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If Alzheimer’s runs in your family, read this

I don’t talk about this as often as I probably should. My mom had Alzheimer’s and my dad had ALS with dementia. Watching your parents slowly lose the very thing that makes them them — changes how you think about every choice you make, every single day.  The mouth-brain connection is, unfortunately, not abstract for me because I’ve lived it. When I look at the research on Alzheimer’s and dementia, one pattern keeps surfacing: the disease process starts decades before the first symptom. The plaques that show up on a scan at 75? The cellular damage that drives them starts at 40. Maybe ea...

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