Autism, alzheimers, and brain damage

1. The Rise of NCD’s Non-Communicable Diseases
Alarming increase in neurological diseases in NCD’s:
•Parkinson's
•Alzheimer's
•Dementia
•Attention Deficit Disorder
•Autism-spectrum disorders
•Depression
•Bipolar Disorder
•Fibromyalgia
Causes:
•Trauma
•a sedentary lifestyle
•Artificial sweeteners like aspartame
•Pesticides - GMO’s
•MSG & other neuro-toxins
•Vaccinations
44 yo woman

2. •Gut dysbiosis- disruption of the normal flora
•vaccine and their additives like mercury (thimerosal),
aluminum
•Microbial toxins- mold, fungi, etc…
•genetically engineered foods
•agricultural chemicals
•food additives
•food processing techniques—all of which destroy gut
flora
•Vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women
•Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from cell phones,
cell towers, and Wi-Fi devices
Causes of Autism

3. Rise of NCD’s will Bankrupt the world by 2030
WHO 47 Trillion USD’s

4. Americans get sick more often than Europeans and
people in other industrialized countries.
And since the mid-1990s
the number of Americans has nearly doubled suffering from:
•chronic diseases
•Heart disease
•Asthma
•Cancer
•diabetes
America’s infant mortality has increased
and life span has plunged
.
the food we eat and the medical therapies we use
genetically modified organisms, or GMOs
DNA of other species Creating new organisms that did not exist
in nature

5. How Your Gut Flora Directs Your Immune System
1.Th1 immunity is responsible for normal reactions to anything in
your environment,
*Th1 is kept robust and healthy by your gut flora.
*TH1- cell mediated response from mucus membranes
*if your gut flora is abnormal, your Th1 become increasingly
disabled
2.Th2 immunity
*TH2-vaccines (puncture wound so the body needs an immediate
response this is why there is no lifetime immunity from
vaccinations, because the proper immune system cells are not
built)
*inflammatory reaction = inflammatory cytokines
*allergies and intolerances.

6. 80% of your immune system resides in your gut
•your body sees food as an alien object
•something that cannot be found in nature
•Your immune system attack it
•creating an inflammatory reaction
•heart disease
•Obesity
•Diabetes
•Dementia
•Depression
•Cancer
•Autism
autism has increased 600% since GM foods were introduced
diabetes has nearly tripled in the past two decades
Since 1996, when GM foods were introduced into our diet,
several digestive disorders have skyrocketed

7. Don’t Let Corporations Cook For You
Sodium benzoate
•Preservative
•carbonated drinks, fruit juices
•condiments such as salsa
•promote infections and cancer by shutting off oxygen from cells
•may also increase risk of Parkinson's and neuro-degenerative
diseases.
•Sodium nitrate
•processed meats
•can cause DNA damage
•higher risk of type 2 diabetes
•Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
•cancers of the digestive tract
•Monosodium glutamate
•Heart palpitations
•headaches,
•sweating,
•burning sensations
•Damage Nerves in the brain
•Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

8.  Elderly hospital patients who are given a common type of sedative to help them
sleep have an increased risk of symptoms of delirium,
 70% increased risk of symptoms of delirium.
 300% increase of inattentive
 300% increase of altered consciousness
 500% of disorganized speech
 These drugs block the actions of an important brain chemical
called acetylcholine and can cause hallucinations, among other
symptoms.
 Archives of Internal Medicine 2001;161:2091-2097
Antihistamines Benadryl and Sominex

9.  Anticholinergic drugs block a nervous system neurotransmitter called
acetylcholine. Those suffering from Alzheimer's disease typically
have a marked shortage of acetylcholine.
 Examples include night-time pain relievers, antihistamines, and other
sleep aids, such as:
 Excedrin PM
 Tylenol PM
 Nytol
 Sominex
 Unisom
 Benadryl
 Dramamine
"Simply put, we have confirmed that
anticholinergics, something as seemingly
benign as a medication for inability to get a
good night's sleep or for motion sickness, can
cause or worsen cognitive impairment,
specifically long-term mild cognitive
impairment which involves gradual memory
loss. “
Malaz Boustani, M.D., IU School of
Medicine associate professor of medicine,
Antihistamines linked to Alzheimer's

