Learn something new I would add getting a dog from a shelter, do some acts of altruism and find passion in life will not only make you live longer and healthier but will give you lots of joy and fun.

Dr. Toups: THANK YOU for mentioning hearing loss!!!! I’m a doctor of audiology & it cannot be stressed enough—our hearing connects us to PEOPLE. We NEED to hear our loved ones & our lives around us!!!! Loved this video in its entirety…..husband with recent brain injury & our ketogenic journey, which began 6 months before the accident has been one of the keys to his ongoing recovery!

I look after my mum she has parkinsons dementia and had a stroke. I try to my best to help her. I've cared 24 7 for her for 12 years.

😮 Why isn’t this front page news?!!! This is life changing information!!! Thank you!!! I’m finding a functional medicine doctor ASAP! My mother has dementia, so I appreciate this video very much

I lost my mind just before lock down in covid and was quite scary as i was alone...and after an MRI that showed my brain was shrinking faster than normal for my 70yrs...my doctor said there was nothing he could do after i had done research and found that there was...I started a keto diet and within a few days noticed improvement in cognition...it has been a long journey, 3 yrs. It has been a gradual improvement in the many things i have found to help this body and this brain...today i believe my brain will be better than it was before covid...continued improvement daily...

How terrifying that this woman was having this problem. She is smart enough to figure it out. I would love to know her. Such courage!

This woman is 💯 brilliant! She is absolutely correct. It was happening to me along with a plethora of other symptoms. It started with menopause and 1 year of chronic work stress. I had hypertension, inflammation, brain fog, lethargy, unusual major depression, breathing episodes, muscle wasting, horrible leg cramps, restless leg, bell's palsey facial paralysis, rashes. I was going down quick and thought I was going to die. Doctors just prescribed anti-depressants so they were no help. I did extensive research. Decided that I needed to quit my stressful job and then heal my gut and nervous system and get rid the systemic inflammation that was all throughout my body. I had to stop the storm that was destroying my body and brain. I chose to do a super clean nutrient dense anti-inflammatory diet along with supplementation and electrolytes. Within 1-2 months, my symptoms were gone.

Please address the issue that statins are TERRIBLE for your brain! These medications for cholesterol are lowering cholesterol in your brain! And it is being lowered too much! Cholesterol is not the problem!

My mom went from going into a hospice situation to walking and dancing in 5 months. I gave her supplements and sunshine. My brother has pulled her back into a toxic diet and seclusion. It's awful dealing with him

Excellent interview! Thank you for not interrupting the good doctor, much appreciated.

WOW. My mom has dementia but is still able to live on her own and drive minimally. It's heartbreaking to see someone who was once the social director of her friends start to become reclusive, sleep a lot and begin to slip mentally and she's often aware of it so it's soul crushing to witness it. I retired in June so I am with her daily but left to her own desires, she'd sit in front f the t.v. and the news or Hallmark eating chips, ice cream and stouffers microwaved meatloaf. I have watched tons of videos and this is by far THE BEST. I am doing everything I can to beat the disease back: music, dancing, walking, sunshine, walking, eating cleaner, reading, playing modified scrabble, word searches, puzzles, encouraging her to go to church, get together with her lifelong friends. I have her on about 15 supplements a day and just yesterday started a language app. I know toxins play a huge role for my mom so am going to try her to use our sauna because she NEEDS to sweat. God willing this will help her. Thanks for this video, fantastic and encouraging.:)

I took some I f m seminars with Kat, I enjoyed her company. We were among the few psychiatrists that were studying functional medicine. I think I remember talking to her about what was going on cognitively. I'm glad to have taken the functional medicine courses and also to study hormone replacement therapy intensively. I was older, in my mid forties, when I started studying both of those topics than I am now at age seventy.

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I have a friend who was a teacher. He has frontal lobe dementia. The Dr said his brain has deteriorated. It is so tragic for his family.

U are amazing, I ask God’s protection n blessings over u n your team. I’m grateful to see people like u who want to help. I was recently told at 63 that I would not have my drivers license renewed because I have macular degeneration. It was devastating n don’t know what I’ll do when I loose my independence. TY❤️

I see dementia all through my mom’s side of the family…my grandmother, her sister, at least six of her ten kids. We just buried one a few months ago, and others are following. None of them smoked. But I did test with Fragile-X syndrome, and believe that’s the cause of the dementias. My grandmother had it before we knew what Alzheimer’s was. I watched her pour Ivory dish soap in the percolator, then she smiled at me. At 12 years old, I was too shy to question her methods. But then when my aunt complained about the soapy tasting coffee, my grandmother told her I might not have rinsed the dishes well enough, and they grounded me (I had to laugh while proofreading…pun not intended🤣). I still was too shy to defend myself. She began losing her hearing that summer, too. ‼️ I don’t believe hearing loss causes dementia. I believe it’s a SIGN of dementia. One of the first signs of dementia is inability or declining sense of smell in left nostril. You can test this with a fresh container of peanut butter and a yard stick. You can also test it by trying to draw a clock. SO if Fragile-X related disorder (FXTAS) is the cause of mental decline, I’m not sure you can recover from that. But don’t let me be the reason for not trying. After all, you can try and maybe fail, or you can do nothing and definitely fail. If anything, hope helps. Another thing to consider: If the cognitive declining patient has ever had a joint replacement - especially metal on metal joint (where metal ball, for instance, will be grinding on a metal socket) - it may be the cause of the decline. A doctor had a joint replaced and his mind deteriorated quickly, until they replaced the joint with plastic. His metal levels were through the roof. He made a good recovery. But my neighbor wasn’t so fortunate. She died in a nursing home. Take care of your brain, and your brain will take care of you.

The meditation I do every opportunity allows me, is self hynotism. I was taught by a psychologist how to relax myself and it worked. This is one of the best solutions for overfatigue, stress, anxiety, fears etc. My exercise every other day started when covid came in. Kat Toups is right about diet, meditation and exercise. However, these suggestions are more effected if it is coupled with prayers. I am 70 years old.