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I've gone cold turkey on Xanax without issue. Now, I may not be unconscious for 6-7 hours after laying down to sleep, but I feel as rested on 4 hours of sleep without them as I do with 6 hours of unconsciousness on Xanax. PS - I started with Dalmane (Flurazepam) back in my late 20s, and I have found nothing left me as side effect free. They have tried to replace it with Temazepam instead (the side effect list was identical) but they failed to do the job for me (30mg doses per night). I've also used Ambien and Ambien XR sucessfully but had some side effects. The side effects of 1--2mg of Xanax are tremendous. I wake feeling drunk and my balance is shot. Not going to use them anymore, you have helped me with your advice Dr, thank you. OH, is there an easy way to help an older person sleep? Give them an orgasm. That really helps. Keep up the good work doc!
I am so thankful for your advice as I am going to see my primary care Dr next week, and I am really sure that I do have the beginning or maybe close to middle stages of Dementia. I am 68 and have been having episodes for almost 1 year, I see my Dr. In 2 weeks. I thank God that I saw you on my phone, you gave me a lot of insight into Dementia. In this last year my brain has gone down as far as remembering almost anything. I do have times where it just takes a few minutes for it to come to me, I also have times when it's just NOT THERE. I did write down as much as I could , you were very informative and I THANK YOU for being someone who really CARES to enlighten people about this terrible subject. I don't understand why there are so MANY people getting this terrible thing . I don't remember ever hearing about Dementia until 10 maybe 15 years ago. May GOD be with us all. I truly thank you for sharing all of your information on this subject. Mitzi Lott
In Canada, many pharmacists are far more accessible and helpful than doctors. Definitely worth starting with your pharmacist before approaching your doctor!!
I address statins in the written article: betterhealthwhileaging.net/medications-to-avoid-if-worried-about-memory/ They are certainly prescribed more often than necessary, but they don't consistently slow the brain and worsen memory the way the medications in the video do. For this reason, geriatricians don't get amped up about statins.
@BetterHealthWhileAging My 92 year old aunt still played tennis -- until she was put on a statin. That was when her dementia started, and this fornerly astute woman was even taken for $150 thousand by a Publisher's Clearing House scammer. She died in a home, never gaining her cognition.
@@BetterHealthWhileAging I am on day 40 of titrating off Gabapentin. Now THERE’S a drug that is handed out like candy. I have PD so neurologist first prescribed 100mg 3X per day for anxiety and irritation. I have a “pinched nerve” in L5 so an ortho put me on 1,800mg per day for pain relief because I refuse surgery. Parkinson’s gives me enough cognitive issues and trouble with walking. Getting OFF this drug is just horrible. But when I am done with Gabapentin I will have gone from 6 meds to 2. Carbidopa/Levodopa for the PD motor symptoms and Mirtazapine (30mg once a day) at bedtime because the PD causes such horrible sleep disruption. I exercise so much my neighbor thinks I’m training for Ironman. I’m 70 and weigh 162 pounds and watch what I eat. I appreciate your videos! thank you
Thank you for what you are doing. My husband is blind, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s and dementia with Lewy body. I’ve had two back surgeries and have been taking care of him for a year by myself. I’ve also had 2 back surgeries and I’m 81. I wake up every morning around 4:30 or 5 am and go in my living room to pray and I can’t stop sobbing.. we’ve been together for 64 yrs and it’s like I’m grieving. I’m not getting near enough sleep. Take a tiny piece of Ativan the dr. Gave me yrs ago, but never increased it. Since I’ve watched this, I will surely stop it and take the less than 1/2 every other night and my dr also put me on Zoplicone for sleeping but it’s not working. How do I get sleep. I’m about to break with the pain in my back, but I have to keep going. You have a calming voice. Don’t stop with what you are doing. God bless you. God only can get me thro this nightmare. Thank you
if you access youtube, if you listen to sleep meditation. 'unlock your life' she has several for sleep, soothing and calms your breathing. sarah dresser has a lovely voice. completely free. hope this helps. god bless.
Oh dear my heart is going for you...Have you tried herbal medications? I buy a herb called Scullcup in Herbal store, and make a tea 1 teasp for 1 cup of boiling water/ I start in the afternoon and take up to 3 cups. It definitely helps me. Pray for you...
Melatonin helps you sleep. The most common mistake in taking them is taking too small a dose. They are NOT a medicine, they are a supplement available at your local grocery store or health food store. I take two 3 mg tabs (6 mg total) an hour before bed. RE your work helping your husband: look into Home Health Care assistance through Department of Human Services. It is free to people on medicaid/medicare and disability which you surely qualify for. You will be able to interview several qualified people to make sure your personalities combine well and will be given a certain number of hours per week when this person comes to your home to assist you/clean your home/care for your husband as you require.
Thank you. 🙏 After listening to just a few of your videos has given me hope again. I am in my 70th year and terrified of the future. I am from the UK and our health care (NHS) is broken. Thank God for people like you who are able to share the much needed advice and information. Question; if you can find the time to produce these vital youtube videos, then why can’t G.P’s spend 10 minutes with us?
Also in UK, and you are so right, the NHS is broken. There is no longer proper healthcare in the UK. Getting to have a face to face with a GP is mostly impossible and when you do you're simple fobbed off with more pills. It's a disgrace.
