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Preventing Dementia

April 12, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Preventing Dementia Many people are scared of death, but often tell me they’re more frightened of dementia. “I can’t face that,” one patient told me, “I can’t do that to my family.” So how to stop it?  One Swedish study shows a way. It includes a follow up of 44 years.  Persistence can pay off. In […]

Fighting Dementia Using Your Eyes and Ears

October 19, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Dementia scares people. Rates are rising.  New evidence shows decreased vision and hearing make dementia more likely.  One study out of Stanford found people who had vision loss and did not seek treatment showed five times the cognitive decline rate, and over nine times the Alzheimer’s rate as those without problems, through a period of eight and  a half […]

Is Much of Health Due to Luck?

August 3, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Dementia and cancer have more in common than most people recognize.  Two thirds of tumors appear to be the result of random mutations.  And two thirds of dementia cases also appears to be basically random, with only about 35% responsive to lifestyle changes (so far.) The implications of this “odd” convergence is wide.  First, for diseases with difficult or ineffective treatments, […]

How Cell Recycling Benefits You (and prevents cancer, dementia, diabetes, etc.)

October 8, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

There’s great power in biological cell recycling.  Your body’s ability to self-digest (autophagy) lets you fight cancer, resist aging, recycle everything from broken cell walls to destroyed viral proteins, kill off pathogens, remake your energy balance, recast most nutrients, and deny diabetes (it also works while you sleep.)  It’s high time the Nobel committee recognized the […]

What Really Causes Alzheimer’s?

June 5, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Alzheimer’s Disease scares people, and it should. It is one thing to lose your life – it’s another to lose your mind.  Alzheimer’s rates rise with age, and people are living longer.  Recent studies show that many Americans now in their fifties will live into their late eighties.  Alzheimer’s rates get particularly frightful around age […]

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