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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		Can diet and exercise stave off Alzheimer's disease?
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:04
	Publish Date:		2016-10-08 19:00:00
	Description:		A recent UCLA study has found that diet and exercise can reduce protein build-ups linked to Alzheimer's disease in those who have subtle memory loss, but have yet been diagnosed with dementia. "The data that lifestyle, that diet and exercise can impact cognition relatively quickly, that's pretty new data. A few years ago, nobody ever thought that you could measure a change with just an exercise intervention, so there are some big advances being made." That's Alzheimer's disease researcher Karen Gylys of the UCLA School of Nursing. We interviewed Gylys recently about her own novel work looking at Alzheimer's disease progression in the synapses, where the brain cells transmit impulses. At the time, she explained how complicated Alzheimer's is and how it will take more than just one solution to stave it off, but she was bolstered by findings that exercise and a Mediterranean-rich diet were linked to lower levels of plaques in brain scans. "Understanding the power of these lifestyle interventions makes me optimistic."
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