Will GLP-1s be able to prevent or treat Alzheimer's?

About this episode

This episode explores the potential of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic in preventing or treating Alzheimer's disease.

Ozempic and Alzheimer's disease: could the world's most talked-about weight loss drug also protect your brain? In this episode of Blasphemous Nutrition we follow one of the most compelling and complicated questions in brain health and cognitive decline today. Aimee breaks down the hypothesis that Alzheimer's disease may be a metabolic brain disorder, explores the groundbreaking real-world data that launched two massive GLP-1 clinical trials, and walks through what happened when those trials d...

People in this episode

Host: Aimee G

Topics covered

• GLP-1
• Alzheimer's
• brain health
• cognitive decline
• metabolic brain disorder

Keywords

• GLP-1
• Ozempic
• Alzheimer's
• brain health
• cognitive decline
• clinical trials
• metabolic disorder

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Ozempic

Books & works: Alzheimer's disease

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