The Effects of Choline on Alzheimer's Disease

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Exercise is important and under the model that I just described, it's obvious why that's true. People who eat diets rich in phosphatidyl choline get Alzheimer's later than people who don't. Low vitamin D leads to earlier dementia, so you want to watch for that. High inflammation, right? So you want to keep your inflammation lower. The only really successful trial I would argue in Alzheimer's disease, there have been a couple of drug trials that showed modest effects and decline over the last few months.

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