Lisa shares a very uniques interview with her guest, Alicia Masari-Anderson, Ph.D, where they talk all about the power of exploring our genetics, and how it can change our lives for the better. Some of the topics they disucuss include:

• How identifying your DNA and makeup of genes can be a powerful influence to longevity, including the ability to lower your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia.
• Alicia discusses fat soluble toxins in our bodies, how inflammation in our bodies and brains are a known culprit, and how and why diet choices do matter.
• Alicia also discusses how we can determine our gene blueprint and why that matters.
• Alicia also discusses the 12-week gene blueprint course that she teaches to control your genes and why that matters.  

About the Guest:

Alicia has been a university instructor for 25+ years, and a holistic nutrition coach for 12+ years. She has enjoyed seeing families transform their habits and reducing tantrums and food fights. She loves teaching the kids and families to explore new food playing through her Happy Healthy Kids Adventure program, a step-by-step learning program that allows kids and their parents, to realize that creating healthy habits completely transforms their home environment and their relationships.

About the Host:

Author Lisa Skinner is a behavioral specialist with expertise in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. In her 30+year career working with family members and caregivers, Lisa has taught them how to successfully navigate the many challenges that accompany this heartbreaking disease. Lisa is both a Certified Dementia Practitioner and is also a certified dementia care trainer through the Alzheimer’s Association. She also holds a degree in Human Behavior.

Her latest book, “Truth, Lies & Alzheimer’s – Its Secret Faces” continues Lisa’s quest of working with dementia-related illnesses and teaching families and caregivers how to better understand the daunting challenges of brain disease. Her #1 Best-seller book “Not All Who Wander Need Be Lost,” was written at their urging. As someone who has had eight family members diagnosed with dementia, Lisa Skinner has found her calling in helping others through the struggle so they can have a better-quality relationship with their loved ones through education and through her workshops on counter-intuitive solutions and tools to help people effectively manage the symptoms of brain disease. Lisa Skinner has appeared on many national and regional media broadcasts. Lisa helps explain behaviors caused by dementia, encourages those who feel burdened, and gives practical advice for how to respond.

So many people today are heavily impacted by Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. The Alzheimer's Association and the World Health Organization have projected that the number of people who will develop Alzheimer's disease by the year 2050 worldwide will triple if a treatment or cure is not found. Society is not prepared to care for the projected increase of people who will develop this devastating disease. In her 30 years of working with family members and caregivers who suffer from dementia, Lisa has recognized how little people really understand the complexities of what living with this disease is really like. For Lisa, it starts with knowledge, education, and training.

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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Truth, Lies and Alzheimer's show. I'm Lisa Skinner, your host, I have a very special guest here with me today. And I'm going to introduce her to you. She has a really special story to tell and a special message to go with it that she has come here today to share with everybody and it's really important information. So don't go anywhere. You need to hear this. So it's my pleasure to introduce to y'all Alicia Masari-Anderson, welcome to the truth lies and Alzheimer's show Alicia. Thank you so much for being here. And I'm gonna let you tell us a little bit about your background, and why you wanted to speak to an audience that has to do with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. So go right ahead.

Alicia Masari-Anderson: Well, first of all, Lisa, thank you so much. It's an honor to be here and your podcast. Okay, so first of all, I'm actually from Mexico, I was raised and born in Mexico City, and I moved to Canada 25 Sorry, 37 years ago, I was here when I was 25, to do a PhD. So now you know how old they are. I'm 63. I've been a university instructor for over 25 years, in all areas of biology. And about 14 years ago, I decided to take my health into my own hands, and I became a holistic nutritionist. And my life changed because of that. It really changed. It changed my mood, he changed my physiology, you know, everything I was a different person when I started, you know, changing my lifestyle, which is not an easy task to do. I understand it's difficult, it's a step by step. And anyways, so five years ago, when I I taught at a college at a private college for doctors to be naturopathic doctors to be. So I really got into a lot of these natural way of living. And five years ago, six years ago, or something like that, one of the companies that we use that we use, where we use, we promote supplements, opened a platform and said, Oh, we can look at your generics and all of that and really find out the root causes of it all. So I jumped into it. I was so excitedly sad about it. I was just so excited. But just so happens that DNA has four letters, 80 G's, and C's, only four. And if you had a typo on one, it huge problem. So I started looking at that I'm like, okay, these people have typos. No, this is not right. I don't feel comfortable sharing the information. No, I and I understood a lot of it, and I was afraid of sharing it. So I stopped sharing it. And then I started listening to now our mentor, her name is Dr. Penny Kendall Reed, she is a naturopathic doctor in Toronto, started listening to her started really getting into what the way she was doing it. And all of a sudden, like, I jumped in, I'm like, I'm in. I'm 100% in and she was so excited because I am a biologist we're training. And she goes like, you can add, you can add I know. Yeah, I know. I do get it. So anyway, what happens is that she teaches naturopathic doctors, and I'm like, I just started thinking, how can I teach this to a normal person, like a mom? Or like, you know, like, how can I teach this to a real person? And so anyways, so last year with started teaching this course. And Lisa, all I can tell you is I mean, all without when I'm seeing I reset my genes, I can tell you 100% I reset my genes. But I didn't really have a really healthy lifestyle, what those said,

