Drink could help patients fight Alzheimer's

(give an extra source of energy to brain cells)

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Alzheimer's patients are turning to a new product to help improve their memory. It's not a drug, but a different classification called medical food. And while the product has its supporters, others are expressing concerns. As an Alzheimer's patient, Charles Haight struggles to hold on to his memories. But his daughter Anna says, he's recently received a boost in that on-going fight.
"Within about a week, I noticed he had different stories, because he'd started repeating things, the same story or a few stories over and over, but he would reach and have a new story," she said. She says her dad's improvement started after she began mixing a powdered drink for him every morning. The drink is called Axona. It's available by prescription to Alzheimer's patients -- but it isn't a drug and instead, it's categorized as a medical food." It is supposed to help dementia patients to give an extra source of energy to brain cells," neurologist Dr. Ilkcan Cokgor said. Cokgor says Axona works by supplying a glucose-like substance to the brain cells, which lose their ability to process natural glucose as a result of the disease. Read more: abclocal.go.com

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