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(Image: Manchester evening news) Eighty-two-year-old Syliva, a dementia sufferer, has gotten her memory back after changing her diet. RELATED STORY: Drives your dementia risk up by 89 percent, easy to fix In 2016, Mark Hatzer began to notice his mother struggling to remember birthdays or arrangements she had made with friends. In December of 2016, after her forgetfulness had become increasingly frequent, he took her to the doctors where she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. However, she deteriorated fairly rapidly and “after a seizure and fall the following March, Sylvia was taken to North Manchester General Hospital”1 (epilepsy is often a side effect of Alzheimer’s). But that wasn’t the worst of it, she stopped recognizing her son. Mark says this point was the lowest in his life (he lost his father to a heart attack in 1987). “When his mother’s condition became so severe she had to be kept in hospital for her own safety, Mark Hatzer thought he had lost another parent. Sylvia had even phoned the police accusing the nurses who were caring for her of kidnap. But a diet high in blueberries and walnuts they have devised together has had such a dramatic impact on Sylvia’s condition that their recipes are being shared by the Alzheimer’s Society.”1 That’s right. Diet. After seeing that rates of dementia were far lower in Mediterranean countries, mother and son copied their...