I have shared this information with my 84 year old mother, her friends, and our octogenarian neighbors. My mother in law died 16 months ago from complications related to Alzheimers. Unknown to us, my mother in laws' geriatrician (who is a friend of our family) had advised her to add Tylenol PM (acetaminophen & diphenhydramine) to her evening medications because she was having difficulty falling asleep at night (following the passing of her husband). She took this over the counter medication every evening, for 14-16 months before she began having difficulties with problem solving, impulse control, and memory. This information is priceless; thank you for sharing.
Tylenol/acetaminophen twice daily is a great sleep aid that almost no one knows of. Careful with liver function. I’m someone who just doesn’t get tired at night without help and acetaminophen is all I need, but I have to take it twice daily.
Thank you so much. The more educated we ae the better. We must often be our own advocate. I have been there for my parents and grandparents, and I do not have a daughter and the sons will often find this kind of things harder, so as I am getting older myself, I realize I better keep up some on this!
Thanks so much for a great video. I am a psychologist and my wife is an MD and ND who has shifted her practice away from pharmaceuticals and toward behavioral approaches. I am now 81 and in good health.
Extremely helpful. My spouse overreacted when told they suspected Lewy Body Dementia and killed himself the next day. He was on so many of these medications.
I feel for you, that's so shocking. I think it's criminal how these meds are dished out so eagerly when their harms are known but not communicated. although I understand the doctors don't get trained in what these drugs do to the body, only which ones to give for which ailments. sorry for your needless loss.
It's one of the most powerful of the anti-psychotics. Antipychychicks should be used only when really needed. But folks who work in mental institutions liked Haldol because it can be put into the food of medication resistant patients and the taste is relatively easy to conceal.
My 88 year mother used to fall at night. We figured it was Ambien and after discontinuing it, no more falls. Ambient should not be prescribed to seniors!
You are clearly an extremely caring, intelligent, patient, focused, and beautiful!!!! doctor! Thanks for all this is information! The risks of a medication are very infrequently outlined by a doctor in my experience. Thanks for being awesome!
Thanks for your great information 🙏 have been taking Zolpidem for over 20 years ! Recently noticed memory lose, confusion, lack of concentration,, even forgetting to speak & write in english 😅😂 Listening & thanking your next door neighbor from Mexico cty 🇲🇽😘💞 (how can I slow down or stop taking Zolpidem,after so many years ! 😮😢;)
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Very interesting, Dr. I am 68 and the only Medication I take is Lipitor for high cholesterol. I walk 2 /12 to 3 miles a day. I never have had thinking or memory issues, until they put me on cholesterol meds. I could tell my memory was getting affected so I cut the pills from 20mg to 10 mg. All is much better, sometimes a moment of slow thinking, but not often.
I asked the pharmacist for a taper schedule for the benzo I had been on for years (Xanax), it's long and slow, and I had to get off caffeine and take long walks in the mornings to reset my circadian rhythm. I'm 59. A 5mg melatonin at night works just as well as the benzo did, now. It took almost a year to get off of the X and Wellbutrin.
DR KERNISAN: Thank you, thank you, and thank you! I simply can’t tell you how listening to this video has taught me, and also gave great advice how to communicate with my Dr my concern about taking one of the drugs she prescribed a few years ago, and an alternative to this particular medication. I have been concerned about my declining memory loss and thought it was a part of ‘getting old’. Then by happen chance I stumbled on this video. I now have hope, because of you sharing your medical knowledge about drugs one might be taking and the possible risk/side effects on our memory decline. God Bless you. A grateful new subscriber from Missouri.
Doctors appointments take months. By the time I get there I am no longer sick. I refuse to waste the time I got left waiting for a doctor. Or in a situation where the cure is worse than the disease. Oregon has a right to die law.
What about statins? A doctor told me that the side effect of statins is memory loss!!!!!!!! Needless to say I refused them. What's the point of having perfect cholesterol if you can't remember your name? 😮
Dr. Kernison. I salute you as a colleague in the profession medicine for daring to speak out . For years I have been a voice in the wilderness of the poly pharmacy driven by the dollar . Especially precisely what you are high lighting here I am dismayed by the symptomatic treatment of symptoms. To compound this over 40 % of consultations for all ages are iatrogenic . Understandably this has caused a backlash in many patients admittedly somewhat hysterical in a small minority driving them to seek alternative medics and medicine . This in itself is unregulated and often hazardous or utterly useless. Perspective for verifiable information has been inundated by rendering pharmacists virtually impotent by ridiculous regulations. I am very impressed very admiring of your outstanding deductive logic and factual delivery. The current conspiracy is to suppress evidence of the billion dollar industry of overdosing statins and its effect on cognition especially on geriatrics . I am also appalled how dosages generally are NOT adjusted for geriatrics , body weight, etc . . Horses for courses I say but looks like the mules are in charge.
Zolpidem is not a benzo and I think it would be akin to a crime to not allow a sleepless senior to use it. If it is affecting balance and thinking, maybe the senior is getting too high a dose. Also, if you're "discontinuing" it in an older adult who has been benefitting from zolpidem, you do know it will cause withdrawal symptoms along with the sleeplessness again?
Wow, I watched the video about Advil PM and I have a Vietnam vet that takes it by the hand full and his starting to complain about memory loss. So I called him and told him he is basically poisoning his brain. Lucky, he has an appointment at the V.A. tomorrow and hopefully they will be able to figure out something to take for his on going joint pain that won't have the unwanted side effect of the Advil. Thanks, the videos.
My grandfather is 83,5 years ago we started eating a whole food plant based diet,he has dropped almost all his medications including blood pressure,statin,and a life long antibiotic along with a few others,he is sharp as ever,the doctors strongly advised AGAINST this.but we decided as a family the risk of the meds far outweighed the gain they might have. Much love all,food is the true medicine,fruits vegetables herbs seeds and mushrooms!
