The Alzheimer's Answer: Reduce Your Risk and Keep Your Brain Healthy - Hardcover

Sabbagh, Marwan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470044942 ISBN 13: 9780470044940

Publisher: Trade Paper Press, 2008

Synopsis

A front-line researcher offers cutting-edge advice on preventing and slowing the progress of Alzheimer's

Drawing on the most up-to-date information available on the disease as well as experiences from his clinical practice, Dr. Marwan Sabbagh, a leading expert in Alzheimer's research, translates the current ideas driving Alzheimer's treatment into practical information you can use to determine your risk and develop a prevention strategy. You'll find tools for assessing your personal Alzheimer's risk and ""What You Can Do"" sections to help you keep your brain and body healthy, plus information on the treatment of Alzheimer's and its complications.

• Gives you the most up-to-date information on Alzheimer's and Alzheimer's prevention
• Written by a neurologist specializing in geriatric neurology and dementia who is one of the country's leading experts in Alzheimer's research
• Includes exciting revelations, such as finding that early onset Alzheimer's can be significantly slowed in its progress, giving the patient as many as ten to fifteen added years of quality life

There are an estimated 5.2 million people living with Alzheimer's in America today. If you or someone you love is at risk of developing the disease or wishes to slow its advancement, this book will give you vital information to help you reduce risk and safeguard health and quality of life.

About this title

About the Author

Marwan Sabbagh, M.D., a geriatric neurologist and leading expert in Alzheimer's research, founded the Sun Health Research Institute's Cleo Roberts Center for Clinical Research. He is a leading investigator for several prominent national Alzheimer's prevention and treatment trials, including the Alzheimer vaccine studies. He has authored or coauthored more than seventy medical and scientific articles on Alzheimer's research. Dr. Sabbagh is also a staff physician at Boswell Memorial Hospital, where he specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's. He is an adjunct professor at Midwestern University and Arizona State University.

From the Back Cover

Praise for The Alzheimer's Answer

"Dr. Sabbagh has written a book that points to a better public attitude toward Alzheimer's and a reasonable hope for transformation of the disease from a dreadful one-way street to a manageable, as well as treatable, chronic disorder that can allow continuing quality of life."
—Hugh Downs

"Dr. Sabbagh provides a concise, up-to-date, and clear understandingabout what we can do to prevent and delay the onset and progressionof Alzheimer's disease. The Alzheimer's Answer is an importantbook for anyone concerned about what one can practically do aboutAlzheimer's disease."
—William Rodman Shankle, M.S., M.D., Zenith Fellow Recipient, National Alzheimer's Association and Medical Director, The Shankle Clinic for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders

"This book has solid, straightforward answers to every Alzheimer's question I can think of. Thank you, Dr. Sabbagh, for this much-needed clarity."
—David Shenk, author of The Forgetting

From the Inside Flap

The question Dr. Marwan Sabbagh, a leading expert in Alzheimer's research, hears most often is, "Are there things I can do to keep from getting Alzheimer's disease?" Now he responds in The Alzheimer's Answer, a complete guide to the latest information on preventing and slowing the progress of Alzheimer's. Drawing upon the most up-to-date information available on the disease as well as experiences from his clinical practice, Dr. Sabbagh translates the current ideas driving Alzheimer's treatment into practical information you can use to determine your risk and develop a prevention strategy.

Dr. Sabbagh begins by exploring exactly what Alzheimer's is and how it's related to dementia. You'll receive a set of tools for assessing your personal Alzheimer's risk, and you'll see why the author asserts that preventing Alzheimer's is a reasonable goal. Special "What You Can Do" sections and personal recommendations give you clear actions to follow to keep your brain and your body healthy and to reduce your Alzheimer's risk. Then Dr. Sabbagh addresses the treatment of Alzheimer's and its complications, outlining the available therapies as well as their advantages and downsides. He also takes a close look at promising new developments and forthcoming treatments.

With The Alzheimer's Answer, you'll discover how to:

• Assess your chances of getting Alzheimer's and reduce your risk factors

• Exercise your way to preventing the disease

• Follow a brain-healthy diet and manage your cholesterol

• Stay sharp with mental exercises

• Find support should you or a loved one have Alzheimer's

Whether or not you have a family history of Alzheimer's, it is important to take the steps available to you now to reduce your risk.

Reviews

This sobering review of the current research on and recommendations for Alzheimer's argues for identifying and combating risk factors decades before symptoms appear. Like other major conditions affected by obesity, high blood pressure and cholesterol levels, among others, Alzheimer's is growing at a rapidly increasing rate. Neurologist Sabbagh has been involved in many important Alzheimer's research trials and founded the Sun Health Research Institute's Cleo Roberts Center, a facility for studying age-related diseases, located in the geriatric community–dense Sun City area of Phoenix. He explains the mechanisms by which the brain undergoes devastating changes that manifest as Alzheimer's; the differences between age-related memory loss, Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia; and ways to assess genetic liabilities and risk factors from lifestyle choices. Although treatment goals and expectations for those with Alzheimer's are modest, Sabbagh says most risk factors can be offset well before retirement age through diet, physical and mental exercise, brain-specific supplements and, in some cases, medications that lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, manage blood sugar and decrease inflammation. Sabbagh covers such concerns as exposure to toxic substances linked to neurological conditions and suggests many potent weapons to counteract development of brain plaque: omega-3 fatty acids, resveratrol, quercetin, folic acid, huperzine A, green tea and curcumin, among others. A guide to symptoms, diagnosis and treatment will prove helpful to patients and their families, while an overview of new drugs that could halt progression and possibly heal damaged brain cells offers hope for the future. (Feb.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470044942
• ISBN 13: 9780470044940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320