10. LONDON, UK — The Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment
Committee (PRAC) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA)
increased risk of cardiovascular events in patients who take
high doses of the anti-inflammatory ibuprofen
•increase in the risk of MI and stroke with ibuprofen
•similar to the risk observed with other nonsteroidal anti-
inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as COX-2 inhibitors and
diclofenac
•diclofenac, a drug used for pain and inflammation
•increased the risk of cardiovascular events between 38% and
63%

11. NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) and
COX-2 inhibitors
Linked to Dementia
Acetaminophen ( Tylenol, Panadol, Tylenol Arthritis and Excedrin)
Codeine and Codeine with Acetaminophen (Tylenol #2,3,4)
Duragesic (Fentanyl Skin Patch)
Morphine Sulphate (MS Contin)
Oxycodone (OxyContin)
Percocet (Oxycodone with Acetaminophen)
Percodan (Oxycodone with Aspirin)
Talwin NX (Pentazocine and Naloxone)
Ultram (Tramadol)
Ultracet (Tramadol with Acetaminophen)
Vicodin (Hydrocodone With Acetaminophen)
The study doesn't disprove the
theory that inflammation is a
factor in Alzheimer's, though,
says Jason Karlawish,
"Negative studies like this that
fail to prove the hypothesis
leave thousands of questions
to be answered," Karlawish
During the study, 476 people
developed dementia, and
heavy NSAID users had a 66%
higher risk of developing the
condition than those with low or
no use

12.  (NSAIDs) caused a greater than 10-fold increase in the risk of
Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
 Archives of Internal Medicine June 2000; 160: 777-784.
 The study followed more than 80,000 women between the ages of 31
and 50 years who were initially hypertension-free.
 two years later
 women who used NSAIDs 22 days or more per month, the risk of
high-blood pressure increased some 86 percent.
Nonetheless, it was concluded that a large portion of U.S.
hypertension cases may be the result of over-using these pain
medications
 Archives of Internal Medicine. October 28, 2002;162:2204-2208
NSAIDs May Cause 20% of all Heart Failures and
cause High blood pressure

13. 30% to 40% of the market share in countries like Vietnam,
Pakistan, parts of China, and many other countries
These countries are experiencing a real epidemic of
cardiovascular disease at the same time these rates are
coming down in the West
They are really heavy users of these drugs
Diclofenac,
Increased cardiovascular events between 38% and 63%
similar to the COX-2 inhibitor rofecoxib (Vioxx, Merck)
a drug withdrawn because of cardiovascular toxicity.
high-risk NSAIDs, diclofenac

14. Drugs that are known to cause epigenetic
changes include :
•statin cholesterol-lowering drugs,
•antidepressants,
•beta blockers
•Diuretics
• tamoxifen
•methotrexate,
•anti-inflammatories
•even anesthetics,
•oral contraceptives
• antibiotics.
Permanent changes in the epigenome
Researchers are most concerned that drugs may produce
defects in subsequent generations. They speculate that
the current diabesity epidemic may be hastened by drugs.
[Metabolism Clinical and Experimental 57: (2008) S16–
S23]
Epigenetics
genes can be turned on (expressed) or
turned off (silenced)

15. Epigenetics
genes can be turned on (expressed) or
turned off (silenced)
…pharmaceuticals may be involved in the
etiology of :
•heart disease
•Cancer
•nerve and mental disorders
•Obesity
•Diabetes
•Leukemia
•bipolar disorder
•Schizophrenia
•Infertility
•and sexual dysfunction.
…"consequences for modern medicine are
profound, since it would imply that our
current understanding of pharmacology is
an oversimplification."
[Metabolism Clinical and Experimental
57: (2008) S16–S23]

16. Dementia could be a symptom of low levels of vitamin B12.
include:
•Yellowish skin
•Dementia
•Fatigue
•Shortness of breath
•Headaches
•Numbness or tingling in the hands and feet
•Trouble keeping balance
eggs, dairy products, meat, fish, and poultry, and it’s efficiently
stored in the liver.
Antacids Dementia and Vitamin B12
deficiency

17. Proton pump inhibitors and risk of
gastric cancer: a population-based
cohort study.
Br J Cancer. 2009 May 5
Epub 2009 Apr 7.
PPI’s Increase Adenocarcinoma’s
Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use leads to
hypergastrinaemia, which has been associated
with gastrointestinal neoplasia incidence rate ratios
(IRRs) were observed among PPI users with the
largest number of … gastric cancer incidence, the
finding of increased incidence among PPI users
with most prescriptions and longest follow-up

