In the United States, about 26.5% of adults with diagnosed diabetes were using a GLP-1 injectable medication in 2024, highlighting how central these treatments have become in modern diabetes and weight management
Nutritional deficiencies are significant for older adults because poor nutrition, often due to limited access to healthy foods or challenges in meal preparation, can lead to insufficient intake of essential nutrients necessary for producing healthy red blood cells
It improves the functioning of the immune system, has a nervous system protection effect, increases the bodys resistance to infections, can speed up the recovery from diseases, and increases the bodys energy levels and vitality (3)
When total food intake decreases, overall nutrient intake decreases too
Compared to apoE3, apoE4 is defective at facilitating efferocytosis of apoptotic cells (191)