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How to Prevent Dementia

How to Prevent Dementia

Update: 2025-04-14
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Every three seconds someone in the world is diagnosed with dementia- a disease that leads to a decrease in mental function. There's currently no cure for dementia making prevention all the more important. In this episode we discuss what is dementia (and how it's not just a thing of ageing), what are the risk factors and how you do and eat affects your chances of getting (or not getting) dementia.

Select references cited in this podcast:

Association of daily step count and intensity with incident dementia in 78 430 adults living in the UK:  https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2795819

Flavanoid-rich foods , dementia risk, and interactions with genetic risk, hypertension, and depression: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2823676

Lifestyle enrichment in later life and its association with dementia risk: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2807256

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How to Prevent Dementia

How to Prevent Dementia

Dr. Scott Lear, Christine Henderson