Red wine component in Alzheimer's battle

20 Things To Know About Alzheimer's Disease

Please Help Support Alzheimer's Research Today! 

Your Alzheimer's donation will help billions live without it.

Improve Your Brain

Alzheimer's facts

DONATE NOW

( found in the tomatoes, dark chocolate and nuts )

Studies on non-humans have shown it activitates a gene that protects the body and brain from aging. The greatest risk factor for Alzheimer's is aging. Researchers will do baseline tests to identify biological markers of the disease and then other tests to determine if it is progressing.

"Alzheimer's is not an overnight process," says Laurie Ryan, program director for the National Institute on Aging's Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Trials program. "Symptoms don't appear until years after the disease has started. So the thought is if we can delay it from starting or progressing, we can add quality years to the end of life." For Alzheimer's patients, compared with people with normal cognitive skills, neurons die off at a faster rate and shed a protein called tau. Tau forms into tangles, causing havoc with the synapses required for cognitive functions. The researchers will test to see if neuron loss decreases in people who receive resveratrol. Continue to read: 9news.com

Read more here: http://www.bnd.com/2012/02/07/2047945/obama-to-seek-more-alzheimers.html#storylink=cpy

TODAY'S PHOTO

Vitamin-E may protect against oxidative stress

Daily supplements of vitamin E may protect cells from the detrimental effects of oxidative stress in healthy middle-aged to elderly people. Read more: nutraingredients-usa.com

Беларусь ТВ

Posted YVN (AMYLOID @ PHOTO).