All of this new and exciting work in dementia is because we have a foundation of what doesn’t work. “It turns out, it isn’t the answer, so there’s a background. “I started in this field in the ‘80s looking at single-targeted strategies for dementia thinking that there would be a silver bullet because that’s the way we thought - receptors, specificity, working with a targeted approach to one brain chemical, for example, acetylcholine would be the answer,” Dr. But when she began her work, they were looking for one single cure. Dale Bredesen, which shows that a personalized, holistic approach to Alzheimer’s can not only prevent the disease but even reverse its onset in early phases. Rusk is one of many doctors who now ascribe to the protocols of Dr. Ilene Naomi Rusk is a behavioral neuroscientist and co-director of the healthy brain program in Boulder, CO, who has focused her life’s work on the disease.ĭr. Researchers have studied the disease for over a century, and while they’ve come to understand the mechanisms that lead to Alzheimer’s, there haven’t been significant breakthroughs in finding a viable treatment to prevent patients’ decline into dementia and death. But what if, by using a holistic approach to treating this disease, there was a way to prevent and reverse the onset of Alzheimer’s? To learn more about the importance of diversity in the gut microbiome watch this episode of Open Minds with microbiologist and Ascended Health founder Compton Rom:Īlzheimer’s disease is on the rise and has become one of the more alarming public health issues. But if we don’t move quickly to preserve that diversity, the result could be devastating. They all have played a role in harming the diversity of healthy bacteria in modern society.Īll of our biomes, inside and out, are as unique as the individuals we are. And without that bacteria, allergies and other immune issues perpetuate.Īnd this doesn’t even take into account our unbridled use of antibiotics that have arguably played the biggest role in destroying bacterial diversity those antibiotics we feed to livestock, consume medicinally, and that seep into the soil and water table. In adulthood, if a female born through C-section has children of her own, she won’t have that bacteria to pass on to her child, and so a line of bacterial deficiency begins. For instance, the cesarean section prevents a newborn from being exposed to the healthy bacteria it would normally pick-up from being born through the birth canal. Without them, we couldn’t exist.Īnd other first-world factors have contributed to our gut microbiota diversity loss, aside from diet. Sounds gross, except those bacteria, inside and out, make up our immune systems, regulate our metabolism, and are critical to every bodily function we have. In fact, recent studies have even broken down our individual exposomes – the microbial cloud of bacteria that exists around us, almost like the cloud of dirt surrounding Pigpen in Charlie Brown.
Our gut microbiomes vary wildly and consist of a combination of your environment, the food you eat, the pathogens that infect you, and the people you come in contact with.
In some cases, tribes that maintain a plant-based and fiber-rich diet have double the microbial diversity we do. That’s because there are a number of regions throughout the world, primarily of indigenous population, that maintain a healthy and diverse gut flora, which could benefit the relatively homogenous bacteria of those living in the first world. The vault would not only harbor healthy bacteria, but also yeasts, viruses, and other micro-organisms that could be beneficial to our survival. Unlike the Svalbard vault, which stores seeds for a hypothetical apocalyptic event, the gut microbiota vault would gather human gut bacteria from across the world in order to preserve and cultivate a biome that could be given to individuals in this era.
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