Keeping our brain’s structure and neural network healthy may seem like a mystery at times, but often the best advice is simple: ‘use it or lose it!’ The exercise and stimulation your brain gets from an active physical, social and intellectual lifestyle is vital to keeping it healthy. Just...
---- Last week a discovery, published in the journal Science, showed that a high level of an abnormal ‘phosphorylated-tau’ protein triggers brain cells to self-destruct. It also gives a vital clue as to how to stop your brain cells dying with specific vitamins. When cells become largely...
Last month’s newspaper headlines pitched the new anti-amyloid Alzheimer’s drug as a ‘turning point’. The pitch has a lot in common with the statin story. Last month’s newspaper headlines pitched the new anti-amyloid Alzheimer’s drug as a ‘turning point’. (Read our response...
----- By Patrick Holford Life is a balancing act between making energy by combusting glucose or ketones with oxygen, which generates ‘oxidant’ exhaust fumes and dealing with these 'oxidant fumes' which harm the body. Skin goes crinkly, age spots develop all due to oxidation. That’s...
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...
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...
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...
