Hops, which were introduced into the composition of beer to give it its bitterness and flavor it, might soon be used in the fight once morest Alzheimer’s disease. A new study, published in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience (Source 1) highlights the protective effect of certain hop compounds once morest this neurodegenerative disease.
However, beware of hasty shortcuts: drinking beer does not prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, or at least that’s not what the study reports here. Those are molecules, extracted from hop flowers, which would inhibit the agglutination of beta-amyloid proteinwhich accumulates in plaques in Alzheimer’s patients.
Remember that this dementia is all the more complicated to take care of as it evolves in silence for years before causing symptoms. The medical challenge is therefore to find ways to prevent its onset or delay its progression before the brain damage is irreversible.
One of the approaches envisaged is the use of “nutraceuticals”, or to “alicaments”, these foods or plant extracts having interesting therapeutic properties.
The researchers here examined four common varieties of hopsand discovered extracts with antioxidant propertieswhich can prevent the…
