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The Definitive Guide to Preventing Cognitive Decline

The Brain Health Revolution Podcast

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Alzheimer's Disease - Is There a Vascular Process Behind It?

Only 3% of Alzheimer's is driven by the kind of genes that are, you know, if you have the genes, you're going to get the disease early on. But for the rest of the genes, 90 plus, that's where we came up with a 90%, 90 plus percent, the genes are involved. The genes only show their effect in relation to lifestyle, in the relation to environment. For example, apoE4. That's the most common gene that's often associated with Alzheimer's. And therefore that actually is causing vascular disease. So coming back to Aisha's work where she looked at Mediterranean diet and stroke risk,. somebody who had heard strongly to Mediterranean diet

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