Cholesterol and Alzheimer’s disease
Channel: tasaly
Date: 2015-10-15

DESCRIPTION: High-tech advances such as PET scanning offer new insight into the role cholesterol plays in both the amyloid cascade and vascular models of the development of Alzheimer’s dementia.

I first addressed the concerns over the cognitive effects of cholesterol lowering statin drugs years ago in my video Statin Muscle Toxicity (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/stati...). I’ve since discussed the associated breast cancer risks (Statin Cholesterol Drugs and Invasive Breast Cancer http://nutritionfacts.org/video/stati...) and the surprisingly low level of effectiveness (The Actual Benefit of Diet vs. Drugs http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-a...). 

Thankfully, the same diet that can protect the heart may protect the brain:
• Alzheimer’s Disease: Grain Brain or Meathead? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/alzhe...)
• Preventing Alzheimer’s with Lifestyle Changes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preve...)
• Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preve...)
• Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease With Plants (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Preve...)
• Reducing Glycotoxin Intake to Prevent Alzheimer's (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Reduc...)
• Alzheimer’s May Start Decades Before Diagnosis (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/alzhe...)
• Alzheimer’s and Atherosclerosis of the Brain (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/alzhe...)

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/chole... and he'll try to answer it!