can you elaborate a little bit on absolutely

Alicia Masari-Anderson: that. So anyway, so what did I mean about that? Why, why I always looked after my health. Well, because my mother had Alzheimer's disease. And because I said, I'm not getting that. I already went through it. I already know what it's like, and hey, I don't want to leave that to my kids. I don't want that for myself. No, thank you. So when I started understanding the DNA, I realized that there are genes that you can actually reset what what do we mean by that? Just because you have a gene doesn't mean you have the disease. Why? Because it's environment, you change the environment, you reset your genes, how do we change the environment? Well, naturally with food, with sleep, with movement, with pooping with paying, with supplements, if needed with lifestyle, all of it, all of it. And so anyway, I never talked about what I do on so I tested on me, never ever ever swiped to sit on me. And I found my business partner three, three weeks later, three and a half weeks later, I'm like, I like what do you mean? I'm like, I am way more relaxed. My I was a lot. I'm a lot like my mother. My mother was like, this Go Go Go woman who nothing will stop her. When she got Alzheimer's. Lisa, sadly, she became a very aggressive person. She was just she her personality completely changed.

But yeah, we say that a lot with this disease that their personalities can do a complete 180 My mother was, some don't. So yeah, I know, my mother

Alicia Masari-Anderson: was this very live person, you know, very happy person and all that stuff. And all of a sudden her personality changed. And she became like, a really, really, it was very sad to see she was really aggressive. With everybody around her. She's still recognized us, I don't know if she actually cut Alzheimer's or just dementia, whatever you want to call it. Okay. And I'm like looking at what happened with my mother. And it's sad to say, but my mother was malnourished, not because she didn't have the money just because she didn't like to eat. And not only that, she didn't like to eat. But then it added a lot of stress that she's been carrying for many, many years. Because she took her care of my dad for many years. My dad had a stroke, my dad couldn't move half his body and my mother took care of him. So caring this all through last night eating properly. Plus, not taking care of herself. She never slept at the end, Lisa, like her sleep was impossible. I went to Mexico one Christmas. And I told my siblings after I left I like, sorry, my mom cannot be stay, you know, stay alone at night. And they go oh, don't worry, because it's five of us. The other four said, Don't worry, we'll take turns and we'll go sleep with her. That lasted two weeks, of course, because nobody was sleeping. My mother couldn't calm down. My mother could not sleep at night. So how do I prevent that from happening to me? Because I don't have I mean, most likely I have half my mom's genes, right? Absolutely. I have my dad's as well. And how can I prevent that from happening? Nobody in the family like had had what my mom My mom had none of her siblings, none, none. And I'm, like, started looking at my genes. And I realized how similar I am to my mother. In terms of what, in terms of my neurotransmitters, my dopamine is off the roof. I am the type of person that has to be doing something constantly, I cannot be sitting still doing nothing. Just like my mother, just like my mother. My mother was just like she loved her home. And she'll go be moving, doing things, planting plants, moving things, always doing something. I am exactly like that. And then I realized, oh my gosh, what's wrong with my dopamine? Well, I am what Dr. Penny, our mentor calls, calls herself as well. I'm a dopamine junkie. And what does that mean? Dopamine is a neurotransmitter. And I'm just putting here an example for two people to realize the power of genetics. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that motivates you to do things. It's really good to have it. But when you have too much of it is like when am I turning off my brain? When am I turning off my body? Right? And anyway, three and a half weeks later, changing my diet specifically when I need and the amount of protein carbohydrates fats that I need. When do I need to eat in the day? You know how much I moved my body how well I sleep, the host the whole spill. Okay. Three and a half weeks later, I realized how calm I am.

