Fact Or Myth: Some Herbs Help With Alzheimer's Disease
Friday, November 15, 2013 - 14:10
in Health & Medicine
In the many well-funded marketing claims of homeopaths and 'alternative' medicine claims, including a US government program that spends $120 million a year legitimizing treatments that don't work, what can easily get lost is data about what natural treatments do work. The human brain is tricky but animal models at least provide some initial guidance. A new study presented at Neuroscience 2013 found that enhanced extracts of spearmint and rosemary improved learning and memory. The novel antioxidant-based ingredient was made from spearmint extract and two different doses of a similar antioxidant made from rosemary extract on mice that have age-related cognitive decline. read more