The drugs, called NRTIs, have the potential to prevent a million cases of Alzheimer’s every year, the researchers believe.
See how the class of weight loss and diabetes drugs that includes Ozempic and Wegovy have the added benefit of protecting against the development of dementia.
STRESS affects Alzheimer’s risk. Find out how. Learn 10 ways to de-stress and relax.
VIDEO + ARTICLE: It’s National Stroke Awareness Month. Experts Offer Tips on How to Recognize and Prevent Strokes & Vascular Dementia.
Many of us should take aspirin to prevent vascular dementia, strokes and heart attack. We don’t, even when we can get it naturally from food. Why are doctors ignoring U.S. guidelines? Which foods work best? Video+Article
Betanin makes beets red. Betanin slows the #1 Alzheimer’s culprit, brain plaque. Learn the way it fights dementia and how much to eat or drink.
Poor sleep aggravates dementia and increases Alzheimer’s risk. Sleeping well restores and refreshes the brain. Learn to get a good night’s sleep to prevent and treat dementia. Check out these tips.
Stanford Medicine’s new analysis of a vaccination program found shingles vaccines appear to lower dementia diagnoses by 20% — more than any other known intervention.
MEMORY PROBLEMS, an early sign of Alzheimer’s, are linked to glucose sugar deprivation in brain cells. So is diabetes, a well-known Alzheimer’s risk factor. How strongly connected is the Alzheimer’s-Sugar-Diabetes triangle?
VIDEO: Vascular neglect triggers Alzheimer’s decades before symptoms appear. See how to use that knowledge to lower risk and slow its advance.
Mid-to-Advanced Dementia diminishes communication and language. Watch Teepa Snow convey how to use rhythm, music and movement when language fails.
Stand up for caregivers and all the great deeds they do, with the “Caregiver Bill of Rights”!
“SANDWICH GENERATION CAREGIVERS” live sandwiched between their kids and their Alzheimer’s parent. All the new activity can add to an already hectic schedule. 5 tips can help keep the balance.
Three important dementia studies focus on HS-AGING, a type of dementia almost as common as Alzheimer’s in the 85+ group. Yet few people have heard of it. Why? What makes it different?
An intriguing study of 120 grandmothers might surprise you. Doctors know socially engaged people have better cognition and less dementia. But can a person get too much of a good thing? What’s the right balance?
Enjoy this great duet between a musician with dementia and his son. A triumph of spirit over Alzheimer’s! Sing-a-long if you like!
It looks like a sneeze cannot give anyone Alzheimer’s. While Alzheimer’s abnormal disease proteins do spread from cell-to-cell, they are not “infectious”. Check out the facts.
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