The Alzheimer’s Gene: Controlling ApoE
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2016-01-13

Diet may explain the Nigerian Paradox, where they have among the highest rates of the Alzheimer’s susceptibility gene, ApoE4, but among the lowest rates of Alzheimer’s disease.

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What dietary changes? See some of my latest videos on preventing Alzheimer’s disease:
• Preventing Alzheimer’s with Lifestyle Changes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-alzheimers-with-lifestyle-changes)
• Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-alzheimers-disease-with-diet)
• Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease With Plants (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Preventing-Alzheimers-Disease-With-Plants/)
• Reducing Glycotoxin Intake to Prevent Alzheimers (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Reducing-Glycotoxin-Intake-to-Prevent-Alzheimers)
• Alzheimer’s May Start Decades Before Diagnosis  (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/alzheimers-may-start-decades-before-diagnosis)
• Alzheimer’s and Atherosclerosis of the Brain (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/alzheimers-and-atherosclerosis-of-the-brain)
• Cholesterol and Alzheimer’s disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cholesterol-and-alzheimers-disease)

This concept of switching genes on and off is the exciting world of epigenetics. For more, see BRCA Breast Cancer Genes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/brca-breast-cancer-genes-and-soy/) and Soy and Cancer Reversal Through Diet? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cancer-reversal-through-diet/).

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

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