How to Lower Risk of Alzheimer's Disease | Is Alzheimer's Type 3 Diabetes? | Mastering Diabetes

How to lower your risk of Alzheimer's disease. You've got to ask. Because what if you lose everything? What if Alzheimer's disease takes away everything and everyone from you? That would be devastating.

So how about transitioning to a healthy lifestyle?

Dr. Neal Barnard talks about what neuroscience is getting at and what you can do to avoid Alzheimer's disease. This conversation is a great reminder that there are things you can control to own your health. And that includes your mental health that braces your memory. So know more about prevention, brain foods, and other changes you can make to fight dementia.

A little sidenote: Alzheimer's disease is unofficially called type 3 diabetes by the science community. People tend to call it that way because a certain gene called APOE4, seems to interfere with brain cells' ability to use insulin. In previous videos, Mastering Diabetes talked about brain insulin resistance and the genetics behind Alzheimer's with doctors Dean and Ayesha Sherzai.

Dr. Neal Barnard has led numerous research studies investigating the effects of diet on diabetes, body weight, and chronic pain, including a groundbreaking study of dietary interventions in type 2 diabetes, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that paved the way for viewing type 2 diabetes as a potentially reversible condition for many patients. Dr. Barnard has authored more than 100 scientific publications and 20 books for medical and lay readers, and is the editor in chief of the Nutrition Guide for Clinicians, a textbook made available to all U.S. medical students. (Bio from https://www.pcrm.org/)