Making Alzheimer's Prevention a Reality: Meet the Experts

Patrick Holford: Simple Wisdom for a Healthy Life

Ask the man in the street what’s driving Alzheimer’s and they’ll probably say a third is in the genes. Or that it’s just what happens when you age. Neither of these statements are true.

Alzheimer’s is a largely preventable disease and my guests today are tackling the two fundamental questions.

Firstly, what are the positive and negative behaviours – diet, lifestyle, environment – that prevent and drive dementia?

And secondly, how do you change those behaviours.

In today’s podcast I talk with Assistant Professor Tommy Wood, from the University of Washington about the what, then Dr Kristina Curtis, a behavioural scientist and honorary lecturer at the University College London who heads the Applied Behaviour Change team, about the how of behaviour change.

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