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Well it seems to work with the mice for now. Let’s hope this new research will work and get Alzheimer’s defeated once and for always.
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Category Archives: Research
Don’t eat all that sugar
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Because besides from the point that you’ll end up overweight like me, there are more serious consequences:
For some time we’ve known diabetes patients are more likely to get Alzheimer’s . But we’ve been puzzling over the link between sugar and dementia. Now we know.
Extraordinary research has revealed a tipping point at which blood sugar levels become so dangerously high they promote brain disease.
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Watch that unsaturated fat!
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A new study published in PLOS Medicine‘s Special Issue on Dementia has found that the metabolism of omega-3 and omega-6 unsaturated fatty acids in the brain are associated with the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Vitamin E and Selenium Fail to Prevent Alzheimer’s By NICHOLAS BAKALARMARCH 21, 2017
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Some research has suggested that vitamin E and selenium supplements might lower the risk for Alzheimer’s disease, but a new long-term trial has found no evidence that they will.
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Cancer Drug That Might Slow Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s Headed For Bigger Tests
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Heard on NPR, this may eventually get somewhere!
Scientists are hoping that a single drug can treat two devastating brain diseases: Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
The drug is nilotinib, which is approved to treat a form of leukemia.
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The future may not be so grim
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According to The Scientific American:
“A Rare Success against Alzheimer’s,” by researchers Miia Kivipelto and Krister Håkansson, the future may not be quite so grim. In fact, studies show that reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia may include factors as simple as “good diet, exercise, an active social life and the achievement of higher educational levels.”
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