Keep the body well to slow Alzheimer's

摘要

Here's another reason to be fit and healthy. Staying free of "lifestyle diseases" and infections could put the brakes on Alzheimer's. The advice comes from teams that have pieced together how these bodily ailments create inflammation that ultimately spills over into the brain, sending its immune cells into a hyperactive, destructive state. "The idea is simple: monitoring and prompt treatment [of inflammation] could prevent the decline from Alzheimer's," said Hugh Perry of the University of Southampton, UK, as he presented the research at the Alzheimer's Research UK annual meeting in Oxford last month.