Good news for coffee lovers.


Coffee Can Delay Severe Alzheimer's Disease.

Kompas.com "Consumption of coffee every day may help delay the development of Alzheimer's disease, according to results of a study on the issue of the Journal of Azheimer's Disease, online edition. Drinking coffee has been linked to previous mengecilnya risk of developing Alzheimer's.

Some researchers from the University of South Florida studied 55 mice that had been genetically engineered to be attacked by madness symptoms similar to Alzheimer's symptoms such as older animals.

Alzheimer's occurs when a lump of abnormal proteins that stick in the brain called the "beta-amyloid" piled up to form plaque, thus damaging kofnitif function.

Half the animals were given doses of caffeine every day in the drinking water, while the other half continued to drink plain water.



At the end of two months of the study, all the mice that drank caffeine showed results that are far better in memory and the ability berfikirnya than rats given plain water. Memory is as sharp as a rat animal healthy older without madness.

The study finds that caffeine cuts up to half of the excessive blood and the level of "beta amyloid" in the rat brain.

"The new findings provide evidence that caffeine can be 'therapy' is active for Alzheimer's disease, which was attacked, and not just as a protection strategy," said lead researcher, Gary Arendash, neuroscientists from the University of South Florida.

"That's important because caffeine is a drug that is safe for most people. The substance is easily enters the brain. And apparently directly affects the disease process," said Arendash as reported China's official news agency, Xinhua.

The researchers hope that caffeine can be a safe treatment and is not expensive for the memory loss disease and want to do experiments on human patients as soon as possible.

One study in 2002 found that people who consume caffeine in the middle ages they have a risk of 60 per cent less for developing the disease."

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Not a coffee lover here but I think I should take atleast one cup of it every morning. :D


Good times! :)

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