Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.

I'm Terry Graydon.

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Dementia is a devastating disease.

The impact on patients in their families is overwhelming.

Can you prevent or reverse Alzheimer's?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Radin.

The CDC states that 5.4 million Americans currently suffer from Alzheimer's disease. As our population ages,

it's projected that more than 28 million baby boomers will develop dementia over the next few decades.

Billions have been spent developing drugs to combat Alzheimer's disease. So far, the results have been disappointing.

But neuroscientist Dale Bredesen has come up with a program to prevent and reverse cognitive

decline. Coming up on the People's Pharmacy is the end of Alzheimer's within reach.

First, this news.

In the people's pharmacy health headlines, people who drink water with higher levels of lithium may be less likely to develop dementia.

That's the conclusion from a large epidemiological study from Denmark.

73,731 patients with dementia were compared to 733,653 people without dementia. The subjects ranged in age from 75 to 85 years of age.

The researchers measured lithium in drinking water from 151 communities around the

country and mapped where patients and controls had lived from 1986 through 2013. Those exposed to

naturally higher levels of lithium in their drinking water were less likely to have a diagnosis

of dementia. Prior research has linked lithium

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