I am stuck on one of these and asked for help and not getting it in U.K. Disgraceful. Been on twenty years plus. Feel like sueing medical profession. I know this but thank you.
Nutrients are another fact that affects the brain. Deficiencies such as complex b12, Iron, Omega 3, etc. It is important to have a healthy lifestyle including a varied diet, exercises, and sleep well at night.
When I was put on a statin at age 51, I soon started having severe memory problems. I was forgetting everyday words and having trouble communicating. One day I was driving and my passenger told me I was on the left-hand side of the road. I didn't even know it! I realized it was the drug and stopped taking it. It took a couple of months to return to normal. I then tried a different statin, and I started tripping and falling when I never had before. Went off it and returned to normal. I tried one more and it messed with my muscles. I refused to ever again take another statin.
Yes very accurate information. If you are successful at tapering off the drug thats slowing your brain don't substitute for another drug. The less drugs the better.
Why would ANY medication be prescribed when it is expected to be lethal within a year? Isn't that counter-productive (for the PATIENT at least, whom is essentially the one being treated AND paying to just die)?
Thank you so much. Im 71 history of MVA1992 hit from behind by drunk driver at high speed, 31 years ago was Quad in Hospital 3 years speech therapy could not talk. Many spine surgeries ongoing 31 years onward. Recent worse balance issues falls. Sudden loss of control of right leg flaming pain in low back fell forward hit head on wall minor cut. After hospital stay in 1996 earned Law Degree and advocated for Neuro injured learned allot of Neurology etc. Retired now but consult on some cases. I have a good Dr Im learning from your You Tube efforts thanks again. I have an MRI this week of Cervical spine and will ask for lumbar too I have fused thoracic levels. Im on Oxycodone and other meds for pain management. I walk with wife 30 to 60 minutes 2 - 5 times a week. I appreciate your encouragement. God Bless you and yours.
Best to avoid medical facilities - and the younger the better to learn that lesson. Doctors and nurses perform valuable services to societies, but most people with insurance use the insurance way too often for minor or unnecessary things because they figure "Well I'm paying for the insurance, so I might as well use it. Otherwise I'm wasting money." Then, besides the insurance company problem there is the greed problem within big pharma and those they affect. Learning to avoid illnesses and accidents is the smartest thing anyone can devote time to. Learn the body and its functions and how to stay healthy, especially through exercise and proper nutrition. An ounce of prevention.....
Try quitting caffeine the mood altering drug of choice worldwide. I looked after my mother getting her off these pills in her 80s and off caffeine. She lived to 103.
Thank you Dr Kernisan for your educational video and I quite agree with the side effects of the antipsychotic medication and the benzodiazepine. Every doctor should evaluate the benefits and harms of medical treatment before prescribing any medication. You talk about "trying the other things" and could you please specify what other alternative things are available or other alternative medications, for example in an acute situation where the patient is agitated or expressing suicidal thoughts.
I've been taking Dihexa from nextchems and I can feel that it helps me when it comes to memory improvement. There are alos studies that shows it also helps with heart and hair health.
For me. I have learned how to relax and in less than five minutes I am gone in deep sleep…! Thanks for sharing. Love to hear what others do for their sleeping trick and treats…!
@@janetalonsobloss925 I use what is called the, “box method”. After laying down and nose breathing: 1 - I breath in ten moderate breaths 2 - mentally count ten seconds 3 - expel ten moderate breaths 4 - mentally count to ten seconds I repeat these four steps ten times and upon finishing, I take two deep breaths. This is a modification from what I had gleaned from TH-cam.
Thank you, very informative. I used to take restyl to sleep once a while. Now I’ll stop taking it, it’s temporary relief leading to permanently damaging cognitive health
I know Doctors don’t recommend supplements because they are not a prescription but can you help with older adults with them or certain diets? Recommendations?
Hi there. Very low carb . My mom was eating mostly vegetables, a little tuna, some fruit lots of salads and pretzels . Anyway she had gotten so hateful and paranoid that my son started taking her groceries during covid because I couldn't stand her anymore. I slowly started getting her more Eggs and different kinds of meat. I got her those proteins packs that had meat and cheese in them instead of her pretzels and fruit. Well when my son moved it was back to me dropping off her food. She wasn't as hateful and didn't seem paranoid. Well I messed up and around the holidays gave her more" treats" candy's and bread so I started to see she had only been eating that. And it showed. She was hateful, she was extremely paranoid. Talking about the people in her apartment building. It was crazy. So back to no junk. But that was hard because now she had a taste of it, and it was, you didn't bring me anything good Barbara! Super hateful. So it's getting better but I have to do things slow or say they didn't have something. She doesn't care if she is hateful she just want junk. 😂 But I truly thought I was going to have to put her in a home. No body would deal with her. And they still don't because she was so mean. But it wasn't Dimensia it was all that sugar all those carbs. I hope you find this useful. It is truly amazing how food changes our behavior. Oh, she is 78yrs old so it started when she was 74. I do give her b-1, Magnesium, and good multi vitamin because I believe her Blood Pressure medicine was making her dizzy and she was falling down. She's still a little dizzy but doesn't fall any more. Good luck to you.
A pharmacist and a qualified trained to be a doctor's assistant are some people whom we can include on our health care team to consult too which may help to convince a family doctor we deserve a different approach to treatment.
