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Speaker 1: Good day. And welcome to the snap snip podcast today. I'm joined with Marquee and. Josh and I'm Doctor. Troy, and we're gonna be talking about memory today.
So memory is something that doctor everyone seems to be struggling with during the Christmas season that we're in right now, but also just in general, and there's reasons for that. So we're gonna talk a little bit about memory itself, how it works, the laying down a memory, and then the the range of memory issues as far as just inability to have word recall all the way to Alzheimer's. And and dementia. So Let's just start the process by... I'm also gonna say this podcast will be coming out the week of four I'm doing my memory class.
And so this is a lecture where I will be going more into depth. So if you're interested in that, it'll be on our website, you can log in and we did decide to do virtual, so you'll be able to do that virtually. If you plan to come to the clinic, please call unless us know where sign up online is even better. So we know numbers because we're gonna have to shut that down at a certain point. We're only able to hold a certain capacity of people here.
So... And we're about halfway there already just with our in house sign ups. So just don't be afraid to log in. During that lecture, we're also going to talk a little bit about brain health. We're gonna talk about how to prevent memory loss, how to work with current memory loss and our programs that address it for the people that wanna do a little bit more of a deeper dive and all the things that go into it.
And I'm just gonna lead with this one little preface and our programs are very, very unique. And to my knowledge, one of the more unique parts of it is that we for those that have Alzheimer's dementia, we've had success with patients in the past, and what we realize is how hard the the scenario on the caretaker. And so our programs inc include how we take care of the caretaker. So stay tuned for that and looking forward to any and all who check in. This is a big topic We base everything that we do...
Most everything that we do on our functional medicine and principles and the book. The end of Alzheimer's is a great resource. Dr. Dale Bred is who I was personally trained under with his program and the Functional Medicine Institute. At the end of Alzheimer's shares his story on over twenty five years of Alzheimer's research and the breakthroughs they've had and what can be done about it.
So to... For those that are genetically predisposed or just have concerns. We urge you to check out our more in... Lecture that will be next weekend. That's the seventeenth of December twenty twenty two for those that are listening in the future.
We'll be going more in depth there. So off the top of your head, Dr. Josh, when it comes to memory, what's the first thing that comes to mind.
Speaker 2: I don't remember. I gonna see the first thing that comes to mind it's tough because there's a lot things that come to mind. I'm gonna give a big category of things, you know? And in the book that you mentioned end all end of Alzheimer's. There's several categories that are gonna affect brain health.
The thing that's top of mind with me most recently is, you know, I I don't know if this is the answer you're expecting blood flow. Yeah. I've had brain good successes with the last couple of... Personally with the last couple of memory related patient programs that I've oversee, of seen improvements and people that, you know, medically they're told that there is no improvement. That doesn't mean that they're back to a hundred percent normal But can I can I mention the Mocha?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So when we have people come in with memory concerns, we do a test called the Montreal cognitive assessment. That's a thirty point basically test or the person. Ideally, we do this in person because there's a few things that they have to do on paper and then that's a memory test, and they have to repeat things. Anyways, it's it's a really good way of of getting a baseline of where the person's cognitive health is.
That's and medically, it's not expected for somebody to go up in their score. Mh. Basically, if you've got a score below twenty six out of thirty are considered some level of cognitive impairment. We have a lot of people that come in with scores in the low teens to tens when that is very difficult. These last two that I've dealt with have started at tens another in the mid teens.
Yeah. Which is usually significant.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And significant gains.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's surprising because both of those two were blood flow related choose primarily. And there's a lot of things that we do in the clinic that are that are supporting blood flow. The the greater purpose of this really is who's you need those little brain cells to have energy. Yeah.
That's basically all it boils down to. Yes. And so if you can reduce inflammation improve, Energy through blood flow and and nutrition and diet and a few other things. That's the simple way of thinking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah Yeah. Just to just to show how important blood flow is. Because blood flow delivers oxygen. So I want you all who are listening to go twenty minutes without oxygen and see how you feel. Right?
