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Apple for alzheimer’s
A recent study of the Research Center of Neurobiology Cellular and Neurodegeneration at the University of Massachusetts, found that drink apple juice could reduce the risk to the Alzheimer’s disease.
The study that has been published in the number of this month of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease is being hailed as a medical advance of the experts.
The researchers gave mice the equivalent of two cups of apple juice a day during a month and discovered that; those who drank apple juice produced less beta-amyloid, a small protein that damages the normal cells of the brain and form the plates that are found in the brains of people affected by the Alzheimer’s disease.
In addition to perform much better their usual work in a maze of trial, increasing its performance, which normally decreases in mice of age?
The author of the study Thomas B. Shea, said in its conclusions that; “it is recommended regular consumption of apple juice, because not only can help keep the mind at its best performance, but can also be able to delay the key aspects of the Alzheimer’s Disease and enhance the therapeutic approaches”. Read the rest of this entry »