Total recall - Can Alzheimer's disease be reversed?

A leading American neurologist claims Alzheimer’s disease can be stopped in its tracks — and even reversed. But will following his protocol which includes dietary and lifestyle changes make a lasting difference, asks Helen O’Callaghan.

ALZHEIMER’S — a diagnosis that plunges people into despair, a living death sentence that relentlessly robs the ability to compute and comprehend, to converse, and to connect with everything that makes us human and life meaningful.ALZHEIMER’S — a diagnosis that plunges people into despair, a living death sentence that relentlessly robs the ability to compute and comprehend, to converse, and to connect with everything that makes us human and life meaningful.

Now a US medic, an internationally recognised expert in mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease, is showing that mental decline evident in early Alzheimer’s disease can be stopped in its tracks — and even reversed, so people can once again live a cognitively healthy life.