Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 11, 2025

More than heart disease or cancer, dementia is the primary concern for many of the patients I see. Heart disease and cancer attack your body, but dementia attacks your mind and identity. That is why I believe people fear dementia so much. Thankfully, 45% of all dementia is preventable 1. The Question Is Why?

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Open Heart

JUNE 27, 2022

Aims Heart failure (HF) has a lower public profile compared with other serious health conditions, notably cancer. times per million words (pmw), ‘dementia’ occurs 3.68 times pmw and ‘cancer’ occurs 81.96 times per million words (pmw), ‘dementia’ occurs 3.68

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The world we live in means you are massively incentivised to eat in a way that makes you gain excess weight that will likely result in metabolic dysfunction and an increased risk of not only heart disease but many cancers and also dementia. 2018 Feb 10;391(10120):541-551. While this is unfortunate, it is the world we live in.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 9, 2024

More than heart disease or cancer, the risk of dementia often creates much greater anxiety in the patients I see. And given that dementia is routinely in the top 5 leading causes of death, this concern is dually warranted. But can dementia be prevented? 14 Ways To Prevent Dementia. The answer is yes.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 23, 2024

While I have covered many of these fitness measures individually in previous posts, I wanted to summarise these metrics and how they relate to living longer and preventing major diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia. 5 Midlife cardiovascular fitness and dementia: A 44-year longitudinal population study in women.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 15, 2023

Insulin resistance is a core risk factor for the three leading causes of death: Cardiovascular Disease Cancer Dementia. Epub 2018 Nov 27. Insulin resistance is unlikely to be the primary causal factor for these conditions but is likely to be a major accelerant. Subscribe now Take cardiovascular disease, for example.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Cognitive Performance & Dementia. There is also mechanistic data to support its role in preventing dementia, but for now, this is more speculative 10. 2018 Jul 15;108:166-173. Evidence suggests that supplementing with creatine leads to greater total sleep duration on training days 8. 2014 Jun;127(6):547-53. Open Access J.

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