Here is another excuse, but important new endeavor of mine:

Snowline Health Dementia Connection

I have volunteered to help out at this new service facility that has thankfully FUNCTIONAL Medicine to El Dorado County. Functional Medicine seeks to help you find out the cause and natural solutions of a condition rather than taking drugs to diminish the symptoms while the condition often continues to rage on. This new program in El Dorado County is aimed at brain health and total body wellness.

I’m talking about a program designed by Dr. Dale Bredesen, one of my UTube medical doctor favorites who wrote the book: “The End of Alzheimer’s Program” and the program to prevent it. Dr. Sandra Fleming brought the invitation to our Heritage Community to link up with this program offered to us and I took them up on it.
I wanted to see first hand how the PreCode (prevention) program works so I could bring information to my Healthy Lifestyles Club here. Basically, the program helps you to assess your personal cognitive risk factors and address them on your own and/or with the help of a practitioner. Start out on line with a series of written tests and then receive a lab request form to take to a local lab where a substantial amount of blood is drawn for a substantial amount of testing, including the one to see if you have the APOE gene. Thankfully, no copies of it for me.

The fee for joining up to receive all this fabulous information is a heavily discounted one time charge of $334. + $39.95 monthly. The benefit of having these tests done with Apollo Health is that you then receive a 54-page Recode Report that spells out exactlly what the tests tell you and what steps you can take to resolve any off-numbers. For example, one important test is Homocysteine, a toxic amino acid in association with inflammation. My doctor said that it is still within normal limits. But the report goes on to say that bringing it to the optimal level or lower with specific supplementation they identify will help reduce the risk factors. Higher Homocysteine numbers can contribute to atrophic type 2 Alzheimer’s and is associated with vascular damage, and brain shrinkage.

Additional tests can be done, such as a full brain scan order or others to investigate with your practitioner. Unfortunately, the few and far between Functional Medicine doctors available have prohibitively high rates for service. I will let you know what Dr. Fleming says to my comment about that during my alloted 5-min. chat with her today.

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