No drugs but instead…..

Alzheimer; News from the web:

The current Alzheimer’s clinical research impasse has encouraged more doctors to pursue non-pharmacological alternatives. For most individuals — beyond the up-to-5-percent who are genetically predisposed to early onset Alzheimer’s — focusing on lifestyle factors as the key to brain fitness and cognitive function, they say, is wiser than waiting for a breakthrough delivered in a pill.

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Alzheimer’s researchers win brain prize

Alzheimer; News from the web:

Four dementia scientists have shared this year’s 1m Euro brain prize for pivotal work that has changed our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease.

Profs John Hardy, Bart De Strooper, Michael Goedert, based in the UK, and Prof Christian Haass, from Germany, unpicked key protein changes that lead to this most common type of dementia.

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Alzheimer’s predictions

Alzheimer; News from the web:

Heart disease deaths have actually decreased 14 percent since 2000, while Alzheimer’s deaths have increased 89 percent. Of the diseases listed in the 10 leading causes of death in the United States, Alzheimer’s is the only one that can’t be prevented, slowed or cured.

But on the positive side, there is a bloodtest in preparation that will warn you  about 20 ahead of any symptoms.

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