The inexpensive diabetes drug when taken with a red wine called miracle pill could prevent millions of people from the anguish of Alzheimer’s disease. The British experts believe that the tow-in-one cocktail could maintain the brain health in old age and halt the growth of dementia in some cases.
Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia affect millions of people around the globe with the figure predictable to double in a generation as population grows old. The diabetes drug was already attributed to a host of health improving traits that include potentially extending life. The burst through by the Dundee University brings hope of a brighter future for millions.
The newest burst through centres on drugs called as metformin and resveratrol. Metformin drug has been used continually for more than fifty years to control the blood sugar levels and diabetes related with obesity. The latest research proposes that it has other advantages which may include capability to extend life.
While Resveratrol that is miracle ingredient behind many of red wines has health improving traits. It has also been hailed as an elixir of life. Various experiments have credited it with fending off a host of diseases from old age to cancer.
It has been shown by the Dundee researchers that metformin interferes with the formation of toxic tangles of protein known as tau which congests the brain in Alzheimer’s, escorting to obliteration of memory cells, reported the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The researchers believe that Resveratrol has an analogous defensive effect and taken together, the two could have power to clutch Alzheimer’s at bay. The best hope is that it would halt that, according to Prof Susann Schweiger.