Okay. Point. Point proven. Yeah. Please don't do that.
This what. Bad guidance. But you guys get my point. If there's anything compromising blood flow and therefore oxygen delivery, that's first and foremost with improved brain function. And For those that are listening, here, we've also done the podcast in the past on Brain fog.
So you can go back to that podcast to learn a little bit more. But when we're talking about memory, that is a that's different than brain fog. There's a component that overlaps, but there's much, much more that's involved And so that... That mo or that Cognitive assessment, score is a very good indicator to see if people are in mild cognitive impairment, true the metro scenarios. Mh.
And or if it's just a normal reading, but they have Brain fog. And so there... When it comes to the memory part of it, there's really three three areas that are involved with memory. There's the encoding part of it where you're actually laying down of that memory, and there's a lot of debate about how that happens. But at some processing point, you remember things.
And all kinds of factors going to play with that. So your hormone status, for example, people may remember in my generation, why are they were when Elvis died or when Jfk was assassinated. Actually, I'm not... That's pre gen my generation. I'm not that old.
But but gives you an idea of where you were for nine eleven. A lot of people have that just lay down their brain. So the intensity of an emotion or hormone response influences the laying down of that memory. Also, there's the storage where it stored, and it's stored in the brain, and then there's the actual retrieval of that memory. So those are the three processes as it relates to memory and there could be a problem in any one of those areas.
By time we get to Alzheimer's, lot of times there's actually a problem with all three. So... Or there's a problem with the laying down of the memory. And then the storage of the memory. So it's not there, but they can actually have the retrieval of the memory.
So they may have old memories that they're pulling from to try and get the answer to you and they may be talking about what happened twenty five years ago. Well, it's that's because they're trying to retrieve memories, but the new ones aren't being laid down So that happens again because of a breakdown of the process of how the nerves are communicating. Blood flow is one of the most important things. If if there's... Let's just say it this way.
If there is swelling in an area of the body, then you don't get as efficient blood flow to that area. And that's is same for the brain. If there's a basically a swelling or an immune system reaction, trying to take care of something, it can be fixing the problem, but at the same time, it can be causing a delivery of oxygen and sugars can't get there. And and a lot of people need proper sugar delivery. So I'm gonna talk about this one a little bit because one of my favorite cases was a gentleman who just was was the elite that I just enjoyed working with him.
And he was in his eighties, which is the older you are, the heart is to reverse what the damages already been done. But he had a mo score in the teens eighteen, and we ended up getting him to twenty six. His was not necessarily the blood flow was the primary issue but blood sugar. So they used to call alzheimer's type three diabetes of the brain. And it's because blood there was such a key component of blood sugar.
Those are actually my favorite ones to work with. If you can identify blood sugar as the primary issue, then we tend to have bigger success with them. But his mo improved drastically because he was not managing his sugar properly. And that that means not that you don't get sugar, but you have to have the right forms of sugar. And as you get diabetes or have a problem with regulation of sugar, It will influence the brain quite a bit.
It causes inflammation and can cause you to actually have memory lasts, obviously. So the blood sugar and oxygen are the two most most important parts of of memory and make sure those things are being delivered well if you look at our diet and lifestyle, if you have stress ongoing for one year, five years or ten years, it can influence both your oxygen and your blood sugar levels as far as how it's delivered to the brain. So don't... The the best thing you can do around the gates is just get back to the basic foundational practices of eating a healthy diet and having healthy lifestyle. So one of the things that we also see in the end of Alzheimer's book Doctor.
Bred talks about how there was thirty seven different pathways within the body that can trigger ultimately the memory loss. And so that's why we start to see it early on. So if you're in your twenties, your thirties or forties, we start to see memory issues. And this includes kids. Right now, we're seeing a lot of kids with the inability to lay down the memories.
They're having focus issues, attention deficit disorder. Because of the stress that they're putting into their brain, whether it be through social media or their cell phones or their diet stuff, that's one of the things that it's causing a problem with the first two parts of the memory issues. I've never in my life had so many young adults. And teenagers come to me saying, I can't remember. I can't remember.
