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What to Eat, What Not to Eat, to reverse illness, to reverse disease, to improve health. Foods that reverse Dementia?

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September 8, 2026 California USA; le 24 septembre 2026 Paris FRANCE

Hello, everyone! / Bonjour à tous !

I wish for miracles. Life must be so very hard when one spouse (a senior) has been diagnosed with Dementia and is now living in a board and care home while the other spouse (also a senior) has to return to work in order to pay for the board and care home.

For the spouse to implement change to benefit the spouse who has Dementia must be so very hard when the spouse has no authority to train the caregivers.

I am sitting on the front steps of M & R’s house in California… I use my phone to get onto the Internet… I’m searching keywords (TAGs)

“Foods that reverse dementia”

I must not be asking the right question… I type ”What foods restore brain cells?” This link appears –

https://www.abta.org/mindmatters/how-the-right-foods-can-help-your-brain-heal-and-thrive/

American Brain Tumor Association“How the Right Foods Can Help Your Brain Heal and Thrive”

https://www.abta.org/mindmatters/how-the-right-foods-can-help-your-brain-heal-and-thrive/

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I look at Dr. Steven Gundry’s website https://gundrymd.com/books

the book - The Gut-Brain Paradox

In his previous books, Dr. Gundry taught readers how to improve health and well-being by supporting our gut health. In The Gut-Brain Paradox, Dr. Gundry focuses on brain health and reveals how our gut microbiome is driving our thoughts, feelings, behaviors—not to mention, our mental, emotional, and neuronal health. And he shows us how to heal our microbiomes to take back control of our minds.

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What to Eat, What Not to Eat, to reverse illness, reverse disease, to improve health. Foods that reverse Dementia?

What combination of nutrients could reverse Dementia?

I know… excellent health is a combination of nutrition, environment, genetics, individual brain and body, the world’s well-being.

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I send you BIG smiles; when I smile I help myself too

https://neurolaunch.com/does-smiling-release-endorphins/

After years of eating processed foods (even though the labels list quality ingredients… the emulsifiers and preservatives aren’t food; they do NOT feed healthy gut bacteria)… I have been fighting a silent illness.

I didn’t know about polyphenols, lectins, prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics, gut lining, gut bacteria, compounds in foods…

Last month, eating delicious eggplant plunged me into depression which made me crave foods that aren’t real foods at all. Then, my Angel Mom and others intervened…

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Heart Surgeon Dr. Steven Gundry says:

”The road to health is paved with good intestines. Start repairing yours today.”

Dr. Steven Gundry’s YouTube Channel and sub-channels

https://www.youtube.com/@DrGundry

Dr. Steven Gundry’s website: https://drgundry.com/about/

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Dr. Leonid Kim, M.D. says:

“True wealth is long-lasting health. Live longer. Live better. Healthspan should be designed. Not left to chance.”

Dr. Kim’s YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/@LeonidKimMD

Dr. Kim’s website: https://www.leonidkimmd.com/

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Dr. William Li says:

“Discover the foods and drinks shown to help starve cancer by targeting angiogenesis and cancer growth pathways.”

Dr. Li’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DrWilliamLi

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Stephanie Wilger, NC, founder of Health Happens –

When I am in California, I get Chi Nei Tsang treatments from Stephanie who says:

“Foods and herbs nourish us as well as help us to maintain harmony and health.”

https://stephaniewilgernc.net/

https://stephaniewilgernc.net/recipes/

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When I am in France, I get Chi Nei Tsang treatments from Marie-Christine Cornet who also gives me food advice.

https://www.mariechristinecornet.com/

https://www.mariechristinecornet.com/chi-nei-tsang

Chi Nei Tsang for digesting life experiences and emotions

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Gilles Marin, Founder and Director of the Chi Nei Tsang Institute, Founder and Director of the School of TaoTouch says:

” … Healing is pure grace. To heal, we do need honesty. We need to be true to ourselves. We need to be able to admit that we have feelings we wish we didn’t have. We need to own these feelings so we can outgrow them, and so we can mature as human beings.”

https://www.chineitsang.com/blog

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I am reading Dr Steven Gundry’s book

GUT CHECK: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Health

https://www.youtube.com/@DrGundry/featured

I am taking Dr. Gundry’s “Total Restore” supplement.

I am preparing my own meals, and, now have interest in foods that I used to not be interested in.

“Unclog Your Arteries Naturally With These 5 Foods Recommended By A Heart Surgeon” Dr. Steven Gundry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICQBmkzrnjo

Learn All About Polyphenol Benefits

https://gundrymd.com/polyphenol-benefits

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I love drinking green tea which is good for gut bacteria. Because I live out of my suitcase…I don’t have space for kettle and teapot for loose leaf teas. I rely on tea bags.

Thanks to Nan who enlightened me about tea companies who do not use microplastic material to make their tea bags.

Chemicals and health expert Konstantina Antoniadou says:

“Research links ‘microplastics’ to endocrine disruption, reproductive toxicity, and neurological issues. The tiny particles can enter our bodies and accumulate over time, potentially leading to long-term health problems.

