Manual for prevention of dementia and Alzheimer's disease
This manual is based on the knowledge and decades of experience of a medical centre of state-of-the-art healing, the globally renowned Bircher-Benner-Klinik, now called the Centre for Scientific Natural Medicine Bircher-Benner. This manual is a great help for patients in that it supports their active contribution to the healing and prevention of disease. It gives patients insight into the scientific basis and causes of their disease, and provides valuable instructions for dietetics, care and physical applications. The manual explains dietetics in a gradual manner- ready for simple, practical applications- and provides tasty, diverse, tried-and-tested diet recipes from the Bircher-Benner-Klinik. For the doctor, this book is a great time saver and a valuable aid in guiding patients.
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The Bircher-Benner diet has tremendous healing value.
This is why doctors, nutritionists and dieticians use our Bircher-Benner diet books.
Editorial reviews:
Prof. Dr.med. Halden, Graz, M.D.:
"I think the books are excellent. In addition to many spa plans, recipes and meal plans for a helpful and tasty diet, tried-and-tested instructions for a protective and uplifting lifestyle are also provided, which promote the understanding of the medical prescriptions.
Dr. med. Klimcyk , M.D. in the German Medical Journal:
"It saves a lot of time for the doctor and is very helpful to the patient."
Prof. Dr.med. K. Kötschau, Schlossberg, M.D. near Rosenheim:
"These books rank above all medicine, because they give you the chance to prevent almost every illness, and indeed some illnesses. That is my medical conviction, which I have come across in decades of working in preventive health care."
Dr. med. W.Matzke, M.D. in the Austrian Medical Journal:
"Everything is thought of and everything is well thought out. This is the special value of this diet book series. Every doctor should recommend it to their patients. "
Dr. med. J. V. Mengershausen, Bayrischzell, M.D.:
"Max Bircher-Benner was the leading pioneer of this natural diet and lifestyle. The series of Bircher-Benner Manuals for the most important disease groups has emerged from the wide and long-standing experience of his famous clinic, which can be highly recommended to anyone seeking healing. "
Prof. Dr. med. Mommsen, Frankfurt / M ., M.D.:
"These books are a valuable aid for every doctor in the management of their patients. They show the sick and the person at risk of illness how they can regain health and resistance through proper nutrition. The reader will be amazed to see how varied a diet can be. It is not necessary to give up the joys of good meals. I wish the books the broadest distribution and I am convinced that our hospitals' susceptibility to illness and the resulting high occupancy rates could be significantly reduced if the nutritional advice of the Bircher-Benner diet books were followed by the majority of our population."
Dr. med. Schoeler, M.D. in the general Homeopathic newspaper:
"It is most convenient for doctors and patients and the most reliable for success to use these inexpensive and practical diet books."
Prof. Dr..med. H. Warning, Saarbrücken, M.D.:
"Since the existence of this diet book series, many related authors have been trying to bring something equivalent and comprehensive to the diet book market that is equally practical for the dietetically informed professional and the general public. As far as I can see, this has so far been only partially successful. So the Bircher-Benner diet book series is marching at the top of its genre as before. "
Dr. med. J. Zinke, M.D. "Classic Homeopathy":
"The diet books of the Bircher-Benner probably represent the best that is currently on the market in this genre. They save a lot of time for the attending doctor and are extremely valuable help for the patient. "
Autor*in
Physician
About the author:
Dr. med. Andres Bircher is Dr.med. Maximilian Bircher-Benner's grandson.
After medical studies in Zurich and Geneva, ten years as a hospital physician in anesthesiology, intensive medicine, emergency surgery, pediatrics, psychosomatics, hematology, geriatrics, psychiatry and psychotherapy, as a specialist at Zurich university hospitals at senior level. Training analysis with Brian Kenny, head physician of a hospital for internal medicine in Zurich and later in the western part of Switzerland. Study and specialist training in TCM and acupuncture in Vienna, neural therapy, manual therapy, classical homeopathy, Training as a German specialist in balneotherapy, climatology and physical medicine. Scientific work in food energy, dietetics and the effects of regulative medicine. Medical director of the Bircher-Benner Medical Center
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
The structure of the central nervous system
The cerebrum
The cerebellum
The pons
The basal ganglia
The thalamic nucleus
The substantia nigra
The limbic system
The motor pathways
The sensitive tracks
The hormone-producing glands of the brain
The posterior pituitary (neurohypophysis)
The epiphysis and melatonin
The nerve cell (neuron)
The potential for action
The synapses
Inhibiting messenger substances
The importance of the glial cells in the brain
The spaces of the brain and the fluid in the brain and spinal cord
The blood-brain barrier
The myelin marrow sheaths - a sensitive substance
Demyelinating diseases
Remyelination
Diseases from storage of degenerative proteins
The TAU proteins
Amyloidosis
The effect of nutrition on the central nervous system
Two kinds of food energy
The basic regulation system of the soft connective tissue in the
central nervous system
Oxidative stress at the centre of the causes of neurodegenerative diseases
The influence of environmental stress from pollutants as the
cause of neuro generative diseases
The neurotoxic effect of mercury
Organic tin compounds and neurodegeneration
Chlorine and neurodegenerative diseases
The neurotoxic effect of volatile organic hydrocarbons
Pesticides and neurodegenerative diseases
Wood-protection agents and neurodegenerative diseases
Neurotoxic medicines and neurodegeneration
Legal and prohibited drugs and neurodegenerative diseases
Cannabis
Amphetamines
LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
Heroin, morphine, other opiates
Cocaine
Nicotine
Alcohol
Caffeine
Regarding the phenomenon of primary and secondary effects
and the danger of polypragmasia from medication
The combined effect of harmful neurotoxic substances
Vitamins, trace elements and neuro degenerative disease
The diversity of causes of neuro degenerative diseases
The various types of neurodegenerative diseases
Systematic overview of neuro degenerative diseases
Dementia
Diagnosis of dementia
Forms of dementia
Dementia becomes more and more frequent
Officially accepted risk factors of dementia
The symptoms of dementia
Diagnosis of dementia
Notes on care and nursing for persons suffering from dementia
Alzheimer's disease
Causes of Alzheimer's disease
What happens in the brain at Alzheimer's disease
The symptoms of Alzheimer's disease
The stages of the disease
Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
Not every memory loss in old age is equivalent to Alzheimer's disease
The early and medium stages of Alzheimer's disease
The later stage of Alzheimer's disease
Change of character by Alzheimer's disease
Physical deterioration of patients with Alzheimer's disease
Life expectancy at Alzheimer's disease
Prophylaxis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease
The officially recognised risk factors of Alzheimer's disease
Order therapy for Alzheimer's disease
Dietary treatment of neurodegenerative diseases
Lab control recommendations for the attending physician during the diet
Practical application of the raw food therapy
Menus
Daily Menu
The Recipes
Juices
Bircher muesli
Fruit and fresh grain dishes
Chilled soups
Milk types
Raw vegetables and salads
Salad dressings
Suggestions for dressings to go with the salads and raw vegetables
Cooked food
Recipes for cooked food
Vegetables
Salads of cooked vegetables
Potato dishes
Cereal dishes
Sauces
Sandwiches
Desserts
Recipes
Notes
Index