And it's because of these simple practices where they're not getting the oxygen delivery, their brain's being overwhelmed. They don't have enough fuel to the brain. And it is stress like their cell phone or or relationships or something that that's getting to them. So this is a big part of it. So do you want talk a little bit about how stress, which is one of the top thirty seven triggers for memory loss, how how stress can impact the body.
Speaker 2: How can impact that. Wow.
Speaker 1: Focusing on memory. Yeah. Simple. Yeah. Can you do that in three minutes or less, please.
Yeah.
Speaker 2: Perfect. I always think of the the hippocampus when it comes to stress. That's part of the brain, it's a small area, the brain involved in memory. And it's very susceptible to the stress hormone cortisol. To the point where if you've got elevated cortisol throughout your life, that's that area of the brains which is very susceptible.
We'll shrink and and change to the point where you can't, you know, do these memory processes correctly. And that's really any stress. We've done podcasts on stress, and that's emotional stress, internal stress from inflammation. Anything that's going to negatively impact that hormone control is going to change how the brain is able to go through those three step process of of memory creation.
Speaker 1: Yes. And stress also shrinks down the lymph fat detox network that helps you get rid of your toxins And toxins, many different toxins are also instrumental in memory loss.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And that network to that the cli fabric the the length in the brain is is turned on with different stages of sleep. Which is another stress issue too.
Speaker 1: Lack of sleep, which we've... We've we done podcasts on, But the short version of how does alzheimer's occur, which is the extreme version of memory loss is the like doctor Josh said, the gl fat network is the lymph network in the brain. This so your brain has to get cleaned up like every other cell in the body. And deep sleep is what turns that on activates it and it's like a flushing that occurs. But in alzheimer's, what they did is they found that just like if you have a sore an open wound sore on your arm and it sc over, if you're not getting your immune system to properly clean up in the brain, then it can sc over.
So we actually see this sc if you will as part of the problem. And then that kind of pushes the actual distance of our nerves back? And do you guys know what the name of that space is in between the two nerve cells? Work you shaking
Speaker 2: with me. Yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Is all synapse. Synapse. Yeah. Yes.
That's why named the the clinic, synapse. And so the reason why I name this enough is because it was the junction where communication occurs. If you wanna be healthy, you need healthy communication mentally chemically physically and and that is that's kind of a secret to life. So There you guys go. You guys now know the secret to life is synapse.
Keeping your sounds healthy. And so the synapse when you that distant spreads, then you can't get that communication. We have a breakdown communication in the nerves, then that's when we start to see the memory loss. So if you're already experiencing memory loss, it's because there's some level of breakdown in communication between the nerves. Now it can be a temporary state where there's inflammation, but no scarring yet or plaque.
The plaque everyone heard about the plaque of alzheimer's. Mh. That's the sc. And one one of the great resources because I like to give resources to is the book grain brain by doctor David Per, a medical doctor neurologist and he talks about the inflammation that sometimes grains and our our diet can cause. So if you have just temporary memory loss or stuff that shouldn't be there.
Look towards an inflammatory food, like gluten and wheat as the main cause. And you guys will be shocked at at the influence it has on the overall brain capacity. So that's the first. That's one of the first tidbits and gems we like you to start with. But keeping those synapses is healthy is very, very important.
So And so from your perspective, the stress and how that plays into it, we just talked about. That as is one of the thirty seven pathways. Inflammation is another one from food and other sources, chemical toxicity. There's also another book I wanna talk about, it's called Make a good brain great by doctor. Daniel Le.
And I was studying his stuff twenty five years ago and that's how I kinda learned about the different areas of the the brain and how it can influence things. And so he does a good job of breaking down each section of the brain and even some exercises and stuff that you can do. Do you wanna talk a about a little bit about how important it is. For memory to to be moving to exercise
Speaker 2: for a variety of reasons really. I mean, I think the... We mentioned a limp touch on that first because we set it your lymph fat network drains, just in once best drains by your collar bones and there's nothing really like a heart muscle that's gonna pump that lymph. You pump that lymph by move by movement. Yeah know Exercise.
