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Mark’s journey with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s
Unfortunately, my first exposure to dangerous chemicals, sometimes the precursor to my Parkinson’s disease was during my mom’s pregnancy. My father was stationed at Camp Lejeune NC with my mother in 1958 and my mother got pregnant on base with me. I was born that same year in October. Camp Lejeune has a 70% higher rate of Parkinson’s than any other base the government tested.
It wasn’t until I was around 13 years old that I asked my mom why I didn’t have any brothers or sisters? She was a direct, no-nonsense woman—and she told me the truth. During her second and third trimesters, she became seriously ill and nearly lost me multiple times. Eventually, I was born—and while I seemed okay at the time, none of us knew the lasting damage caused by the contaminated water at Camp Lejeune.
Doctors believed something was wrong with my mother and ultimately recommended a hysterectomy. But the real cause was hidden in plain sight—chemicals in the drinking water at Camp Lejeune, specifically TCE (trichloroethylene) and benzene, were to blame. We didn’t know it then, but the contamination was already changing the course of our lives.
Since breastfeeding wasn’t widely practiced in the 1950s, my very first nourishment came from baby formula mixed with water from the Navy hospital at Camp Lejeune—water that was later found to be contaminated with high levels of TCE (trichloroethylene) and benzene. TCE, used to clean military uniforms and guns and machinery, has since been linked to a 70% higher rate of Parkinson’s at Camp Lejeune compared to other bases. In fact, the dry-cleaning industry—where TCE was also heavily used—reports a 500% higher incidence of Parkinson’s than the general population.
NBC’s documentary “Baby Heaven” uncovered the heartbreaking reality of Camp Lejeune’s contamination, revealing entire hospital wards filled with birth defects so severe that doctors once took a poll to decide whether to attempt resuscitating some of the newborns. Doctors did donate money to bury the infants.
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In my 20s, I started experiencing unexplained nerve-related issues. I had severe dental nerve pain, resulting in root canals in every tooth by the time I turned 30. More difficult to talk about—but just as important—I also suffered from debilitating erectile dysfunction, at 25 years old with no clear cause.
Years later, I finally learned the truth: exposure to toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune can cause long-term neurological damage. A world-renowned Urologist studed my nerve damage for ED and bladder control issues and confirmed in my medical records that this exposure at Camp Lejeune was the cause of my Parkinson’s disease and several urological issues I’ve faced since. He entered all those notes in my medical report.
It wasn’t until I began uncovering the full extent of the Camp Lejeune water contamination—and the government’s long-standing cover-up—that I realized just how deep the damage went. I filed legal claims on behalf of both me and my mother (who died in 2012). But at some point, I had to shift my focus from what was done to us… to what I could do about it. That’s when I set out to find a real solution—not just for myself, but for millions of others facing the same neurological challenges.
No one has found a true cure for Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, or dementia — yet.
And while there’s plenty of promising research, the reality is sobering: according to the Michael J. Fox Foundation, it takes 10 to 15 years and over $2.5 billion to bring a single drug to market — if it even works without devastating side effects.
I didn’t begin noticing tremors and balance issues from Parkinson’s symptoms until 2022. My doctor referred to two neurologists, both of whom confirmed the clinical diagnosis. But even before that, I knew something was wrong—I was losing my balance, dragging my right foot, and my left hand, especially the pinky, would tremble while typing. It didn’t stop there. The tremors worsened. I began falling—hard. Once, I even blacked out after splitting my head open. These weren’t just symptoms; they were life-altering signs that I had to act, urgently.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t have that kind of time. People like us need solutions now — not a decade from now.
That’s why I created My BRAIN RESTORE™ — not just to wait for a cure, but to fight for one, today.
But with my father’s Marine background and my own entrepreneurial drive, I knew this couldn’t be the end. I turned to cutting-edge research and emerging technologies—determined not just to be a patient, but a problem-solver. I had to think outside the enormous time to approve something by the FDA and the big pharma box.
My doctor first mentioned a DAT scan, but after reviewing accurate reports from the Michael J. Fox Foundation, I realized it wasn’t the most reliable tool. Digging deeper, I discovered a far more advanced diagnostic: the Syn-One (P-Syn) test. It’s one of the most accurate Parkinson’s tests available—approaching 100% accuracy—and was newly covered by Medicare, which I had just qualified for.
The results came back positive. The test revealed unmistakable misfolded alpha-synuclein proteins—the hallmark of Parkinson’s—actual visual evidence, not just clinical guesswork. (See image to the right.)
This confirmation didn’t just validate my symptoms—it fueled my next steps.
