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Alzheimer’s disease affects about 5.2 million Americans.  It causes senility and often leads to death.  There’s no cure for this neurodegenerative condition, however a new study has looked at nicotinamide (a form of Vitamin B3).  They did the study with mice that had been genetically engineered to develop the equivalent of human Alzheimer’s disease.  They tested their memory in a shallow pool of water to see if they could remember where the platform was that would allow them to get out of the water.  Then some of the mice were given Vitamin B3 and were again tested in the pool.  They performed as if they had never developed the disease.  The vitamin apparently clears “tangles” of brain cells that were caused by the Alzheimer’s disease.

Vitamin B3 is found in foods such as pork, peanuts,turkey, chicken, veal, fish, salmon, swordfish, tuna and sunflower seeds.  I wonder how much of these foods we need to eat to take care of our “tangles” in our brains.  We’ll have to watch the scale or our weight will escalate!  Life sure is complicated!