By: Dr. William Wong, ND, PhD.'Look at an MRI of an Alzheimers patient’s brain and what will you see? You'll see a shrunken mass looking something like an over-cooked baked potato; dry looking with fissures and cracks, not at all like the image of the big juicy brain we know with it's swirls and convolutions. What happened? How did it get that way? Is there any way to avoid or even reverse some of the damage?
'Alzheimers in a way is an accelerated and more serious form of the brain degeneration we'll all be subject to as we age. Let me explain the physiological process. From 27 onward our bodies begin the aging process. In this process, various things happen to slowly limit the function of our internal organs not the least of which is that the organs themselves, including the brain, begin to be laced through with scar tissue (fibrosis) and shrink.
'From 40-45 onward our brains not only shrink due to fibrosis but hormone changes (i.e. a drop in testosterone) also decrease the size of a portion of the brain known as the medical amygdala. Cells in the substancia negra of the brain which controls our brains connection to the body, begin to die off and with it the production of dopamine, the chemical needed for the brain body connection, begins to wane.
'If these cells die off too quickly or at too young an age that produces Parkinson's disease. If they die off slowly, as is normal, we gradually become weaker and less precise in our movements over time and our libido is lacking or gone altogether. Soy foods have been found to increase the brain shrinkage. (See our article Soy The Poison Seed for references).'
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