Recent laboratory tests have shown that green tea and resveratrol can slow the progression of Alzheimer’s.
Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, affecting more than 6 million Americans and its incidence is expected to increase in the coming decades around the world.
Scientists around the world are working to understand what could slow the progression of the disease. Researchers at Tufts University tested 21 compounds in the laboratory on neuronal cells affected by Alzheimer’s, measuring their effect on the growth of beta-amyloid plaques, which develop in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s.
Two compounds in particular seemed to have an effect: catechins, present in green tea, and resveratrol, present in red wine and more, reports spotmedia.rowhich cites a report published in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine, cited by Medical Xpress.
“We were lucky that some of them showed quite strong efficacy. In the case of these compounds that passed screening, there was virtually no visible plaque left after about a week,” said Dana Cairns, involved in the research. spotmedia.ro.
The even better news is that in addition to the compounds in green tea and resveratrol, researchers have discovered it curcumin from turmeric, the diabetes drug metformin and a compound called citicoline prevented the formation of other plaques.