And so people who are seated, stagnant, couch potatoes, you're not gonna move that garbage collections.
Speaker 1: Yes that
Speaker 2: garbage is gonna accumulate and cause problems. That's one reason. Second reason there's good research on exercise being just as potent for depression for instance. Yeah. Than than any medications are.
That's why the activation. When you move your muscles, you're getting feedback, up the nerves into your brain to different areas that activate and turn on those brainer areas We're meant to be moving. Yes. You, pretty much all the time. Yep.
Or standing at least. I mean, that's even sitting and this is why sitting is the new smoking, The active sitting. If you if you're standing, you're getting, you have to balance your at least getting some input into the brain to keep it active and awake. But without that, your brain, it's... If you don't use it, you lose it.
Speaker 1: Yep. There was when I first of school, one professor said motion is life. That's how important movement was. And I didn't understand it at the time, but I get it now. Because when we stop moving, we stopped sending signals to our brain, and the area of the brain that first really goes to is the Ce mh as far as coordinating our thoughts.
And even though Ce was not directly. Involved with memory is involved with learning, and it kinda of prime the pump for our memory system. If there's a breakdown there with our ce then we're not getting the blood flow to the brain, number one, because it's really important with that. And it... And we're getting our...
Our capacity is just different. So when it comes to moving and exercising, you really are sending good, feedback to the brain. And I always share the same story if you've heard this probably in previous podcast if you've listened, but To prove this point, you look at astronauts who have a tremendous amount of physical capacity when they go into space, but they can only stay in space for a short period of time. Before they develop cognitive issues.
Speaker 2: Mh.
Speaker 1: So you have to ask yourself why if they're still thinking in space, if still using their brain do they develop cognitive issues? Memory loss that is equivalent to alzheimer's? Was because they're not using their muscles in space, There's no gravity? So you don't end up getting the feedback from the muscles to the brain. All they're doing is losing that feedback from the muscles to their ce and their brain and eventually their brain starts to atrophy to the point of memory loss and real significant physical weakness.
And you've seen some of those, I've remember Neil Arm armstrong went back up there. And when he he had to be helped off and he is older when he went back up, but he had be helped off the space shuttle. Mh because he didn't have got the physical capacity to withstand the length of time that he was there even though it was a shorter period of time. And they speak about the cognitive challenges that come with that. So looking at that research is is fascinating as far as just how important our muscle feedback is to our brain.
So other than that, in the last two years, have you seen an increase in cognitive challenges when people?
Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. Short we question. Yeah. Yeah.
I think it has to do with obviously, Covid from a variety of reasons. It's it's directly. I think the impact of that virus is causing both the virus and the vaccines are causing an increased level of inflammation information.
Speaker 1: A lot
Speaker 2: of it footage. And the stress around the uncertainty of life, I think is is harmful. Yep. And so that alone those two factors and there's likely more are contributing to an increase and just even generally chronic disease for what we're seeing. We're seeing a lot more difficult chronic issues and the majority of them do lead them to memory change.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And we're prior to Covid even We were seeing a really unfortunate trend towards memory loss in Alzheimer's, dementia where it used to be one in fifty people would get it is down to one in three people over the age of eighty and almost one and two over the age of eighty. Are ending up with Alzheimer's dementia or form of dementia. Mh And... I remember years ago, just the numbers on type diabetes.
They used to call it adult onset diabetes, and then child childhood, diabetes, and they had to change the name because kids were getting the adult version as teenagers. And it's basically because of our diet lifestyles sped up the aging process for their pancreas in which they didn't know how to to work with sugar. And so they just changed the name. Well, we're seeing the same thing with memory loss. I now have patients in their fifties coming in with Alzheimer's disease when that was something that you didn't see that much of until they got to their eighties.
