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Scientific article published on 3 October 2017
Dr. Sanjay Gupta emphasizes lifestyle changes — diet, exercise, sleep, social engagement and cognitive activity — rather than routine pills, and his public accounts describe personal adoption of a pla...
Large, well-designed clinical trials have mostly failed to show that single over‑the‑counter supplements prevent dementia or reliably improve memory, though a few exceptions and promising smaller stud...
Excess-death studies and raw COVID-19 death tallies tell different but overlapping stories: official counts attribute roughly 471,000 U.S. COVID deaths early in 2021 and later revisions place cumulati...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta warns that processed, salty, sugary and ultra‑processed foods are linked to worse brain health and that diets rich in omega‑3s, B vitamins and Mediterranean/MIND‑style foods may prote...
A review of the provided reporting finds no peer‑reviewed original research papers authored by Dr. Sanjay Gupta that directly test nutrition interventions for cognitive decline; the material instead p...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s prevention strategy centers on controllable lifestyle measures—regular physical activity, a plant‑forward diet and blood‑sugar control, good sleep, social and cognitive engagement, ...
Two distinct “Gupta” approaches appear in the available reporting: Sanjay Gupta’s lifestyle-focused brain-health advice (exercise, diet, social engagement) is supported by broad, mostly observational ...
Medical treatments can sometimes reduce or reverse growth impacts from specific adolescent health problems (for example, treating iron-deficiency anaemia or managing chronic illnesses to support norma...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta cited two streams of evidence when describing the Alzheimer’s treatment he highlighted: clinical trial results showing an antibody (lecanemab/Leqembi) slowed cognitive decline by abou...
Recent multidomain randomized trials and large observational reviews show evidence that combining diet and exercise can slow cognitive decline; randomized trials like FINGER report cognitive benefits ...
Common symptoms of dementia in older adults include such as mood and behavioral changes, sleep disturbances, sensory dysfunction and autonomic or physical alterations. Research shows some of these sym...