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Coffee and Alzheimers

Coffee and Alzheimers: Helping reduced memory impairment...

New studies reveal the effects of environmental substances on the promotion or slowing of symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease. Drug screening has identified three antihypertension drugs capable of preventing Alzheimer's-like degeneration of nerve cells in the brain. Fish oil elevated the level of a protein that prevents the formation of amyloid, the tell-tale protein found in Alzheimer's. Caffeine reversed memory impairment in animal models of the disease. In addition, environmental copper reduced the clearance of amyloid, from the brain to blood.

Full Article at Science Daily


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