18. In Alzheimer’s disease (AD), an association with cholesterol is recognized,
although poorly understood and often overlooked.
A study on membranes prepared from cortical grey matter of AD patients
showed that the cholesterol… was reduced by 30%
This aberrant pattern could be restored to that found in the membranes from
non-AD controls by cholesterol enrichment of the AD membranes.
It is of interest, therefore, that mice[cholesterol deficient] show many of the
neurotransmitter deficits and loss of memory that are characteristic of AD
Correspondingly, there is evidence that induced depletions of neuronal
cholesterol can affect synaptic plasticity and neurodegeneration
*Brain Research. 843, 87-94 (1999)
* Neurosci Lett. 199, 1-4 (1995)
Cholesterol Vital Component of
Brain and Brain Function

19.  Mayo Clinic study of 11,000 people found that diabetics had a greater decline
in cognitive processing speed… and dementia
 6,370 patients, ages 55 and older, Dutch researchers …type 2 diabetes faced
nearly a 9% increased risk of developing dementia – and Alzheimer's disease
 Harvard Medical School researchers …2,300 women, 70 to 78 years old.
Women without diabetes were more than twice as likely to score better than
those with diabetes.
 "Based on calculations within the women in our study, we found that having
diabetes was equivalent to aging 4 years in terms of scores”
 10,000 people, cognitive test scores were compared six years apart. Diabetes
was associated with greater cognitive decline in participants aged 40 to 70 years
old,

20.  13 studies were included. Of 34533 patients, 18315 received intensive glucose
lowering treatment and 16218 standard treatment.
 a more than twofold increase in the risk of severe hypoglycaemia.
 Over a treatment period of five years, 150 patients would need to be treated to
avoid one myocardial infarction
 142 patients to avoid one episode of microalbuminuria
 47% increase in risk of congestive heart failure
 9% reduction of glucose = 19% increase in all cause mortality
 14% reduction of glucose = 43% increase in cardiovascular death.
 BMJ 2011; 343 doi: 10.1136/bmj.d4169 (Published 26 July 2011) Cite this as: BMJ
2011;343:d4169
9% reduction of glucose = 19% increase in all cause mortality
14% reduction of glucose = 43% increase in cardiovascular death.

21. 2002, the journal Lancet
polio vaccine was responsible for up to half of the
55,000 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma cases that were
occurring each year.
SV40, a cancer-causing monkey virus
•1994,Dr. Michele Carbone, a Loyola University researcher,
found the virus SV40, which had never before been detected in
humans
•in half of the human lung tumors
•60 different lab studies have confirmed the results
•Lung cancers
•Brain cancers
•Bone cancers
•lymphatic cancers

23. 133 children were vaccinated and 121 remained unvaccinated
Condition Vaccinated Unvaccinated
Asthma 20 (15.0%) 4 ( 3.3%)
Eczema or allergic rashes 43 (32.3%) 16 (13.2%)
Chronic otitis 26 (19.5%) 8 ( 6.6%)
Recurrent tonsillitis 11 ( 8.3%) 3 ( 2.5%)
sudden infant death syndrome 9 ( 6.8%) 2 ( 1.7%)
Hyperactivity 10 ( 7.5%) 1 ( 0.8%)
Thus, in a society where more than 50% of its vaccinated
children are reported to have at least one chronic illness at some
time during their childhood, for informed parents,

24. measles virus is present in the gut of children
linked to the triple measles, mumps and
rubella (MMR) vaccination
The authors include Andrew Wakefield, whose
work at London's Royal Free Hospital in 1998
first raised fears that MMR vaccination may
trigger bowel disorders and autism in
susceptible children.
ileocolonic lymphonodular hyperplasis, a new
form of inflammatory bowel disease that
has been described in children with
developmental disorder.
The authors conclude that the virus may act as
an immunological trigger.
Molecular Pathology April 2002

25. Aluminum Injected
•Currently children are getting 17 shots containing
aluminum
•quadrupling of the amount given since the 1970’s
•Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis)
• MMR
• Hib
• Pneumococcal
• Gardasil (HPV) vaccines
over a milligram of Aluminum; a
concentration & dosage that is 10 – 20
times more toxic than Mercury
Multiple vaccines are far worse, over a
1000 micrograms on average for a triple
set shot
Liked to auto-immune disorders: Downs
Syndrome, Autism, Schizophrenia, ALS,
Lupus, Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s Disease

