hey wellness warrior the early warning signs of dementia can cause you to have mood changes
memory problems and cognitive dysfunction you may be suffering from one of the many early warning
signs of dementia that most doctors miss dementia and alzheimer's are often used interchangeably
and that's okay because they have many symptoms that overlap when you look at alzheimer's it's
considered an actual disease whereas dementia is more of a category of symptoms as we look
at alzheimer's you can develop it as early as 30 years of age it's referred to as young onset
alzheimer's and this is something i think we should really really make sure that we acknowledge
because when we look at any diseases out there they're typically occurring in the body many years
ever before being diagnosed you could take cancer for instance it's estimated that it can start
showing up in the body 15 years prior to ever getting a diagnosis let's take type 2 diabetes
for example a disease that most people understand you're going to have insulin surging in the body
you're going to have blood sugar instability and this will go on for sometimes years prior to ever
getting a type 2 diabetes diagnosis so point being is these things can start very early and
there's different signs of dementia in alzheimer's that we can start watching for now when we look
at alzheimer's it's estimated that on average people develop it around the age of 65 to 74.
and as far as dementia it's much older it's right around 84 years of age but here's the thing over
the next 20 years dementia is estimated to double that means by the year 2040 over 40
million people will suffer from dementia i think it's so important for you to watch for the early
warning signs of alzheimer's and dementia in your everyday life for me personally i watched
my grandmother go through dementia and not only is it the hardest thing to watch somebody go through
but my goodness it is terrifying to think that you might have to go through that yourself one day so
in my own personal life if i see that my brain is slipping or i'm having some of these early warning
signs i take it seriously i change my lifestyle i change my supplementation and i am not even
kidding here i'm 100 serious i make these changes because i do not want to have to go through this
one day and i'm going to teach you how to do the same thing so let's dive into the early warning
signs and symptoms of dementia but before i do i want to mention that you may be experiencing
some of these signs and symptoms and this is not at all what you have it's very common for people
who are going through excessive amounts of stress and also lack of sleep at night to
develop alzheimer's or dementia like symptoms i've certainly had times in my life starting my career
having kids not getting enough sleep at night with all kinds of stress where i myself was developing
these kinds of signs and symptoms so make sure that if you do have a lot of stress and not you're
not getting enough sleep that you do focus on that okay let's talk about the first one now the first
sign that you can look for is confusion or also trouble remembering faces okay this is very
common i remember when my grandmother couldn't recognize my dad anymore her own son which is a
very sad thing to happen now the next one here is memory loss specifically your short-term memory if
you're noticing that your short-term memory really is struggling then you know this is something to
pay attention to for sure and remember i'm going to show you ways to overcome this and
protect your brain and even optimize your brain even if you're not struggling with this stuff so
you know hold tight for that let's get through the signs and symptoms now difficulty concentrating
okay if you're somebody who just can't sit down and concentrate on a task and you know
your brain's all over the place this also could be a sign to look for mood changes is another big one
you know somebody is just getting angry all the time a lot of times when you see somebody who is
suffering from alzheimer's or dementia you notice that they just kind of lash out on people they
have very angry mood patterns so that's something to look out for being confused about time okay and
the other thing is places so let's say if you have a failing sense of direction you're somebody who's
maybe traveled a route most of your life but all of a sudden you're getting confused on you know
how to go to a certain place you're very familiar with well that could be a sign another thing is
emotionally flat right somebody just loses their personality you know they used to be a funny
individual they're not funny anymore somebody who just has a very you know monotone mood but they
also are somebody who just wants to be left alone they like to just sequester themselves away from
everybody else and they lose their happiness they lose their personality so they're emotionally flat
the next thing to look for is repetition in task or words so this would be somebody who maybe
you know gets themselves dressed in the morning and then they find themselves going to
do their you know makeup or fix their hair for a second time very common or they tell the same
story over and over again okay i remember my grandmother doing this she would walk up to
you and she would tell you a story five minutes later she would walk up to you and tell you the
