Alzheimer's Society Comment On New Research Suggesting Caffeine May Help Reduce Alzheimer's Disease

By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room

I stopped allowing my mother to drink coffee with caffeine a few years ago. Several months ago I read about this new research and started giving her one cup of caffeinated coffee a day.

A good example of how Alzheimer's caregivers are willing to try just about anything that might help.

I now drink one cup of caffeinated coffee a day. I use to drink decaf.

clipped from www.medicalnewstoday.com This is the best evidence yet that caffeine equivalent to one cup of coffee a day can help protect the brain against cholesterol. It sheds important light on why previous research has shown drinking coffee may reducing the risk of dementia. In addition to its effect on the vascular system, elevated cholesterol levels also cause problems with the blood brain barrier. This barrier, which protects the brain from toxins and infections, is less efficient prior to brain damage caused by Alzheimer's disease or strokes. Caffeine blocks disruption of blood brain barrier in a rabbit model of Alzheimer's disease (Xuesong Chen, Jeremy W. Gawryluk, John F. Wagener, Othman Ghribi, Jonathan D. Geiger). Published in Biomedical Central Alzheimer's Society

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Bob DeMarco is the editor of the Alzheimer's Reading Room and an Alzheimer's caregiver. Bob has written more than 1,300 articles with more than 9,000 links on the Internet. Bob resides in Delray Beach, FL.

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