This is the 93rd instalment in a series on dementia, including the research into its causes and treatment, advice for carers, and stories of hope.Can your diet help override the early biological warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease? A new study says yes.Following more than 1,800 adults for up to 15 years, researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden discovered that eating a low-inflammation diet can lower dementia risk by 29 per cent – even in people who already test positive for the blood biomarkers that signal the onset of Alzheimer’s years before symptoms appear.What is more, participants who had a high-risk Alzheimer’s biomarker but strictly followed the anti-inflammatory diet lived nearly one full year longer without dementia (0.89 years) compared to those with low adherence.How inflammation begins on the plateWe see inflammation in the red swelling around a skin wound, or engorged tonsils in a sore throat. But a wider perspective begins with our plates: the wrong sort of diet can trigger an inflammatory response in our gut, which affects our whole system – including our brains.
Low-inflammation diet can cut dementia risk by almost 30%. Here’s how
Researchers find that anti-inflammatory foods can even lower risk for those with the markers of Alzheimer’s that show up long before onset.
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