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Cocktail of cheap drugs 'can prevent Alzheimer's' and keep the brain healthy into old age
By Fiona Macrae
Last updated at 11:39 PM on 22nd November 2010
A cheap diabetes drug taken with a red wine âmiracle pillâ could prevent millions from suffering the agony of Alzheimerâs.
Costing only pennies a day, the two-in-one cocktail could keep the brain healthy into old age, stopping dementia developing in some cases and halting it in others, British doctors believe.
With the pills already credited with a host of health-boosting qualities, including potentially extending life, the Dundee University breakthrough brings hope of a brighter future for millions.
Artificially coloured MRI scan of human brain
An MRI scan of a human brain. A two-in-one drug cocktail could keep the brain healthy into old age, stopping dementia developing in some cases and halting it in others
Alzheimerâs and other forms of dementia affect more than 800,000 Britons, with the number expected to double in a generation as the population ages.
The latest breakthrough centres on drugs called metformin and resveratrol.
Metformin has been safely used for more than 50 years to control blood sugar levels in age and obesity-related diabetes. Recent research suggests it has other benefits, including the ability to extend life.
Resveratrol, the âmiracle ingredientâ behind many of red wineâs health-boosting qualities, has also been hailed as an elixir of life, with experiments crediting it with warding off a host of ills, from old age to cancer.
An elderly woman sits in her room at a nursing home
An elderly woman sits in her room at a nursing home, lost in thought. Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia affect more than 800,000 Britons
The Dundee researchers showed that metformin interferes with the formation of toxic âtanglesâ of a protein called tau that clog the brain in Alzheimerâs, leading to the destruction of memory cells, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports.
Resveratrol has a similar protective effect and taken together, the two could have the power to hold Alzheimerâs at bay, researchers believe.
Professor Susann Schweiger said: âThe best hope is that it would stop it.â
By Fiona Macrae
Last updated at 11:39 PM on 22nd November 2010
A cheap diabetes drug taken with a red wine âmiracle pillâ could prevent millions from suffering the agony of Alzheimerâs.
Costing only pennies a day, the two-in-one cocktail could keep the brain healthy into old age, stopping dementia developing in some cases and halting it in others, British doctors believe.
With the pills already credited with a host of health-boosting qualities, including potentially extending life, the Dundee University breakthrough brings hope of a brighter future for millions.
Artificially coloured MRI scan of human brain
An MRI scan of a human brain. A two-in-one drug cocktail could keep the brain healthy into old age, stopping dementia developing in some cases and halting it in others
Alzheimerâs and other forms of dementia affect more than 800,000 Britons, with the number expected to double in a generation as the population ages.
The latest breakthrough centres on drugs called metformin and resveratrol.
Metformin has been safely used for more than 50 years to control blood sugar levels in age and obesity-related diabetes. Recent research suggests it has other benefits, including the ability to extend life.
Resveratrol, the âmiracle ingredientâ behind many of red wineâs health-boosting qualities, has also been hailed as an elixir of life, with experiments crediting it with warding off a host of ills, from old age to cancer.
An elderly woman sits in her room at a nursing home
An elderly woman sits in her room at a nursing home, lost in thought. Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia affect more than 800,000 Britons
The Dundee researchers showed that metformin interferes with the formation of toxic âtanglesâ of a protein called tau that clog the brain in Alzheimerâs, leading to the destruction of memory cells, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports.
Resveratrol has a similar protective effect and taken together, the two could have the power to hold Alzheimerâs at bay, researchers believe.
Professor Susann Schweiger said: âThe best hope is that it would stop it.â
Some people seem to develop this disease at a v early age.
its usually progressive, so it seems once the process of deterioration had started it get worse over the following years.
My mother a smart intelligent woman suffered towards the end of her life.
and at the start was aware she was becoming confused.
I guess doing research for a cure is such a long term thing with this disease
And it does not seem that the testing of drugs would be able to be tested on animals
very easily