TWO Science-Backed Tricks SLASH Alzheimer’s Risk
What are you doing to reduce your dementia risk?
If you can’t rattle off a bunch of answers, chances are you’re not doing enough.
Let’s change that today.
Recent studies highlighted TWO straightforward steps to reduce your risk by as much as 40 percent.
In the first study, researchers analyzed data on over 12,000 people who did not have dementia at the start of the study. Their health was tracked for 10 years.
They found that, among the volunteers taking vitamin D supplements, there were 40 percent fewer dementia diagnoses.
This isn’t the first study to show the brain benefits of vitamin D.
Vitamin D improves blood flow to the brain, supports neurotransmitter function, and provides antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits.
In the second study, researchers used mice to study the effects of aerobic exercise on the hippocampus—the area of the brain responsible for learning and memory.
The mice that exercised had an incredible…
- 63 percent reduction in damaging tau tangles,
- a 76 percent drop in amyloid plaques,
- and a 58 percent reduction in iron accumulation.
This resulted in brain inflammation plummeting by roughly 60 percent.
The rodents also had improvements in overall brain cell health and in the communication between their brain cells.
Maintaining healthy vitamin D levels and exercising are two things everyone should be doing anyway. The fact that they could have such a significant protective effect on your brain—and the potential to ward off dementia—makes adding them to your routine a no-brainer.
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Ghahremani M, Smith EE, Chen HY, Creese B, Goodarzi Z, Ismail Z. Vitamin D supplementation and incident dementia: effects of sex, APOE, and baseline cognitive status. Alzheimers Dement. 2023;15(1):e12404. doi:10.1002/dad2.12404
Gutierre, R., Rocha, P., Graciani, A., Coppi, A., & Arida, R. (2025). Tau, amyloid, iron, oligodendrocytes ferroptosis, and inflammaging in the hippocampal formation of aged rats submitted to an aerobic exercise program. Brain Research, 1850, 149419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2024.149419
