What Causes Dementia?

Mainstream medicine admits they don’t know what causes brain disorders like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

For the past 50 years, mainstream medical theory has suggested that genetic defects are the cause, but millions of dollars spent on research have resulted in no effective treatments, let alone cures.

Modern medicine’s commitment to finding a genetic causation of dementia has blinded them to the trail of scientific evidence showing the true cause of the disease.

Let’s dust off that trail now and shine a spotlight on the evidence.

A groundbreaking study from 2017 reports that as the brain ages, mitochondrial metabolism decreases and that this phenomenon is possibly the main culprit behind many neurological diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.[i]

What this means is that if your brain cells are metabolizing properly, dementia and other neurological diseases will not exist. All the criteria associated with a healthy brain – from memory retrieval speed, concentration, and focus – are dependent on adequate energy supply in the form of ATP (adenosine triphosphate).

As energy production (also known as the metabolic rate) within cells of the brain decline with age, so too does your ability to think, remember, and speak clearly.

Nitric Oxide Linked to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Dementia

One of the dominant factors responsible for the curbing of energy production with age is nitric oxide.

Doctors and nurses are taught in medical training that nitric oxide is a ‘miracle molecule’ of anti-aging, brain health, athletic performance and overall health. But this theory is being increasingly disproven by evidence mounting in recent decades.

Nitric oxide is not a miracle molecule; it’s a toxic free radical found in air pollution, and its causative role in dementia-related disorders like Alzheimer’s disease is becoming increasingly clear. For example, NO was found to accumulate around the plaques inside the brain of Alzheimer’s patients,[ii] and it’s been hypothesized that NO could be responsible for brain cell death found in Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.[iii] The deleterious effects of NO suggest that nitric oxide inhibitors, like methylene blue, could be remarkably effective for treating dementia.

One fascinating and useful attribute of methylene blue for treating brain disorders is that it accumulates in the brain, making it of particular interest for dementia and all kinds of brain-related disorders.

According to Dr. Raymond Peat, “nitric oxide poisons the ability to oxidize glucose into carbon dioxide, increases lactic acid, and the cell has less energy and is more excited by the acetylcholine, so basically it becomes susceptible to dying in proportion to the overstimulation of acetylcholine.”

But what does nitric oxide have to do with methylene blue? Methylene blue happens to be one of the most potent nitric oxide inhibitors known. It is a tool that can powerfully reduce NO synthesis and scavenge existing nitric oxide from the blood and body.

Methylene Blue and The Hallmarks of Alzheimer’s Disease

Scientists studying the brains of Alzheimer’s patients have noticed commonalities among patients, including abnor­mally shaped tau proteins, or “neurofibrillary tangles” within brain cells called neurons. Let’s look at the impact of methylene blue on these hallmarks and determine if it can help resolve them.

Hallmark 1: Neurofibrillary “Tangles”

The brains of mice that’ve been genetically engineered to lack tau protein do not function properly, leading researchers to conclude the mis­shapen tau proteins found in brain cells of Alzheimer’s patients play a role in the disease.

A group of scientists from Gakushuin University and Keio University School of Medicine in Japan published a study in 2019 that reports methylene blue can repair the problem by inhibiting the formation of tau neurofibrillary tangles in the brain.[xii]

Hallmark 2: Beta Amyloid Plaques

Another hallmark of the Alzheimer’s-diseased brain is the appearance of beta amyloid plaque surrounding brain cells. Remarkably, methylene blue has been shown to prevent beta amyloid plaques from form­ing on the outside of neurons.[xiii]

Evidence suggests that methylene blue can help resolve both of the primary hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. Not bad for a fabric dye!

