Jonathan Rosenthal
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A lot of this research came out of Finland, actually.
The eastern part of Finland bordering on Russia had astronomically high, the world's highest rates of things like heart attacks.
And that's because there were hard-living, hard-drinking, hard-smoking people living in those regions.
And the Finnish government set out to try and reduce heart attacks, getting people to eat better, getting people to exercise, reducing obesity, getting them to stop smoking.
and monitoring them over the following decades.
And what came out of that was actually the people who followed this lifestyle guidance didn't just have way fewer heart attacks, they also had way less dementia.
So the other kind of really valuable thing that's come out of Finland is because they had all of that data and could go back and see these associations, they've now been able to go back and do randomized control trials, RCTs, which
As you'd know, the gold standard in research, whether you select people, randomly divide them into two groups and give one lot an intervention and the other lot a placebo and see what changes.
And they've run these RCTs in Finland, Sweden and the UK initially.
Again, where they were able to say these factors are now proven to reduce the rates of dementia.
Yeah, so it goes way further than that.
In the past five, six years, there's been a huge increase in the number of modifiable risk factors that researchers have identified.
In fact, the Lancet Commission on Dementia, which is seen as the authoritative body, has come out with work that says that up to 45%
of all dementia cases could be prevented or postponed through various interventions.
Now, some of those are lifestyle, the ones we've talked about.
Some of those are medical, so it's things like treating high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and some of it are things that you might not necessarily expect.
For instance, they found that untreated hearing loss in midlife is associated with more dementia.
Depression in midlife that's untreated can be associated with greater risks of dementia.
So there are a lot of factors that we can modify.
And some of the factors that are coming out are things that are unfortunately outside of our individual control, but certainly within the power of governments and society.
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