“32 Plastic-Free Tea Bag Brands Without Microplastics”

https://greenchoicelifestyle.com/plastic-free-tea-bag-brands/

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Dr. Leonid Kim, MD is board-certified in Internal and Obesity Medicine, with a focus on the most up to date and evidence-based information on the topics of weight loss, metabolic health and longevity.

Cut Your DEMENTIA Risk in HALF (What Actually Works) – Leonid Kim MD

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UaWxB8EyYWA

5 Early Warning Signs You’re Aging Faster Than You Should – Leonid Kim MD

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cptbl3U4yyU&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D

(There are copycat channels… not Dr. Kim’s)

Dr. Leonid Kim’s YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/@LeonidKimMD

Dr. Kim’s website: https://www.leonidkimmd.com/

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Thank you, Chris Y, for telling me about Dr. Eric Berg’s insightful talks on his YouTube channel.

“The #1 Secret to Restoring Your Heart, Joints & Gut”

Dr. Eric Berg, D.C. reminds us that collagen is vital to heart, joints and gut, and, why the foods we eat could be deficient with this protein.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qRrfwUHx99M

Dr Berg’s YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/@Drberg/videos

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The most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans | Daniel Amen | TEDxOrangeCoast

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=esPRsT-lmw8&pp=ygUSODMgMDAwIGJyYWluIHNjYW5z0gcJCTgLAYcqIYzv

TEDxOrangeCoast – Daniel Amen – Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MLKj1puoWCg&t=47s

Dr Daniel Amen’s YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/@AmenClinic/videos

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https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/the-gut-brain-connection

What is the gut-brain connection?

Your brain talks to your gut, and your gut talks back. If you’ve ever had a “gut feeling,” you’ve experienced this communication. It’s how the thought of an exciting event can make you feel “butterflies in your stomach,” while the thought of something dreadful might be “gut-wrenching.” And it’s how the feeling in your gut can influence your decision-making, as in “going with your gut”.

Your brain communicates with all of your body through nerves (your nervous system). But your brain and your gut are like besties. They talk about all kinds of things, from practical, physical matters to emotional ones. More information passes between your brain and your gut than any other body system. In fact, there are more nerve cells in your gut than anywhere else in your body outside of your brain.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4973770/

Plants are not sitting ducks waiting for herbivores to eat them.

There is a common attitude toward plants, accordingly, plants are waiting around to be found and eaten by herbivores. This common approach toward plants is a great underestimation of the huge and variable arsenal of defensive plant strategies. Plants do everything evolution has allowed them to do in order not to be eaten. Therefore, plants are not sitting ducks and many plants outsmart and even exploit many invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores and carnivores for pollination and for seed dispersal, and even carnivores and parasitoids for defense.

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Thank you, dear Sue, for gifting me the book

Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive

by Philipp Dettmer, creator of the popular science YouTube channel “Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell”

https://www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt/videos

Page 62 of the book IMMUNE: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
“Inflammation is the universal response of your immune system to any sort of breach or damage or insult. No matter if you burn yourself, cut yourself, or get a bruise. No matter if bacteria or viruses infect your nose, lungs, or gut. No matter if a young tumor kills a few civilian cells by stealing their nutrients or you have an allergic reaction to a food, inflammation is the response. Damage or danger – PERCEIVED OR REAL – causes inflammation.”

I wish everyone total wellness, safety, and happiness always!

Je souhaite à chacun bien-être, sécurité et bonheur toujours !

Sincerely,

Teresa_Jade_LeYung_wishes_everyone peace_and_wellness;

photo_by_Nan_and_MEK

Teresa Jade LeYung

Author / Blogger of health and wellness / Story-Theme Consultant / Photo Historian

https://m.youtube.com/@teresajadeleyung/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@teresajadeleyung/shorts

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http://www.OurBeautifulBrains.com and https://LoveMadeOfHeart.com/blog/

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Blog Post 1 of 3 – Papa Makes Decision “Where Do I Go Now?” After Hospitalization. While In Skilled Nursing Rehab

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August 7, 2018

Dear Readers,

I (Teresa Jade LeYung) write to you not as a novelist, theme consultant or found-object artist but as a memoirist, daughter of Mr. Leung, and a witness to joy and despair and a whole lot of kindness.

Papa was doing fine, as fine as a 84-year-old fellow with Parkinson’s Disease (and Diabetes and hypertension) could do. Just four months ago, he was using his walker several times a day … to go from his apartment to the balcony on his floor and to the courtyard in the senior building he lived in. To show off in the hallway, whenever a caregiver was nearby (and I have photos to prove this), he would abandon the walker and use the handrail to traverse the seventeen feet to the door of his apartment.

On July 19, around 5:00pm while I was away on a writing retreat with two dear friends/colleagues, my sister (who was here for the summer) called me to say that paramedics were taking our father to an E.R.

A few days prior to this one, his caregivers had been reporting (in Cantonese) that our papa was “looking sad”. That morning of July 19, caregiver Mrs. G. had reported to my sister that Papa was feeling dizzy. When my sister called me, my advice to her was to ask questions: “Had Papa eaten breakfast? Had he been drinking water everyday? What was he doing before feeling dizzy?” He would be seeing his primary care physician that afternoon at 4:00pm … Well, our papa was in no condition to go to the appointment. His primary care physician instructed my sister to call 9-1-1.

