Reddit reviews The Alzheimer's Antidote: Using a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory Loss, and Cognitive Decline
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Don't freak out. This is more repetition of a poor understanding of cholesterol that has become deeply mired in conventional wisdom. If anything, incidence of AD is linked to carbohydrate-rich diets, especially in people who are either heterozygous or homozygous (strongest susceptibility) for the APOE4 allele.
Strongly suggest you take a look at:
The Alzheimer's Antidote
The End of Alzheimer's.
These are just a quick start. There are fascinating papers in the literature as well, but those can get challenging depending upon experience in reading professional papers.
Bottom line: modern diets are a profound mis-match for the human genome. Homo sapiens is smart enough to do really stupid things, like changing elements of our lifestyle at a pace far beyond the ability to adapt (genetically).
High fat high carb diets are bad.
High fat low carb diets are good. Check out Amy Berger's amazing book