Mh. So people are speeding up the aging process by three decades, and suffering from memory issues sooner and sooner in life. And so I even have someone who's reached out who is now in their forties who already is on the past the mild cognitive component.
Speaker 2: Mh
Speaker 1: And so we're just seeing these things and there's some strong genetics involved. We'll go through that at our lecture, but I just want everyone to know. There's so much you can do to prevent memory loss, the basics of increasing oxygen, balancing your blood sugar, finding out what's causing inflammation in your diet or lifestyle, whether it's stress or food, and then exercising and moving just those basics get back to the foundational basics and then sleeping deeply, you'll be shocked how important a role all those things play. And you also be surprised by what is causing the information in your body or the memory loss when you when you start to deal with it. So if you're listening this, just start with the basics, find out what your life is triggering it, I encourage you to read the book the end of Alzheimer's, even if you don't have Alzheimer's just to prevent it, It's a great book, it's a little science c for the average Joe, but if you're listening as podcast, generally you're the type that likes that information.
Anyway, I've been old. So So go ahead and take a look at those resources. And there's so much more to it, but It's a good place to start. So again, we're gonna wrap this up. It's a short one today.
On memory. But if you have any questions, try tune in to the actual lecture, And I'm not sure if we'll put this lecture up for future reference on our website. It might be up there. So you can look in our media section two if you're seeing this after December of twenty twenty two. But go ahead and sign up for that if you guys are interested, it is December eighteenth one Pm at synapse, or clinic here and we'll be going through more in depth analysis of how to keep your brain healthy to memory loss, how to recognize the signs of memory loss and then even start to introduce some of our programs, for those that wanna do it.
Briefly, I'm just gonna to say that our programs are group. We work with groups. We only select and work with a certain number of people each year. And we've had people... We've had success like Doctor B has in certain groups.
We've also run into walls or we have not had the success. But whenever you get someone, we're actually able to change their ability to remember its life changing. So we've had patients who could wouldn't dress themselves, figure out how to button up their shirt, be able to start dressing themselves again. So it's really about getting quality of life back. And I it really urge people to take note of this now when you don't have the full blown alzheimer's because this is so much easier to prevent than it is the correct.
So on that note, Doctor. Josh, if you want to give the website information that'd be great. Sure.
Speaker 2: Add one other comment too. Sure. Let we talked a lot about memory. Before you give the website, December seventeenth is. Seventeen.
But Go ahead. Thank you. Seventeen. Okay.
Speaker 1: Yes. I catch.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So... Okay. On the web forgot... Yeah.
On the website now, we've got a new a new tab in our menu called events. You click on that, there's gonna be event registration information, Make sure that we get the info on on the the virtual stuff on there. So that should be all there We also have a spot under our synapse programs where people can can put their name in for interest in an actual... Program. So there's really two things, here.
There's the lecture and then there's interest in in working with us for programs. We'll talk about the program stuff during the lecture, So if you're not sure just just do the lecture, listen to it and that'll be that'll be great. Last comment I wanted to make was this is... This is not just about alzheimer's. Right?
This is about anything especially even disease by anything that's gonna be brain related can be helped by these principles and just to echo what you had said, the sooner that you can get on top of these issues in yourself the better. So even if you're thirty years old, this is stuff that's worth knowing. Because for me for instance, I have a family history of multiple people that have that have had alzheimer's. As do I? Yeah.
I know my genetics I know some of my risk factors and those are things that I work on because I don't want to have to deal with that as much as possible. Yeah. So be proactive, I know a lot... People don't like to know what their future risk is for this stuff, But don't be afraid of it, You can't fix it if you don't know it's there. People
Speaker 1: Yeah. And we'll have information, programs and recommendations for everyone at every stage. So... Mh. Yeah tune in, looking forward to seeing you guys there and this is this will be ongoing for many, many years.
So we'll we'll do another talk on tune memory and specifically some of the more challenging scenarios keep those questions and podcast topics coming in. We appreciate that. We're appreciating all the feedback. Love you guys, and have a great Christmas season.
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