How does cigarette smoking affect the brain. I’ve been trying to get my 78 yr old husband to quite smoking for years. He acts like he’s not smoking and then I will catch him. What I’ve noticed is that his short term memory really takes a dive when he’s smoking.
Hello, This is good information for older folks and their families. Thank you! At age 84, I learned through classes that a brief daily practice of deep breathing helps me relax and reduces my anxiety, My favorite is a lengthier exhale following a normal inhale. After 5 times, I start to feel myself again. I do this every day. Also, certain simple exercises aimed at building up one's nitric oxide 2 or 3 times a day help builds energy. I hope that is helpful to some who may have not trained in mind-body work.
It would be useful to see probabilities. For example example: what % of older adults get dementia, and how much the use of benzodiazepines increases the risk of dementia. Is it 5, 10 or 500 percent. As a patient, I would prefer to know the probable impacts when deciding whether to take them or not.
I have major depression and anxiety. Nothing works , and I mean nothing but several of the medications on this list. Especially Xanax. Certainly not "therapy".
Tysm. Going to taper off my Clonzapam to sleep. I’m taking .10 mg. I’ve done it b4 bill do it again. I’ll give melatonin a try again n sleepy time tea.
I'm 73 years old and pretty healthy. I have been using Benadryl for years as a sleep support. I'm going to discontinue using the Benadryl. Is there a natural supplement that I might be able to use to support correcting any damage that I might have inadvertently caused?
@margotb8147 loved my integrative doctor. He helped me with my health issues, all natural. Unfortunately, he died shortly after I met him, and he had just started me on a regimen. I feel blessed I met him and he cured me! If only more doctors were like him.
8:57 You said SSRI’s are effective in treating anxiety, but I’m not finding overwhelming evidence that this is true. Can you supply some research to support that please.
thank you for sharing that with me i have been off my Torvastatin 7days i have 1 more day left was diagnosed with positive with covid by my Dr and pharmacist.
Suffered vertigo for two years. Found out about anticholinergics and with my doctor's permission (less is always better) I stopped taking them. Within 48 hours the constant movement stopped and with a vestibular specialist treating BVVP the waves of vertigo stopped. I now question every drug perscribed asking is there any other solution available?
Been on .75mg/day for 3 decades. For insomnia and anxiety. I’m early 60s. Starting to have memory loss and recent diagnosis sleep apnea. Dr says it’s a small dose, but should I get off it? Anyone opinions? Thank you for this video…very helpful
I have increasing difficulty understanding North American accents, but because I'm taking so many prescription drugs, I persevered almost to the end in the hope of learning something useful; unfortunately, I did not. I have taken some of these drugs in the distant past, but not recently, and certainly not since I retired.
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I've gone cold turkey on Xanax without issue. Now, I may not be unconscious for 6-7 hours after laying down to sleep, but I feel as rested on 4 hours of sleep without them as I do with 6 hours of unconsciousness on Xanax. PS - I started with Dalmane (Flurazepam) back in my late 20s, and I have found nothing left me as side effect free. They have tried to replace it with Temazepam instead (the side effect list was identical) but they failed to do the job for me (30mg doses per night). I've also used Ambien and Ambien XR sucessfully but had some side effects. The side effects of 1--2mg of Xanax are tremendous. I wake feeling drunk and my balance is shot. Not going to use them anymore, you have helped me with your advice Dr, thank you. OH, is there an easy way to help an older person sleep? Give them an orgasm. That really helps. Keep up the good work doc!
Loved it❤thank you
I am so thankful for your advice as I am going to see my primary care Dr next week, and I am really sure that I do have the beginning or maybe close to middle stages of Dementia. I am 68 and have been having episodes for almost 1 year, I see my Dr. In 2 weeks. I thank God that I saw you on my phone, you gave me a lot of insight into Dementia. In this last year my brain has gone down as far as remembering almost anything. I do have times where it just takes a few minutes for it to come to me, I also have times when it's just NOT THERE. I did write down as much as I could , you were very informative and I THANK YOU for being someone who really CARES to enlighten people about this terrible subject. I don't understand why there are so MANY people getting this terrible thing . I don't remember ever hearing about Dementia until 10 maybe 15 years ago. May GOD be with us all. I truly thank you for sharing all of your information on this subject. Mitzi Lott
Information imperative for patients, for everyone, to be aware of. Thank you so much. ❤
Lithium and Lamictal? Thanks very much!
In Canada, many pharmacists are far more accessible and helpful than doctors. Definitely worth starting with your pharmacist before approaching your doctor!!
My pharmacist used to tell me about every drug my doctor gave me. That was Kmart pharmacy in Michigan 1980’s-2012.
Chlesterol lowering meds like Statins too should be added to this list.
I address statins in the written article: betterhealthwhileaging.net/medications-to-avoid-if-worried-about-memory/
They are certainly prescribed more often than necessary, but they don't consistently slow the brain and worsen memory the way the medications in the video do. For this reason, geriatricians don't get amped up about statins.
They should be banned
@BetterHealthWhileAging My 92 year old aunt still played tennis -- until she was put on a statin. That was when her dementia started, and this fornerly astute woman was even taken for $150 thousand by a Publisher's Clearing House scammer. She died in a home, never gaining her cognition.
