Some 850,000 people in the UK currently have the degenerative brain disease which destroys many elderly lives, according to the Alzheimer’s Society. Equally alarming is that an increasing number of younger people are succumbing to the disease, with over 40,000 UK sufferers who are under 65. In 2016 it became the leading cause of death in the UK, overtaking heart disease, said nutritional therapist Clare Daley, 53. Clare said: “The sooner people start looking after their brain health the better. A healthy gut is key in the ­battle against dementia because Harvard researchers discovered gut bacteria can cause the brain inflammation behind dementia.

Source: Daily Mirror September 15, 2018 17:03 UTC