Nutritional Supplements for Alzheimer’s and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Neuro Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2026 | Viewed by 1016
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomarkers of frailty, sarcopenia, metabolic disease, cognitive decline (early detection, multimodal interventions); geroprotective mechanisms to delay or prevent common age-related diseases
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutrition and nutritional supplementation in older adults have been shown to influence disease progression across a range of comorbidities. Aging and prevalent diseases in older persons, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), share common pathophysiological mechanisms—most notably inflammaging, an age-related low-grade, systematic proinflammatory state associated with an increased risk of developing common age-related diseases.
Recent evidence suggests that dietary patterns, such as the MIND and Mediterranean diets, as well as specific nutritional supplements (e.g., vitamin D, vitamin B, ginkgo biloba, omega-3 fatty acids, etc.) hold important preventive potential for cognitive decline and AD, largely through their ability to modulate neuroinflammation.
Understanding the role of targeted nutritional strategies (dietary intervention and/or supplementation) on neurodegeneration and disease progression is essential for developing effective interventional trials, especially in individuals at the early stage of neurodegenerative disease.
Precision care approaches emphasize how the interaction between different comorbidities and neurodegenerative diseases may be influenced by nutritional status.
We invite researchers to submit original clinical research articles related to the impact of nutrition on neurodegenerative diseases and common age-related comorbidities across the aging trajectory.
Prof. Dr. Angela Marie Abbatecola
Prof. Dr. Salvatore Caponnetto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neurodegenerative disease
- Alzheimer’s
- neuroinflammation
- biomarkers
- age-related comborbidities
- precision care
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