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Just a short nasal blast of insulin helped improve the memory skill of people with Alzheimer’s memory problems. One hundred and four patients in the small study were all diagnosed with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s or a pre-Alzheimer’s condition known as amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). They showed improvement in recalling details of a story after a brief delay.
“Our results suggest that the administration of intranasal insulin may have a therapeutic benefit for adults with aMCI or Alzheimer’s disease,” said Suzanne Craft of the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System and theUniversity of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle in the Archives of Neurology.
A longer and larger trial is necessary before treatment methodology changes, but this is a hopeful sign that there is a treatment possibility in the future. Alzheimer’s has been notoriously difficult to treat and breakthroughs intreatments options are few. Continue to read: psyweb.com
Antioxidant vitamins may boost probiotic formulations
The inclusion of antioxidant vitamins in probiotic encapsulant formulations may have beneficial or detrimental effects on the bacterial strains used, depending on the vitamin used, says a new study. Read more: nutraingredients.com