But what about on actual Alzheimer’s patients outside the laboratory? Can methylene blue help actual patients with dementia?
Clinical Trial: Methylene Blue Boosts Brain of Dementia Patients

In a study on Alzheimer’s patients in 2019, scientists administered 8mg-16mg of methylene blue daily while monitoring their brain function. The methylene blue stopped Alzheimer’s disease dead in its tracks![x] [xi]

“Treatment with 8mg-16mg MB daily reduced cognitive decline by more than 85%! That is the perverted medical profession’s way of saying that MB effectively stopped AD in its tracks, or at least its cognitive symptoms, which is what this disease is all about. It is a type of dementia after all. Perhaps just as importantly, it found that drugs currently approved for managing symptoms of AD interfere with the therapeutic benefit of MB when administered together with it!”
– Georgi Dinkov

When a therapy stops cognitive decline by 85%, at what point do we say it cured the patient? I’m not going to make any claims here, but methylene blue is possibly as close to a cure as it gets.

For those interested in using methylene blue for Alzheimer’s, an important finding from the study was that a dose of 200mg of methylene blue had no greater benefit than a much smaller dose of 8mg.

The study concluded that methylene blue is expected to be therapeutic in doses up to 16mg, and patients would see no additional benefit from taking higher doses.

Photodynamic Therapy: Methylene Blue + Red Light Therapy for Dementia

To make methylene blue therapy even more effective, synergistic healing and cognitive enhancement can be achieved by combining methylene blue therapy with red light therapy.

Methylene blue and red light therapy are two widely studied approaches for improving brain mitochon­drial respiration due to their ability to act directly on cellular metabolism and correct deficiencies therein.

According to scientists in a 2020 review, red light and methylene blue “have similar beneficial effects on mitochondrial function, oxidative damage, inflammation, and subsequent behavioral symptoms.”[xxi]

Combining methylene blue with red light therapy in a treatment protocol for dementia is one of the most promising techniques for synergisti­cally maximizing therapeutic potency and accelerating recovery of meta­bolically defective brain cells.

Conclusion

Existing ‘approved’ drugs for dementia don’t work, and effective therapies for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are very much needed.

The blockbuster drug methylene blue is a powerful cognitive enhancing drug scientifically proven to restore brain function in people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other forms of dementia.

For those who like to take their health into their own hands, methylene blue is a scientifically validated, sane and rational treatment approach.

Methylene blue is so effective at remedying the hallmarks of dementia that some might even call it a cure.

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Via https://endalldisease.com/methylene-blue-parkinsons-alzheimers-dementia/

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

July 19, 2025

A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) yesterday stated that “11 legacy IT systems at a total of 10 agencies, including two at the Department of the Treasury, and one each at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the departments of Interior, Transportation, Homeland Security (DHS), Health and Human Services (HHS), Defense, Commerce, and Agriculture” had to immediately be replaced because these computer network systems were “between 23 years old (at the Interior Department) and 60 years old (at the Defense Department).”

Are you kidding me?? And yet the federal government through many of these same agencies is spending $billions on developing AI.

As I reported recently, tens of thousands of people are being laid off right now in the Technology sector, not because AI is replacing their jobs, but because SPENDING on AI projects is cutting out budgets for other technology projects. See: Has the AI Apocalypse Arrived? Tens of Thousands Being Laid Off in Big Tech – AI has to Either Replace Them or AI Spending Must Stop

In the case with these federal agencies’ legacy systems, as this report documents, many of them use older coding languages, such as COBOL, and there are very few coders using these older languages anymore.

All the money in IT now is being allocated for AI LLM development, building data centers, and developing new energy sources to power these data centers.

Well none of that is going to matter if critical IT networks already in place fail to protect and run our country, or are easily hacked, as there won’t be enough qualified technicians around to fix them, because they are going where the money is today, in the AI bubble.

Some excerpts from MeriTalk:

GAO Asks Congress to Require Agency IT Modernization Plans

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending that Congress consider requiring major Federal government agencies to develop modernization plans for legacy IT systems that have been identified as among those most in need of overhauling.

