The preventative measures that we look at for Alzheimer's disease are really the same prevention approaches that we use for most chronic diseases. That is you should get plenty of exercise. You should have good nutrition, should use alcohol only in moderation. You should not smoke. You should control your blood pressure, control cholesterol and really try to maintain very strong social relationships that … We know that social networking aims to keep people healthy longer. Even if they get sick or injured, they seem to get better quicker if they have a strong social support system.
The other thing, I think, is to really keep your mind active. That would be word games, crossword puzzles, number games, those sorts of things. From the nun study that was done many years ago, we know that women who were early in their years … They followed the nuns for years and years. The more they read, the more sophisticated their writing was, more complex their writing was. They had a lower chance of getting Alzheimer's disease than people who did not, than people who didn't read as much, didn't have as complex sentences when they wrote and those sorts of things. There’s a lot of very simple things that we can do that probably decrease the risk.
