Dr Dale Bredesen: The neurodegenerative disease expert on how to eliminate your risk of dementia and why a cure is just around the corner

If you know a friend or family member suffering from dementia, you’ll know all too well just how cruel and destructive a disease it is.

You’ll also know that a dementia diagnosis is currently a death sentence, albeit one that is heart-breaking drawn out over years and decades as the person you know and love and have shared a life with gradually disappears from view, until just their physical shell remains once the light that powered their personality is extinguished forever.

It happens right in front of your eyes. And you are completely powerless to do anything about it.

But there is growing hope that dementia - which is the term used to describe several diseases that affect memory, thinking, and the ability to perform daily activities - may soon join the list of other previously-terminal illnesses that are now easily treated, r ...