Alzheimer’s Disease :: Curcumin helps in better performance for elderly in dementia, eat turmeric curry

Curcumin, the natural pigment that gives the spice turmeric its yellow colour, could slow mental decline in elderly people by 49 per cent, suggests a study of non-demented Asian people.

Cognitive performance declines naturally with age, but the results of the new study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology (Vol. 164, pp. 898-906) suggests that eating curries “often or very often” had significantly better cognitive performance than those who “never or rarely” ate the dish.

The study adds to previous laboratory-based studies that showed that curcumin could boost the body’s ability to clear the build up of plaques in the brain that are linked to Alzheimers disease.

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