{"id":80585,"date":"2023-10-29T08:48:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=80585"},"modified":"2023-10-29T08:48:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:48:03","slug":"incredible-breakthrough-shows-simple-flu-jab-cuts-chance-of-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/lifestyle\/incredible-breakthrough-shows-simple-flu-jab-cuts-chance-of-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible breakthrough shows simple flu jab cuts chance of Alzheimers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alzheimers Research UK explain 'what is dementia?'<\/h3>\n

Professor Paul Schulz and his team, at the McGovern Medical School in Houston, found the flu vaccine could help protect people against Alzheimer’s disease in a brilliant new breakthrough in tackling the awful disease.<\/p>\n

In their research study, people who had at least one flu vaccine were 40 per cent less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease over a four-year period.<\/p>\n

Professor Schulz said: “Vaccines are the great public health success story of our generation.<\/p>\n

“They keep you safe from any number of infections, many of which can be life-threatening.<\/p>\n

“And now it appears there is another tremendous benefit, this one against a disease that is among the most feared.”<\/p>\n

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How does the flu vaccine protect against Alzheimer’s disease?<\/h3>\n

Professor Schulz believes the flu vaccine could reduce the immune system’s response to amyloid plaque \u2013 a protein found in the brain.<\/p>\n

In Alzheimer’s patients there tends to be abnormally high levels of amyloid plaques.<\/p>\n

An immune response to abnormally high levels of amyloid proteins in the brain could trigger an immune response that kills brain cells, which contributes to the development of dementia.<\/p>\n

Dementia is the umbrella term to describe symptoms caused by different diseases that damage the brain.<\/p>\n

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