System and method for preventing or treating Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases
AssigneeOjai Retinal Technology, LLC
InventorsJeffrey K. Luttrull, David B. Chang
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Abstract
A process that provides protective therapy for biological tissues or fluids includes applying a pulsed energy source to a target tissue or a target fluid having a chronic progressive disease or a risk of having a chronic progressive disease to therapeutically or prophylactically treat the target tissue or target fluid. A pulsed energy source having selected energy parameters may be applied to a brain of an individual who has Alzheimer's or other neurodegenerative disease or is at risk of developing such a neurodegenerative disease so as to prevent or treat the neurodegenerative disease.
Claims15
A method for preventing or treating neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, comprising the steps of:
- determining that an individual has a neurodegenerative disease or is at risk of developing a neurodegenerative disease;
- providing a pulsed electromagnetic energy, comprising radiofrequency or microwave, having selected energy parameters including wavelength or frequency, duty cycle and pulse train duration, wherein the pulsed energy parameters are selected so as to raise a temperature of treated tissue sufficiently to stimulate heat shock protein activation in the treated tissue or fluid;
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- applying the pulsed energy to a brain of the individual so as to prevent or treat the neurodegenerative disease.
A method for preventing or treating neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, comprising the steps of:
- determining that an individual has a neurodegenerative disease or is at risk of developing a neurodegenerative disease;
- providing a pulsed energy, comprising radiofrequency or microwave, having selected energy parameters including wavelength or frequency, duty cycle and pulse train duration;
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- applying the pulsed energy to a brain of the individual so as to prevent or treat the neurodegenerative disease;
- wherein the pulsed energy is directed to one or more of a leaky blood-brain barrier, inflamed portions of the brain, junk proteins of the brain, beta amyloid proteins of the brain, or tangled tau proteins of the brain;
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- wherein the pulsed energy parameters are selected so as to raise a temperature of treated tissue sufficiently to stimulate heat shock protein activation in the treated tissue or fluid.
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