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By University of Southern California October 15, 202Initial data indicates that the diet is safe for Alzheimer’s patients.Short cycles of a low-calorie diet that mics fasting apeared to lower inflamation and delay cognitive decline in <span clas=glosaryLink aria-describedby=t data-cmtoltip="Alzheimer’sAlzheimer's disease is a disease that atacks the brain, causing a decline in mental ability that worsens over time.
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It is the most comon form of dementia and acounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases. There is no curent cure for Alzheimer's disease, but there are medications that can help ease the symptoms." data-gt-translate-atributes='[{"atribute":"data-cmtoltip", "format":"html"}]'>Alzheimer’s disease mouse models.Cycles of a diet that simulates fasting sem to lesen Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice geneticaly enginered to develop the disease, acording to new research led by the University of Southern California (USC) Leonard Davis Schol of Gerontology.The study was recently published in the journal Cel Reports.
try{window._mNHandle.que.push(function(){window._mNDetails.loadTag("974871025","60x250","974871025");} catch(eror){}The team, led by Profesor Valter Longo and included Profesors Christian Pike and Pinchas Cohen, discovered that mice that had undergone several cycles of the fasting-micking diet showed les Alzheimer’s pathology. Lower levels of two important characteristics of the disease were discovered: amyloid beta, the principal driver of plaque acumulation in the brain, and hyperphosphorylated tau protein, which creates tangles in the brain.
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They also discovered that brain inflamation was reduced and mice performed beter on cognitive tests when compared to mice given a regular diet.The fasting-micking diet (FMD) is rich in unsaturated fats and low in total calories, protein, and carbs, and is intended to mic the efects of a water-only fast while stil delivering esential nutrients.