The Alzheimer’s Prevention Expert Group (APEG) is a voluntary group of scientists, all experts in an aspect relating to the prevention of cognitive decline.

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Our group includes:

Sugar, metabolism and mental health

Professor Emeritus Robert Lustig, Pediatrics and Nutrition, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

Professor Richard Johnson, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado, USA.

Assistant Professor Chris Palmer MD, Harvard Medical School, USA.

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Methylation and B vitamins

Professor Joshua Miller, Chair of the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, USA.

Dr Andrew McCaddon, visiting Professor Wrexham University, UK, supporting Professor Emeritus David Smith, University of Oxford, UK..

Dr Babak Hooshmand, MD, Neurologist and Researcher, Karolinska Institute, Bavaria, Germany.

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Omega-3 fatty acids, phospholipids, and vitamin D

Professor William Harris, President, Fatty Acid Research Institute, South Dakota, USA.

Dr Simon Dyall, PhD, Lead in Clinical Neurosciences, University of Roehampton, UK.

Professor Michael Crawford, Imperial College, London, UK

Dr William B Grant, PhD,  Founder of Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center,  USA.

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System-based prevention of dementia, active lifestyle, sleep, stress, and environment

Professor Jin-Tai Yu, Neurologist, Deputy Director of the Institute of Neurology, University of Fudan, China.

Associate Professor Tommy Wood, Department of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, University of Washington, USA.

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Antioxidants, polyphenols, gut, and dental health

Professor Jeremy Spencer, Nutritional Biochemistry and Medicine, University of Reading, UK.

Associate Professor David Vauzour, Molecular Nutrition, University of East Anglia, UK. 

Dr Victoria Sampson BDS, Functional Dentist and Researcher, London, UK. 

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Impact of activity on cognitive function

Associate Professor Tommy Wood, Department of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, University of Washington, USA. 

Dr Joshua Turknett, MD, Specialist Neurologist, Georgia, USA.

Louisa Nicola, Neurophysiologist, New York, USA.

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Neurology, nutrition, and dementia prevention.

Professor Peter Garrard, Director of Dementia Research Group, St George’s, University of London, UK.

Dr Uma Naidoo, MD, Director of Nutritional and Metabolic Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA.

Associate Professor David Perlmutter MD, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, USA.

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Low carbs, ketogenic diets, ketotherapeutics, and cognition

Professor Stephen Cunnane, Chair of Ketotherapeutics, University of Sherbrooke, Canada.

Dr Georgia Ede, MD, Nutritional and Metabolic Psychiatry, USA.

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Clinical management, measurement, and prevention of dementia

Dr Dale Bredesen, MD, Professor and Founding President, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, California, USA.

Dr Sabine Donnai, Physician, Founder and CEO of Vivai, UK.

Assistant Clinical Professor, James Greenblatt MD, School of Medicine, Tufts University, USA.

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Chair of the group

Patrick Holford, Leading Nutrition Expert and Founder of foodforthebrain.org