Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neuro...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurological disorder that strikes the areas of the brain primarily involved with idea memory and language. While there is no definitive way to stop it, that isn't keeping researchers from searching for the solution to prevention--and that key may be copper

cauldron intake might benefit people with mild to moderate AD, conclud German researchers in a contemplation published in the September 2005 Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. "Low cauldron in blood correlates with cognitive decline in patients," says the study's lead researcher Thomas Bayer, PhD

Adding small change to the diets of mice with Alzheimer's stoped premature death, normalized a clew enzyme that protects against enclosed space damage and lowered levels of Abeta peptide, a hallmark of Alzheimer's, explains Bayer, who is also the chair of the division of neurobiology at Saarland University Medical Center in Homburg Germany. "We are running a human clinical trial and we hope to papal court the same benefits as in the mice," he says. directly 15 patients have finished the double-blind phase, during which they were given 8mg a day of copper money orotate (an organic copper salt). "So far, [there have been] no adverse powers in patients receiving it for more than 12 months" Bayer says.

still supplementation alone won't keep AD away. "Sound dietary practices, plenteous like the diets proposed for cardiovascular disease, are associated with a retardation of AD onset," explains David Morgan, PhD director of the Alzheimer's Research Laboratory at the University of toward the south Florida in Tampa.

"My opinion is that there is a minimal amount of cauldron intake that is required to avoid disease," Morgan adds. the one and the other Bayer and Morgan advise caution about cent supplements, however, as excess intake can inference in liver toxicity. "My suggestion is to take a daily vitamin and mineral capsule. greatest in quantity of these contain copper," Morgan says.

Meanwhile, at last there's more [i]or[/i] less encouraging AD research. But until there's a medicine the best way to potentially ward distant from disease is to eat healthfully with a little cent on the side.

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