Early Intervention In Alzheimer’s Can Slow Deterioration
Dr. William Shankle, director of the Memory and Cognitive Disorders program at Hoag Neurosciences Institute in Newport Beach, says that with early treatment, 45 percent of patients have what he calls “a curable condition, they can go on with life as before.”
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California Doctor Figures Out Way To Stop Alzheimer’s Progression
Like his father before him and millions of others, Ted Esau’s brain started to deteriorate in his late-50s. Plaque was building up. Part of his brain was starting to shrink. Although invisible to everyone including himself, the first stages of Alzheimer’s disease were beginning to take hold. But following a program of healthy eating, exercise, Food and Drug Administration-approved medication and monitoring, Esau is a relatively new phenomenon in the annals of Alzheimer’s — someone who is attacking the disease before it takes away memory and is seeing a halt in the disease’s progression. (Whiting, 5/19)