So did you change your diet to a Mediterranean style diet with complex carbohydrates? As Absolutely

Alicia Masari-Anderson: I promote vegetables, I promote healthy food. I promote real food. I've promoted it, like eating, eating, basically like the rainbow. I totally promote eating cruciferous vegetables a lot like broccoli, cauliflower, kale and stuff. What do you have for lunch? I had a big called a big piece of cauliflower or broccoli. Always on my plate breakfast, lunch dinner. Yes. So, so anyway,

I gotta tell you, and we'll pause just for a second. Yes, absolutely. Everything that Alesia is telling you is evidence based and proven by studies, that these things can truly make a difference to lowering your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia later on in life. So if you're 20 years old today, if you're 35 years old today, you can start making these lifestyle decisions and lower your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in 30 or 40. years. Right.

Alicia Masari-Anderson: Ugly. Absolutely. Absolutely. And guess what else? Lisa, we have been finding out I've started about 100 people. And out of this 100 People we have a lot of us have something in common. And that is our liver Dawson detox toxins properly. Yes. So usually toxins, a lot of these toxins are soluble in fat, not soluble in water. So a lot of times we have them in our abdomen, you know if we're overweight or whatever. But then you lose weight. And people go like, Oh, I hate losing weight. Because you know, I get a headache and I'm tired. And all of this. You also have to think, Lisa, that these fat soluble toxins, okay, that are usually around our abdomen, or where our hips wherever, right? They're going to move to a place in the body, you lose the weight, but they're going to move to place in the body that has a lot of fat as well. Where is this place? Right here? Your brain?

And what else? Can you tell us about these toxins? What do they create inflammation in our bodies? inflammation in our brains? And there have also been direct correlations to inflammation and developing Alzheimer's disease, correct? Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. So this is really important stuff to know. If Yeah, but how

Alicia Masari-Anderson: do I clean out? How do I clean my liver? Depends on your genes, I cannot tell you depends on your genes. Some people are very toxic, some people are not as toxic, but depends on your genes. Now that I have a gene plan for you, because it's yours, it is your blueprint, we're all completely different. You know, unless you have like an identical twin, you are completely different. And even identical twins depends on the environment, how they express their genes. Now, if they come and tell you, Oh, you have this gene, you're gonna have Alzheimer's disease. This is the good news. You can change the environment. So instead of going for this specific gene, you know, what we do is we work with 70 genes that turn on other genes. Imagine that your brain is on fire. Imagine that. How do you turn off the fire? Well, you need to get rid of the match and you need to get rid of the log Am I right? What about if instead of were turning off the fire from up here, we avoided from turning it on in the first place. That's what 70 G's will do for you, Lisa? Wow, it will turn off the expression of those genes. In case you have them, as you said, and you told me you know, like my I'm interested in this topic, because a lot of people in my family have it. Is it in your genes? Probably yes. Right. You want to you want to avoid it? Oh, yes. Do you want to not have it? Oh, yes, I'm in. I'm in harder percent. Because I've seen it. My mother, sadly was very toxic. I came too late to the party right there when she passed away when she was 82. Right. But then on the other hand is like, if I can prevent me from getting that, oh, I'm doing everything that I can to do it. I

wish more not. Not this seriously because we can't prevent developing Alzheimer's disease, but we can see Between make choices, that will definitely lower our risk. And there are so many factors that will elevate a person's risk of developing. So the more that apply to any individual, the higher risk they're going to have of developing. So any of these things that Alicia and I are talking about, right now, if you can modify them, if you can change them, you will lower your risk, you might not be able to avert developing Alzheimer's, but at least you can rest, eat more easily that you will lower your risk. And like Alicia says, I'm right there. I've had eight family members live with this disease with these diseases. I want to do everything I can to avert getting this disease. So yeah, that's beautiful

Alicia Masari-Anderson: thing is Lisa is like, when we teach others when I started doing this, I'm like, I don't have time for a one on one anymore. I really don't I do I teach a 12 week course for you to understand your genes. Why? Because the long term is, you're taking control of your health, you don't need to depend on somebody to take control of your health. I live in Canada, in Canada, I mean, you cannot I cannot even tell you too much about it. But the medical system is failing exactly six months for you to be able to see a specialist. If you're lucky. It takes at least a month or two to be able to see your general practitioner. And that is if you have one.

Oh, I had no idea. So you really have to be your own advocate.

