Nutrition in Alzheimer’s disease

Medical nutrition provides patients with specialised formulations of key nutrients required for the dietary management of their specific disease. Specific nutrients need to be maintained at appropriate levels in order to support neuronal membrane synthesis and synapse formation. Because of their increased loss of synapses, patients with early Alzheimer’s disease are believed to have specific nutritional requirements.

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  What is medical nutrition?

   

  Medical nutrition provides patients with nutritional support for the management of a specific disease or medical condition.

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  Nutritional requirements in Alzheimer’s disease

  Specific nutrients are required to counter the effects of synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease.

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  Supporting synapse formation

  Synapse formation is dependent on the presence of key nutrients required for phospholipid synthesis.

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