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@@BetterHealthWhileAging I am on day 40 of titrating off Gabapentin. Now THERE’S a drug that is handed out like candy. I have PD so neurologist first prescribed 100mg 3X per day for anxiety and irritation. I have a “pinched nerve” in L5 so an ortho put me on 1,800mg per day for pain relief because I refuse surgery. Parkinson’s gives me enough cognitive issues and trouble with walking. Getting OFF this drug is just horrible. But when I am done with Gabapentin I will have gone from 6 meds to 2. Carbidopa/Levodopa for the PD motor symptoms and Mirtazapine (30mg once a day) at bedtime because the PD causes such horrible sleep disruption. I exercise so much my neighbor thinks I’m training for Ironman. I’m 70 and weigh 162 pounds and watch what I eat. I appreciate your videos! thank you
All doctors should be as helpful as you!
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Thank you for what you are doing. My husband is blind, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s and dementia with Lewy body. I’ve had two back surgeries and have been taking care of him for a year by myself. I’ve also had 2 back surgeries and I’m 81. I wake up every morning around 4:30 or 5 am and go in my living room to pray and I can’t stop sobbing.. we’ve been together for 64 yrs and it’s like I’m grieving. I’m not getting near enough sleep. Take a tiny piece of Ativan the dr. Gave me yrs ago, but never increased it. Since I’ve watched this, I will surely stop it and take the less than 1/2 every other night and my dr also put me on Zoplicone for sleeping but it’s not working. How do I get sleep. I’m about to break with the pain in my back, but I have to keep going. You have a calming voice. Don’t stop with what you are doing. God bless you. God only can get me thro this nightmare. Thank you
the lord be with you and your husband as he is, all we have is him and our prayers, god bless friend
I add my prayers to the last reply. May the Lord cover, comfort, and strength both you and your husband
if you access youtube, if you listen to sleep meditation.
'unlock your life'
she has several for sleep, soothing and calms your breathing. sarah dresser has a lovely voice. completely free. hope this helps.
god bless.
Oh dear my heart is going for you...Have you tried herbal medications? I buy a herb called Scullcup in Herbal store, and make a tea 1 teasp for 1 cup of boiling water/ I start in the afternoon and take up to 3 cups. It definitely helps me. Pray for you...
Melatonin helps you sleep. The most common mistake in taking them is taking too small a dose. They are NOT a medicine, they are a supplement available at your local grocery store or health food store. I take two 3 mg tabs (6 mg total) an hour before bed. RE your work helping your husband: look into Home Health Care assistance through Department of Human Services. It is free to people on medicaid/medicare and disability which you surely qualify for. You will be able to interview several qualified people to make sure your personalities combine well and will be given a certain number of hours per week when this person comes to your home to assist you/clean your home/care for your husband as you require.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Statin drugs, they are the worst for memory problems
Thank you. 🙏 After listening to just a few of your videos has given me hope again. I am in my 70th year and terrified of the future. I am from the UK and our health care (NHS) is broken. Thank God for people like you who are able to share the much needed advice and information. Question; if you can find the time to produce these vital youtube videos, then why can’t G.P’s spend 10 minutes with us?
Also in UK, and you are so right, the NHS is broken. There is no longer proper healthcare in the UK. Getting to have a face to face with a GP is mostly impossible and when you do you're simple fobbed off with more pills. It's a disgrace.
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Sadly, many older people want way more than 10 mins 😢
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Incredibly informative. I am an RN and found this video helpful for my husband and myself. Thank you Dr. Kernsian for sharing!
I have shared this information with my 84 year old mother, her friends, and our octogenarian neighbors. My mother in law died 16 months ago from complications related to Alzheimers. Unknown to us, my mother in laws' geriatrician (who is a friend of our family) had advised her to add Tylenol PM (acetaminophen & diphenhydramine) to her evening medications because she was having difficulty falling asleep at night (following the passing of her husband). She took this over the counter medication every evening, for 14-16 months before she began having difficulties with problem solving, impulse control, and memory. This information is priceless; thank you for sharing.
Tylenol/acetaminophen twice daily is a great sleep aid that almost no one knows of. Careful with liver function. I’m someone who just doesn’t get tired at night without help and acetaminophen is all I need, but I have to take it twice daily.
Bacopa monnieri
Thank you so much. The more educated we ae the better. We must often be our own advocate. I have been there for my parents and grandparents, and I do not have a daughter and the sons will often find this kind of things harder, so as I am getting older myself, I realize I better keep up some on this!
Thanks so much for a great video. I am a psychologist and my wife is an MD and ND who has shifted her practice away from pharmaceuticals and toward behavioral approaches. I am now 81 and in good health.
Extremely helpful. My spouse overreacted when told they suspected Lewy Body Dementia and killed himself the next day. He was on so many of these medications.
I feel for you, that's so shocking. I think it's criminal how these meds are dished out so eagerly when their harms are known but not communicated. although I understand the doctors don't get trained in what these drugs do to the body, only which ones to give for which ailments. sorry for your needless loss.
I'm so sorry for your loss.😢
Haldol should definitely be outlawed. I saw what it did to my mother.
It's one of the most powerful of the anti-psychotics. Antipychychicks should be used only when really needed. But folks who work in mental institutions liked Haldol because it can be put into the food of medication resistant patients and the taste is relatively easy to conceal.
Killed my sister at 75.@adrienneelliott7961 (Haldol)
Thank you for being so transparent! YOU ARE A HERO!
Low vitamin B12 mimics Dementia. Taking this vitamin every day is essential.
Thank you for this clear presentation. I think most of us wish we had a doctor just like you!
Thank you doctor. Great information. 💕
My 88 year mother used to fall at night. We figured it was Ambien and after discontinuing it, no more falls. Ambient should not be prescribed to seniors!
You are clearly an extremely caring, intelligent, patient, focused, and beautiful!!!! doctor! Thanks for all this is information! The risks of a medication are very infrequently outlined by a doctor in my experience. Thanks for being awesome!
