Don’t be fooled by the rhetoric promoting the new Alzheimer’s anti-amyloid drug. The results – increased brain shrinkage, a third getting brain bleeding or swelling and questionable clinically meaningful benefit – are not good. However, reading this week’s headlines claiming a...
Incidence and prevalence of AD/dementia WHO – 27,000 dementia diagnosis a day - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dementia Livingston G, Huntley J, Sommerlad A, Ames D, Ballard C, Banerjee S, Brayne C, Burns A, Cohen-Mansfield J, Cooper C, Costafreda SG, Dias A, Fox N,...
Failure of yet another anti-amyloid drug is hailed as ‘the beginning of the end for Alzheimer’s’, according to the Times headline today. It certainly was the end for two, possibly three volunteers given the experimental drug, according to the BBC [1] . Like other anti-amyloid drugs,...
New research shows that the combination of B vitamins and omega-3 are a dynamic duo against dementia, stopping the brain shrinkage that is the hallmark of Alzheimer’s. The discovery, hailed as the “a major step towards Alzheimer’s prevention" was first made at the University of Oxford,...
Research Professor Tommy Wood from the University of Washington, explains Most of us have two types of elderly relatives. One of them is old – they have trouble walking, they’re in and out of the doctor’s office, and they always seem to repeat the same stories. The other type seems...
Find out how to build, fuel and protect your brain. Patrick Holford, Founder of Food for the Brain and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, explains 8 ways to enhance and support your brain for better energy, focus, intelligence and memory and, in the process, dementia proof your diet...
In the UK progress in putting these breakthroughs into action is slow. The two leading charities, the Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) fail to mention the importance of homocysteine lowering B vitamins and omega-3 at all and have confirmed that they are not funding any...
By Jerome Burne & Patrick Holford New research shows that the combination of B vitamins and omega-3 are a dynamic duo against dementia, stopping the brain shrinkage that is the hallmark of Alzheimer’s. The discovery, hailed as the “a major step towards Alzheimer’s...
By Research Professor Tommy Wood from the University of Washington Most of us have two types of elderly relatives. One of them is old – they have trouble walking, they’re in and out of the doctor’s office, and they always seem to repeat the same stories. The other type seems...
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