What this picture from my medical test report represents “in me” is the misfolded protein Alpha-Synuclein (P-Syn). This should be the gold standard for testing for Parkinson’s, but it simply is not. All doctors are using old techniques and clinical diagnosis only in most cases. I could not get my doctors to order it so I did it myself and sent it to them. No doctor liked what I did but my life and testing is in my own trembling hands. On the average doctors spends 7 minutes with a patient and hand out things they’ve been doing forever, no time to learn anything new.
Now my doctors like this test seeing it for the first time and 100% positive, my neurologist plans to offer this test to other patients, further validating its importance. Now they like it.
Misfolded alpha-synuclein (α-synuclein) is most commonly associated with Parkinson’s disease, but it’s not exclusive to it. This misfolded protein is implicated in several neurodegenerative disorders, collectively referred to as synucleinopathies.
I also took an early blood test for Alzheimer’s—the Aβ42 (BETA AMYLOID 42/40 test test. While controversial at the time, it offered insight into how well the brain is cleaning itself of harmful proteins. Unfortunately, my results weren’t good.
From what I understand, this test detects signs of the brain’s failure to clear out amyloid-beta in blood, an early marker of Alzheimer’s. Though many physicians criticized Quest Diagnostics for offering it directly to patients, I’m grateful I got access when I did. Today, this same concept has evolved into an FDA-greenlit test as of May 19th, 2025 now called Lumipulse, available through physicians.
Spinal taps have been the traditional method—but I wasn’t ready to go down that road. This blood test gave me another baseline to track my neurological health—and helped fuel my commitment to a real solution. A blood test is a whole lot more simpler than a Spinal Tap.
A recent study by Columbia University (June 4, 2025) revealed that enhancing the brain’s natural self-cleaning process—called the glymphatic system, often referred to as the brain’s dishwasher, can flush out toxic proteins like amyloid and tau, improving cognition in mice.
While My Brain Restore™ main ingredient helps reduce or cure the symptoms of Parkinson’s, dementia and Alzheimer’s, at least in mice and, remarkably, in my own case, the brain still needs a “clean-up crew” to clear away cellular debris.
That’s where the optional supplement pack comes in. It’s designed to support inflammation reduction and cellular detox, helping to optimize your brain’s recovery and renewal process. I take both every day.
Both the Syn-One Test and the Aβ42 test are extremely new diagnostic tools. While Syn-One has significantly more clinical validation and is covered by Medicare, the Aβ42 test is less definitive, it may indicate Parkinson’s rather than Alzheimer’s, making interpretation more complex. Either way I have a baseline for future tests using My Brain Restore™ . This allows me to release test data in My Brain Restore™ favor as I see it develop.
It’s rare, but I’m not just the inventor of My Brain Restore™. I’m also a patient using it daily to fight Parkinson’s and early-stage Alzheimer’s. That puts me in a unique position. I can speak honestly about my own improvements—as someone living with these conditions—while respecting FDA rules that prevent supplement makers from making medical claims.
Most companies create products they’ve never use personally. I built this formula because I need it. And I’ll keep sharing my journey. And I hope all of you will share your journey with me and hopefully you find this nutraceutical My Brain Restore™ works well enough for your neurological conditions that you can tell your stories also. We look forward to all your responses.
When I researched what was out there there wasn’t much there’s the old Levpopa when I say OLD, I not kidding. L-DOPA was first synthesized in 1911 by Casimir Funk, the Polish biochemist who coined the term vitamin. In 1913, Marcus Guggenheim, a biochemist from Hoffmann-la Roche in Basel, isolated the pure enantiomer L-DOPA from the exotic bean plant Vicia faba.
Plants and Their Seeds: The Original Parkinson’s Treatments
Long before modern pharmaceuticals, traditional medicine recognized the power of plants in treating neurological conditions. In India, over 2,500 years ago, the plant Mucuna pruriens was used to help elderly people with tremors—what we now identify as symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
The ancient medical text Susruta Samhita, written around 600 BC, actually describes these tremor-related symptoms. Mucuna pruriens, known for its naturally high levels of levodopa (L-DOPA)—a dopamine precursor—is still used in Ayurvedic medicine today.
Modern science caught up much later. In 1967, high-dose oral levodopa therapy was introduced by Dr. George Cotzias, showing dramatic improvement in Parkinson’s symptoms. By 1970, the FDA approved levodopa as a treatment, marking the beginning of today’s pharmaceutical approach to managing the disease.
The truth is, plants and their seeds have always played a central role in treating neurological disorders—and they still may hold the key to what’s next.
