Big Pharma has spent tens of millions of dollars searching for a drug to halt Alzheimer’s yet 99 percent of these meds have flopped miserably in clinical trials. But aggressively treating the underlying risks factors for Alzheimer’s, such as diabetes, heart disease, chronic stress, poor health habits, exposure to infectious agents or environmental toxins, may be…

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