Cheryl Howe - Health Coach

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Alzheimer’s disease has been treated far too simplistically for far too long.

Much of the focus has been on finding one primary cause and one primary solution. The challenge is that neurodegeneration does not appear to work that simply.

Research continues to point toward a wide range of interconnected factors, including inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, vascular health, immune activity, environmental exposures, and lifestyle.

Understanding this complexity may be one of the most important steps toward changing the future of brain health.

Read my blog post on this topic here: https://drperlmutter.com/right-treatment-alzheimers-disease/

You cannot “out-eat” ultra-processed foods with healthy ones.

Many people believe that as long as they are adding healthy foods into their diet, the harmful effects of ultra-processed foods are somehow canceled out.

Unfortunately, biology does not work that way.

Ultra-processed foods have been linked to inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, and increased risk for conditions that directly affect the brain, including cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease.

Adding healthy foods matters. But it is equally important to reduce the foods that are actively working against your health.

NeoLife's Enzyme has Ox Bile and helps a lot of people digest fats, proteins, and carbs much better! Very helpful (IMO essential) if you don’t have a gallbladder.

Have you ever heard of ox bile?

Bile, a fluid your liver produces to help digest fats, is comprised of water, bile salts, cholesterol, and other substances.

The bile salts in bile are needed to break down fats and facilitate the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins. Lack of bile salts may lead to the formation of gallstones—hardened deposits in your gallbladder that can be painful.

Ox bile, a substance that comes from the gallbladders of cattle, contains bile salts that are nearly identical to those produced in your liver.

Ox bile can help prevent or rectify low bile salt levels in your bile and support gallbladder health.

Very interesting info!

Unfiltered coffee raises your LDL cholesterol. Filtered coffee does not. The bean is identical. The only thing that changes is whether the brew passes through paper.

Coffee oil carries two diterpenes, cafestol and kahweol. They survive in French press, espresso, boiled, and Turkish coffee, and a paper filter traps almost all of them. That single step is the difference.

Once in your body, the diterpenes lead the liver to clear less cholesterol from your blood, and LDL climbs. Cafestol is one of the most potent cholesterol-raising compounds in the diet, and the effect shows up in controlled human trials, not just observational data. The diterpenes nudge triglycerides up too.

How much you get depends almost entirely on the brewing method. Per cup:

Unfiltered or boiled: about 4.4 mg
French press: about 2.8 mg
Espresso: about 1.2 mg
Paper-filtered drip: about 0.08 mg

That is roughly a 55-fold difference between an unfiltered cup and a paper-filtered one of the same coffee.

The long-term data points the same way. In 508,747 Norwegians followed for about 20 years, filtered coffee drinkers had lower mortality than people who drank no coffee at all. Unfiltered drinkers saw little or none of that benefit, and in men over 60, heavy unfiltered intake was associated with higher cardiovascular death. The risk tracked cholesterol: it grew when cholesterol was removed from the statistical model.
One honest caveat. That the LDL rise happens is well established. The exact molecular step, how the diterpenes lower cholesterol clearance, is still being worked out.

If your LDL is a concern, this is one of the easiest levers you have. You do not have to give up coffee. You just have to run it through paper.

Naidoo et al., Nutr J, 2011
Urgert et al., Eur J Clin Nutr, 1995
de Roos et al., J Intern Med, 2000
Tverdal et al., Eur J Prev Cardiol, 2020

My health meetup topic this month was Insulin Resistance. Here's a good explanation from Dr. Berg on what is insulin resistance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxl8hhyN6AQ&t=1s

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