The problem with most treatments for neurological diseases is that they only replace what the brain isn’t producing; they don’t fix the brain itself. To explain it simply: I used to take insulin for diabetes. Like many doctors and research scientist, I believed my pancreas cells were dead. But researchers later discovered those cells weren’t gone—they were just asleep. Enter Ozempic—it doesn’t just manage symptoms, it wakes up the pancreas cells, getting them working again. That changed everything for me. I haven’t needed insulin in a year.
That’s the kind of breakthrough I believe My Brain Restore™ represents. It’s not just about replacing what’s missing, it’s about activating what’s still there. That’s why I created it first for myself to be the Guinea pig or in this case the mouse and I used it since January 2025, the improvements were significant and opened my eyes to the potential. I truly believe this is what’s happening with My Brain Restore™. The cell in the brain either get clear of the tangles or start replacing themselves.
In the Japanese university study, mice with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and dementia saw a 100% recovery. In my view, that means the formula didn’t just manage symptoms—it likely reactivated or repaired brain cells, similar to how Ozempic wakes up dormant pancreas cells to start producing insulin again. And if you didn’t think Ozempic came from nature well you’d be wrong. Just Google “Ozempic Gila monster” you’ll find Ozempic was created from the poisonous saliva of a lizard… seriously. When researchers dissected the mice, they found something extraordinary: the actual brain structures had restored themselves. That kind of regeneration is unheard of in traditional medicine.
So I asked myself: Why not just take what the mice took? That’s what I’m doing. And that’s why I created My Brain Restore™.
From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Breakthrough
Given the long tradition of using plants—fruits, seeds, leaves, and roots—for healing, I wasn’t surprised when a prestigious Japanese university published an extraordinary study on a 2,000-year-old Chinese fruit and its tiny seed. What made this research especially compelling was its unbiased nature—the Japanese researchers weren’t studying a local plant, but one from China, purely for its scientific potential.
It took an American—me—to take it further, refining and engineering the seed into a new, powerful form using a proprietary Ultra Chill Milling™ process. The result? A level of potency and quality control that goes far beyond the original mouse studies.
Why did I do it? Because I had nothing to lose. I already had confirmed Parkinson’s from in-utero exposure to toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune—the worst possible starting point. But as I began to improve, I knew this couldn’t just be for me.
I waited six months of self testing before I started the company APDI (Alzheimer’s Parkinson’s Dementia Impaired) and made this next-generation nutraceutical My Brain Restore™ available to others like me—people looking for hope, improvement, and a real path forward.
In their trials, mice with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Lewy body dementia were given this seed but made in a very nontraditional way, and 100% of them recovered. But their attempts to give the mice traditional ways of using the seed from this fruit didn’t work at all. The seed is very difficult to extract and so small that just one 2.0 oz jar of My Brain Restore™ contains approximately 1,800 seeds if you can even imagine it takes fruits and then only using their tiny seed to make one jar one 30 day supply for 1x version and I take the 2x version 3,600 seeds in 30 days. But fortunately, it’s as easy to take as protein shake powder. But extremely labor intensive and also required me to come up with whole new ways to produce it so it would maintain its utmost purity and strength.
Even more remarkable, healthy control mice who took the same extract improved maze performance by 20%, suggesting enhanced memory and cognitive function. That means this natural compound may not only help repair damaged neurological systems but could also protect against cognitive decline. For those genetically predisposed or exposed to environmental toxins—like pesticides or dry-cleaning chemicals—this could represent a powerful, preventive nutraceutical.
And while we’re not mice, this study changed everything for me.
The Breakthrough Was in What They Didn’t Do
The mice in the study weren’t ordinary—they were genetically engineered (transgenic) to develop serious neurological diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and dementia. Yet the results were still astounding: 100% were restored.
The ingredient used? A fruit seed Ziziphus. Never heard of it, neither did I. Sometimes you can buy the fruit in an Asian market . Recently I bought one of the varieties at an Asian market and each fruit was a $1 each !!! It was a hybrid version made for sweetness and could not be used but you can kinda understand the scope of this highly prized fruit. Fortunately we have made deals with suppliers to buy the seed at much lower prices that consumers can afford. but is there really any price on getting rid of a neurological disease? Ziziphus, a Traditional Chinese Medicine that’s been consumed for over 2,000 years—but only ever as a hot tea, often boiled or fried. That was the critical mistake. Heat was destroying the active compounds. So for two millennia, no one saw its true neurological potential.
But in late 2024, researchers discovered that when left unheated, the fruit seed became profoundly effective for neurological diseases.
