I'm often asked what my opinion about a diet or disease is.

Who cares what my or anyone else's opinion is?

Always you care about is what the science says.

What does the best available balance of evidence

published in the peer-reviewed medical literature

have to say right now?

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

I know so many people have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease,

the most common cause of dementia.

I bet you do too.

In fact, more than six million people in the US have it.

So how do we avoid becoming one of those statistics?

That's a main thrust of my forthcoming book,

How Not to Age.

But in the meanwhile, here's a discussion of some little known risk factors.

In this, our 300th podcast episode.

In our first story, we explore the effect of pesticides on Alzheimer's disease.

Although there's a growing list of Alzheimer's disease susceptibility genes,

even if you put them all together, they count for less than half of all Alzheimer's cases.

The single most compelling piece of data on the potential control we have over the disease

is the fact that if you have identical twins with the exact same genes,

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