This info is taken from  Dr. Atkins "Health Revelations" Newsletter...
 
NEW SUPPLEMENT EASES ALZHEIMERS, PARKINSONS
 
People with pd stop trembling, those with ad stop forgetting, and everyone
else gets a big boost from fatigue - all with a new natural substance that
excites me more than anyother discovery of the past decade.
 
NADH, also called Coenzyme  1, is the stored form of energy in every cell of
our bodies, and is now available w/o prescription as a suppllement.
 
Even now, it's more effective vs PD than the standard treatment, L -Dopa ,
and the only promising therapy I see for heretofore incurable AD.  As use &
research grow (the  1sts governmentally sanctioned clinical test in the U.S.
to begin later this year) I'm convinced it  will become standard for
alleviating depression, fatigue and even minor mental sluggishness.
 
I was already well-informed about NADH when Jorg Birkmayer, M.D., the world's
chief NADH researcher, came to the Foundation for the Advancement of
Innovativei Medicine in March.  I was even taken aback tho'   when Birkmayer,
director of Birkmayer Institute for  PD Therapy in Vienna, played a video of
3 of his patients before & after NADH therapy.
 
If you've ever watched a pd patient, with arms trembling & head wobbling,
shuffle hesitantly across a room, you'll know what we saw on the tape before
NADH was  administered.  Several hours after  receiving itm the same people
were whon getting up with r elative ease and walking briskly.
 
The only difference was NADH.
 
Since 1988, Birkmayer & his father, Walter Birkmayer, M.D., have used NADH to
treat more than 885  people with pd.  80% of them  showed moderate to
excellent improvement in their disability (Acta Neurologica Scandinavia,
1993; 87 [Suppl146]:32-35).  The younger Birkmayery believes that most of
theh people  who didn't improve had advanced arteriosclerosis that prevented
the coenzyme from reaching the brain.
 
Far more important that even the initial improvements is that those people
haven't deteriorated at all in the years since NADH treatments began.  Most
of them have been able to discontinue/decrease use of l-dopa.
 
Until Birkmayer began giving NADH to a small group of people with ad, no
glimmer of hope existed in  the treatment of this dreaded destroyer of
memory.  But ad & pd share many biochemical similarities, including an
ad-like dementia in later stages of pd  On the heels of his initial success,
Birkmayer decided to test NADH  vs the memory robber.
All of the 17 people with ad who received supplements of the coenzyme showed
significant improvements on standard memory tests, according to unpublished
test results.  And for the past 2 yearrs further brain deterioration has been
stopped in its tracks.
 
And now for the rest of us.  I can't state it any more simply than this:
 supplements of NADH increase your energy levels.
 
In addition, the evidence so far suggests that NADH will  become a safe,
commonly used supplement to treat depression and garden-variety memory lapses
& concentration difficulties.  People with family histories of ad may also
want to consider taking NADH to prevent mental deterioration.
 
The case history shown  below offers a good example of NADH's benefits &
illlustrates a guiding principle in its use:  The dose is critical to the
result.  Based on what's happened with many of my patients who turned to NADH
in search of their misplaced energy,  people don't start to feel better until
they take t he dosage that's right for their own bodies.
 
If you take too little, you won't notice anything.  If you take too  much,
you'll become hyperactive & won't be able to fall asleep easily.  If someone
doesn't derive an energy boost from an initial tablet every other day, I
advise them to gradually up the dose until he/she becomes sleepless or
restless, then back off slightly.
 
While NADH (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide) is one of the critical
chemical stages in the process by which our bodies creat energy, this actio
is probably not the main reason for its  remarkable impace on pd & ad.  In
the brain, it increases the production of dopamine, the neurochemical
 responsible for coordination and control of movements.  People with pd have
damage to a portion of the brain's basal ganglia, which causes a shortage of
dopamine.
 
