Doctors look for 5 things when determining if someone has the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
- Can you learn and remember?
- Can you reason things out and solve problems?
- Visual, spatial ability - can you recognize shapes (if I asked you to draw a clock, can you get the numbers in order)
- Language
- Personality
If all 5 of these things are not performing as they should, then doctors will suspect that this is the beginning of Alzheimer’s disease.
If one parent gives you the “APOE epsilon-4 Allele gene” you have 3x risk of getting Alzheimer’s.
If you get the gene from both parents you have 10 – 15x the risk.
But this does not have to determine your fate. There is a lot you can do!
Back in 1993, a study began from the Chicago Health and Ageing Project - They brought in a group of 1000’s of healthy people and they carefully tracked what they were eating and they observed the group over many years. They studied links between what they had been eating and their cognitive impairment over time.
- Can you learn and remember?
- Can you reason things out and solve problems?
- Visual, spatial ability - can you recognize shapes (if I asked you to draw a clock, can you get the numbers in order)
- Language
- Personality
If all 5 of these things are not performing as they should, then doctors will suspect that this is the beginning of Alzheimer’s disease.
If one parent gives you the “APOE epsilon-4 Allele gene” you have 3x risk of getting Alzheimer’s.
If you get the gene from both parents you have 10 – 15x the risk.
But this does not have to determine your fate. There is a lot you can do!
Back in 1993, a study began from the Chicago Health and Ageing Project - They brought in a group of 1000’s of healthy people and they carefully tracked what they were eating and they observed the group over many years. They studied links between what they had been eating and their cognitive impairment over time.
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