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Max Lugavere

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The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

All right, moving on.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

Best supplements to decrease risk of Alzheimer's disease.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

All right, this is a great question.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

Comes from Rebecca Hevelin or H.Evelin.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

Best supplements to decrease risk of Alzheimer's disease.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

Well,

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

Off the bat, there are no supplements that are going to prevent Alzheimer's disease.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

Those supplements do not exist.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

Supplements do not have that power.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

The big levers, diet, your dietary pattern, your lifestyle, those are the big levers.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

Now, that is not to say that supplements are useless.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

There's a lot of rhetoric sometimes that you'll see on the internet that supplements are unproven, they're useless.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

That's nonsense.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

Of course, supplements as a category are not a monolith.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

There's lots of snake oil being peddled out there, certainly.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

But there are some supplements that are genuinely very valuable.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

or can be.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

And, um, and you can't take a one size fits all approach.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

So two off the top of my head, uh, or three rather that, um, come to mind are one omega-3 fatty acids.

The Genius Life
AMA 4: Non-Negotiables for Brain Health, Top Evidence-Based Supplements, and Early Decline Warning Signs

Now, omega-3 fatty acids, again, are not a silver bullet when it comes to dementia prevention.