Treatment of Alzheimer's and Dementia With the Metabolism, Infections, Nutrition, Drug Elimination (MIND) Protocol

Practitioners Alliance Network

Status

Completed

Conditions

Alzheimer's Disease

Dementia

Treatments

Other: A mix of natural treatments and medications

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02260167

PAN-ALZ002

Details and patient eligibility

About

Treating with measures that may improve metabolic functioning of neurons in an integrated protocol

Full description

Most organ failure results in modest drops in function until over 50% of function is lost. At a certain point, even modest drops in physiologic activity result in dramatic drops in clinical function. Though less homogeneous than in other organs, clinical experience and the literature suggests a similar process occurs in the brain. The hypothesis is that by using an integrated protocol to, essentially, "tune up" neuronal function, a 5-10 % improvement in metabolic functioning may translate to significant improvement in clinical functioning. This tune-up will include "MIND":

M- Metabolism-- optimizing hormonal function I- Infections-- looking for and eliminating N- Nutritional and herbal support D- Drugs- Weaning subjects off unneeded medications

Enrollment

25 estimated patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

A diagnosis of Alzheimer's and/or dementia with an MMSE score over 12 or being ambulatory and able to travel outside the home with assistance.
Must have a caregiver living with them.

Exclusion criteria

Overt progressive and severe causes of secondary dementia such as metastatic brain cancers, or severe overt infectious encephalopathies or severe autoimmune illness.
Also, severe life threatening illnesses which would make them unlikely to be alive after 6-12 months