A mouse study conducted by the Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen and the American National Institute of Health shows that neurological damage to the brain in connection with Alzheimer’s disease may be repaired by a kind of dietary supplement. The substance also improves the cognitive and physical abilities of the mice, and the researchers believe the prospects for human testing are good.
The brain’s system for making DNA repairs is impaired in patients with Alzheimer’s. The compound NAD+ found in all living cells is central to this system. An international team of researchers headed by Professor Vilhelm Bohr from the Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Copenhagen and the American National Institute of Health has now examined the effect of increased amounts of NAD+ in mice with Alzheimer’s.
‘Our study shows that the brains of the mice during the three-month period where they received the compound showed fewer of the characteristics associated with Alzheimer’s disease. In several behavioural and memory tests the mice received higher scores than mice who had not been given the supplement’, says Professor Vilhelm Bohr.
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This is the supplement they’re talking about
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Thank you for posting @twinklestars
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I take Niacinamide (aka nicotinamide) 500 mg twice a day. Nicotinamide is a component of the coenzyme Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+); the subject of the story linked above.
There’s also data that is protects against skin cancer by the same mechanism (boosting DNA repair):
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1506197
This is what I take:
https://www.iherb.com/pr/Now-Foods-Niacinamide-500-mg-100-Capsules/704?rcode=REG659
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