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To summarize the predicament: oxidation that generates a free radical under normal cell metabolism is controlled naturally by antioxidants and a healthy immune system. External causes of oxidation that have increased over the last hundred years of civilization have taxed the natural antioxidants to the point where oxidative stress has occurred more frequently, damaging neurons in the process. The immune response is activated, inflammation is initiated to repair the injury, and the Aβ protein is increased to assist the damaged neurons to generate new growth. As we age and the AD risk factors causing the immune system and brain metabolism to decline increase, the Aβ peptides are not adequately cleared from the brain and thus cause toxic aggregates. This process causes more damage, more inflammation, and an endless destructive cycle of damage and partial repair. That cycle, among other problems, causes tau to become inoperable, and the cytoskeleton falls apart, resulting in the death of neurons.

Do not despair or believe that there is nothing anyone can do about the damage that might have started in our twenties. The body is amazing. When given the correct tools, it can repair itself and function optimally in a relatively short amount of time. Edgar Cayce's readings indicated that every cell in the body will have been rebuilt over a seven-year period, so you will have a new body every seven years. You have the choice for health or disease every day. There are simple lifestyle changes you can make immediately so that in as little as six months, you may be able to redirect your body and importantly, your brain, toward better health. After seven years, your body will have rebuilt each one of its cells according to all of your healthful changes, and you will be functioning at your best and brightest!