So far, doctors have treated pd with the drug l-dopa, which the body converts
to dopamine.  However, direct l-dopa therapy usually becomes less effective
as the years pass, and it often ends up damaging the brain.  So the prognosis
for people with pd to  date has been fairly grim.
 
NADH, tho', increases the body's own natural production of dopaminen,
according not only  to Birkmayer, but an independent research team at the U
of Paris.
 
In ad, the dopamine increase and a boost in another brain chemical,
noradrenaline, combine with NADH's production of energy to somehow protect
the neural pathways in the  brain, Dr. Birkmayer believes.  That puts a stop
to further brain damage.
 
The  planned clinical trials of NADH, which the FDA is expected to approve
this summer with Birkmayer's own patented oral version of the coenzyme,
should further unlock some of the secrets of this utterly astounding
supplement.
 
CASE HISTORY:
 
Name:  Richard Kornblatt   Address:  White Plains, NY   Age: 69
Weight:  201 lbs.   Height:  6'2"    Blood Pressure:  120/80
Symptoms:  lack of concentration, difficulty remembering
 
Background:  He came  to us suffering from fatigue, depression, memory
problems, difficulty concentrating, borderliine high blood  pressure, and a
long list of  aches & pains.  High blood pressure &  many of the aches &
pains were easy to treat, but his other problems were tougher nuts.
 Eventually, I suggested he see a psychiatrist for his depression.  He was
put on an anti-depressant - sometimes drugs are necessary.
 
After around a year, the psychiatrist doubled the dose of his antidepressant
(Pamelor).  He still gets depressed, but not as severely as before,  Memory
lapses & concentration difficulty remained.
 
Treatment:  2 months ago we took another crack at the memory & concentration
problems by putting hiim on NADH.   I told him to take one 2. 5 mg  pill a
day for a week, then raise it to 2 pills, and for the third week, three.
 
Results:  Once I upped the NADH dosage to 3/day, something very startling
happened:  His ability to focus his attention suddenly returned.  For most of
his life he had been a big reader, but during the previous 4 years w/o losing
interest.  Now he was able to read with good concentratioin for an hour or
more.  In addition, his energy improved andn his memory got ssharply better.
 
Wanting to test whether NADH really causes these changes, I asked him to
lower dose for a week.  The improvement so dramatically gained rapidly
diminished.  When he resume taking it 3x/day, his concentration & memory
again returned.
 
HOW TO GET AND TAKE NADHl
 
If you see a supplement in health food storeso called NAD, don't mistake it
for NADH.  NAD (Nicotinic Acid Dinucleotide ) doesn't provide for the mental
and musculaar kick that comes from NADH (the addition of the "H" which stands
for hydrogen, activates the substance).
 
Real  NADH, also called reduced NAD, can be purchased w/o prescription, but
this pill form patented bby Jorg Birmayer,  M.D., under the brand name Enada,
is currently only available from one source, Menuco Corp.  Phone # is (800)
636-8261.
 
Oral NADH is  currently pricey (about $49 for package of 20 2.5 mg capsules).
 I'm hoping cost will go down as it becomes more widely used.
 
Take it about 30 min before eating.  Here are my suggestions for how much you
should take:
 
(general memory enhancement):  start with 1 tablet every other day.  if no
lift in energy / decrease in fatigue is noticed, take one pill every day.
 Don't take more than 3/day.
 
(Parkinsons):  Typically a physician will give 5-10 mg day in treating pd.
 Once supplementation begins, you will probably have to lower amount of
l-dopa taken, because taking alot of both drug & supplment sometimes causes
hyperactivity and increase in  muscular movements.   Stopping/reducing  l
-dopa dosages is only safe way to take NADH, so its use M UST be supervised
by a doctor.  About 1/3 of those with pd will be able to stop using l-dopa
entirely according to Birkmayer's research.
 
(Alzheimers):  10 mg/day is standard dosage for people with this debilitating
brain disease.
 
THE END   (this info was summarized from Dr, Atkins newsletter)