Thanks for your great information 🙏 have been taking Zolpidem for over 20 years ! Recently noticed memory lose, confusion, lack of concentration,, even forgetting to speak & write in english 😅😂 Listening & thanking your next door neighbor from Mexico cty 🇲🇽😘💞 (how can I slow down or stop taking Zolpidem,after so many years ! 😮😢;)
Download Dr. K's *list of medications to avoid here! 4 Types of Brain-Slowing Medication to Avoid if You’re Worried About Memory:*
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Give one example for page replacement algorithms? How neural networks used for the neurologist.
What medications?
What about tamazapam?
@@harpofudd9347 That's a benzo.
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Very interesting, Dr. I am 68 and the only Medication I take is Lipitor for high cholesterol. I walk 2 /12 to 3 miles a day. I never have had thinking or memory issues, until they put me on cholesterol meds. I could tell my memory was getting affected so I cut the pills from 20mg to 10 mg. All is much better, sometimes a moment of slow thinking, but not often.
I asked the pharmacist for a taper schedule for the benzo I had been on for years (Xanax), it's long and slow, and I had to get off caffeine and take long walks in the mornings to reset my circadian rhythm. I'm 59. A 5mg melatonin at night works just as well as the benzo did, now. It took almost a year to get off of the X and Wellbutrin.
This is inspiring, and I'm sure it will be so helpful to others wanting to taper a benzodiazepine. Thanks for sharing!
I found that melatonin made me feel more doped up the next day then benzos did.
Well, different things affect different people differently.
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DR KERNISAN: Thank you, thank you, and thank you! I simply can’t tell you how listening to this video has taught me, and also gave great advice how to communicate with my Dr my concern about taking one of the drugs she prescribed a few years ago, and an alternative to this particular medication. I have been concerned about my declining memory loss and thought it was a part of ‘getting old’.
Then by happen chance I stumbled on this video. I now have hope, because of you sharing your medical knowledge about drugs one might be taking and the possible risk/side effects on our memory decline. God Bless you.
A grateful new subscriber from Missouri.
I am on Clonazepam 2mg’s twice a day at 8pm &1030 for Restless legs by a professor .I don’t have dementa & am 73 yrs old
This s a wonderful video. We all age and it's important we learn these things to be able to advocate for ourselves and loved ones.
Doctors appointments take months. By the time I get there I am no longer sick. I refuse to waste the time I got left waiting for a doctor. Or in a situation where the cure is worse than the disease. Oregon has a right to die law.
Great information I enjoyed this video very much
This is fantastic information. I’m looking at through the lens of a daughter dealing with my dad’s dementia.
Having a physical addiction or physical dependency is not necessarily abuse.
What about statins? A doctor told me that the side effect of statins is memory loss!!!!!!!! Needless to say I refused them. What's the point of having perfect cholesterol if you can't remember your name? 😮
My husband has developed plaque seen on MRI and MRA. Discontinuing his statin would allow his plaque to grow.
Dr. Kernison. I salute you as a colleague in the profession medicine for daring to speak out . For years I have been a voice in the wilderness of the poly pharmacy driven by the dollar . Especially precisely what you are high lighting here
I am dismayed by the symptomatic treatment of symptoms. To compound this over 40 % of consultations for all ages are iatrogenic .
Understandably this has caused a backlash in many patients admittedly somewhat hysterical in a small minority driving them to seek alternative medics and medicine . This in itself is unregulated and often hazardous or utterly useless.
Perspective for verifiable information has been inundated by rendering pharmacists virtually impotent by ridiculous regulations.
I am very impressed very admiring of your outstanding deductive logic and factual delivery.
The current conspiracy is to suppress evidence of the billion dollar industry of overdosing statins and its effect on cognition especially on geriatrics .
I am also appalled how dosages generally are NOT adjusted for geriatrics , body weight, etc . .
Horses for courses I say but looks like the mules are in charge.
Thank you so much for educating us through these videos and for your website.
Benzos control the muscle spasms from my post polio syndrome yet allow me to function. Brian exercise is the key.
Zolpidem is not a benzo and I think it would be akin to a crime to not allow a sleepless senior to use it. If it is affecting balance and thinking, maybe the senior is getting too high a dose. Also, if you're "discontinuing" it in an older adult who has been benefitting from zolpidem, you do know it will cause withdrawal symptoms along with the sleeplessness again?
Wow, I watched the video about Advil PM and I have a Vietnam vet that takes it by the hand full and his starting to complain about memory loss. So I called him and told him he is basically poisoning his brain. Lucky, he has an appointment at the V.A. tomorrow and hopefully they will be able to figure out something to take for his on going joint pain that won't have the unwanted side effect of the Advil. Thanks, the videos.
A wonderful lecture. Thank you. Please pass this on to nursing homes. They could use this information....for sure!
My grandfather is 83,5 years ago we started eating a whole food plant based diet,he has dropped almost all his medications including blood pressure,statin,and a life long antibiotic along with a few others,he is sharp as ever,the doctors strongly advised AGAINST this.but we decided as a family the risk of the meds far outweighed the gain they might have. Much love all,food is the true medicine,fruits vegetables herbs seeds and mushrooms!
Dr. Kernisan, thank you so much for this very informative video. I do believe you saved my brain.
Explains very clearly!! Will try to listen to all learning a lot😊
I am stuck on one of these and asked for help and not getting it in U.K.
Disgraceful. Been on twenty years plus. Feel like sueing medical profession.
