Show 1394: Viruses, Vaccines and Alzheimer Disease

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week, we explore the role viruses may play in the development of dementia. That certainly sounds like a downer, but here is the brighter side: vaccines can significantly lower the risk! Joe and Terry talk to two leading researchers about their findings and the implications of antivirals or vaccines and Alzheimer Disease. You could […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	People's Pharm pharmacy.com.
0:15.0	Along with heart disease and cancer, people fear dementia.
0:18.0	We always hear you can't prevent it.
0:20.0	Is that really true?
0:22.0	This is the people's pharmacy with Terry and
0:25.4	Joe Grayden.
0:40.0	A link between herpes infections and Alzheimer's disease was proposed at least 40 years ago. Since then, the evidence has grown, although mainstream medicine wasn't paying attention.
0:45.6	Today we hear from a Swedish scientist about her research on the connection between herpes and Alzheimer
0:51.6	disease. We'll also learn how the rollout of the Zostavax shingles vaccine in Wales
0:57.2	provided a quasi-randomized experiment.
1:00.0	It demonstrated that the shingles vaccine offers significant protection from dementia.
1:05.0	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, Viruses, Vaccines, and Alzheimer Disease. disease.
1:14.0	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,
1:17.0	The Food and Drug Administration has just made it a little easier to get screened for colon cancer. The gold standard for detecting
1:25.2	colorectal cancer is a colonoscopy repeated at periodic intervals.
1:29.9	In addition to detecting cancer this procedure allows a physician to remove any polyps which are pre-cancerous growths that he might find.
1:39.0	However, many people are reluctant to schedule colonoscopies as a result as many as a fourth
1:46.1	or perhaps even a half of those who could benefit from screening don't get it.
1:52.0	The new test is approved for adults 45 or older. It's based on
1:56.8	DNA in blood. Both polyps and tumors shed some of their DNA and this analysis detects it when the tumors are still small.
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