In making that recommendation, GAO chided the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which it said has thus far “not taken action” on GAO recommendations offered nearly a decade ago for OMB to identify legacy systems and/or investments needed to modernize them.

“Given OMB’s lack of action, Congress requiring federal agencies to develop modernization plans for critical legacy systems can expedite agencies’ efforts,” the watchdog agency said.

Those are some of the bigger takeaways from the public version of a GAO report issued today in which the agency flags what it sees as “11 of the most critical federal legacy systems” at 10 of the larger Federal government agencies.

The report identifies those agencies by name but does not identify the specific worrisome systems at those agencies “due to sensitivity concerns.”

The watchdog’s report covers 11 legacy systems at a total of 10 agencies, including two at the Department of the Treasury, and one each at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the departments of Interior, Transportation, Homeland Security (DHS), Health and Human Services (HHS), Defense, Commerce, and Agriculture.

The 11 legacy systems range between 23 years old (at the Interior Department) and 60 years old (at the Defense Department).

“These agencies’ missions are essential to government operations such as health care, critical infrastructure, tax processing, and national security, and these legacy systems provide vital support to the agencies’ missions,” GAO said.

Of the 11 legacy systems, GAO said that eight of them use outdated coding languages, four of them have unsupported hardware or software, and seven “are operating with known cybersecurity vulnerabilities.”

“For example, both of the Department of the Treasury’s selected systems run on Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL) and Assembly Language Code – programming languages that have a dwindling number of people available with the skills needed to support them,” GAO said.

“Until agencies fully document modernization plans for critical legacy IT systems, their modernization initiatives will have an increased likelihood of cost overruns, schedule delays, and overall project failure,” GAO warned.

“Project failure would be particularly detrimental not only because of wasted resources, but also because it would prolong the lifespan of increasingly vulnerable and obsolete systems,” the agency continued.

“This could expose agencies and system clients to security threats and potentially significant performance issues.”

Further, GAO said, “There are likely more legacy systems needing attention beyond what is highlighted in this report.”

GAO recalled that in June 2019, it identified 10 critical Federal legacy IT systems that were most in need of modernization, but that as of February 2025, agencies have completed only three of the 10 modernizations.

“Of the seven remaining modernizations, agencies planned to complete four in the next few years, two in 5 or more years, and one does not yet have a planned completion date.

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Via https://vaccineimpact.com/2025/gao-warns-congress-about-imminent-danger-from-older-computer-systems-that-are-23-to-60-years-old-in-10-agencies-including-dept-of-defense/

Desert Empires – History of Africa with Zeinab Badavi

BBC New Africa (2020)

Film Review

In this film, BBC presenter Zeinab Badavi explores the history of the Ghana, Mali and Songhay Empire and the Berber trading center of Chinguetti. All four successively occupied the region encompassing modern Mali, Mauritania, Senegal and Guinea

The Ghana Empire (which didn’t include modern day Ghana) ruled the region between 600 and 1076 AD. Known then as the Empire of Wagadou, it was a federation of 10 independent states whose rulers were required to provide food for the federation’s king (he ensured this by keeping their sons captive). Most of the empire’s inhabitants were farmers and fishermen using iron tools. Although it became very wealthy from its control of the African gold trade,* the Ghana Empire, which considered it more valuable, used copper. They traded gold with Arab merchants, Berber nomads (for camels) and North Africans and salt with their southern neighbors.

Chinguetti in modern day Mauritania was the trading center for a confederation of Berber tribes in the 11th-14th century. It became a holy city for pilgrims traveling to Mecca and eventually a learning center, the source of carefully preserved medieval Chinguetti manuscripts.

In the 11th century the Ghana empire was conquered by the Mandinko or Mali Empire. By 1235, the latter substantially exceeded the size of  the Ghana empire it replaced. In 1236 the emperor established the Charter of Mandé or the Charter of Rights, which was passed along by oral tradition.