Alicia Masari-Anderson: You have to be your own advocate. And the best way of doing it is take control of your own cow. Yes. Take control of what you do every day. When I when I couldn't we all drink water, we all move we'll sleep we'll be we'll poop. We all do that do that every single day? How can I optimize that? To reduce my risk of Alzheimer's of all or of any other illness? You know, and any other any other health concern that you have? Because a lot of that is inflammation. And if we can reduce inflammation, we reduce the outcome. It's like I'm I'm getting rid of the fire. I'm getting I'm right there I am at the very very beginning before the fire is turned on. Can I turn off the fire once it's on? Yes, you can. Is it easy? It depends on you. Because again, you need to work with your your mind set, you need to work with your you know, we do need to work as a whole because we're a whole work a whole you cannot just say oh, I'm just gonna eat well and then wait for the sun to shine. Well, no, it's everything. It's everything. And we take a look take a look at everything in our program. It's just amazing. I I'm in love with it. I cannot tell you enough. Enough about it. But ya know, I, I only know what I'm seeing. Because

well don't keep us in suspense any longer. Tell us how we can find out more about your is it you said 12 week programs and 12

Alicia Masari-Anderson: program means it's a 12 week program. And you can definitely I will share with you my my website, please do. It's www dot imbalanced lm.com/gene Reset underscore AM. In other words, you can definitely be in contact and you know, you know what you can book a consult to see if this is for you before you even jump into any of it. Another another thing I want to mention is the following. Your genes never change. You were born with them. You actually got them the minute you're this, you're that sperm fertilized your mom's sperm. So you only need one test for life. You don't need to be going for test after test after test and test yourself six months like No, you need one test. And right now we got an amazing deal because Dr. Penny found a lab in Ontario that sends this sample worldwide. And all we need all we need to get your DNA is your cheek cells. Send it back to the lab. And then we can use your data to create your own blueprint.

That sounds just it's as simple

Alicia Masari-Anderson: as that. It's as simple as that. It's It's It's easy. It's like you don't even need to be Be I don't need a blood test. I just need your cheek cells. That's it. We can do it on babies. We can do it on everybody. It's easy. You can do it and unborn somebody with Alzheimer's? Absolutely. We

have you test for the Apo E for gene.

Alicia Masari-Anderson: AP, let me just check I have checked it I have checked for all the genes that turned on other genes. So the APR eight two gene, not the for the APR, a two gene has to do with saturated fat. How much saturated fat you should eat? Because you need you need fat for your brain, basically.

Okay. So what do you do with that information?

Alicia Masari-Anderson: What what do we do with that information is we put it in a platform from our mentor Dr. Penny candle read. And that gives you a 66 page report. And in 12 weeks, we give it to you step by step by step by step because it's very hard to understand. But once you get it, you will be in awe with what you find about you.

This sounds really, really encouraging. I would I would really encourage people to talk.

Alicia Masari-Anderson: Yeah, and and we are going to have a challenge soon. sometime this month, I don't remember, we have challenges once in a while every four months or something for people to test. It's free chat. It's a free challenge. Just come in, just do the challenge. Get an idea of what it's like. And then if you're ready for it, you can come in and you know, reset your chips. That's it.

Well, I think I would be interested in talking to you about that. But that's another conversation. Yeah, we're talking about this has really been powerful. And I really am. I'm just thrilled that you were able to come on and share this information. I think it gives people hope. And we need hope. We definitely need hope, especially when it comes to Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. It's not something that you know, if you've gone through and if you've experienced and if you've had a loved one, if you're caring for somebody, you know what this journey is all about? And it's probably not anything you'd want to wish upon anybody? I mean, I know. I know. I know, because I've been doing this for 30 years, that people can live very meaningful, fulfilled lives. But I don't know, if you had the choice to go through it or not. Which one would you choose?

Alicia Masari-Anderson: So you me I already chose. Whatever happened to my mom is not happened to me. Sorry, it's not gonna happen to me. I already chose this is my choice. And my choice is to share this with others.

All right, well, unfortunately, we're out of time. So I want to thank you again, for being here. This has been really eye opening. And best of luck to you. And I would encourage anybody to check into this. If you have any concerns about how effective resetting your genes can actually have on developing Alzheimer's disease or dementia in the future. So thanks again, Alicia. It was wonderful to meet you. And best of luck to you. Thank

Alicia Masari-Anderson: you, too. You too. And thank you so much for the work you do i It's so needed in the world. Oh,

thank you so much. Yeah, I, I've dedicated my life to raising awareness to this disease. I know the struggles that people are going through. And as we I mentioned to you before we started recording the episode, the number of people who are projected to develop Alzheimer's disease and related dementia just in the next 20 years, according to the medical experts in the scientific community is projected to triple if a cure or a treatment is not found. And we know from decades of studies, that doing things like resetting your genes chip, making better lifestyle choices, can make a difference. So thank you for again, for coming on and sharing what you do. Thank you for what you do. And it's such an important possible outcome for all of our lives. And I think it's something that we really need to take more seriously. Wouldn't you agree? I

Alicia Masari-Anderson: agree. I agree. Totally take control of your health that you can take control of your health.

Yes. All right. So Thanks again I'm looking forward to publishing this episode so everybody has a chance to listen to what you brought to the table today by Alicia