same story and all you did is smiled and you shook your head and you go oh my gosh like and you act
like you never heard it before because you were trying to be kind the next thing is trouble with
your speech what happens is you'll hear someone who is struggling with alzheimer's and dementia
they will string a sentence together that sometimes just won't even be coherent okay
it's something that's just totally unintelligible so we have to make sure that like if you notice
when you are speaking that maybe you're struggling to come up with words maybe you're struggling to
string a sentence along and speak clearly those are all things that you could look out for and
remember that if you're somebody who's getting like early onset alzheimer's you may just struggle
with this stuff at a very low level okay this is the type of thing i'm talking about where you want
to start paying attention even at a younger age because when you think of somebody who's elderly
they may be struggling at these things at more of a severe level but just think of the person who
has poor brain endurance brain fog memory issues mood changes you know these are things that start
happening at a very low level that you can start to identify and go ah i need to make some changes
and i need to make changes now now the other thing that happens is you can actually have changes
in your gut function okay so many people who are developing some of these issues with alzheimer's
and dementia they start to have constipation issues just because of the neurological
connection between brain and gut there's a lot of neurological tissue within the gut so therefore
many times when you have brain issues you have gut issues and vice versa the early
warning signs of dementia and alzheimer's should be taken seriously because as i mentioned before
if we look at cancer and diabetes these things start many years in advance so when you notice
that you're starting to struggle make sure that you're looking at getting the proper support so
the big question is what do you do well i will first say that i'm very disappointed in how the
traditional medical community helps people with this because whenever you go to them and you start
seeing these different struggles and you get diagnosed with dementia or alzheimer's it's blamed
on bad luck or bad genes when in reality it's bad advice from your doctor who is supposedly taking
care of you for all these years they ignored the warning signs and now you have a real problem so
let's talk about how to not only prevent it but also overcome these issues especially if you're
in some of the early stages now we're going to talk about two different categories here we're
going to talk about lifestyle but we'll also talk about supplementation that you can use in
order to help with these issues let's go ahead and dive right into lifestyle first the first thing
that you have to do is you really want to make sure that you stop the sugar the average person
is consuming a hundred and thirty pounds of sugar every single year i mean just think about that if
you took five pound bags of sugar and you stacked them up you'd have this mountain of sugar that
is how much each person is consuming on average it's insane and when we look at like alzheimer's
or dementia it's referred to as type 3 diabetes it's because too much sugar over a long period
of time and it becomes a chronic issue it starts to deteriorate the brain stop the sugar that's a
very important piece here now the next thing that we want to do is go low carb the average person is
consuming right around 400 grams of carbohydrates per day that's an insane amount of carbohydrates
but the reality is that's how most people are taught to eat i was taught to eat like that so
i'm not blaming or pointing fingers at anybody who might be watching this it's something that i had
to really work hard to overcome because when you eat all those carbs and you have all that sugar
every day will you become addicted to it so if that's you just start getting yourself moving
in the right direction so it's important to stop the sugar but also bring the carbohydrates down i
recommend that you focus on consuming around 100 grams or less of carbohydrates per day now the
next thing that we want to do is we want to focus on eating a whole food diet that is rich in good
quality fats okay we're thinking fats like olive oil and coconut oil these fats are very important
for your brain when you look at your brain your brain is made up of roughly around eighty percent
fat okay it's this big old blob of fat up there so you need these good healthy fats to make sure
that your brain is getting its proper nutrition if you're somebody who is struggling with some brain
issues it would be a really good idea to try the ketogenic diet and if you have severe issues along
the lines of like a neurological problem like dementia or alzheimer's then you certainly want
to think of going full time keto if you're just having some symptoms that show up here and there
then you could go keto for like 30 days come off of it and then do keto again for another couple
weeks you can go in and out of ketosis and it would be highly beneficial and healing for your
brain next on our list is make sure that you're exercising daily you have to get that movement and
your genetics require exercise i say it all the time you don't have to go to the gym and become
