subject: Coffee rescues from a terrible disease [print this page] Daily consumption of two cups of coffee helps maintain a strong memory, and also warns of Alzheimer's disease. This conclusion was made by scientists from the American University of South Florida.
According to the survey, contained in coffee active chemical element - caffeine - not only not harmful, but is able to restore normal functioning of brain cells affected by Alzheimer's disease. Some familiar with the research expertise has been called the results "revolutionary".
U.S. scientists conducted their experiments on mice, whose brains of genetically engineered subjected to changes occurring in the human brain affected by the disease of Alzheimer's. Modern science believes that the disease occurs at a time when the human body increases the content of a protein that destroys brain cells.
As informs ITAR-TASS, after two months, those of mice that received daily coffee, largely restored the work of the brain. At the same time in their blood significantly decreased the concentration of the protein beta amyloid.
As a result, experts from the University of South Florida have concluded that the fight against Alzheimer's disease should not give up drinking coffee. Simultaneously, they began to develop a special drug that will be able to replace the popular drink.
Alzheimer's disease, which usually develops in old age, is a degenerative disease of the central nervous system, characterized by progressive decline in intelligence, memory disorder and behavior, RIA Novosti. This disease is associated with the growth of plaques in the brain tissue of amyloid protein and the loss of neurons.
