Don't forget - Drink Coffee!

Caffeine Reverses Memory Impairment In Mice With Alzheimer's Symptoms

Shared via AddThis

Science Daily carries a report from the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease describing a critical new research finding involving mice that have been genetically engineered to develop Alzheimer's Disease.

The study finds that not only does caffeine have a preventative benefit but in sufficient doses (around 500mg per day) it can reverse the build-up of beta amyloid in the brain and restore some memory function previously lost.

This opens up the possibility of human clinical trials with a view to determining of caffeine is a viable treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.


Full details can be found in the back-to-back journal articles reporting the research findings:

Gary W Arendash, Takashi Mori, Chuanhai Cao, Malgorzata Mamcarz, Melissa Runfeldt, Alexander Dickson, Kavon Rezai-Zadeh, Jun Tan, Bruce A Citron, Xiaoyang Lin, Valentina Echeverria, and Huntington Potter.

Caffeine Reverses Cognitive Impairment and Decreases Brain Amyloid Levels in Aged Alzheimer's Disease Mice. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Volume 17:3 (July 2009)

Chuanhai Cao, John R Cirrito, Xiaoyang Lin, Lilly Wang, Deborah K Verges, Alexander Dickson, Malgorzata Mamcarz, Chi Zhang, Takashi Mori, Gary W Arendash, David M Holzman, and Huntington Potter.

Caffeine Suppresses Amyloid Levels in Plasma and Brain of Alzheimer's Disease Transgenic Mice. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Volume 17:3 (July 2009)