“Aging Americans fall prey to ‘brain-boosting’ supplements offering hope, hype and dodgy data”

Aging Americans fall prey to ‘brain-boosting’ supplements offering hope, hype and dodgy data,” by Suzanne Leigh, MedicalXPress

“Americans are feeding the multi-billion-dollar ‘brain health’ dietary supplement industry in a desperate bid to stave off or reverse Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. But such treatments are ‘pseudomedicine’ and health care providers should discourage patients from pursuing them, say neurologists at UC San Francisco.”

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

Snake oil for the brain.