Vitamin D, curcumin may help clear amyloid plaques found in Alzheimer's disease

Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 00:28 in Health & Medicine

UCLA scientists and colleagues from UC Riverside and the Human BioMolecular Research Institute have found that a form of vitamin D, together with a chemical found in turmeric spice called curcumin, may help stimulate the immune system to clear the brain of amyloid beta, which forms the plaques considered the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease...

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