Professor Luke O'Neill

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Show Me the Science with Luke O'Neill · The Science of Alzheimer’s · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

And it's kind of well known over the years anyway.

But the fact that WHO has announced it makes it serious because they've looked at all the data, all the studies.

And the reason they've done it actually is over the past five years, the evidence that these things work or are useful.

has got stronger and stronger.

And I think it must be on the back of a big Lancet paper that came out about nine months ago now.

But now they've issued clear instructions to people of how to decrease your risk of Alzheimer's disease.

And then the second thing I want to tell you about is a big way to do it is to take the shingles vaccine.

And again, a big report this week.

If you get the shingles vaccine, it decreases your risk by 50%.

Isn't that remarkable?

51%.

So that just shows you another way to ward off this disease.

Now, it's a very important disease.

Everybody has heard of it.

There are 57 million people worldwide suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

In Ireland, we have 67,000 people.

They're predicting around about an increase of 10 million per year is happening.

So the numbers are going to go like the 67, 80, 90, up every year, right?

So now people are dying as well, sadly, of it.

But the numbers are going up and up and up because there's roughly 10 million new cases diagnosed every year.

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