Apple Juice May Delay Onset Of Alzheimer's Disease

Filed in archive Alzheimer's Disease , Functional Foods , Studies on January 24, 2009

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Drinking apple juice helped mice perform better than normal in maze trials and prevented the decline in performance that was otherwise observed as these mice aged. What does this mean? This means that drinking apple juice may delay the onset of cognitive decline that accompanies Alzheimer's disease. Except that this finding was found in mice.

Such were the findings of Thomas B. Shea, PhD, of the Center for Cellular Neurobiology; Neurodegeneration Research University of Massachusetts and his team:

In the most recent study Shea and his team demonstrated that mice receiving the human equivalent of 2 glasses of apple juice per day for 1 month produced less of a small protein fragment, called "beta-amyloid" that is responsible for forming the "senile plaques" that are commonly found in brains of individuals suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

The above finding add more evidence that nutritional factors such as drinking apple juice regularly may delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

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