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Category Archives: Alzheimer Overview
Alzheimer’s may protect you from certain cancers
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Patients with Alzheimer’s disease have a higher risk of developing glioblastoma and a lower risk of lung cancer. A paper published in Scientific Reports by researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), headed by Alfonso Valencia, a researcher affiliated to the CNIO and to the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), describes the biological processes that underlie this comorbidity.
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Heartburn meds are not a problem for Alzheimer’s after all
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Drugs used to treat acid reflux and ulcers don’t appear to boost the risk of dementia, as has been previously suspected, new research suggests.
The study focused on widely used proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) drugs — medicines such as Prevacid, Prilosec and Nexium. Previous studies have suggested the drugs may increase the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in people aged 75 and older.
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Prevention is the best cure
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Slowly the world wakes up to the fact that focussing on prevention may be the best way to tackle Alzheimer’s
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There are some things you can do
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Nice article about the three things you could do that may help stave off Alzheimer’s. Although we know that there isn’t a cure yet, we can try to do what makes most sense.
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Extra Virgin Olive Oil helps to fight Alzheimer’s
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Lucky me, I love extra virgin olive oil and now a study has found that it may protect the brain from Alzheimer’s disease symptoms. Mouse experiments revealed changes in both cognitive performance and the appearance of nerve cells.
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