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Hormone replacement therapy for women prone to Alzheimer

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A new study suggests hormone therapy can help stave off Alzheimer’s.  Harvard researchers say they’ve found a gene that is a critical link to the disease.

In the study, women who carried the gene showed signs of more rapidly aging cells than women who didn’t have it.  Individuals can be tested for the gene, called APOEE4.  Scientists hope hormone replacement therapy will reduce cellular aging and the risk of dementia.

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Nutritional supplement to fight Alzheimer

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Researchers at Northwestern and U.Va.’s School of Medicine set out to evaluate the effectiveness of chiro-inositol, a compound that occurs naturally in certain foods and is available as a nutritional supplement, in protecting the brain from beta amyloid toxins, which cause Alzheimer’s. They conclude, in a paper published this month in The FASEB Journal, that chiro-inositol “greatly enhances” insulin’s ability to prevent damage to neurons by toxic peptides called ADDLs. The damage and loss of neurons is believed responsible for Alzheimer’s.

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