26. Fluoridated Water
 aluminum is neuro-toxic and is in abnormally
high concentrations in the brain of Alzheimers
and other neurological disease victims,....
 When floridated water is used in cooking in
aluminum cookware, it concentrated the
aluminum by 833 times and increased the
fluoride content by 100%.
 carbonated beverages and processed foods
distilled from fluoridated water
 scientific evidence has revealed that fluoride
saturations are evident in nearly every food
available on the market

27. Infection, vaccines and other environmental
triggers of autoimmunity.
Autoimmunity. 2005 May;38(3):235-45.
•Vaccines, in several reports were found to be temporally
followed by a new onset of autoimmune diseases
•The same mechanisms that act in infectious invasion of the
host, apply equally to the host response to vaccination
• It has been accepted for diphtheria and tetanus toxoid,
polio and measles vaccines and GBS.
• MMR vaccination and development of autoimmune
thrombocytopenia
•MS has been associated with HPV vaccination

28.  insulin's major role is not to lower sugar, but to take the
extra energy when available and store it for future times of
need.
 Insulin lowers glucose as a side effect of directing the extra
into storage.
 when insulin is kept low either through diet or via genetic
manipulation animals live much longer and the rate of aging
is significantly reduced.

29.  the major symptoms of aging -- diabetes, heart disease,
obesity, osteoporosis, dementia, cancer
 low insulin is a signal that energy is scarce and animals
need to focus their energy needs on maintaining and
repairing themselves so that they can outlive the famine

30. Folate Deficiency Linked to Parkinson's
News Flash Vegetables Are Good For You!!!
The study found that dopamine-producing cells in the brain were more
susceptible to damage and death when mice consumed a folate-deficient
diet.
diet with low folic acid levels … renders neurons in the brain vulnerable to
dysfunction and death.
Journal of January Neurochemistry 2002;80:101-110
Good sources of folate:
Vegetables Excellent Source!
Asparagus
Leafy green vegetables*****Craziness (Blood Thinners)
Fruits
Oranges
Strawberries
Cantaloupes and other melons

31. Normal Parkinson’s Diagnosis
Altered Position cause Altered Info to the brain
causing Altered Function

32. Parkinson’s Diagnosis Parkinson’s DiagnosisNormal Neck Curve
The Curve in the neck is called the “ARC OF LIFE “ this
allows the life force to flow from the brain to the spinal
cord to control and coordinate all of the systems of the
body

33. 76 YO With Parkinson’s Diagnosis for 12 years
Before 90 Days After

34. Normal Bipolar Disorder
Depression
The Curve in the Neck is the Arch of Life

35. Bottom Line•Don’t Vaccinate
•If your taking Drugs find the cause and stop
•Don’t eat toxic foods
•Exercise daily
•Eat Healthy Foods
•Read
•intermittent fasting
•Reduce sugars and grains.
•Increase healthy fat consumption
•include organic butter from raw milk, olives, organic virgin olive
oil and coconut oil, nuts like pecans and macadamia, free-range
eggs, wild Alaskan salmon, and avocado.
•Increase your omega-3 fat intake
•reduce consumption of damaged omega-6 fats (think processed
vegetable oils)
•Astaxanthin is a great supplement
•Resveratrol - Organic Berries

36. MCT
Up The Coconut oil Decrease Grains
coconut oil is a brain fuel.
The damage done to your brain from the wrong foods and from unbalanced
insulin and leptin levels
begins decades before you show any of the telltale signs of Alzheimer's.
The coconut oil or MCTs should also be taken in the morning,
takes a minimum of three hours for the oil to convert to ketones and reach
your brain.
Repeating the dose of four tablespoons of coconut oil twice a day
 Gradually add more coconut oil every few days until you are able to tolerate
four tablespoons.

15 million cases of Alzheimer's
United States by the year 2050

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FREE of subluxation
Regular Exercise
Proper Nutrition
Sufficient Rest
Prayer and Meditation
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42. MS, Parkinson's Symptoms Reversed
A study evaluated the data from 44 MS
patients and 37 PD patients who received
treatment over a five-year period.
Results of Treating Upper Neck Injuries in 81 Patients
•91 percent of MS patients showed improvement
•92 percent of PD patients showed improvement
When Neck Injuries are Left Untreated
Upper neck injuries usually occur as the result of accidents in
which the individual sustains a sudden hit to the head.
Symptoms of MS and PD could surface in months, years or even
decades following the accident.
Often, the individual doesn't even realize the extent of the injury
they sustained.
Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research August
16, 2004

