Alzheimer's disease in Podcasts
conditionA neurodegenerative disease involving abnormal protein tangles, leading to memory loss and cognitive decline.
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It is super scary. So you're right. 55 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's disease. That number will triple by the year 2050. And it seems to be a cascade of different factors that affect it. It's my sole understanding that it comes down to three factors. The first one being... inactivity, so lack of exercise, lack of adequate sleep, and then lack of proper nutrition.
are driven by our genetics. So that begs the question for myself and our audience, what the heck is happening for the other 95 to 97% of people who unfortunately are ending up with this super scary disease?
Louisa, welcome to the podcast. You know, I want to start off with something pretty mind-blowing that I learned from you. So globally, we have about 50, 55 million people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. But the crazy part is, is that that's set to triple by, I think, 2050 is what I learned from you. But even crazier than that is that only three to five percent of all diagnosed disease are
Just to talk about Alzheimer's just for a few minutes, we talked about the focus being on amyloid plaques and tau protein. And in the very beginning, everyone said, well, maybe that's the cause of Alzheimer's, these plaques. And if we can figure out how to remove the plaques or to prevent the plaques, we can treat the disease.
It's actually brought on by disease and the most common cause of dementia. I think something like 60 or 70 percent or something like that of dementia cases is brought on by Alzheimer's disease.
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