Memory Problems, Alzheimer's Disease
In this video, William Summers spends about 27 minutes speaking on "Memory Problems, Alzheimer's Disease" at the 43rd Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About William Summers
WILLIAM K. SUMMERS, M.D. graduated from Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis) in 1971, and trained in both Internal Medicine and Neuropsychiatry at Washington University. He has been on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Southern California, and the University of California Los Angeles. Dr. Summers has been in private medical practice since 1981, but has continued in academic pursuits. His 1986 benchmark publication in The New England Journal of Medicine on the use of tacrine (Cognex®) to treat Alzheimer’s disease revolutionized the field.
At the time it was thought impossible to treat Alzheimer’s disease. As is typical of unexpected innovation, he was subjected to intense FDA investigation. In 1989, the FDA declared a ‘mutual consent decree’ to the public. Today, there are five drugs in the antidementia field, with four of these based on Dr. Summers’ original hypothesis. Characteristic of autocratic bureaucracies, the FDA put Dr. Summers on a secret black list, which was removed after its discovery in 2006.
Dr. Summers has numerous awards, and is an international speaker. He has forty-eight papers in major medical journals. He has earned eight U.S. and international patents in pharmacology and health supplements. He is the inventor of Memory reVITALIZER®, A 35-component fullspectrum antioxidant blend which is derived from his revolutionary peer reviewed paper on the cause and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease (Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2004; 6:651-657).
In 1999, Dr. Summers founded the Alzheimer’s Corporation, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which features innovative dementia care, anti-aging medicine and markets Memory reVITALIZER®.
He may be contacted by phone 800-606-0192, fax 505-888-6000, website www.ALZcorp.com and e-mail [email protected].
Transcription
Absolutely. Thank you, Frank. I guess I need to start with first thanking Frank and thanking Lorraine and the committee that allowed me to come and speak to you today. It's a great privilege to talk to an audience such as this who have more open minds than a lot of audiences that I've spoken to in the past. As a matter of fact, when I started my trek with Alzheimer's, I was told it was a chronic downhill, unremitting illness which caused death. And approximately three years after diagnosis, total course was but eight years, same as for cancer. And we've changed all that. As a matter of fact, my mother, who is now 96, actually has had Alzheimer's 15 years and can play a pretty decent game of cards still, even though she is obviously confused. Well, I brought with me my girlfriend, and she is a marketer of many years experience and she was disgusted with me. She said, look at this opportunity.
This is an international group of people, international group of speakers, a wonderful format. Where is your booth? So I didn't have one. And she civil war, where your handouts and don't, you know, didn't really bring in it. Will. Do you have any cards? No. I only brought a couple. And so she's pretty upset with me. And both of us look at Dr. Gordon, who is a phenomenal marketer, and also Dr. Wallach. Your dad. Fantastic. And these guys are just I mean, I look at him and I get so excited. And as a cashier, I wish I could be that way. But in truth, I'm a neuroscientist. And neurosciences is a funny field, there are about 60000 of us on the planet every year, about 30000 of us get together. And it's an amazing group. Thirty thousand people getting together for five days under the agreement that we won't talk with each other. Because everybody's too scared, anxious and introverted to do so. Well, how do we do that? We have two thousand posters in the morning. Those all come down. And another two thousand go up in the afternoon and we present our work to each other. And if you go to one of the posters, you say, hey, please. Where's the guy who did this? You look around, you see somebody is sort of cowering in according to you. Pull him over to explain the poster to you. I mean, that's that's the group of folks that I like to hang with. And in addition to that, at the same time as these posters are on, you have 15 slide shows where the topic changes every five to