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 even if you get plaque in your brain, some of these things will help prevent disease developing.

And there was a famous study on nuns, nuns who had died and some of them had plaque and didn't have Alzheimer's.

So they must have been protecting themselves against the plaque.

So that might be something else.

And maybe some of these things that you can modify are warding it off, even though you have plaque in the brain.

So it's quite a complicated thing.

And certainly this advice is worth following for your general health anyway.

And if you get a 45% decrease risk, that's great, right?

Now, lastly, the shingles vaccine.

And this week, again, this report has come out.

300,000 people were studied.

The ones on the shingle vaccine had a 51% lower risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Isn't that remarkable?

And this agrees with three other big studies that were done already.

So this is now true because there's these four huge studies showing that the shingles vaccine can decrease risk of Alzheimer's.

How does it work?

Well, they don't really know, it must be said.

The second caveat is these are observational studies.

They haven't vaccinated people, say, and then looked at whether they had Alzheimer's or not.

This is retrospective, and that gives us a slight concern.

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