Afraid of losing your mind? Don’t look to a bottle to help you hold on to it. Despite a plethora of pills claiming to defer dementia (Ginkgo biloba, coenzyme Q10, huperzine A, and coral calcium among them), the Alzheimer’s Association, the Food and Drug Administration, and other researchers in the field concur that these supplements simply don’t work.
According to Joanna Hellmuth, MD, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, in the Journal of the American Medical Association: “No known dietary supplement prevents cognitive decline or dementia.”
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