Between 1235-1255 Sundiata Keita was became the Mali mansa (king) after capturing Timbuktu from Turag nomads. Mansa Keiti, Timbuktu became Africa’s center for trade and scholarship. Although technically a center for Islamic study, the empire’s religious tolerance drew scholars from the far corners of the known word experiencing religious persecution in their own countries. As the modern day city has been afflicted by Islamic terrorists since 2012, Badavi was only allowed to visit Timbuktu under armed guard.

In 1320, Keita’s nephew Mansa Musa I became Africa’s best known ruler when he and a large retinue made a pilgrimage  a lavish pilgrimage dressed in garments decorated with gold and carrying gold staffs. The king gave away so much gold during his pilgrimage that the global price of gold plummeted.

In 1468 Sonni Ali the Great conquered Timbuktu and Mali became part of the Songhay Empire. The latter was larger still than Mali, as far east as the Niger River. In 1591 the Songhay empire collapsed into the Songhay kingdom, the area immediately surrounding ding its capitol Goa.

*Gold mining occurred in regions just south of the Ghana empire.

To make matters worse, the state of economic affairs was impossibly unmanageable, with over 7,000 recognized bank notes in the USA, and over 1,496 banks each issuing multiple notes. Under this highly de-regulated system made possible by the 1836 killing of the national bank years earlier under Andrew Jackson and the passage of the 1846 Independent Treasury Act, which prevented the government from influencing economic affairs, every private bank could issue currencies with no federal authority.

With such a breakdown of finances, no national projects were possible, international investments were scarce, and free market money worshipping ran rampant. Manufacturing collapsed, speculation took over and the slavocracy grew in influence between the 1837’s bank panic and 1860.

In his pioneering book Who We Are: America’s Fight For Universal Progress volume 2, Anton Chaitkin writes of the artificial crisis of 1837-1860:

“Under anti-national economic regimes since the 1830s, there had been no national currency and no federal regulations on banks.

State-chartered banks used deposits for dangerous speculation. To make loans, they issued paper notes in various dollar amounts, promising to pay off in gold or silver coins (“specie”) if a note were cashed in (a promise that could be kept only if the bank did not overextend itself). These notes circulated as a kind of money, but they were often not accepted for payment far from the locality of the issuing banks.

In the crisis of the Union, fear for the future had shriveled credit and investment. Southerners had stopped paying most debts they owed to northern business. The bigger northern banks were trying to hoard gold. In these chaotic circumstances, depositors and note-holders across the country were often left with nothing.”

By the onset of the Civil War, the City of London was obviously not interested in allowing the USA to get out from under water, and with the gold-backed pound sterling, ensured the manipulation of gold prices and orchestrated the buyout of U.S. gold reserves. When Lincoln sought loans to execute the war, whether from Wall Street or International banking houses, the loans were granted only at excessive interest rates of 20-25%.

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Although 150 years of revisionist historians have obscured the real Lincoln and the true nature of the Civil War as a British-run operation to undo the revolution of 1776. The martyred president was always an opponent to slavery, and always situated himself in the traditions of the American System of Hamilton, describing in 1832 a policy which he later enacted 30 years later:

“My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance. I am in favor of a national bank. I am in favor of the internal improvement system, and a high protective tariff. These are my sentiments and political principles.”

In 1859, Lincoln described himself

“I was an old Henry Clay tariff whig. In old times I made more speeches on that subject, than on any other. I have not since changed my views.”

Lincoln’s commitment to the Hamiltonian system of national banking was showcased brilliantly during his 1840 campaign speeches promoting Harrison’s Whig presidency and the restoration of the bank, which had been cancelled by Andrew Jackson four years earlier.

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From this period in the Congress where he became a leading ally of John Quincy Adams, and played a leading role in opposition to the unjust U.S.-Mexican War, Lincoln committed himself consistently to ending not only systems of slavery, but also all hereditary power structures internationally, which he understood were inextricably connected.

