The Biggest Myth About Alzheimer’s Disease
Decades of research has been chasing the wrong target.
The following information is based on a report originally published by A Midwestern Doctor. Key details have been streamlined and editorialized for clarity and impact. Read the original report here.
Big Pharma wants you believe Alzheimer’s is incurable, but one brain surgeon is naming three substances that fight Alzheimer’s WITHOUT the side effects.
#1 is Curcumin, which increases mitochondrial function and reduces the inflammatory chemicals that trigger Alzheimer’s.
#2 is DHA (from omega-3 fats) - “DHA removes almost all the amyloid from brains.”
#3 is EGCG (from green tea) - ECGC has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects that counter neurodegenerative processes.
Dr. Russel Blaylock says these substances are ignored by mainstream medicine—not because they don’t work, but because pharmaceutical companies “couldn’t make a profit off it.”
So, research and promotion are abandoned.
If effective treatments can be buried, what else aren’t we being told about Alzheimer’s disease?
It turns out, Alzheimer’s may not actually begin with memory loss.
It may begin with something far more ordinary—and far more overlooked.
The brain has no conventional waste-removal system. Instead, it relies on a specialized drainage network that only activates during deep sleep. That’s when toxic proteins, inflammatory byproducts, and metabolic waste are flushed out.
But when that system fails, waste accumulates—night after night.
Neurons don’t just “age.” They suffocate!
This may explain why poor sleep doubles dementia risk—and why sedatives often make things worse by suppressing the very stage of sleep the brain needs to clean itself.
For decades, medicine chased plaques while ignoring drainage.
And that mistake may have cost millions their minds.
Alzheimer’s isn’t a mystery disease. It’s a system failure.
Big medicine wants you to believe the big myth—that Alzheimer’s is a single, inevitable brain disease caused by amyloid plaques—and that nothing meaningful can be done about it until you deal with the plaques.
And for decades, medicine chased this theory—while ignoring everything else. Things like blood flow, inflammation, toxins, sleep, trauma, and metabolic collapse were brushed aside.
Billions were spent on the amyloid plaque theory. Yet no cures were delivered.
Meanwhile, real reversals of Alzheimer’s were getting ignored.
This information comes from the work of medical researcher A Midwestern Doctor. For all the sources and details, read the full report below.
Reversing Alzheimer’s: The Forgotten Causes and Cures Big Pharma Buried
The amyloid theory treats plaques as the cause of Alzheimer’s.
But plaques also appear in people with normal cognition. And removing them doesn’t reliably restore memory, reasoning, or function.
That should’ve ended the theory years ago. Instead, it became an entire industry.
Amyloid drugs barely slow decline (if at all) and they often come with brain swelling, bleeding, and accelerated deterioration.
They don’t fix why neurons are starving, inflamed, or poisoned.
They just chase debris left behind after the damage is already done.
There’s far more evidence showing why the amyloid model failed—and what was ignored—than can fit in one thread.
A Midwestern Doctor’s full article lays out the history in detail.
Reversing Alzheimer’s: The Forgotten Causes and Cures Big Pharma Buried
Alzheimer’s isn’t one disease.
It’s multiple distinct degenerative processes that all look similar once enough neurons are damaged. And treating them as one condition guarantees failure.
Some cases are driven by chronic inflammation—insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, leaky gut, latent infections.
Others are driven by blood sugar toxicity—constant insulin spikes that sabotage synapses and fuel degeneration.
Different causes. Same diagnosis.
Wrong treatment.
Another major subtype of Alzheimer’s is atrophic—the brain simply isn’t getting what it needs.
Hormones, nutrients, oxygen, growth signals, etc.
Poor circulation means neurons slowly shrink, disconnect, and die—not from plaques, but from deprivation.
Then there’s toxic Alzheimer’s.
Heavy metals. Mold. Industrial chemicals. Chronic infections.
These patients often decline earlier. They also suffer from anxiety, depression, personality changes, and executive dysfunction long before they experience memory loss.
Unfortunately, some pharmaceuticals worsen cognition. Things like sleeping pills, anticholinergics, certain psychiatric meds, even drugs prescribed to “protect” the brain.
They reduce blood flow, block REM sleep, or interfere with memory formation.
And the damage is cumulative.
Vascular Alzheimer’s is brutally simple.
If blood can’t reach brain tissue efficiently, neurons suffocate.