I know this but thank you.
Nutrients are another fact that affects the brain. Deficiencies such as complex b12, Iron, Omega 3, etc. It is important to have a healthy lifestyle including a varied diet, exercises, and sleep well at night.
Thank you very helpful I’ am 73 years old need those information provided.
Great information, thankyou for all your effort to inform.
When I was put on a statin at age 51, I soon started having severe memory problems. I was forgetting everyday words and having trouble communicating. One day I was driving and my passenger told me I was on the left-hand side of the road. I didn't even know it! I realized it was the drug and stopped taking it. It took a couple of months to return to normal. I then tried a different statin, and I started tripping and falling when I never had before. Went off it and returned to normal. I tried one more and it messed with my muscles. I refused to ever again take another statin.
Yes very accurate information. If you are successful at tapering off the drug thats slowing your brain don't substitute for another drug. The less drugs the better.
Statins keep cholesterol from feeding the brain, as well as causing muscle damage that can bring on falls.
Why would ANY medication be prescribed when it is expected to be lethal within a year? Isn't that counter-productive (for the PATIENT at least, whom is essentially the one being treated AND paying to just die)?
Ty, this is very informative.
if you stop taking an anticholinergic drug will your brain function return to 'normal' or is the damage irreversible?
Good Q!
Research benzodiazepine brain damage
Thank you so much. Im 71 history of MVA1992 hit from behind by drunk driver at high speed, 31 years ago was Quad in Hospital 3 years speech therapy could not talk. Many spine surgeries ongoing 31 years onward. Recent worse balance issues falls. Sudden loss of control of right leg flaming pain in low back fell forward hit head on wall minor cut. After hospital stay in 1996 earned Law Degree and advocated for Neuro injured learned allot of Neurology etc. Retired now but consult on some cases. I have a good Dr Im learning from your You Tube efforts thanks again. I have an MRI this week of Cervical spine and will ask for lumbar too I have fused thoracic levels. Im on Oxycodone and other meds for pain management. I walk with wife 30 to 60 minutes 2 - 5 times a week. I appreciate your encouragement. God Bless you and yours.
Is gabapentin on the list for not to take?
I won't take it again! I lost words.
Zoloft can causer personality changes such as anger, irritability etc. I'm hearing that Prozac has been helpful for some family members.
Best to avoid medical facilities - and the younger the better to learn that lesson. Doctors and nurses perform valuable services to societies, but most people with insurance use the insurance way too often for minor or unnecessary things because they figure "Well I'm paying for the insurance, so I might as well use it. Otherwise I'm wasting money." Then, besides the insurance company problem there is the greed problem within big pharma and those they affect.
Learning to avoid illnesses and accidents is the smartest thing anyone can devote time to. Learn the body and its functions and how to stay healthy, especially through exercise and proper nutrition. An ounce of prevention.....
You missed one of the worst and well known drugs for memory impairment: Statins
Try quitting caffeine the mood altering drug of choice worldwide. I looked after my mother getting her off these pills in her 80s and off caffeine. She lived to 103.
You missed the boat completely by omitting statins which are mitochondrial disruptors and cause insulin resistance.
Thank you Dr Kernisan for your educational video and I quite agree with the side effects of the antipsychotic medication and the benzodiazepine. Every doctor should evaluate the benefits and harms of medical treatment before prescribing any medication. You talk about "trying the other things" and could you please specify what other alternative things are available or other alternative medications, for example in an acute situation where the patient is agitated or expressing suicidal thoughts.
I've been taking Dihexa from nextchems and I can feel that it helps me when it comes to memory improvement. There are alos studies that shows it also helps with heart and hair health.
An honest to goodness Doctor❤❤❤
Why no mention of statins, which numerous studies have correlated with dementia?
I use breathing exercises to fall asleep fast.
For me. I have learned how to relax and in less than five minutes I am gone in deep sleep…! Thanks for sharing. Love to hear what others do for their sleeping trick and treats…!
That does not work for me.
@@janetalonsobloss925 I use what is called the, “box method”.
After laying down and nose breathing:
1 - I breath in ten moderate breaths
2 - mentally count ten seconds
3 - expel ten moderate breaths
4 - mentally count to ten seconds
I repeat these four steps ten times and upon finishing, I take two deep breaths.
This is a modification from what I had gleaned from TH-cam.
Excellent information, blessings❤❤
Thank you, very informative. I used to take restyl to sleep once a while. Now I’ll stop taking it, it’s temporary relief leading to permanently damaging cognitive health
Clonidine a blood pressure drug is now used for sleep. It too is anticholinergic and best avoided especially in the elderly
Very informative and helpful. Thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing this video.
Great presentation! Thank you!❤
thank you doctor ...you help to know better ..👍💔
Thank you so much.
What about gabapentin? They used to say it’s safe now there is new research that shows it shrinks the frontal lobe.
Scary. I guess I better get off it
I know Doctors don’t recommend supplements because they are not a prescription but can you help with older adults with them or certain diets? Recommendations?
Hi there. Very low carb . My mom was eating mostly vegetables, a little tuna, some fruit lots of salads and pretzels . Anyway she had gotten so hateful and paranoid that my son started taking her groceries during covid because I couldn't stand her anymore. I slowly started getting her more Eggs and different kinds of meat.