In E.R. and the hospital, our papa was being treated for pneumonia and urinary tract infection.

Pneumonia. When two friends heard the word “pneumonia” they gently prepared me for the worst case scenario. Well, Papa has beat the odds before.

He had aspiration pneumonia (probably caused by food or water going down the windpipe which led to bacteria infection).

And, he was fighting a urinary tract infection.

July 22 (the day that my sister flies home), Papa is transferred to a skilled nursing facility. He had bounced back before, twice last year – dehydration and falls. This time is different.

My papa is not Mr. John Pepper (the hero in Chapter 2 “The Man Who Walks Off His Parkinsonian Symptoms” in the book The Brain’s Way of Healing by Norman Doidge, M.D.). Papa is his own hero, winning smile, flaws and all.

Papa Makes Decision “Where Do I Go Now?” After Hospitalization. While In Skilled Nursing Rehabilitation.

August 7, I asked the Director of Social Services at the skilled nursing facility where Papa was at…

“Could we please have a meeting, with a Cantonese-speaking interpreter, so that my father can hear in his native language…what his choices are when he is discharged? I want him to make his own decision. He’s been asking me to help him go home. He needs to understand what is happening.”

Miracles involving my father also involves the ticking of a clock.

The meeting would take place that afternoon. I asked dear friend Sasa to go with me (I needed someone to witness my role). The meeting would take place after Papa has his lunch and before my friend would need to leave at 2pm.

Staff members at this institution are pulled in various directions during a work day. The Director of Social Services was most accommodating. Sasa and I arrived at 12:30, patients were waiting for lunch which was served later than usual today. 1:00pm Papa’s puree and “controlled carbs” meal arrived (looks delicious, really).

At 1:40pm all the characters for the scene were in place – Papa; director of social services; interpreter who is also activities director; my friend Sasa; Papa’s caregiver Mrs. G who was visiting; and me.

What are the 3 options when skilled nursing facility discharges Papa?

Go home? He was receiving 5 hours/day of care through IHSS. He now needs 24-hour care. Who will pay for the 19 hours each day? His monthly income from Social Security is approximately $1,000; $300 of that goes to paying rent of a studio apartment in a senior housing; the balance pays for food, hygiene products, telephone, TV, SF Paratransit. My sister and I can contribute up to $700/month. Care-giving costs $35-$40/hour; most agencies want a 4-hour minimum each day; our $700/month would buy approximately 18 hours.
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Go to an assisted living home or a board-and-care home (fewer residents in these types of homes) – in San Francisco Bay Area, minimum cost is over $3,000/month. According to https://www.senioradvisor.com/san-francisco-ca/how-much-does-san-francisco-assisted-living-cost on average, a senior can expect to pay approximately $54,000 per year on these services.
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Accept a Medi-Cal bed in a nursing home for long-term care. (If Papa were to private pay, the cost of nursing home care would be more than $300/day.) Because he has Medi-Cal (thank God), he would authorize Social Security to transfer his monthly income to the nursing home. http://www.canhr.org/factsheets/medi-cal_fs/html/fs_medcal_overview.htm Medi-Cal is a combined federal and California State program designed to help pay for medical care for public assistance recipients and other low-income persons. There are 3 of these beds (vacancies) in the facility right now, on the nursing home floors.
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I watched my papa’s face evaluating the 3 options. I heard him answer in Cantonese “I want long-term care here.”

My blog post 2 of 3 shall be about what happened that afternoon, what life looks like on the nursing home floor, what to do before the 90-day evaluation.

The Michael J. Fox Foundation www.michaeljfox.org

https://www.michaeljfox.org/foundation/news-detail.php?swallowing-and-parkinson-disease In addition to the classic motor symptoms of Parkinson’s (tremor, slowness, stiffness, walking and/or balance problems), a person may develop changes in speech and/or swallowing. Speech and swallowing therapy exercises, combined with Parkinson’s medication adjustment and, if necessary, dietary and/or behavioral modifications are the mainstays of management.

… to improve swallowing and lessen the risk of aspirating. These could include dietary modifications — such as thickening liquids — and/or behavioral strategies, such as avoiding drinking through straws, tucking the chin to the chest when swallowing or taking smaller bites at slower intervals.

To hear a webinar presented by Michael J. Fox Foundation on urinary problems and Parkinson’s… click here or look up any webinar by visiting at www.michaeljfox.org/webinars.

http://canhr.org

http://canhr.org/factsheets/rcfe_fs/html/rcfe_evalchecklist_fs.htm

Since 1983, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR), a statewide nonprofit 501(c)(3) advocacy organization, has been dedicated to improving the choices, care and quality of life for California’s long term care consumers. Through direct advocacy, community education, legislation and litigation it has been CANHR’s goal to educate and support long term care consumers and advocates regarding the rights and remedies under the law, and to create a united voice for long term care reform and humane alternatives to institutionalization.

Sincerely,

Teresa Jade LeYung

http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/papa-wins-parkinsons-disease-loses-papa-wins/