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| What We Got Wrong |
10 years ago
Throw out the aluminum pots, the foil, the antiperspirant. The metal builds up in your head and sets off Alzheimer’s. |
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Now
Big, careful studies find no real link from everyday aluminum. The scare traces back to one odd 1965 test in rabbits. Your changeable risks lie elsewhere. |
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| Alzheimer’s Research UK · Alzheimer’s Association · decades of review, 2026 |
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| Mental Math |
| Running numbers in your head is real work for the brain. It keeps your processing speed — how fast your mind does the math — quick and sure. See how many you can clear before the timer stops. |
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Trump’s emergency dollar reset
The downward slide has begun.
According to new research from Bloomberg, the U.S. dollar's share of global reserves has just fallen to the lowest level this century.
While everyone is distracted by hyped-up IPOs and the AI bubble, the world is walking away from the dollar – the foundation on which all of our lives are built is crumbling.
And I believe the consequences for the country – and your financial security – are extremely serious.
That means every dollar you have saved and invested… every good, every service, every asset… all of it could be about to be repriced against a new monetary anchor.
It’s not gold, or crypto – but something far more unexpected. An asset so fiercely contested and so critical that Vladimir Putin once claimed whoever controls it “will become the leader of the world”
Nobody can tell you exactly how this reset will play out.
But I do know that the last time America changed its money like this – half a century ago – it split the country in two. Between the folks who understood what was happening and responded accordingly – and those who got brutally left behind.
That line is being drawn again. And what you do with your money in the months ahead could decide which side you end up on.
I’d like to show you which investments could thrive – and which could be the most dangerous – inside Trump’s new monetary order.
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| The Alzheimer’s Protein That Also Helps You Remember |
| You’ve heard that tau is the enemy. It’s the protein that tangles up inside brain cells in Alzheimer’s. So drug makers have spent years trying to wipe it out. New work says slow down. |
| Scientists at Flinders University found that tau has a day job. A healthy one. It helps turn today into a memory you keep. Let me explain. |
| When you learn something, only a small set of brain cells should hold that memory. The rest of the brain buzzes with noise. Tau quiets that noise. It makes a small, controlled change — a chemical tag called phosphorylation — that tells the right cells to lock the memory in and tells the wrong ones to stay quiet. |
| Picture a stage manager. The room is loud. He hushes the crowd so only the right voices carry. That’s tau on a good day. |
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Take tau away in the study and memories still formed — but they came out weak, and they faded fast. Normal tau isn’t the villain. Tangled tau is. |
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| This was mostly animal work, and it’s early. I could be wrong about how it plays out in people. But I believe it changes how we should think about tau drugs. A blunt tool that strips all tau from the brain may drag a memory helper down with the bad clumps. |
| I urge you to keep this one on your radar. The next wave of Alzheimer’s drugs may need to spare the good tau, not just chase the tangles. |
| Flinders University · Nature Communications · 2026 |
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| Floss Like Your Brain Depends On It |
| Start with your toothbrush. It may guard more than your smile. |
| Gum disease isn’t only sore gums. When gums stay inflamed, they leak. Germs from your mouth slip into the blood, and some can reach the brain. One germ tied to gum disease shows up in most Alzheimer’s brains at autopsy. It seems to stir up swelling and feed the sticky plaques. |
| This isn’t proof that bad gums cause Alzheimer’s. But older adults with long-running gum disease carry a higher risk. And unlike your genes, this one you can fix. |
| So treat your mouth as part of your brain plan. The routine is simple. |
| The Protocol |
| When |
| Twice a day — morning and before bed |
| Duration |
| Two minutes brushing, one daily floss, and a cleaning every six months |
| Rules |
| Floss or use a water flosser once a day. Brush soft, two full minutes. Go easy on the gum line, not hard on it. |
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| Bleeding gums are the warning light. Don’t wave it off. I urge you to book the cleaning you’ve been putting off. |
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| Poor Sleep In Alzheimer’s May Start With The Immune Cells |
| Blame usually falls on the plaques. A new study flips that. In mice, the brain’s own defense cells got stuck in the “on” position and kept the brain too stirred up for deep sleep. Quiet those cells and the mice won back more than two hours of deep sleep a night — with the plaques still in place. Deep sleep is when the brain clears its waste, so this is a target worth watching. |
| Univ. of Kentucky · Alzheimer’s & Dementia · July 2026 |
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| It’s Not Just How High Your Blood Pressure Runs |
| It’s how much it swings. New work points to blood-pressure variability — big ups and downs between readings — as its own risk for memory trouble, on top of your average number. Steady beats spiky. If your readings bounce around a lot, that’s worth a talk with your doctor about your medicine and your daily habits. |
| Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026 |
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| The Most Active 80-Somethings Kept More Of Their Memory |
| Researchers followed nearly 4,000 adults past age 80. The ones who moved the most held their memory longer and kept more size in the brain’s memory hub. It’s never too late to be the busy one. And you don’t need a gym — a daily walk counts. |
| Columbia & Albert Einstein College of Medicine · Neurology · July 2026 |
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| Urolithin A (sold as Mitopure) |
| Your cells run on tiny power plants called mitochondria. They wear out with age. Urolithin A helps your body clear the worn-out ones so fresh ones can step in — a kind of spring cleaning for your cells. Your gut makes it from pomegranate, walnuts, and berries, but many people barely make any. In older adults, trials show the supplement can raise muscle strength and cell-energy markers. Safety looks solid so far. |
| The brain side is still thin. No finished human trial shows it sharpens memory. The hopeful results are in mice, and timing seemed to matter — it helped head off decline, not undo it. A human Alzheimer’s trial is only now underway. And it isn’t cheap. |
| Verdict: Food first — eat the pomegranate, walnuts, and berries. Try the pills only if you have money to spare, and start early. Don’t count on them to undo what’s done. |
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