“Alzheimer’s is not an inevitable consequence of ageing, nor is it all ‘in the genes’. It is largely a preventable disease and we know quite a lot about what people need to do to help prevent it. Simple diet and lifestyle changes, made achievable in Food for the Brain’s COG-NITION programme, could cut the risk of developing this terrible and avoidable disease by at least a third.”
Professor David Smith, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology
Founding Director, Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA), University of Oxford
Our advisors are a world class team of leading scientists who are committed to reducing mental illness, including Alzheimer’s disease risk.
Professor Emeritus David Smith
University of Oxford and former Deputy Head of the Faculty of Medical Science
Assistant Professor Tommy Wood
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience at the University of Washington, Seattle
Professor Jin-Tai Yu
Vice Director of the Institute of Neurology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Dr Simon Dyall
Clinical Neuroscience programme lead at the University of Roehampton and a Director of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids
Professor Julia Rucklidge
Director of the Mental Health and Nutrition Research Group, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Dr David Vauzour
Senior Research Fellow and Principal Investigator at Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, UK specialising in diet, gut health and the brain
Professor Emeritus Robert Lustig
Division of Endocrinology, University of California and Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco
Dr Phuong Leung
Founder of individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) Dementia Education Training and is a research fellow at UCL
Professor Jeremy Spencer
Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of Reading
Dr William Grant
Expert in the the role of solar UVB exposure and vitamin D in reducing the risk of disease, including dementia
Dr Celeste De Jager Loots
Expert in neuropsychological
assessment and development & validation of cognitive tests
Dr Kristina Curtis
Expert in Digital Behaviour Change Interventions that promote effective engagement
