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All right, moving on.
Best supplements to decrease risk of Alzheimer's disease.
All right, this is a great question.
Comes from Rebecca Hevelin or H.Evelin.
Best supplements to decrease risk of Alzheimer's disease.
Well,
Off the bat, there are no supplements that are going to prevent Alzheimer's disease.
Those supplements do not exist.
Supplements do not have that power.
The big levers, diet, your dietary pattern, your lifestyle, those are the big levers.
Now, that is not to say that supplements are useless.
There's a lot of rhetoric sometimes that you'll see on the internet that supplements are unproven, they're useless.
That's nonsense.
Of course, supplements as a category are not a monolith.
There's lots of snake oil being peddled out there, certainly.
But there are some supplements that are genuinely very valuable.
or can be.
And, um, and you can't take a one size fits all approach.
So two off the top of my head, uh, or three rather that, um, come to mind are one omega-3 fatty acids.
Now, omega-3 fatty acids, again, are not a silver bullet when it comes to dementia prevention.