New Prevention Options for Alzheimer's Disease: Are They Effective? | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
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🗓️ 16 November 2023
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Summary
New findings suggest an old method for preventing the flu may also help prevent Alzheimer's disease.
A study shows that adults who receive a flu vaccine are less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease and dementia. But does level of protection exceed what can be achieved naturally through diet and lifestyle changes?
Dr. Neal Barnard examines the findings of the study and how they compare to other prevention methods.
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- How effective are flu vaccines in preventing Alzheimer's disease and dementia?
- What foods are best for preventing Alzheimer's?
- What foods increase the risk of cognitive impairment?
- How can you slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease?
- How close are we to a curing Alzheimer's?
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the exam room up until I don't know I would say maybe around the year 2000 there was virtually no hope for any there was no hope of preventing it at all |
| 0:09.6 | But since that time we've been looking at diet we we've been looking at exercise, lifestyle issues, and Chuck, you said, the latest thing, which is, could vaccines actually influence Alzheimer's risk? The answer appears to be yes. |
| 0:24.0 | Seems like those are pretty big differences. Would you call those statistically significant |
| 0:28.2 | meaning that it's really hard to ignore the data as it is? |
| 0:32.1 | Yeah, clearly. There's statistically significant |
| 0:35.1 | meaning this is not just chance. This isn't just random variation or very |
| 0:39.1 | unlikely. It's it's a real thing. And then the question is, is it clinically significant? |
| 0:43.9 | Does it matter? |
| 0:45.0 | Does it matter if you have 20 or 40% less risk of Alzheimer's? |
| 0:49.2 | And the answer is yes, it's clinically significant too. |
| 0:52.3 | But then there's another thing that Chuck, |
| 0:54.1 | you and I have been talking about a little bit |
| 0:56.2 | is could this be all, could this perhaps not |
| 0:59.1 | be the result of the vaccine, |
| 1:01.8 | but the result of a health conscious person goes to get the vaccine because |
| 1:06.2 | they think that's what they ought to be doing. But they're also doing other things that |
| 1:10.3 | reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, like exercising, following a healthy diet, and maybe the vaccine is irrelevant. |
| 1:17.0 | And I think that's a really important consideration. It can't be totally ruled out. That said, the investigators did everything |
| 1:24.7 | they could to control for that. |
| 1:27.1 | You control for level of education. |
| 1:29.2 | You control, you can control to an extent |
| 1:31.4 | for these other lifestyle factors and still you do see this |
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