Alzheimer's Disease - How to Prevent the Symptoms and Brain Changes

More than 6 million people in the US currently live with Alzheimer's disease. Researchers hunting for treatments have looked to those plaques and tangles as likely targets. But we don't entirely know what role they play in the disease's progression, if any. If you intervene before any significant brain changes have occurred, can you stave off the amyloid and then the other downstream effects? That's still an open question.