43. Cigarettes became really popular in America in the
early 20th century, between 1910 and 1920.
•scientists and government agencies told us tobacco
was safe.
•1944, the American Cancer Society “no definite
evidence exists” between smoking and lung
cancer.
•1967 that a Surgeon General’s Report concluded
that smoking is the principal cause of lung cancer,
and found evidence linking smoking to heart
disease

44. About one in 12 people in the United States now has asthma, a total of 24.6 million
people and an increase of 4.3 million since 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention said Tuesday. The costs of medical care for these patients increased by
about 6% between 2002 and 2007, totaling $56 billion in the latter year, according to
information in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The increases come,
surprisingly, despite improved air quality throughout most of the country and
widespread decreases in smoking. "We don't know exactly why the rate is going up,"
Ileana Arias, principal deputy director of the CDC, said in a news conference. "But
measures can be taken to control asthma symptoms, and exacerbations and many
asthma attacks can be prevented," she said.
Asthma is a chronic disease that is marked by wheezing, breathlessness, chest
tightness and nighttime and early morning coughing. Common triggers include tobacco
smoke, mold, air pollution and infections such as influenza and colds. The disease is
generally treated with two classes of medications: beta-agonists to provide quick relief
when patients are having symptoms, and inhaled corticosteroids or a combination of
steroids and long-acting beta-agonists to control persistent asthma.
Asthma rates increasing in U.S., despite less smoking and decreased air
pollution [Updated]
May 03, 2011|By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times

45. Vaccines, Depression and Neurodegeneration After Age 50:
Another Reason to Avoid the Recommended Vaccines.
By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., CCN
75 million Americans suffer from major depressive disorder
anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder,
•chronic brain inflammation.
•MSG on your brain and mood
•connections between pesticides and neurological disorders
•vaccinations cause brain inflammation
•impact of an expanding vaccine schedule
Current recommendations by the CDC for adult
vaccinations include a total of 14 separate inoculations with
infectious agents and powerful immune adjuvants.

46. Parkinson’s Disease caused by Toxicity and/or
Trauma
Toxicities:
• Pesticides
• MSG
• Excess Iron
•Trauma
•alcohol abuse
•Neurotoxins (Neuro = Nerve Toxins = Poison)
• RX medication:
Tylenol ( leading cause of liver damage) ,
anticonvulsant medications (such as dilantin, phenytoin and primidone)
metformin (sometimes prescribed to control blood sugar in type 2 diabetes)
sulfasalazine (used for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis)
triamterene (a diuretic for high blood pressure)
methotrexate (used for cancer and other diseases ie: rheumatoid arthritis)
barbiturates (used as sedatives)
Deficiencies:
• Decreased Folate
• Not enough good fats (omega 3’s)

47. WARNING: SUICIDALITY AND
ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS
Antidepressants increased the risk
compared to placebo of suicidal
thinking and behavior (suicidality)
in children, adolescents, and
young adults in short-term studies
of Major Depressive Disorder
(MDD) and other psychiatric
disorders. Anyone considering the
use of PROZAC or any other
antidepressant in a child,
adolescent, or young adult must
balance this risk with the clinical
need.
Prozac Black Box
Warning Quote Hippocratic oath
“I will use those dietary
regimens which will
benefit my patients
according to my greatest
ability and judgement,
and I will do no harm or
injustice to them.
I will not give a lethal
drug to anyone if I am
asked, nor will I advise
such a plan; and
similarly I will not give a
woman a peccary to
cause an abortion.”

48. How Exercise Helps Older Brains
•moderate exercise can reverse normal brain shrinkage by two percent,
effectively reversing age-related hippocampus degeneration by one to two
years
•the people in the control group who didn't exercise saw an average of 1.4
percent decrease in hippocampus size
According to the research team:
"We demonstrate that loss of hippocampal volume in late adulthood is not
inevitable and can be reversed with moderate-intensity exercise."
Other contributing factors to brain …include
•decrease in blood flow to your brain (Blood pressure drugs)
•the accumulation of environmental toxins in your brain (Vaccinations)
Exercise
•increasing blood flow to your brain
•increasing oxygen supply to your brain
•encouraging a more vigorous release of accumulated toxins through better blood
circulation
•Increased blood flow increases nutrients necessary to keep your brain cells

49. MERCURY LINKED TO ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE!
 Scientists have shown that trace amounts of mercury can cause the type of
damage to nerves that is characteristic of the damage found in Alzheimer’s
disease
 Humans with mercury/silver amalgam dental fillings. found that exposure to
mercury caused the formation of “neurofibrillar tangles,” which are one of the
two diagnostic markers for Alzheimer’s disease.
 Previous research has shown that mercury can cause the formation of the other
Alzheimer’s disease marker, “amyloid plaques.” The scientists also exposed the
test nerves to other elements, including aluminum, but found that only mercury
caused the damage consistent with Alzheimer’s disease.
 International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT).

