Can Lifestyle Changes Reduce Your Risk For Dementia: The FINGER Trial

The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, starts 20 to 30 years before symptoms develop. To date, there is no cure for Alzheimer's. A milestone trial in the Journal Lancet tells us that about 40% of dementia risk can be reduced if we address 12 specific areas, mostly related to lifestyle.

The FINGER Trial from Finland is the first of many studies using a multi-modal approach using food, cognitive training, better blood pressure and blood glucose management and exercise to reduce the risk of dementia in people with minimal cognitive impairment.

(00:00) - Back to the Brain: Number One

(00:19) - Alzheimer's Disease Prevention

(02:46) - Why is the problem of dementia so big?

(03:30) - The Finger Trials for Alzheimer's

(06:36) - Alzheimer's Disease: The multimodal approach

(07:26) - The Multidomodal Approach to Alzheimer's

(09:47) - Dementia prevention trials

(13:30) - Preventing Alzheimer's by 60 years old

(14:15) - Preventive Medicine for People in Their 60s

(16:13) - Prevention of Alzheimer's? It's never too late to start

(17:18) - Cognitive decline in people 60 s or older

(18:37) - Diabetes and hypertension in the finger trial

(21:59) - Cognitive function and neuropsychiatric assessment

(23:53) - Cognitive function and neuropsychiatric assessment

(25:17) - The Food and Brain Health

(25:45) - The Finnish trial food recommendation

(26:26) - Food recommendation in the Finnish trial

(26:55) - Healthy diet for men and women

(27:44) - Saturated Fat and Trans fats in the diet

(31:51) - How to get enough omega 3 from food

(32:57) - What else did I miss out on?

(35:56) - How low should we lower the salt?

(36:21) - Weight loss of 5 to 10%

(39:27) - Cognitive training for seniors

(43:11) - Participation in the trials

(43:47) - Cognitive health and the trial

(44:47) - The cognitive health of elderly people

(46:21) - Alzheimer's Disease prevention

(48:15) - Tiny Habits for Brain Health

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References

The FINGER Trial

Risk Factors For Dementia.