By Patrick Holford Eating a Mediterranean style diet with lots of vegetables and fruit keeps your brain 18 years younger, shows a new study published on the 8th March 2023 in Neurology. According to the researchers “People who scored highest for adhering to the Mediterranean diet had...
By Patrick Holford Taking vitamin D supplements may help ward off dementia, according to a new, large-scale study involving over twelve thousand dementia-free 70+ year olds in the US. More than a third (37%) took supplements of vitamin D. After adjusting for baseline age, sex, education, race,...
Summary Reclaim your feel-good factor and discover how to improve your mood naturally. As a leading advocate of nutrition for mental health, Patrick will help show you the way when it comes to connecting food and mood. How to nourish your brain In this live webinar, Patrick...
Originally published on Orthomolecular Medicine News Service [15th February 2023] In the days of Hippocrates, diseases were blamed on the gods. He didn't buy that and explored the causes of disease saying 'let food be thy medicine'. Nowadays a lot of diseases are being blamed on genes -...
By Patrick Holford How does cognitive decline happen? One theory was that it was to do with the accumulation of amyloid protein, producing amyloid plaque that interferes with brain cell communication. But, despite over 30 clinical trials, lowering amyloid protein has had close to zero...
Dealing with a mental and cognitive health problem on your own can be both overwhelming and isolating. That’s why it’s important to seek professional help from someone who can guide you and support you back to health. Poor mental wellbeing and/or cognitive health can be caused by a...
A hugely significant study in the British Medical Journal into age-related cognitive decline and dementia has stated that changing your diet and lifestyle from bad to good cuts your future risk of developing dementia by a massive nine times [1] The study shows, significantly, that whether or...
COPY DON’T FORGET YOUR VITAMINS A study giving B vitamins to people with cognitive impairment and a high level of a blood marker for B vitamin status called homocysteine (raised in half of people over age 60) reported almost 9 times less shrinkage in the areas of the brain associated...
Risk for Alzheimer’s, which makes up two thirds of dementia, can be picked up in mid-life. That sounds like bad news, but it isn’t, because most people can cut their risk by two thirds just by making a few relatively simple diet and lifestyle changes in mid-life. Alzheimer’s isn’t ‘in...
The BBC’s recent story headed ‘Dementia: Brain check-up tool aims to cut risk at any age’ is a step in the right direction since early prevention is the key to reducing risk. However, the online brain health check, hosted by the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, is very basic, with only a dozen...