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Lincoln Revives the American System

The Bank Act of 1863 established reserve requirements for the first time, and also capped the interest rates in order to destroy usury within the nation itself. In order to eliminate international interference and manipulation from Wall Street financiers, the Bank Act also forced 75% of all bank directors to reside in the state in which the bank was located, and all directors had to be American citizens.

The most important step in this fight was the sovereign control of credit issuance, which, according to Article 1 section 8 of the U.S. constitution can only be affected through the U.S. treasury (an important lesson for anyone serious about ending the privately run Federal Reserve controls over national finance today). Following this constitutional principle, Lincoln issued a new form of currency called Greenbacks, which could only be issued against U.S. government bonds. These began being issued with the 1862 Legal Tender Act.

Nationally-chartered banks were now obliged to deposit into the federal treasury, totalling at least one third of their capital in exchange for government notes issued by the Mint and Treasury (in order to qualify for federal charters needed to avoid the tax on state bank activities, banks found themselves lending to the government, which gave Lincoln an ability to avoid the usurious loans from London and Wall Street.)

New bonds were issued under this scheme called 5:20 bonds (due to their 5-20 year maturation), which citizens purchased as investments into their nations’ survival. These bonds, which united “personal self interest” with the general welfare of the nation provided loans to manufacturing, and as well served as the basis for the issuance of more Greenbacks.

Organized by Lincoln’s ally Jay Cooke (a patriotic Philadelphia banker), the 5-20 bonds were sold in small denominations to average citizens who then had a vested interest in directly participating in saving their nation.

Between 1862-1865, these bonds accounted for $1.3 billion.

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These measures were accompanied by a strong protective tariff to grow American industries as well.

By the beginning of 1865, $450 million in Greenbacks were issued, making up over half of all currency in circulation.

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Via https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-abraham-lincoln-and-077

US health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr US health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr: ‘The new regulations employ extremely broad language that gives the WHO unprecedented power’ © Reuters

Patrick Temple-West and Michael Peel July 18, 2025

The US has rejected the World Health Organization’s new efforts to combat international health emergencies, alleging the group threatens US sovereignty and “lays the groundwork for global surveillance of every human being”.

In a statement on Friday, US health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr said the US had opted out of changes that the WHO approved last year to better respond to severe disease outbreaks. Kennedy’s decision comes one day before the deadline to decline the amendments. “The new regulations employ extremely broad language that gives the WHO unprecedented power,” Kennedy said. “That opens the door to the kind of narrative management and propaganda and censorship that we saw during the Covid pandemic.”

The US rejection of the WHO amendments could hamper global co-operation for future health crises. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had hailed the changes last year for bolstering countries’ ability to share information and respond to potential pandemics. The amendments also call for members to commit additional financing and medical products for developing countries.

The WHO changes came under fire from US conservatives last year, leading House Republicans to pass legislation rejecting the measures. The global health body’s first ever pandemic agreement agreed this year, however, explicitly reaffirms country sovereignty and gives the WHO no powers to restrict travel, mandate vaccines or impose lockdowns.

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Kennedy, in a joint statement with secretary of state Marco Rubio, said the changes failed to adequately address the WHO’s susceptibility to “political influence and censorship.”

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While the WHO has power to declare a “public health emergency”, what that announcement means is legally vague. Declaring an emergency is an important symbolic step, but only a handful of countries have any references to it in legislation, researchers wrote in the Lancet. WHO has declared public health emergencies in recent years for diseases including Ebola, Covid and mpox.

When Donald Trump was sworn into office in January for his second term, he signed an executive order to start a year-long process to pull the US out of the WHO. Congress this week passed funding cuts for foreign aid, including cutting WHO funding. The WHO has drawn wider criticism for some aspects of its handling of the Covid pandemic, but its defenders argue the US conservative attacks misrepresent its role and undermine its ability to co-ordinate needed international action.

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Via https://www.ft.com/content/478955b0-83ec-4c1b-abf0-1b81dcd98622