If you have lots of ambitious plans for the future.

I've got a whole series of new books I want to write thousands of more videos to script,

but guess what? None of us may be able to do any of the things we want to do if

we don't have our health. Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast. I'm your host

Dr. Michael Greger. Today we hear about new

research on Alzheimer's from Dr Dean Ornish and we share the results of the first randomized control trial investigating whether a plant-based

diet and lifestyle program may reverse the course of early-stage Alzheimer's disease.

Dr. Dean Ornish was the first to show in a randomized controlled trial that a

plant-based diet and lifestyle program could apparently reverse the progression of our number one killer heart disease, opening up

artists without drugs, without surgery, then he showed the same plant-based

program could potentially reverse the course of early-stage prostate cancer

and also a long-gate telomeres suggesting an anti-aging effect as well. But when he told me he was going to see if he could reverse the

progression of Alzheimer's disease, surely he was biting off a little bit more

than he could chew. Dementia is the most feared condition of later life.

A common misconception that we have no control over whether or not we develop dementia,

but the good news is that although

Alzheimer's may be incurable, at least it is preventable. There's an emerging consensus that what's good for our hearts is also good

for our heads because clogging of the arteries inside the brain with atherosclerotic plaque is thought to play a role in the development of

Alzheimer's dementia.

Too much cholesterol in our blood is unanimously recognized to be a risk factor for the development of

Alzheimer's disease. Those with a total cholesterol of 225 or more may have nearly

25 times the odds of ending up with amyloid plaques in their

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