Memory Loss Has Nothing to Do with Your Age (Watch Out for This Instead)

Memory loss and cognitive decline are not just a normal part of aging. Discover why dementia is often called type 3 diabetes, how insulin resistance affects brain function, and what you can do to improve memory, support cognitive function, and combat cognitive decline naturally.

If your memory is getting worse, I’m going to let you know [music] right now it’s not your age. Today we’re going to talk about what happens to your brain when your blood sugar spikes for more than 10 to 20 years. And the reason why this video is so important is not necessarily just for you, but for your loved ones because sooner or later you’re going to know someone that’s going to develop this, and I’m going to give you the information that you need to turn things around. Hopefully, because there is a limitation of matter, a point of no return if it’s too far advanced. But what you need to know about dementia and memory loss and cognitive loss is these symptoms occur long after the problem is started.

And so this is the part where medicine focuses on. We’re going to go earlier in showing what happens at the earlier stages. In the first stage, you have the energy drop in the brain. Your memory’s still good. You don’t have very many symptoms if any other than maybe some fatigue.

And then you go into stage two. This is where you start developing certain protein residue in your brain that don’t get cleared out. And another thing that happens is a certain part of the brain that’s responsible for memory starts shrinking. It’s called the hippocampus. And it’s a energy hog.

Out of all the parts of the brain, this is the part that has the most dense mitochondria, which is the energy factory. So it requires a lot of energy to work. But at this point, your memory’s still fine. It’s when we get into stage three where you’re starting to notice certain things, especially with remembering names, your ability to learn goes down. And this can occur when you’re in your 30s or even your 40s.

Now, the problem between stage three and four is you start losing more of your ability to notice your own cognitive decline. So in In cases at stage four, your family notices your memory issues more than you do and this is usually when you’re diagnosed. And the problem with this is the traditional test that doctors do, they’re not going to pick it up because they’re not looking for it because their medicine is mainly focused on symptoms and if you don’t have any, you’re not going to test it. However, if you wanted to know what test to do, it would be a PET scan. Okay, that would have picked it up in the earlier stages.

Now, what’s a PET scan? Maybe you’ve heard of a PET scan in relationship to cancer because it’s the same scan. In cancer, they use a PET scan to identify areas of your body that are in hyper mode where you have a lot of glucose uptake, okay? Because cancer loves glucose. The problem with this scan is it’s very expensive and the doctors aren’t going to do it unless there’s significant reason to do it and if there’s no symptoms, they’re probably not going to do it.

In Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, it’s just the opposite. You have a hypo metabolism of glucose and that gives a big clue on really what Alzheimer’s is because they call it type 3 diabetes. So, it’s an energy problem because when you have high levels of glucose running through your bloodstream, your body then compensates and it starts to shut down your ability to uptake that glucose. And the term for that is called insulin resistance, but you get insulin resistance in the brain and so there’s a lot of glucose flowing through the body, but it’s unavailable to the neurons. If your environment is off, everything else struggles.

It’s like a fish tank. Pollute the water and the fish gets sick. You could feed them the best food, you can treat every single symptom, but if the water stays toxic, nothing recovers. The body runs on 10 signals like insulin, cortisol, inflammation, sleep quality, gut function. Every one of them affects how you feel, but there is always one signal that is more broken than the rest and until you fix that one, everything else stays stuck.

I built a free 2-minute quiz that finds it for you. It tells you which one of the main signals is holding your body back right now. Click the link in the description, take the quiz, and stop guessing. So, you want to ask yourself three simple questions, okay? Number one, do you need to eat every two or three hours to avoid getting irritable or having brain fog?

That is a really good indicator of this blood sugar issue, okay? Even if you don’t have diabetes, because even diabetes takes a long time to show up. Number two, do you wake up between 2:00 or 3:00 a. m. in the middle of the night for no reason?

That is not a stress or cortisol problem. That is a blood sugar problem. Number three, after a high-carbohydrate meal, do you feel mentally sluggish or do you need a nap? If you answered yes to any of these three, you could be somewhere in these stages right here. In other words, I’m increasing your awareness so you can do something about it now.

When you have high levels of glucose flowing through your bloodstream and high levels of insulin, there’s something that happens to vitamin B1. There will be a 16 to 24 times loss of B1 through your urine. In other words, the more carbohydrates that you consume, the more B1 you are going to be deficient in. Now, what is the significance of a loss of B1? Remember we talked about this energy factory being a problem and then there’s a backup a source of fuel called glycolysis, where the body really only gets a small amount of fuel versus if you use the whole mitochondria, you’d get a much larger unit of energy.

In diabetes, also in cancer, and then Alzheimer’s, it’s not that this mitochondria is actually damaged, just the door is damaged, the entry to this unit. If you don’t have B1, this door cannot be fixed. And you will generate a lot of lactic acid in the body. And this is what they found with Alzheimer’s, there’s a lot of lactic acid built up in the brain, which actually decreases oxygen and causes additional problems. So, it’s the excessive carbohydrates that are depleting the B1, which is destroying the door to allow you to have energy.

Picture it like an engine. You have a carburetor mixing oxygen with fuel to allow this engine to work, but you need a spark plug. B1 is the spark plug. Now, what’s really interesting right now, there are researchers studying B1 in relationship to Alzheimer’s. And they’re testing the form of B1 called benfotiamine.

I’ve talked about this many, many years ago, but now they’re finally doing a study on it. So, the National Institute on Aging right now is doing this massive phase two trial testing on benfotiamine across 50 different sites. I know with type two diabetes, they use benfotiamine for peripheral neuropathy. Even in a lot of other videos I’ve done, I’ve talked extensively on benfotiamine and what it does. It helps clean out the side effects, the toxicity of glucose byproducts.

It allows the myelin sheath, the coating around the nerves to be regenerated. In practice, I’ve used B1 for helping with nervous tension, anxiety. But, the big reason why people are deficient in B1 is because they’re consuming too many carbs, and too many carbs eat up the reserves of B1, leaving you high and dry. Even we look at refined wheat or refined grains, it like over 85% of that B1 is taken out. So, when you’re eating all this refined carbohydrate, sugar, and starch, you are creating a huge deficit of B1, shutting the door to your energy factory.

And now the body has to use the backup energy unit, and unfortunately, there’s not a lot of energy around, so you’re going to be tired. So, regardless of where you are at, the absolute most important action that you can take is to start reducing the refined sugars and carb