I got her those proteins packs that had meat and cheese in them instead of her pretzels and fruit. Well when my son moved it was back to me dropping off her food. She wasn't as hateful and didn't seem paranoid. Well I messed up and around the holidays gave her more" treats" candy's and bread so I started to see she had only been eating that. And it showed. She was hateful, she was extremely paranoid. Talking about the people in her apartment building. It was crazy. So back to no junk. But that was hard because now she had a taste of it, and it was, you didn't bring me anything good Barbara! Super hateful. So it's getting better but I have to do things slow or say they didn't have something. She doesn't care if she is hateful she just want junk. 😂 But I truly thought I was going to have to put her in a home. No body would deal with her. And they still don't because she was so mean. But it wasn't Dimensia it was all that sugar all those carbs. I hope you find this useful. It is truly amazing how food changes our behavior. Oh, she is 78yrs old so it started when she was 74. I do give her b-1, Magnesium, and good multi vitamin because I believe her Blood Pressure medicine was making her dizzy and she was falling down. She's still a little dizzy but doesn't fall any more. Good luck to you.
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If an older person is "addicted" to benzos, why try to take them off of it? Why not just keep them at a low consistent dose?
Thank you. Well done.
Just found these short post in “Better help for ageing! Thank you for sharing ! Very helpful!
A pharmacist and a qualified trained to be a doctor's assistant are some people whom we can include on our health care team to consult too which may help to convince a family doctor we deserve a different approach to treatment.
Thank you for sharing this
Excellent Doctor❤
How does cigarette smoking affect the brain. I’ve been trying to get my 78 yr old husband to quite smoking for years. He acts like he’s not smoking and then I will catch him. What I’ve noticed is that his short term memory really takes a dive when he’s smoking.
Thank for this video. It's very informative.
Hello, This is good information for older folks and their families. Thank you! At age 84, I learned through classes that a brief daily practice of deep breathing helps me relax and reduces my anxiety, My favorite is a lengthier exhale following a normal inhale. After 5 times, I start to feel myself again. I do this every day. Also, certain simple exercises aimed at building up one's nitric oxide 2 or 3 times a day help builds energy. I hope that is helpful to some who may have not trained in mind-body work.
Dr. Kernisan - thanks for your videos and writings. Could you direct me to the article or video on statins that you referred to? Thanks.
Excellent presentation. Thank you.
It would be useful to see probabilities. For example example: what % of older adults get dementia, and how much the use of benzodiazepines increases the risk of dementia. Is it 5, 10 or 500 percent. As a patient, I would prefer to know the probable impacts when deciding whether to take them or not.
When statin & benzo prescriptionSsss went up so too did Alzheimers & dementia diagnosis 👉Fact
I have major depression and anxiety. Nothing works , and I mean nothing but several of the medications on this list. Especially Xanax. Certainly not "therapy".
Vit D & B12 levels ckd….magnesium glycinate research
Tysm. Going to taper off my Clonzapam to sleep. I’m taking .10 mg. I’ve done it b4 bill do it again. I’ll give melatonin a try again n sleepy time tea.
Magnesium glycinate👉100-200mg 1-2hrs Bf bed works wonders for me😉
Great great doctor! Thank you!❤
We tried to lower the number of drugs my husband was on and were told, “No. If you die, it will be my fault.” End of conversation. We changed doctors.
Thank you. Very informative.
I'm 73 years old and pretty healthy. I have been using Benadryl for years as a sleep support. I'm going to discontinue using the Benadryl. Is there a natural supplement that I might be able to use to support correcting any damage that I might have inadvertently caused?
Magnesium Glycinate.
My Integrative dr has me on Ortho Molecular Reacted Magnesium 235 mg- take 2 at bedtime & NuMedica L-Theanine 200mg-take 2 at bedtime.
@@margotb8147.. And have these supplements worked well for sleep?
@margotb8147 loved my integrative doctor. He helped me with my health issues, all natural. Unfortunately, he died shortly after I met him, and he had just started me on a regimen. I feel blessed I met him and he cured me! If only more doctors were like him.
8:57 You said SSRI’s are effective in treating anxiety, but I’m not finding overwhelming evidence that this is true. Can you supply some research to support that please.
I am on Neurontin and Duloxetine for neuropathy pain. Are they anticholingeric medication.
thank you for sharing that with me i have been off my Torvastatin 7days i have 1 more day left was diagnosed with positive with covid by my Dr and pharmacist.
Suffered vertigo for two years. Found out about anticholinergics and with my doctor's permission (less is always better) I stopped taking them. Within 48 hours the constant movement stopped and with a vestibular specialist treating BVVP the waves of vertigo stopped. I now question every drug perscribed asking is there any other solution available?
Been on .75mg/day for 3 decades. For insomnia and anxiety. I’m early 60s. Starting to have memory loss and recent diagnosis sleep apnea. Dr says it’s a small dose, but should I get off it? Anyone opinions? Thank you for this video…very helpful
40 years on Ativan very hard to get off,
Yes, benzodiazepines can be challenging to discontinue. I have information on tapering off Ativan here: betterhealthwhileaging.net/how-to-stop-ativan/
@@BetterHealthWhileAgingwas wondering if you have tips for getting off Trazadone 🙏
It took me twelve years to get off Ativan, man years ago, I would never ever go on them again, highly addictive.
Using antipsychotics and mood stabilizers as a "chemical leash" for unruly patients is utterly unethical and EVIL in specific cases!
Thank you Doctor ❤
I have increasing difficulty understanding North American accents, but because I'm taking so many prescription drugs, I persevered almost to the end in the hope of learning something useful; unfortunately, I did not. I have taken some of these drugs in the distant past, but not recently, and certainly not since I retired.
Is Wellbutrin safe for older people?