Alzheimer's disease: which are the risks of getting it and how to prevent it - Prof. Eric Tangalos
Channel: The Olive Oil Revolution
Date: 2016-06-22

"All developed countries have aging population and aging polulation is highly at risk for Azheimer's disease." Is it possible to prevent it? Can a food help with Alzheimer's? High phenolic extra virgin olive oil can. The phenols, and especially oleocanthal and oleacein, which can only be found in olive oil, have healthprotective qualities with anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, cardioprotective and neuroprotective action.

Prof. Eric Tangalos, Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, explains that as the population ages, the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease is extremely high. We must therefor understand how the disease progresses, recognize the signs soon enough and try to prevent it in an early stage, as drugs cannot be the solution in degenerating stages.

After 20 years of medical researches, we are now able to understand the mechanism of the disease and the role of amyloids and vascular components in the inflammation of the brain and take action to prevent it.

In his speech at the 3rd Conference of the Oleocanthal International Society, that took place on the 2nd and 3rd of June, 2016, at Ancient Olympia, Greece, Prof. Tangalos analyses:

1) The development of Alzheimer's disease -The factors that increase the risk

2) The inflammatory part of Alzheimer's disease as it progresses-  The accumulation of amyloid in the brain

3) The vascular component of the disease

4) How to prevent the degeneration of the brain and the progression of disease

5) Mediterranean diet decreasing the risks - The role of olive oil

Prof. Tangalos points out as he concludes that sitting around with family and friends having meal, enjoying social activity, is actually a big part for healthy aging populations, socially and individually engaged people.


Speaker's mini CV

Eric G. Tangalos, MD, FACP, AGSF, CMD is Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.  He was Chair of Primary Care Internal Medicine from 1997 to 2006. 
Dr. Tangalos has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1987 with the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.  
He was responsible for the recruitment of volunteers that first defined Mild Cognitive Impairment and was an author on those seminal publications. 
He is an Internist and Geriatrician, teaches on the Mayo campus and lectures both nationally and internationally.

Could a high quality food be also a medicine? Also in Alzheimer's disease we can apply Hippocrates' famous quote "Let thy food be the medicine and thy medicine be the food".

Prof. Tangalos Eric, Mayo Clinic: " The Vascular and Inflammatory Components of Alzheimer's disease"

3rd Conference of the Oleocanthal International Society
Olympia Awards Health & Nutrition 2016

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