I have gotten to the point where I don't even pay attention to all the articles and videos that come out but I did try the link and got a mostly blank page. But, at least they are trying to find a cause and cure.
I agree with you paulc. Anyhow, Alzheimer's is a huge public health problem. If someone had found a way to reverse it, we would hear about it from a reputable source.
I actually signed up for this and tried watching a couple!! They claim different foods, supplements, etc can reverse Alzheimer's! There were claims the people being interviewed were tops in their field and had been doing research for many years! Not sure how they can actually put that information out! If it could be reversed, I'm sure our neurologist would know about it!
This is a new thing from Dale Bredesen, a medical doctor whom I previously thought might have some credibility in Alzheimer's treatment. A couple years ago I read his paper, "Reversal of cognitive decline: a novel therapeutic program," which provides anecdotal evidence about a shotgun approach (diet, exercise, meditation, lifestyle) that may work for some people in slowing/stopping or even reversing the disease. You can easily find that paper by googling for it at scholar.google.com. Is it "real" science? Hmm. No. Not really. Isolated, anecdotal reports can be interesting but it isn't evidence of effectiveness. I remember thinking that the programs Bredesen works up for individuals would be very difficult for most people to follow.
Now the people associated with this latest project -- some of whom I have looked up online -- they appear to be real medical authorities. Some are more scholarly while others seem stronger in writing popular health-oriented books. Hmm, again. But this is clearly some kind of marketing effort ... selling some kind of health program. Dragging its presentation out over twelve days -- twelve days of _video_ presentations -- to me, that just smacks of some kind of shenanigans. Sorry, I don't have that much time or patience. Why can't they just give us (the world) a report -- one page, maybe a dozen pages -- explaining the program, the research behind it, et cetera, and let us decide from there whether the ideas are worth pursuing? I actually do expect there will be good/reasonable bases for what they are advocating/selling but I am skeptical that there is scientific evidence that proves that it works.
Maybe I'll register an email address with them and see what they try to sell me. (Unfortunately my wife is far too far along with the disease for any of this to matter to her.)
Whoa. I take it back. Whatever I said before, I take it back.
This outfit is slick. Very polished. High production values. But it is a pricey product and company behind it has a poor reputation. This publisher has been working angles in the natural remedies racket for years. They are selling books, videos, digital content. I don't know how he gets these legitimate looking medical authorities to come along with him but, in my opinion, every- and anyone associated with this, um, over-priced product becomes suspect. Their reputations are diminished. Oh well. Too bad.
People don't need to spend ridiculous amounts of money to learn that Mediterranean diets are healthful and that exercise, meditation, yoga, and regular sleep are good for us. (You can look at that paper by Bredesen that I sited before -- I think it does suggest areas where research is warranted and is happening ... but to charge people ridiculous amounts of money to give them dietary advice ... it strikes me as being wrong.)
It'll be interesting to see if I can get them to stop emailing junk to me.
The medical authorities might have no idea of how the video would be used. The editing might be deceptive. I've see n cases of people making various claims and backing them up with experts. The experts later said "that is a misrepresentation of what I said."