welcome to the organic green doctor blog

i am a family physician who was diagnosed with
early mild cognitive impairment(mci) amnestic type on december 21, 2010
this is a precursor to alzheimers disease
because of this diagnosis i have opted to stop practicing medicine
this blog will be about my journey with this disease
please feel free to follow me along this path
i will continue blogging on organic gardening, green living,
solar power, rainwater collection, and healthy living
i will blog on these plus other things noted to be interesting

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

organicgreendoctor: will my brain get doged

organicgreendoctor: will my brain get doged: WILL MY BRAIN GET DOGED i was in an alzheimers research study of one kind from 2010 when i was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment due ...

will my brain get doged

WILL MY BRAIN GET DOGED

i was in an alzheimers research study of one kind from 2010 when i was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment due to alzheimers until the end of 2013 when i finished my last aduhelm infusion and my last mri and my last amyloid pet scan and my last tau pet scan and my last almost 4 hours of memory tests and my last huge blood testing

there is a lot of data in my medical records that scientists and researchers have been accessing for the last 15 years and still are

now what is missing is to hold my brain in a researchers hand and have them analyze it to see what really happened in my brain when i was alive
they can compare it to what they saw on all those tests i had done

this is how they figure out if they are correct in their thinking and research and if the meds i took really worked 

it is arranged so that when i die i will be shipped to UCLA so they can remove my brain then my body will be returned back to santa barbara for cremation

this allows them to seek how my brain looks and compare it to my greater than 10 mris or my 5 or so amyloid pet scans or my 3 or so tau pet scans

thats how they know if what they are doing really works

an invaluable source of scientific information

alas 
this all may get doged
you know like doge
like musks doge

in this article linked here from scientific american  funding has been halted for the universiity of california davis alzheiemrs research center
this is happening at many other important alzheimers research centers

it is centers like these and the alzheimers research center at ucla that advances the research in the alzheimers world that gives us the advances like the aduhelm and leqembi and kisunia alzheimers drugs that may slow down the disease

its the basic research thats done that leads to the development of the drugs that we eventually use

these cuts or holds on funds are stopping research in its tracks 
even some of them that restart will be severely affected by the stoppage of the research
it will set research back 

we have been making good progress on alzheimers research 
now is not the time to have it stop

i dont want my brain that i have endured 15 years of my time my getting probed mentally and physically and getting all those scans and blood draws and infusions and scans to go to waste

i dont want my brain to get doged

call your congress representative and complain

the organicgreen doctor

Friday, April 18, 2025

organicgreendoctor: my story revisited #217-yes i can help

organicgreendoctor: my story revisited #217-yes i can help: MY STORY REVISITED #217-YES I CAN HELP over the last 15 years i have been contacted by a lot of folks asking for help for themselves or thei...