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Heart, obesity and Alzheimer’s disease

Experts are predicting that the increase in obesity will lead to an increase in the number of cases of Alzheimer’s disease (“Obesity to fuel Alzheimer’s rise”).

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, obesity and Alzheimer’s disease have the same root: they are both caused by low heart energy. It’s interesting to note that Western medicine is starting to see this link; in the article mentioned above, a professor is quoted as saying “There are very similar underlying pathologies for heart disease and dementia”, and a 2006 study links heart failure and Alzheimer’s disease (see blog entry “Heart failure and dementia”).