Diet and Alzheimer's Disease: Let Food be Our Medicine by Jai Malik, 2025
This book addresses all aspects of diet in preventing and managing Alzheimer's disease. It highlights the role of specific dietary components like polyphenols, flavonoids, catechins, lignans etc., along with various dietary patterns in improving neuronal health and mitigating the symptoms of disease.
Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of "you're not alone."
For all who strive to live fully with dementia and all who offer support.
As carers, all too often we are worn down and overwhelmed by stress. Looking for those tiny moments of joy, awe and peace can help us regain a measure of strength and calm.
Evaluation of exercise and dementia risk in over 4,000 individuals who were tracked for decades finds that exercise in mid-life (45-64) reduces the risk of dementia only for those without a genetic predisposition (the APOE ε4 gene), but exercise in later life (>64) is protective for everybody. The effects of different types or intensity of exercise were not quantified.
Summary: https://www.sciencealert.com/exercise-at-one-stage-of-life-may-cut-dementia-risk-by-up-to-45
Original paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2841638
As carers, this is the peace we so often struggle to find and so deeply need.
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Ian Kremer
RDN