It is World Alzheimer\u2019s Month, and we continue to bring awareness to this disease that has no cure, but many treatments can help slow the progression.<\/p>\n
Doctors say they are seeing the risk of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease lowered by taking this one small step towards better health.<\/p>\n
Certain vaccines can actually help lower the risk significantly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we look through, like, the whole Herman system at who gets vaccinated and who doesn\u2019t, those that get vaccinated have a significantly reduced risk of getting Alzheimer\u2019s disease for at least eight years. That\u2019s as far as we\u2019ve been able to follow them so far,\u201d says Memorial Hermann Hospital and UT Health professor of neurology, Dr. Paul Schulz. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe should get it because the flu can be deadly, but it turns out that if you get the flu vaccine three times over six years, there\u2019s a twenty percent reduced risk of getting Alzheimer\u2019s, and if you get it six times over six years, there\u2019s a forty percent reduced risk of Alzheimer\u2019s for eight years,\u201d added Dr. Paul Schulz.<\/p>\n
Doctors found that if they can control a patient\u2019s blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar, they can get physical and mental exercise, these are the first easy treatments that you can begin now to lower your risk even more.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo if we catch someone a little later, they slow a certain amount, but if we catch someone really early, they\u2019ll slow by a lot.<\/p>\n
call disease-modifying therapy. Those are treatments that actually remove amyloid from the brain; they remove all the amyloid plaques that we can see in the brain, and that\u2019s associated with significant slowing of the progression of the disease,\u201d says Dr. Paul Schulz.<\/p>\n
Doctors add that the T-Dap vaccine, which we got as kids and every ten years after, is associated with a reduced risk of about 25 percent.<\/p>\n
The pneumococcal vaccine and the shingles vaccine can also lower your risk of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease, as well.<\/p>\n
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