the next olympic athlete but you do got to get some movement in every day at minimum a 30 minute
brisk walk when you exercise you increase blood flow to your brain you increase oxygenation and
it's very healthy for your brain so make sure that you're out there moving and getting that exercise
in honor list next is going to be increasing the amount of fermented foods and fiber that you're
consuming regularly okay it's very important to make sure that you're giving your gut the proper
foods that it needs in order to heal and also thrive so fermented foods along the lines of like
sauerkraut and kimchi these have good probiotics in it and if you can do this it may be a struggle
for some people but if you can do this try to eat fermented food every single day you can use things
like yogurt and all the different good fermented vegetables i personally am a big fan of like
pickles and all these different fermented foods so try to consume them daily it's good for your gut
health let's take a turn now and let's take a look at supplementation okay because supplementation
is important when we look at overcoming many of these issues like there's a couple routes you can
go obviously the lifestyle piece should always be there you should implement all the things i just
talked about when you're starting to see though some of these early warning signs of dementia
and alzheimer's i don't particularly myself want to go towards medicine and i didn't think that
anybody who watched this channel did either so what we want to do is use some high doses of some
different herbs and vitamins that nature gives to us in order to help heal our bodies as we get into
some of these supplementations the first thing that i would like to recommend is ketones okay
now ketones are really good for many reasons and i would say that many times people look at
ketones taking exogenous ketones as something that is ridiculous right many of the people in
the keto community demonize these they say well people are just pushing supplements you know
you don't need to take ketones reality is is that they're actually very good for people
who are struggling with neurological issues so you can take a scoop of exogenous ketones
and it really helps supercharge the brain and they're very healing too so it doesn't matter if
you're dealing with early signs of alzheimer's and dementia or any other neurological issue
they're very good for you okay and by the way i'll go ahead and put a link to all the
different supplements that i recommend or anything i recommend in this video in the description below
because i think that it's very important to make sure you're getting good quality sources things
that you can actually know that are pure vitamins that you know you can actually absorb and i don't
believe that all different supplements are created equal and i use these things clinically every day
so i know what works and what doesn't so exogenous ketones is one let's go ahead and take a look at
the next probiotics okay we already mentioned that there's this gut brain axis and if your brain is
suffering your gut suffers and vice versa so one of the ways that we can actually support our
brain health is by taking probiotics okay so use this regularly use probiotics regularly in order
to promote good gut health and essentially good brain health the next thing that we can do is take
b vitamins okay many of the different b vitamins are going to support your nervous system and also
support brain health and prevention and also help you fight stress which i talked about can lead to
some of these different signs and symptoms we're talking about so i'm a big fan of using not just
like one particular b vitamin but a good b complex that has everything in it that will really support
neurological health the next thing that we can look to using okay after the b vitamins is going
to be high doses of dha okay this is something i'm a huge fan of and a lot of people have never heard
this but there was a study with 280 people and what they found is that when they were
using high doses of dha it increased non-verbal reasoning it led to better mental flexibility
and it also helped people with their memory and their vocabulary okay so if i'm working with
anybody who's struggling with brain issues you better believe that i'm using high doses of dha
and you want to make sure that you're taking this seriously because looking at the brain tissue
the dha is a core core element to good healthy structure of your brain so think of it that way
now next on our list is going to be coq10 okay i'm a big fan of coq10 it helps with heart health and
so many different aspects of your overall energy and well-being so you can use coq10 you want to
make sure you're using the active form so that you can absorb it well i'll put resources down
below for anybody who's interested in this kind of thing and then next on my list of things i really
like to utilize in order to support brain health and this is one that i personally use every single
day and it is mcts okay mcts are really going to go straight to your brain give you good energy
and that's a healthy fat okay so looking at mcts to boost brain health and also fight against those
early warning signs of dementia and alzheimer's is going to be really really powerful i hope you
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