Friday, November 28, 2014

Just 1 Gram of This Spice Boosts Memory in Six Hours - tumeric

Puffery much? Notice the untreated pre-diabetes mention, nothing on regular people. Ask your doctor first, no self prescribing.
Article here:
Just 1 Gram of This Spice Boosts Memory in Six Hours

Research it is based upon here:
Turmeric Improves Post-Prandial Working Memory in Pre-Diabetes Independent of Insulin
Hope you can read Chinese.
Background and Objectives: Cognitive impairment develops with pre-diabetes and dementia is a complication of diabetes. Natural products like turmeric and cinnamon may ameliorate the underlying pathogenesis. Methods: People≥60 years (n = 48) with newly-recognised untreated pre-diabetes were randomised to a double-blind metabolic study of placebo, turmeric (1g), cinnamon (2g) or both (1g & 2g respectively), ingested at a white bread (119g) breakfast. Observations were made over 6 hours for pre- and post-working memory (WM), glycaemic and insulin responses and biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD)(0,2,4 and 6 hours): amyloid precursor protein (APP), γ-secretase subunits presenilin-1 (PS1), presenilin-2 (PS2), and glycogen synthase kinase (GSK-3β). Differences between natural product users and non-users were determined by Students t and chi square tests; and between pre-test and post-test WM by Wilcoxon signed rank tests. Interaction between turmeric and cinnamon was tested by 2-way ANOVA. Multivariable linear regression (MLR) took account of BMI, glycaemia, insulin and AD biomarkers in...

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