This is the 90th instalment in a series on dementia, including the research into its causes and treatment, advice for carers, and stories of hope
Not long ago, Dr Kevin Tran, founder of The Phoenix Community for carriers of the APOE4 gene – the “Alzheimer’s gene” – like himself, noted that we need to look after our brain as if it were the only car we would ever own. We must tend to its bodywork, provide regular maintenance and keep up with services so that it runs for as long as we need it to.
His analogy is even more apt alongside the emergence of “MileAge”, a metabolomic ageing clock that estimates biological age from a blood sample, developed by Dr Julian Mutz and his team at King’s College London in the UK.
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