How to Halt Alzheimer’s Progression
VITAMIN B SUPPLEMENTS COULD HALT ALZHEIMER’S PROGRESSION
A study found that supplementing the diet with large doses of vitamin B could cut the brain shrinkage by a third to a half common in elderly people with early signs of the disease and could slow, or even halt, the memory-robbing disease’s progression. Researchers stressed the need for further study to confirm these results but described the study outcome as “striking” and “dramatic.”
Over a two-year period half of the168 volunteers (all over the age of 70) had been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and were given high daily doses of the B vitamins folate, B6 and B12, higher doses than normally found in supplements or diet.
On average, compared to the group that received only placebo pills with no active ingredients, B-taking volunteers exhibited an average 30 percent lower degree of brain shrinkage, which is associated with atrophy; but in some cases, the reduced amount of atrophy was lower by as much as fifty percent. The study was released September 8, 2010 by the online journal Public Library of Science ONE and can be accessed free online at: http://bit.ly/btsJCl.
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