Would you take a drug that could prevent Alzheimer's?
The Dose

Would you take a drug that could prevent Alzheimer's?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 17, 202622 min
  • Interview
  • Health

More than 750,000 Canadians live with dementia, including Alzheimer’s. Many more, like host Dr. Brian Goldman, worry they could develop it. Now, U.K. researchers are testing whether the drug trontinemab could prevent Alzheimer’s before symptoms appear. Dr. Ramin Nilforooshan, a psychiatrist involved in the trials, explains what Alzheimer’s prevention could mean — and what you can do now. For transcripts of The Dose, please visit: lnk.to/dose-transcripts. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. For more episodes of this podcast, click this link.

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And I'm prepared to try almost any evidence-based tactic, treatment, life hack that might prevent or delay the onset of dementia. Stick around to the end of this podcast and I'll share some tips I've picked up along the way.

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We're doing this episode now because there's this new study in the UK and other countries. It's testing a medication that could prevent people like me from ever having to worry about getting the disease. So this week I'm asking, would you take a medication that might prevent Alzheimer's

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disease? Hi, Raman. Welcome to the dose. Hi, Brian.

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