Cholesterol and Alzheimer’s disease

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DESCRIPTION: High-tech advances such as PET scanning offer new insight into the role cholesterol plays in both the amyloid cascade and vascular models of the development of Alzheimer’s dementia.

I first addressed the concerns over the cognitive effects of cholesterol lowering statin drugs years ago in my video Statin Muscle Toxicity (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/statin-muscle-toxicity/). I’ve since discussed the associated breast cancer risks (Statin Cholesterol Drugs and Invasive Breast Cancer http://nutritionfacts.org/video/statin-cholesterol-drugs-and-invasive-breast-cancer/) and the surprisingly low level of effectiveness (The Actual Benefit of Diet vs. Drugs http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-actual-benefit-of-diet-vs-drugs/).

Thankfully, the same diet that can protect the heart may protect the brain:
• Alzheimer’s Disease: Grain Brain or Meathead? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/alzheimers-disease-grain-brain-or-meathead/)
• Preventing Alzheimer’s with Lifestyle Changes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-alzheimers-with-lifestyle-changes)
• Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-alzheimers-disease-with-diet)
• Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease With Plants (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Preventing-Alzheimers-Disease-With-Plants/)
• Reducing Glycotoxin Intake to Prevent Alzheimer’s (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Reducing-Glycotoxin-Intake-to-Prevent-Alzheimers)
• Alzheimer’s May Start Decades Before Diagnosis (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/alzheimers-may-start-decades-before-diagnosis)
• Alzheimer’s and Atherosclerosis of the Brain (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/alzheimers-and-atherosclerosis-of-the-brain)

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