Neuro-Acupuncture should be the preventive treatment of choice for Alzheimer's disease (AD). AD is marked by the accumulation of intercellular amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. However, plaques and tangles appear in the late stage of AD when neuronal death and loss of cognitive abilities are already advanced. Hence early detection and prevention are the goal of effective intervention for AD. Unfortunately no early detection tools exist and medications are still in developmental stage. Moreover, these medications have high toxicity and their use for anybody except those in the very high probablity groups is unwarranted. There is no data to support the effectiveness of Neuro-Acupuncture for preventing AD simply because because that has never been studied but there is much clinical evidence for its effectiveness in supporting and boosting cognitive abilities without any adverse side-effects.

A group of researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania just published a postmortem brain tissue study that indicates epigenetic alterations near the genes linked to aging and AD in the AD brain. The researchers concluded that there is an epigenetic link between aging and AD: Altered epigenetics lead to abnormal aging resulting in AD.

"These analyses point to a new model of Alzheimer's disease. Specifically it appears that AD is not simply an advanced state of normal aging, but rather dysregulated aging that may induce disease-specific changes to the structure of chromatin - the combination of histone proteins and DNA." said first author Raffaella Nativio, PhD. In line with this thinking, Neuro-Acupuncture may be able to protect normal epigenetic functions thus promoting healthy brain aging and warding off Alzheimer’s.