A Paradise for Parents
@HalCranmer • 34,310 subscribers
We have 3 10-bed assisted living homes near Phoenix AZ. We also have an online community to keep you out of nursing homes forever. Let's discuss your situation.
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In 10 years of running care homes, I have yet to meet a resident with dementia who wasn't addicted to sugar. A few years ago, we used to leave sugar packets on the tables. Some residents would pour five of them into a single coffee. If there were no dessert, they'd tear open the packets and eat the sugar on its own. That's why we removed the sugar from the tables and asked families to take leftover treats home. I've seen a lot of people fear dementia, but they rarely think twice about the diet that could contribute to it. After years of watching the two together, I'm convinced they're related. This weekend, I encourage you to look in your family's kitchen, and remove the sugary treats from there. • Cakes • Biscuits • Sugar packets Something so simple to do, yet overlooked.
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I just recorded my longest interview to date with Dave Feldman (.Dave Feldman), a respected voice in the health space. For three hours, I shared the raw stories from a decade running my care homes. Here are a few of them: 1) Families break down crying right in front of me
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Mikhaila Fuller interviewed me on her podcast a year ago. She wanted to know how we reversed 2 dementia residents in 3 years. The 8 things I told her about our nutrition protocols, the assisted living industry and my residents: 1) Average resident in my home is on 25-30 meds
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460 pounds, completely incapacitated and unable to stand, yet she still found a way out. After a year at my assisted living home, Mary is down nearly 200 pounds and standing again. Here are the 5 things we did to help her: 1/ We cut the artificial sugar
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When MikhailaFuller asked me: “How much does it cost to live at one of your assisted living homes?” I replied: “My costs generally are around $5,000 a month for a private room, $4,000 for a semi-private. And that includes: • 24/7 care • All medication management • All your meals (carnivore or keto) • Red light therapy and saunas (included in price) • Activities (trips to local zoos, Lake Pleasant for boat rides, movies) With the Bredesen protocol, families do pay extra for: • Labs and blood work • Dental care (crucial since periodontal disease migrates to your brain and contributes to dementia) • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (outside service)” To give you a comparison, there’s a lady in San Diego that just does the Bredeson protocol and she charges ~$15,000 a month. For me, I told Mikhaila Peterson I try to keep my costs down because I want you to get better and we can figure out how to pay for it one way or the other.
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I interviewed a doctor of physical therapy with 14 years of experience who helps seniors live independently at home. Dr. Amber Enright shared 8 actionable insights on how to keep the elderly physically fit at home: 1) Resistance training is the most important thing after 40
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Dr. Joel Wallach said: "Alzheimer's is a physician caused disease." 75% of brain weight is myelin, a cholesterol-rich fatty insulator protecting nerve fibers in the brain. Lower cholesterol with statins, myelin breaks down and Alzheimer's sets in. The full explanation: 🧵
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Dr. Ovadia says nattokinase is something he routinely recommends as part of his protocol for patients. It a fibrinolytic agent, meaning it helps the body break down blood clots as they start to form. He points to a trial showing reduced arterial plaque in patients taking it, though that study measured carotid (neck) plaque rather than coronary plaque, which he flags as a caveat. As mentioned below, the trial tested 3,600 units daily (not statistically significant) versus 10,800 units daily (significant plaque reduction), so he typically suggests around 10,000 units a day. He cautions that many supplements are dosed too low or poorly sourced, and that anyone on blood-thinning medication should talk to their doctor first. (h/t Ken D Berry MD & DoctorTro)
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I just told Kelly Hogan something that shocked her. After 10 years running assisted living homes, I've learned the industry is completely backwards. Here are the 8 things I shared with her: 1) Expensive care homes don't focus on your loved one’s recovery
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Almost exclusively everyone who moves into my place is on a statin. It's one of the first medications I work to get them off of. I show their doctors the research - high LDL is linked to longer lifespan, and the triglyceride-to-HDL ratio is a better indicator of heart disease than LDL alone. As long as the family backs me up, I can usually get them off. We've deprescribed statins from a lot of residents and they're doing fine. I can't think of the last time I've had a cardiac event in one of my assisted living homes.
