Yesterday’s announcement by the Alzheimer’s Society that dementia will cost the UK almost £91bn a year by 2040 highlights why prevention has to be the way forward. (See the Guardian Article here) “Dementia’s devastating impact is colossal – on the lives of those it affects, on the...
Author of the article is Patrick Holford and the Alzheimer’s Prevention Expert Group. The single greatest genetic predictor of Alzheimer’s disease is the presence of the ApoE4 variant of the ApoE gene, carried by about one in five people. Having this contributes 4% to 6% of the absolute...
Written by Jerome Burne, see the original article at the Daily Mail here. Find out about Jerome here. It is over 20 years since I discovered in my fifties that I have a copy of the gene, ApoE4, that’s been linked to a raised risk of Alzheimer’s. -- It is over 20 years since I...
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Everybody wants a cure for Alzheimer’s. The medical industry has spent around $100 billion searching for one and so far, come up relatively empty-handed with over thirty failed drug trials. The focus has been on drugs that lower two of the chemical compounds associated with...
World expert think tank declares a mental health meltdown as rates of mental illness soar. -- We are facing a new pandemic. Not the result of a return of Covid or bird flu but caused by something much closer to home that affects us every day. The food we eat. It is damaging our...
Vitamin D: Your Brain's Ally against Alzheimer’s and Dementia Few people realise that vitamin D acts more like a brain fat than a vitamin - and your risk of cognitive decline can soar by up to 19 times if your levels are low. Often known as the sunshine vitamin, it is in fact a vital...
Tau is a structural protein that helps build the skeleton, much like pipes, through which nutrients and nerve signals are delivered to different parts of the brain. Our brains contain a balance of tau protein and phosphorylated-tau, abbreviated to p-tau. An abnormal accumulation of p-tau makes...
Tau is a structural protein that helps build the skeleton, much like pipes, through which nutrients and nerve signals are delivered to different parts of the brain. Our brains contain a balance of tau protein and phosphorylated-tau, abbreviated to p-tau. An abnormal accumulation of p-tau makes...
We often get asked if supplements are necessary, usually in relation to some expert or opinion leader saying they are a waste of money or have no evidence of effect. Anyone actively discouraging supplementation of vitamin B, C, D or omega-3, or claiming there is no scientific evidence to...
