Category Archives: Research

Food for Alzheimer’s

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Nestle has bought a stake in U.S. firm Accera to support the rollout of a medical food brand for Alzheimer’s patients, as the world’s biggest food group seeks to expand in the health and nutrition business
Nestle said Axona provides an alternative energy source for Alzheimer’s patients, whose brains become less able to use glucose, resulting in improved memory and cognitive function, according to ongoing clinical trials.

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Strength training to prevent Alzheimer’s

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Exercise is healthy and it is well known that staying active helps with preventing Alzheimer’s disease. New studies have however compared how well different forms of exercise were beneficial and it turns out that weight lifting or strength training is most helpful in fighting Alzheimer’s.

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Sign of Alzheimer

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Cognitive decline, eventually leading to Alzheimer’s disease, can manifest itself in many different ways. One of the early signs may be changes in the way you walk.

In the Mayo Clinic study, researchers measured the stride length, cadence and velocity of more than 1,341 participants through a computerized gait instrument at two or more visits roughly 15 months apart. Those with lower cadence, velocity and length of stride experienced significantly larger declines in global cognition, memory and executive function.

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Alzheimer’s changes start 25 years early

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The first Alzheimer’s-related changes begin to develop some 25 years before memory and thinking problems appear, according to a new study that may offer a valuable guide for companies looking to test new treatments in people at an earlier stage.

The study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, offers a timeline of changes in spinal fluid, brain size, the appearance of brain plaques and other factors that precede the onset of Alzheimer’s in people who are genetically predestined to develop the brain-wasting disease.

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Two Proteins that cause Alzheimer’s

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Still relatively little is known about exactly what makes Alzheimer’s disease destroy the brain. Now scientists have at least agreed that two proteins, that long have had separate research groups looking at them,  together are a major cause of Alzheimer’s and that our best bet to fight off Alzheimer’s may well be to prevent both proteins from developing their harmful works.

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