Attention, processing speed, and planning fail first—then memory follows.
Unfortunately, this isn’t rare. It’s everywhere.
Head trauma is another forgotten driver.
Concussions, whiplash, sports injuries—even those that happened decades earlier—can trigger slow neurodegeneration that later gets labeled “Alzheimer’s.”
In these cases, the injury just never healed. And the clock kept ticking until it was too late.
Across nearly every subtype, one pattern appears consistently—poor circulation and impaired drainage.
When blood stagnates, lymph backs up, and waste accumulates.
Neurons drown quietly in their own byproducts.
When blood cells lose their electrical repulsion, they clump, thicken, and flow poorly—especially in tiny cerebral vessels.
Improve the flow, and cognition often improves with it.
This is why zeta potential matters.
The brain also depends on the glymphatic system—a waste-removal network that only activates during deep sleep.
Miss deep sleep, and toxins accumulate nightly.
This isn’t theoretical. It’s measurable.
Poor sleep dramatically raises dementia risk.
Not because sleep is “restful”—but because it’s when the brain cleans itself.
Sedatives don’t fix this. They suppress the very sleep stages the brain needs to survive.
The data linking sleep disruption, brain drainage failure, and dementia risk is deeper—and more disturbing—than most people realize.
A Midwestern Doctor’s full article connects the dots.
Reversing Alzheimer’s: The Forgotten Causes and Cures Big Pharma Buried
Chronic stress locks cells into survival mode.
When neurons perceive danger, they shut down growth, repair, and memory formation.
The cell danger response is meant to be temporary—but many brains never exit it.
The integrated stress response blocks protein synthesis required for learning and memory.
Flip that switch off, and cognition can return—even in aging brains.
That’s been shown repeatedly.
But it just isn’t profitable.
Let that one sink in.
One of the most buried therapies in neurology is DMSO.
It improves circulation, reduces inflammation, stabilizes membranes, and helps cells exit survival mode.
And it’s safe.
Some of the most compelling Alzheimer’s improvement data didn’t come from new drugs—and that’s exactly why most people never heard about it.
The full article explains what happened.
Reversing Alzheimer’s: The Forgotten Causes and Cures Big Pharma Buried
Animal studies show that DMSO can prevent and even reverse induced Alzheimer’s pathology.
And human studies have shown improvements in memory, orientation, mood, communication, and mobility—sometimes within months!
Curiously, no billion-dollar marketing campaign followed.
What actually works for Alzheimer’s isn’t a single pill.
It’s restoring circulation, correcting metabolism, removing toxins, fixing sleep, lowering stress signaling, and giving neurons room to recover.
That’s not fringe, alternative, or quack science. It’s biological reality and we need to start paying attention.
The tragedy is that families are told mental decline is inevitable—while viable paths to improvement are completely ignored.
They’re not ignored because they don’t work.
They’re ignored because they don’t fit a drug-centered model of medicine.
The truth is, Alzheimer’s isn’t hopeless.
What’s hopeless is pretending a one-size-fits-all drug will fix a multi-system collapse.
Reversal starts when root causes are identified and actually addressed.
Thanks for reading! This information was based on a report originally published by A Midwestern Doctor. Key details were streamlined and editorialized for clarity and impact. Read the original report here.
Reversing Alzheimer’s: The Forgotten Causes and Cures Big Pharma Buried
For a deeper dive into what modern medicine has overlooked—or intentionally buried—check out these other eye-opening reports by A Midwestern Doctor:
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The Forgotten Cancer Cure Hiding in Plain Sight
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i am incredibly surprised that you did not once mention the connection between oral hygiene and Alzheimers. Then again, when docs write about heart disease they seldom mentions oral hygiene, when they write about diabetes they usually forget to write about the connection to oral hygiene, when they write about Parkinsons disease they usually forget to mention the studies showing Parkinsons can be started by the same bacteria that causes tooth decay. Strep Mutans is not an "oral pathogen", it is a systemic pathogen that causes many issues throughout the body. We know 100% how to effectively get rid of the strep mutans bacteria without using drugs...our healthcare providers and systems simply ignore the use of non-hexose sugars as being part of the solution.
Also, be aware that most Omega 3 oil capsules are already rancid before you even buy them. Oils go rancid quickly. Most green teas contain high levels of fluoride too. Many teas do, except the herbal organic teas. You can grow your own herbs for making teas.