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- Well welcome, folks, tothis edition of the 700 Club.
A radical breakthrough inthe treatment of Alzheimer's.
Well, maybe not.
The FDA has approved a newdrug to fight the disease
but at what cost?
The drug is astronomically expensive.
Even worse, there's noproof that it works.
Medical Reporter, LorieJohnson explains why.
- Biogen's new Alzheimer'sdrug, Aduhelm, is a
monthly intervenousinfusion with an annual cost
of $56,000 before insurance.
Still, questions lingerabout its effectiveness.
One study showed no effectiveness at all,
the other showed a slightreduction in the rate of decline.
While this limited evidence prompted
an independent advisorycommittee to discourage approval,
the FDA still gave the okay.
- What's important aboutthis is that there was,
of course, some controversyand very complicated sets
of data that many people haddifferent opinions about.
But importantly, the FDAactually approved this today,
under accelerated approval.
- [Lorie] Alzheimer'sexpert, Dr. David Perlmutter
is concerned aboutsignificant brain bleeding
and swelling detectedin trial participants
and the fact that Aduhelm isfor people with mild symptoms.
- It's actually designed tobe used in people who have
what's called MCI ormild cognitive impairment
which, to be fair, is aharbinger for future Alzheimer's
but this should not beconstrued as a treatment
for Alzheimer's disease.
- [Lorie] The drug claimsto remove amyloid plaque
in the brain, but Alzheimer's researcher,
Dr. Dale Bredesen saysthat substance is simply
a barrier protectingthe brain from attacks.
- The big problem here is that people have
equated amyloid with Alzheimer's.
These are two quite different things.
The amyloid is a response tothe, to the what's inducing
the Alzheimer's, whereasAlzheimer's is the disease.
And just getting rid of amyloid,
that's not getting rid of Alzheimer's.
- [Lorie] Bredesen says thebest way to reverse the disease
is by identifying and treatingthings attacking the brain
like metabolism, pathogens, and toxins.
- Medical Reporter, Lorie Johnson is here.
Lorie, why do you thinkit's such a mystery?
I mean, Alzheimer's is a horrible disease.
Why don't you think the FDA can understand
what Bredesen and hisassociates are saying?
- Well it's a great questionand it all boils down
to the desire for a drug, onedrug, that people can take
a pill or get an IVinfusion, that addresses
this very complex disease.
What Dr. Bredesendiscovered is that there are
many different causes for Alzheimer's,
many different things tocontribute to it, dozens of them,
and he has developedthis test people can take
to see which one of these they have
and then address these different things
through a protocol or lifestyle changes.
So it's a complicated disease,
there's not just onething causing Alzheimer's.
- You've tried to getapproval of his techniques
and they wouldn't give it to him.
They said you've gotta giveus a pill, so (chuckling)
if you can't get a pill,we're not gonna approve it.
But the FDA gave acceleratedapproval on this other one.
Now what is accelerated mean?
- Accelerated approval is for diseases
a lot of people are sufferingfrom for which there's
really no treatment or cure.
And so the idea is even ifthere's the tiniest whisper
of hope, put it on the market,let people start taking it
right away, and continue to test it.
The problem, Pat, is that when people say
an Alzheimer's drug works, a lotta times
what they're saying is itworks to remove amyloid plaque.
But listen, hear me,just because you remove
amyloid plaque does notmean your memory comes back.
And so the best-case scenariofor removing amyloid plaque
is that for a very short period of time
in a very few people, the progression
of the disease slows down.
But it doesn't stop theprogression of the disease
and it certainly doesn'treverse the symptoms.
But with the Bredesenprotocol, we are seeing that,
the complete halt ofsymptoms and in many cases,
the reversal of the Alzheimer's symptoms.
If people wanna know moreabout the Bredesen protocol,
go to our website CBNNews.com,there's lots of information.
We've had Dr. Bredesen on the program
many times, as you know.
- Last question, he says, essentially,
Alzheimer's is the same inflammation that
causes so many of these other diseases.
