High fat cheese protects against Alzheimer's

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Say Cheese! High-Fat Dairy Linked to Lower Alzheimer’s and Dementia Risk

Could Cheddar or Brie help lower Alzheimer’s risk? A 25-year Swedish study challenges long-held fears about saturated fat.

https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/article ... entia-risk

After a steady stream of disappointing Alzheimer’s headlines—most recently the failure of an antiviral drug to slow the disease—it’s hard not to greet any “good news” with cynicism. So when a large, 25-year study published in Neurology (January 27, 2026) reported that people who ate more high-fat cheese had a lower Alzheimer’s and dementia risk, our reaction was cautious curiosity. Cheese is hardly what most people expect to see on a list of brain-protective foods. In fact, most cardiologists and neurologists would probably say that cheese—loaded with saturated fat—would increase the risk of dementia. Yet this long-term research suggests that diet and dementia risk may be more complicated—and more confusing—than we’ve been led to believe.

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Thanks NHE

This is very interesting - I suppose a lot of MSers who avoid dairy and/or follow Swank would be keen to know if the same applies to the impact of sat fat on disability that Swank suggested