Key takeaways:

The MIND diet was associated with all four blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease.

Plasma biomarkers offer a noninvasive, reliable tool for detection of Alzheimer’s pathology.

Diet-driven metabolites had close associations with various blood-based biomarkers indicative of Alzheimer’s disease pathology, with the MIND diet positively correlated to all four types, according to a presenter.

“Neurodegenerative changes can begin years before they’re visible on imaging, and often when we do detect them, there are irreversible changes and the damage has already been done,” Diandra Denier-Fields, PhD, postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.

“[Cerebrospinal fluid] biomarkers are

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