Show 1451: Rethinking Dementia: Is What We Believed about Alzheimer’s Wrong?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

For decades, neurologists and pharmaceutical firms have been focused on amyloid plaque building up in the brains as the cause of Alzheimer disease. Drug companies have developed compounds to remove that plaque, and they have been successful. There are medicines, notably lecanemab and donanemab, that reduce the amount of amyloid plaque visible on a scan. […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Graydon.
0:01.5	And I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.0	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 Pharmacy.com.
0:14.6	The CDC says nearly 7 million people in the U.S. currently have Alzheimer disease.
0:22.8	How can we prevent it?
0:27.1	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:40.3	Medications the FDA approved in the last few years have been disappointing they are pricey risky and not very effective against Alzheimer disease what else can we do to
0:46.6	lower our chances of developing dementia how could low-dose lithium be helpful could
0:53.3	a vaccine against shingles help delay cognitive decline?
0:57.0	What about diet and exercise?
0:59.4	How many steps do we need every day to keep our brains healthy?
1:03.0	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, rethinking dementia is what we believe all wrong.
1:13.6	In the people's pharmacy health headlines, scientists have long suspected that physical activity
1:20.6	might help reduce the risk for dementia. Now they have proof, and it doesn't take that much effort.
1:26.6	A study published in Nature Medicine followed nearly 300 older Americans for almost 14 years.
1:34.8	None of them had measurable cognitive problems at the start of the study.
1:39.0	They wore pedometers to measure the number of steps they took.
1:43.1	All the participants took tests to assess their
1:46.1	problem-solving skills in memory at several points during the study. The researchers also scanned
1:51.8	their brains to evaluate their levels of amyloid and tau. Over the course of the study, people who
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