How Alzheimer’s disease could be reversed through lifestyle changes: new research
- A plant-based diet, strength training exercise and meditation can help reverse the disease’s symptoms, study says
It is not often you hear a hopeful story or read an encouraging study about dementia, given the sobering statistics about the disease.
Someone in the world develops dementia every three seconds, according to the non-profit Alzheimer’s Disease International. More than 55 million people worldwide lived with dementia in 2020, a number that is expected to double every 20 years, reaching 78 million in 2030 and 139 million in 2050.
Dr Dean Ornish, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco and founder and president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute, also in California, paints a brighter picture in a paper published in June in the journal Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy.
He suggests that radical lifestyle changes might not only slow the progression of dementia, but could even reverse it.