50.  symptoms associated with Parkinson’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or
Lou Gehrig’s disease), and Alzheimer’s
 “Either this [link] is known by industry and it was never made public, or
industry was never made to do these studies by Health Canada. I’m not sure
which is scarier.”
 Similar adjuvants are used in the following vaccines, according to Shaw’s
paper: hepatitis A and B, and the Pentacel cocktail, which vaccinates against
diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, and a type of meningitis.
 ...“No one in my lab wants to get vaccinated,” he said. “This totally creeped
us out. We weren’t out there to poke holes in vaccines. But all of a sudden,
oh my God—we’ve got neuron death!” ---

51.  average person older than 65 takes seven different drugs a day
 elderly people average prescriptions for more than 28 different
medications yearly.
 IOM medication-related problems kill more than 100,000 people each
year.
 Adverse drug effects are especially problematic in elderly persons who
have age-related changes in metabolism and excretion that affect
pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics.
 Studies have found that up to 30% of hospital admissions of elderly
patients are linked to toxic drug effects and that one in three older
patients will have an adverse drug reaction while hospitalized.
Polypharmacy sets the stage for life-threatening adverse
drug effects, nonadherence, and drug-drug interactions

52. Bt trait indeed led to a reduction in insecticide use of 123 million pounds between
1996 and 2011. But that figure is dwarfed by the 527 million pound, GMO-driven
increase in herbicide use over the same period. In other words, GMOs have added
more than four pounds of herbicides to US farm fields for every pound of insecticide
they've taken away. Overall, Benbrook found, GMOs have lead to a net increase in
pesticide use (meaning herbicides plus insecticides) of 404 million pounds, a 7
percent gain.
And just as weeds developed resistance to year-after-year applications of Roundup,
corn's number-one insect pest, the rootworm, is quickly evolving to be able to
withstand Bt-engineered corn, as I've reported before. Benbrook told me that in
areas of the Midwest where farmers have been planting Bt corn year after year—an
increasingly popular practice, since the explosion in ethanol production that started
in 2006—ag university extension experts are suggesting that farmers spray other
insecticides to supplement the failing Bt trait in their corn. "The goal of this
technology was to make it possible not have to spray these corn insecticides, and
now we have to spray them again to bail out this technology," Benbrook told me.
seeds engineered to contain the toxic-to-
insects gene found in Bacillus thuringiensis
(Bt)

53. Two small trials published in 2000 and 2004 by Matthew Muldoon, a clinical pharmacologis
at the University of Pittsburgh, seem to suggest a link between statins and cognitive
problems. The first, which enrolled 209 high-cholesterol subjects, reported that participants
taking placebo pills improved more on repeated tests of attention and reaction time taken
over the course of six months—presumably getting better because of practice, as people
typically do. Subjects who were on statins, however, did not show the normal improvement
suggesting their learning was impaired. The second trial reported similar findings. And a
study published in 2003 in Reviews of Therapeutics noted that among 60 statin users who
had reported memory problems to MedWatch, more than half said their symptoms improve
when they stopped taking the drugs
Medication-Related Cognitive Impairments in the Elderly
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Can Too Many Medications Cause Symptoms of
Dementia?
Polypharmacy and Drug-Induced Cognitive Impairment

54. Toxic reactions to drugs
Medications can cause mental decline
With aging, the liver becomes less efficient at metabolizing drugs, and the
kidneys eliminate them from the body more slowly. As a result, drugs tend to
accumulate in the body. Elderly people in poor health and those taking several
different medications are especially vulnerable.
The list of drugs that can cause dementia-like symptoms is long:
•antidepressants
•antihistamines
•anti-Parkinson drugs
•anti-anxiety medications
•cardiovascular drugs
•anticonvulsants
•corticosteroids
•narcotics
•sedatives