MARIKA SBOROS: Modifying risk factors and adopting healthier habits may ward off dementia
Research on the use of ketones and ketogenic diets to offset the effects of brain ageing and atrophy puts all other interventions in the shade
09 September 2019 - 05:04
If you had to choose, would you prefer to die from cancer or dementia? That can seem like Hobson’s choice.
Yet many claim to “prefer” a cancer death over the “long, slow death from dementia”. They describe dementia as “a death that slowly erases you”, that “strips away your living self, bit by bit”...
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