Is that what it is, is it's inflammation?
- Absolutely, inflammation in the brain.
And there are a lot ofdifferent things that
cause inflammation, Pat.
He identified dozens of them.
Some of them have to do with diet,
some of them have to do with infections
like bacterial infectionslike Lyme disease,
or viral infections like herpes.
Other things can cause this inflammation,
toxins that we're exposedto in our environment.
And some people are at greater risk
if they have this APOE ε4 gene.
Some people have one,that raises your risk
of Alzheimer's about 33%.
If you have two of thesegenes, then you have
about a 75% chance ofdeveloping Alzheimer's.
So there are ways to sortof silence these genes
to kind of make them notexpress themselves in people.
So this is why some peoplehave Alzheimer's than others,
they often have the genes.
But you can, as I say, kindof turn off those genes
with the Bredesen protocol.
It's very fascinating, veryexciting, but it does require
a lot of work on the part of the patient.
A lot of people don't likethat, they'd rather take a pill.
But remember, this was the same situation
with Type-2 Diabetes.
When doctors figured out what causes it,
eating too much sugar,
that's how they used to treat patients.
They told them to stop eating sugar
and it worked until they developed insulin
and it might be the same typeof thing with Alzheimer's.
We can treat the symptoms now,
if we can stop doing whatis causing Alzheimer's.
- Lorie, thank you for that men.
Folks, I wanna tell ya, I'vebeen just finished a book
about Ronald Reagan, and you know,
he slipped into a later decline.
But two things happened to him.
Number one, he got shot,and he got shot badly.
And he was near death, lostalmost all of his blood,
there was a double shot.
The second thing is lateron, he was out riding
an untried horse downin Mexico and the horse
got spooked and began to buck.
And he didn't just buckbut he bucked frantically,
so much so that Reaganwas thrown off the horse
and hit his head.
They didn't think there was anything wrong
and then later, they found ahematoma at the Mayo Clinic
and he had to have that operated on.
So those two things,the next thing you know,
he's got Alzheimer's.
But people have just ignored that,
especially that fallwhere he hit his head.
I was sure that was what did it.
But the two shocks tohis system triggered that
terrible decline thathe had, this great man,
when he wrote he knew he was going
into the area that he'd never return.
But we don't know yet, but thank goodness
for Bredesen and theseother doctors who are saying
look, there is a way toget around this thing
but you don't do it with one pill.
Well in other news,they fake media did it.
They shot down the theorythat the coronavirus came
from a lab in Wuhan.
(chuckling) But guess what?
A secret report and aformer Secretary of State
are now giving that theorycredence for calling
for more investigation.
Efrem Graham has that.
- Pat, the possibility ofa lab leak as the source
of the coronavirus pandemicwas gaining traction
long before the media got onboard.
The "Wall Street Journal"reports a government lab
found that the theorywas plausible and worthy
of investigation as early as May of 2020,
the Journal citing a secret report
by the Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory in California
which reportedly presentedcompelling reasons
to follow-up on thetheory the virus escaped
from a lab in Wuhan, China.
Former Secretary ofState, Condoleezza Rice,
recently stating the theory was ignored
despite the warning signs.
- There was too muchof a tendency early on
to dismiss this possibilityof a laboratory leak.
Some of the evidence wasright in front of our faces.
We know that there wasState Department diplomats
who inspected, so to speak,that laboratory and came back
and said that the safetypractices were substandard.
- [Efrem] Three Wuhanlab researchers fell ill
with COVID-like symptomsin November of 2019.
Pat, back to you.
- I know if you're like Iam, you're sick of hearing
about the Institute of Virology
and Gain-of-Functionresearch and all this stuff,
but the truth is themedia just didn't want
to give Donald Trump a break.
And when he began to bring forth this,
they just poo-pooed it.
But they covered it up.
And that's the big story,they covered up what was clear
to people like Condoleezza Rice and others
who had gone and investigated.
There was clear that itwas a man-made manipulation
of a virus and he came out of that
Institute of Virology in Wuhan.
