Explaining how extra virgin olive oil protects against Alzheimer's disease

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 10:01 in Biology & Nature

The mystery of exactly how consumption of extra virgin olive oil helps reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) may lie in one component of olive oil that helps shuttle the abnormal AD proteins out of the brain, scientists are reporting in a new study. It appears in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience.

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