CLEVELAND (WFLA) — A new study has proposed that Alzheimer’s disease can be successfully reversed instead of just being slowed down.
The study, which was published in Cell Reports Medicine, said studies of mice brains showed a potential that advanced Alzheimer’s could be reversed by restoring the brain’s neural balance through nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) homeostasis.
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According to the study, Alzheimer’s is the leading cause of dementia and is expected to affect over 150 million people by 2050.
“Through our study, we demonstrated one drug-based way to accomplish this in animal models, and also identified candidate proteins in the human AD brain that may relate to the ability to reverse AD,” said Dr. Kalyani Chaubey, the leader of the study…