And I, if you're with me,I'm sick of hearin' about it.
But nevertheless, whatwe gotta ask the media is
will you start acting like reporters
and stop acting like partisansagainst President Trump.
Efrem?
- Pat, Vice President,Kamala Harris working to stem
the flood of migrants atthe southern US border
during her trip to Latin American, Monday,
delivering a strong message in Guatemala.
- I want to be clearto folks in this region
who are thinking aboutmaking that dangerous trek
to the United States, Mexico border.
Do not come.
Do not come.
The United States willcontinue to enforce our laws
and secure our border.
- That message is unpopularwith some Democrats.
New York Representative,Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
calling it disappointing.
The number of detentions at the border hit
a 21-year monthly high in April.
Harris arrived in Mexico lastnight for the second half
of her two-day trip to the region.
A surprise win in amayoral race is south Texas
has some Democrats fearingthey're losing their grip
on the Hispanic vote.
Voters elected Republicancandidate, Javier Villalobos
was in McAllen, a townwith Hispanic majority
and a bastion for Democrats, his message
for improving the economyapparently connecting
with residents, about 25%of whom live in poverty.
Texas Governor, Greg Abbottsays the victory shows
Hispanic voters are receptive
to populous Republican messages.
Pat?
- If you remember yourhistory, there was a President
named Lyndon Baines Johnson and he got
to be Senator by an amazing election.
And there was a judgedown in McAllen, Texas
who was in charge of keeping the ballots.
And LBJ would be counting andhe said I'm 100 votes down.
And the next thing youknow, from miraculously
out of McAllen in that particular district
came 100 more ballots.
And then he would, theywould count some more
and he would be down 50 and he would say
well I'm down 50.
And suddenly, they woulddiscover 50 more votes.
It was the most crookedthing you ever saw.
But to see that particularcounty, it was Pharr County,
I believe was the name of it.
To see that now turningRepublican is, in itself,
a great victory for theRepublicans in the state of Texas.
Efrem?
- Pat, a cyber security breakthrough,
the Justice Departmentseizing millions of dollars
in ransom paid to aRussia-based cyber gang
and warning other cyber criminals
this is just the beginning.
CBN's Jenna Browder bringsus the story from Washington.
- The Justice Department wasable to recover $2.3 million
in ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline
to Russia-based DarkSide,about half the full amount.
Still though, the federalgovernment is warning businesses
to be on high alert andto take extra precaution.
- Today, we turned the tables on DarkSide.
- [Jenna] A new taskforce scoring a big win
against ransomware hackers.
- We deprived a cyber criminal enterprise
of the object of their activity
their financial proceeds and funding.
- [Jenna] The hack shutdown pipeline operations
for six days leading to panicbuying and gas shortages
up and down the east coast.
Colonial ultimately paid $4.3 million,
the Justice Departmentrecovering the equivalent
of $2.3 million in Bitcoin, the FBI using
the criminal gang's private key
to access their crypto-currency wallet.
- This is a first as faras I know how the did it.
- [Jenna] These attacksbecoming more and more common.
The nation's largest meat supplier, JBS,
targeted just last weekand the SolarWinds attack
on US government entitieshighlighting vulnerabilities
and Russia's involvement.
The Biden administrationis warning businesses
to act now to protect themselves.
- Pay attention now.
Invest resources now.
Failure to do so could be the difference
between being securenow or a victim later.
- The Biden administrationis also making plans
for a response to the Russian government
for harboring these cyber criminals.
President Biden is expected to meet
with Vladimir Putin next week in Geneva.
In Washington, Jenna Browder, CBN News.
- And the government, once again,
did recover half of what they paid.
Pat, back to you.
- In a couple days, we're gonna bring you
what should be done to the infrastructure
of America to harden our grid
against not just cyberattacks but solar flares
and electrical impulsesthat could come about.
If our grid goes down,we're in serious trouble.
So we're going to tellyou, on this program,
precisely what needs to bedone and how much it'll cost,
at least I hope we getthose figures for you.
