This List of Medications Lead to Brain Shrinkage, Dementia

If you’re taking medications for allergies, insomnia, anxiety, Parkinson’s, depression, or even your bladder, then you have to be careful as some of those drugs are associated with quietly increasing your risk of dementia. In fact, taking one of these very common pills, daily for 12 months, raises your risk of dementia by 50%.

In this video, we’ll be NAMING these drugs and discuss safer alternatives to discuss with your doctor. The comprehensive list is below the video.

An excellent 8 minutes by a U.S. doctor. There’s a reason this new video has been watched over 3M times.

What Are Anticholinergic Drugs?

Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter that plays a crucial role in transmitting signals in the brain and the whole nervous systems. It directs various vital functions, including muscle movement, memory, and attention. Anticholinergic drugs block this neurotransmitter at any age.

Anticholinergic Drugs and Seniors

Especially after 65, you have fewer brain cells that can absorb acetylcholine. Thus, if you decrease the amount of acetylcholine because it’s blocked by these medications, it accelerates this downward spiral, so you have even less of this neurotransmitter circulating.

All medications –– whether prescription or over the counter –– are cleared from the body by the liver or kidneys. As you age, your liver and kidneys work more slowly, and there can be an unintentional buildup of these drugs in your system. (Always check with your doctor to make sure you are on the right dose of a medication for your age.) As such, you can have severe side-effects from these anticholinergic drugs.

Even when used as instructed, anticholinergics can have a number of unpleasant side-effects. Of course, these will vary depending on the specific drug and dosage.

The side effects include:

• blurry vision

• constipation

• drowsiness

• sedation

• trouble urinating

• memory issues

• hallucinations

Another side-effect is that these drugs can decrease sweat production and thereby raise your body temperature. This can lead to heatstroke.

A report published in JAMA Internal Medicine showed compelling evidence of a link between use of anticholinergic medications (like the pharmaceuticals and OTC meds above) and dementia.

Study results: Taking these drugs for the equivalent of three years or more had a 54% higher dementia risk than taking the same dose for three months or less. (source)

It’s Really Time to Stop

1  minute.

There is evidence we can bring even aging people back with intentional care IF this behavior is STOPPED!

One retired hospice nurse wrote. “Our patients were taken off their regular medications and put on comfort meds only. A few dementia patients had so many medications that it took 2 or 3 pages of paper to list them all. They were a few patients who were just a few days from death and when they were taken off all their medications, improved so much that we discharged them because they were no longer dying.”

My own awesome husband took his dad, still in his own home with round the clock care and in his early 90s, off 14 medications because he became totally confused. He drooled, needed a diaper, and slept all day. After a few weeks, he started to perk up and once again enjoyed his food and conversation. Within 5 months, he was back to playing a mean game of euchre with his old buddies and lived a great life for 2 more years. I watched this first hand and know others who have done the same thing with their loved ones. ~Jacqueline

Another wrote, “My grandmother had in treated sleep apnea, but also took Benadryl EVERY SINGLE DAY. For over 10 years. She eventually began have psychotic episodes and they diagnosed her with dementia with psychosis. We moved her out of her moldy dusty apartment, got her her cpap machine, put her on a ketogenic diet. Forbid her from ever taking Benadryl ever again. Besides her memory being slightly off, she lives on her own now and has done a completely 180! Happy, healthy, loving life in sunny San Diego!” 

So don’t give up! Fight back and take your life or that of your loved one back.

“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” ~Proverbs 27:17

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