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I recently sat down with Eddie Rodriguez to talk about why residents typically get worse in most care facilities. Here are 8 things they tend to ignore that could actually help improve their resident's health. 1) Just managing decline because residents are "too far gone"
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If there's one thread you read to learn about Alzheimer's, it is this. Memory loss isn't caused by amyloid plaques the way drug companies claim. The plaques are the brain's defense response to deeper problems: Bad food, lack of movement, poor sleep, chronic stress, no challenging tasks, disrupted hormones, infections, and toxin and mold exposure. Dr. Bredesen built a protocol that targets all 8, and ALL patients at one clinical site in his latest study reversed memory loss in 9 months. I’ve personally used parts of his protocol in my care homes and have helped 2 residents reverse their dementia and several improve. If your partner or spouse is on anti-amyloid meds and you're not seeing them get better, this could be the problem. If you'd like to see if we could help you with this, book a call directly with me. Link in bio.
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When someone asks me how do you get people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s to take their health seriously before dementia strikes, I tell them: "Visit an assisted living home near you—not as a resident, as motivation. Everyone who comes to my home says I don't want to be here, I want to live at home." Here's why: "Something that's very important to know is dementia starts in your 30s 40s and 50s. You don't see the signs and symptoms of it until your 60s 70s 80s 90s, but what you do in your 30s 40s and 50s can very much affect what happens to you in your older life especially with dementia and Alzheimer's." This is how to get started with reversing dementia now: "Cut out one thing at a time—concentrate on that candy bar after lunch, get rid of that first, then cut out your breakfast cereal, then eat your burgers without a bun...Even if you don't go to the gym and work out, go walking, get out in the sunshine... just move."
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Why cardiologist Dr. Jack Wolfson NEVER prescribes statins to his patients: "The need for statins is totally built on lies... The most egregious thing that's ever been committed on the worldwide populace is the idea of taking statin drugs as a health measure." He continues: "Because I would say that statin drugs, not only do they not work in the sense that we would think they work, because they work to lower numbers down, that's for sure. But they don't really reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, and dying to meaningful levels." If I didn't make this clear in my original thread: Statins are effective at one thing: lowering cholesterol numbers on a lab report. And they do this extremely well. Despite some saying there are benefits to it as Dr. Wolfson says: "They do have anti-inflammatory properties and can stabilize arterial plaques — which is why mainstream medicine argues they reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and death. But according to a 2022 JAMA meta-analysis, that actual reduction is from 2% to 1.84% annually — a fraction of a point. And that marginal benefit comes at a real cost." That real cost is: 1) Your money 2) Side effects, for example: • Hormone disruption — since cholesterol is a precursor to all sex hormones, blocking its production disrupts hormone balance • Impaired vitamin D synthesis — sunlight converts cholesterol in the skin into vitamin D; less cholesterol means less vitamin D • Weakened bones — they interfere with vitamin K utilization, increasing osteoporosis risk Ultimately, it doesn't address the root cause for heart attacks and strokes which are inflammation, oxidative stress, toxic exposure, poor diet, and sedentary living which lifestyle can solve. Read my thread below to see solutions. (Disclaimer: do not get off your medications without consulting your doctor.)
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Dr. Dale Bredesen just revealed that the most-prescribed Alzheimer's drug makes patients WORSE than taking nothing at all. Aricept is the drug your neurologist hands out at the first sign of memory loss. It's been on the market for 30 years, and almost every patient with early dementia is on it. Dr. Lon Schneider from USC published a paper on it. He discovered Aricept patients decline FASTER than untreated patients over time. The early "boost" wears off, and the brain damage accelerates underneath while you keep filling the prescription. Most neurologists still prescribe it because there isn't a better pill, so families keep buying it every month, hoping it's slowing things down. The data shows it's actually pulling forward the decline. A new randomized trial just dropped showing what actually works for early Alzheimer's (covered in the thread below). I’ve implemented parts of the protocols mentioned in this study in my own homes and have personally seen how it can help reverse dementia and early onset Alzheimer's. PS: I’ve opened 7 more slots this month to my online community where we share these exact protocols. If you’d like to see if this could help you, book a call directly with me. Link in bio.
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I testified in front of Arizona State Senate to support SB1052 yesterday morning. This is a bill to allow hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in assisted living homes. We try get our residents suffering from dementia into HBOT chambers as often as possible and within budget. We've sent two residents home with their dementia reversed after 20 uses each. Here's why it works: HBOT floods the brain with oxygen under pressure, which stimulates blood vessel growth, releases stem cells, and helps rebuild damaged brain tissue. It also can create new mitochondria and optimize energy production in brain cells—essentially helping wake up areas that have shut down. Right now, we work with a certified HBOT facility, but transporting wheelchair-bound dementia patients is extremely challenging. Having chambers in our homes would provide daily access in a supervised environment with trained staff. If you want to see real-life improvements, watch the case study below.
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