I immediately sourced it in its raw, unprocessed state. But the challenge didn’t stop there: Only one subspecies out of over 900 varieties has this neurological impact—and only the seed carries the active components. Because this seed is expensive there are counterfeits that’s why we never buy ground seed we buy raw seed and then check it for authenticity and we buy from reputable suppliers. We also test grow certain batches to make sure the seed is raw and able to sprout the dired seed. See the picture (from our stock). It would take 3-5 years before it can produce any fruit.
So, understand only one variety has been used by me and the mice, to put that in context it’s sort of like saying if you eat a Granny Smith apple it will cure you of something but if you eat a yellow delicious or a Macintosh it won’t do a thing. And believe it or not there are 7,500 different varieties of apples and that would mean only one that Granny Smith would help you that’s the analogy. This is the same situation where only one subspecies works and that’s what’s in My Brain Restore™
What I realized was simple but critical: heat was the enemy. It was destroying the very compounds that gave Ziziphus its remarkable neurological potential. So I developed a completely new method—Ultra Chill Milled™, my own patentable refinement of what the mice in the university study were given.
This specialized process preserves the delicate structure of the active compounds found only in the seed of a specific Ziziphus variety, unlocking its true power for the first time in human use.
I also reformulated the product after reviewing my Alzheimer’s blood test results. The data showed my brain wasn’t cleaning itself properly likely due to missing support for reducing inflammation and clearing cellular debris. That’s why My Brain Restore™ includes Ecklonia Cava Extract, a powerful seaweed-based antioxidant known for its neuroprotective benefits. Together with Ziziphus, this forms MY BRAIN RESTORE Priority Blend™—a unique formulation designed not just to supplement the brain, but to help it begin restoring itself.
Before creating My Brain Restore™, I had tried many well-known supplements for Parkinson’s—like Ecklonia Cava Extract, Berberine Advanced, and Rhodiola Rosea. While these are powerful antioxidants, they didn’t slow my Parkinson’s on their own. The missing piece was the core ingredient now at the heart of My Brain Restore™
These supplements support cellular health, but without the foundational component to trigger the brain’s restorative process, they just weren’t enough. That’s why I still take them alongside My Brain Restore™, and we offer these in an optional supplement pack. You’re welcome to use your own if you prefer, but this is the exact combination that’s helped me regain control—and we’ll keep sharing updates as my journey continues.
During this time of testing, I released no product to the public. I wanted to test it on myself and see what happened I was hoping to become one of the mice. I started off with half a teaspoon of the powder but eventually started taking 2 teaspoons a day. Which has become the 2X version
Update: June 1st, 2025
It’s been six months since I started taking My Brain Restore™, along with the supplement pack. The combined with My Brain Restore™, the transformation has been incredible.
I’ve gone from Stage 3 Parkinson’s—with serious falls and tremors in both hands—to Stage 1. My balance has improved. The tremors in my hand are nearly gone. And most surprising of all, my memory is better. I have never jogged or for that fact even gone on long walks and at this stage I was I wouldn’t even consider it but now today June 1st I’m at the Michael J Fox running event outside of Washington DC and proved what I couldn’t do before.
Like the mice in the Japanese university study, it’s clearly working. Yes, I’m human, and healing will take longer than it does in lab mice maybe 6 months to a year, but this is real progress. I expect that with another six months to a year; I’ll improve even more. As my banker said, “Even a 10% improvement would be life-changing.” He is right. But like Ozempic I believe that if I stop taking it once I get better the symptoms will simply come back so that’s why we have the subscription program. Not only is it less expensive we’re all probably gonna need it for as long as we don’t want neurological issues to return.
Next, I’ll be retaking diagnostic tests—both clinical and cellular—to verify the progress in measurable terms. My neurologist already confirmed that my tremors had diminished and I knew I wasn’t falling or tripping anymore. I look forward to sharing those results with you. And even more, I look forward to hearing your stories. Please email us or leave a review. We’re in this together.
I’m not claiming a cure. I’m saying this: I got better. And now, I’m offering this to others who are fighting the same battles. This is personal. I use this product every day. I built it to save my own life—and now I hope it can help others.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
— Mark Burnett
Founder, APDI (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Dementia Impaired)
June 2025.
Sunday June 1, 2025. Without My Brain Restore™, I could never have walked—let alone run—any real distance. My advanced Parkinson’s symptoms made that impossible. But now, those symptoms are clearing up. Crossing that finish line wasn’t just a race—it was a milestone in my recovery.
Sunday June 1, 2025. On stage alongside fellow Parkinson’s warriors, Mark and others were cheered on by a crowd of supporters. My Brain Restore™ received overwhelming interest at the event, with many attendees eager to order and explore support for their own neurological conditions, especially Parkinson’s and related challenges. It was more than a public showing—it was a celebration of progress and possibility.
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