The drugs have failed. This is what could really help to reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s.

By Jerome Burne

There have been at least 300 trials of drugs to prevent or slow the damage that Alzheimer’s does to the brain but none of them has produced anything clinically useful (New York Times, Gina Kolata Feb. 10, 2020). Could it possibly be that companies have been barking up a tree in the wrong part of the woods?

The result is that conventional wisdom says there is no treatment available yet, but we are working on it. That is true if you are a drug company, desperate for a drug, any drug, that has some effect, however slight. 

But if you are prepared to look in a different part of the woods, at what is already on offer from diet and lifestyle changes, there are plenty of promising options. 

This may well come as a surprise, if not frankly unbelievable. Eating more veggies and swallowing vitamins and nutrients to slow down the remorseless progression of something as grim and deadly as Alzheimer’s? That’s surely fake news and peddling false hope. 

But the single-minded and massively expensive but failed focus on drugs that clear the plaque and tangles of proteins found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, has forced some researchers and clinicians to look elsewhere to find out what is actually causing brain cells to die off and what could prevent it.  (more…)