{"id":55486,"date":"2021-11-19T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T11:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/the-vitamin-which-could-protect-against-the-deadly-disease\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T17:09:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T11:39:45","slug":"vitamin-that-could-help-prevent-the-deadly-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/vitamin-that-could-help-prevent-the-deadly-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin that could help prevent the deadly disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A VITAMIN found in dozens of foods may be protective against Alzheimer\u2019s, scientists say.<\/p>\n
There is no cure for this progressive-decreasing disease that is detected in hundreds of thousands of Brits every year.\u00a0<\/p>\n 1<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> However, a University of Delaware team led by Jessica Tanis has new clues as to how to stop it.<\/p>\n They used worms for their research, which become completely paralysed when they have Alzheimer\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia. It is believed that proteins build up around brain cells.<\/p>\n Amyloid, one of the proteins involved in this process, forms plaques around brain cell membranes and damages memory.\u00a0<\/p>\n Professor Tanis and his team discovered that these proteins prevent worms wriggling after 36 hours.<\/p>\n They used this to work out what changes in the worm\u2019s diet could halt the onset of Alzheimer\u2019s, finding a key vitamin was protective.<\/p>\n While worms are clearly a far stretch from humans, they are useful for Alzheimer\u2019s research.<\/p>\n Prof Tanis stated that: \u201cThe worms we use all have exactly the same genetic background, they react to amyloid beta like humans do, and we can exactly control what they eat, so we can really get down to the molecular mechanisms at work.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The research team found that E.coli was the best choice for all worms, but one strain of E.coli contained more vitamin B12 than others. This was after years of investigation.<\/p>\n Prof Tanis said: \u201cWhen we gave vitamin B12 to the worms that were vitamin B12 deficient, paralysis occurred much more slowly, which immediately told us that B12 was beneficial.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe worms with B12 also had higher energy levels and lower oxidative stress in their cells.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n