TY - JOUR T1 - Nutrition and prevention of Alzheimer's dementia. AU - Swaminathan,Arun, AU - Jicha,Gregory A, Y1 - 2014/10/20/ PY - 2014/04/03/received PY - 2014/09/25/accepted PY - 2014/11/5/entrez PY - 2014/11/5/pubmed PY - 2014/11/5/medline KW - Alzheimer KW - clinical trial KW - nutrition KW - prevention KW - treatment SP - 282 EP - 282 JF - Frontiers in aging neuroscience JO - Front Aging Neurosci VL - 6 N2 - A nutritional approach to prevent, slow, or halt the progression of disease is a promising strategy that has been widely investigated. Much epidemiologic data suggests that nutritional intake may influence the development and progression of Alzheimer's dementia (AD). Modifiable, environmental causes of AD include potential metabolic derangements caused by dietary insufficiency and or excess that may be corrected by nutritional supplementation and or dietary modification. Many nutritional supplements contain a myriad of health promoting constituents (anti-oxidants, vitamins, trace minerals, flavonoids, lipids, …etc.) that may have novel mechanisms of action affecting cellular health and regeneration, the aging process itself, or may specifically disrupt pathogenic pathways in the development of AD. Nutritional modifications have the advantage of being cost effective, easy to implement, socially acceptable and generally safe and devoid of significant adverse events in most cases. Many nutritional interventions have been studied and continue to be evaluated in hopes of finding a successful agent, combination of agents, or dietary modifications that can be used for the prevention and or treatment of AD. The current review focuses on several key nutritional compounds and dietary modifications that have been studied in humans, and further discusses the rationale underlying their potential utility for the prevention and treatment of AD. SN - 1663-4365 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/25368575/full_citation L2 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00282 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -