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Steven Fowkes has a PowerPoint/YouTube presentation broken into 9 parts that explains the initiating cause of Alzheimer Disease. This is a very detailed an in-depth presentation. Some details are targeted for doctors. However, anyone can benefit from watching to learn the general concepts.

The presentation says that mercury toxicity is a risk factor. Gluthathione is the cell’s main antioxidant and detoxifier of mercury. When gluthathione is abundant enough to be dominate over mercury, then we are in good shape. But when mercury overwhelms gluthathione’s ability to do its job, then that is when Alzheimer’s disease may initiate. Fowkes says that “Alzheimer’s is caused by loss of glutathione cycling.” Glutathione’s antioxidative ability can be recycled, but that requires cellular energy such as ATP.

This energy comes from foods we eat. The presentation talks about how the body can burn glucose as well as fats for fuel. It talks about the glucose pathway and insulin resistance. You may have heard that insulin resistance is a risk factor of Alzheimer’s. It also talks about ketosis and how the body can burn fat as fuel.

The presentation goes into talk about mitochondria, antioxidant system, inflammation as a risk factor, cortisol as neuro-toxin.

The term “Alzheimer Reversal” may be debatable. Certainly, the initiating processes of Alzheimer such as inflammation and mercury toxicity can reduced or reversed. But this is typically at the stage prior to clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. Once late-stage Alzheimer where neurons death has set in, then it is much more difficult.

You can find the rest of the nine parts at his YouTube page.

If you like his presentation, you may also want to see his talk at GoogleTechTalks about “Nutrients for Better Mental Performance“.

On YouTube is a series of videos of Dr. Richard Bernstein who had Type I diabetes and what he did to control his blood sugar and reversed the harmful effects of diabetes. This was a talk that he gave tat the Nutrition and Metabolism Society in May 8, 2010 in New York City. Dr. Richard Bernstein had diabetes for over 60 years. He was an engineer and so he got a device to measure his blood sugar through the day and performed experiments to see what affected his blood sugar. At age 45, he went to medical school and became a doctor in this field.

He found that he was able to control his blood sugar by primarily using low-carb diet, weight training, and aerobic exercise.

YouTube Videos: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.

The PBS program Nova aired a documentary called “Fabric of the Cosmos” which you can watch on pbs.org in the link provided.

The program stars physicist Brian Greene and is based on his book of the same name.  The first part talks about what empty space really is and what it is made of.

It turns out that space is not as empty as we thought. The weight of empty space is 70% of the weight of the universe. This ingredient of empty space is called dark energy and it is causing our universe to be expanding and the expansion is accelerating.

We learned that mass can wrap and twist space like a fabric. We learned that space is bubbling at the quantum level as evidenced by the Casimir effect. Scientist are now looking for the Higgs particle.

PBS did had an one hour documentary on Apple’s Steve Jobs called “Steve Jobs: One Last Thing” — the video of which you can watch online in the link. This was in reference to the fact that when Jobs did product presentation, he tended to say “and one more thing” as part of his showsmanship in product presentation.

Steve Jobs had died on October 5th, 2011 of pancreatic cancer. Walter Isaacson released the biography of Steve Jobs 19 days later. It was Steve Jobs idea. Steve Jobs called Walter Isaacson and asked if Isaacson would write a biography of him. This was when Jobs found out about his cancer, but Isaacson was not aware of it yet.

Jobs picked the right guy for the job (no pun intended). Because Isaacson had written about Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Kissinger. Isaacson is CEO of the Aspen Institute and has also been Chairman and CEO of CNN and the managing editor of TIME. In part, Jobs asked Isaacson

Jobs cooperated with the book, but left the control of the book in Isaacson’s hand — it is Isaacson’s book. Isaacson interviewed over 100 people for the book including Jobs family members, friends, colleagues, and even adversaries. Isaacson also did over 40 interviews with Jobs himself.

After the book came out, Isaacson was in the media talking about Steve Jobs. Some of which you can see on PBS, 60 Minutes, and NPR.

Terry Gross of Fresh Air on NPR talked with Isaacson about the biography. Isaacson said that Jobs is able to connect art with technology and was able to take a concept into reality.

In the media, you can learn some of the difference between Apple’s Steve Jobs and Microsoft’s Bill Gates. Both Jobs and Gates were born in 1955 and both dropped out of college. But they are different. Jobs was into Zen Buddhism and knows what appeals to people. But he did not know how to program. Gates did.

Although Jobs knew the concepts of Zen, he did not have the calm of Zen as evidenced by the fact that sometimes he would become very angry.

Microsoft and Apple are rivals, but there were collaboration as well. In the PBS documentary, you can see footage of both Jobs and Gates on stage — and you can see that they both had respect for each other.