Alzheimer's Prevention
We applaud the Lancet Commission’s detailed review and informative state-of-the-research review to upgrade brain care practices on dementia prevention, interventions, and care. Their enlightening synopsis reveals that 45% of dementia is potentially modifiable if we eliminate the noted risk factors. The key is building cognitive brain practices – our brain changes every day by how we use it!
This is exciting, science-backed news – and we believe the impact may be even greater.
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The 2024 update to the standing Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care adds two new risk factors (high LDL cholesterol and vision loss) and indicates that nearly half of all dementia cases worldwide could be prevented or delayed by addressing 14 modifiable risk factors.
Scientific evidence continues to mount, showing it is possible to slow, reverse or prevent Alzheimer's, with two recent science publications in 2024 offer critical new insights:
The study underscores the importance of risk factors that exist at different stages of life, and creates urgency for adopting habits early in life, and beyond, to reduce risk and overall cases of dementia. Created to review the best available evidence and produce recommendations on how to best manage, or even prevent, dementia, it reported in 2020 that dementia is not an inevitable consequence of ageing and identified potentially modifiable health and lifestyle factors from different phases of life that, if eliminated, might prevent dementia. In 2024, revised findings now suggest that 45% - almost half - of dementia cases could be delayed or reduced by addressing 14 risk factors in early, middle and late life.
A carefully controlled clinical trial showing that people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early-stage Alzheimer’s (AD) – who believe they have agency in their health habits – can make a significant impact on improving their overall brain health. One hypothesis arising from the study stands out: “If intensive lifestyle changes may cause improvement in cognition and function in MCI or early dementia due to AD, then it is reasonable to think that these lifestyle changes may also help to prevent them.”
The Lancet Commission’s report reminds us that building cognitive brain practices continues to be a major gap that Center for BrainHealth fills. Thank you for your support!