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Resveratrol, a compound found in grapes and red wine, may be prove to be a potent weapon in the battle against Alzheimer’s.
Fights Amyloid-Beta Peptides
A study has shown that it lowers levels of the amyloid-beta peptides, which are responsible for the plaques leading to Alzheimer’s disease.
Scientists administered resveratrol to cellsthat produce human amyloid-beta; they found that [...]

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Zinc is one of those minerals that have been discovered necessary to hold off the onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s. Most older people and those with dementia and other mental disorders have been found to be deficient in zinc. In most studies zinc has been shown to improve mental capacity in elders.
To get zinc into [...]

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Memory loss may affect us with greater frequency, as we get older. A certain amount of memory loss is to be expected. But there is a big difference between the normal forgetfulness that comes with aging and debilitating mental illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Most people forget where they placed their keys from time to time [...]

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There are various definitions of Alzheimer’s disease including:
- “The slow onset of memory loss leading to a gradual progression to a loss of judgement and changes in behaviour and temperament.”
- “A living death.”
- “The global impairment of higher functions, including memory, the capacity to solve problems of day to day living, the performance of learned [...]

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