Fitness and Health

According to a recent study by the University of South Florida (USF), coffee helps prevent Alzheimer’s disease

Those athletes are very fond of coffee for the stimulant effects on performance, increasing endurance and helps you lose weight.

A new study has found that coffee also has a protective effect and is the best source of caffeine to counteract the cognitive decline that occurs in Alzheimer’s disease.
Previous studies have shown that caffeine reduces the production in the brain from harmful amyloid beta proteins, considered as the cause of the disease.
Rafael Franco, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona h said: “The beneficial effects of coffee against neurodegeneration associated with moderate consumption, ie the equivalent of 3 or 4 cups a day, and chronic or prolonged in time. ”
And moderate daily consumption of coffee since the age of 30 is an excellent habit to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s or delay its onset significantly. This is the conclusion reached by the authors of a recent study by the University of South Florida and published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease after demonstrating that the synergistic effects of caffeine with other components of coffee still unidentified improves blood levels of GCSF, a key substance in the fight against degenerative process that causes the disease. This finding is in addition to previous scientific evidence about the protective role against neurodegeneration coffee.
This new study in mice shows that consumption of caffeinated coffee in the long term protection against diseases involving memory loss. This protective effect was not observed with the consumption of other beverages with caffeine or decaffeinated coffee and the researchers concluded that coffee is the best source of caffeine to counteract the cognitive decline caused by Alzheimer’s. “The exact mechanism by which this protective effect occurs is not known, but there is a synergy between the action of caffeine and other coffee still unknown compound that produces this beneficial increase GCDF levels in blood,” explains the authors. The GCSF (Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor, or growth factor granulocyte in Spanish) is a substance that has much lower levels in Alzheimer’s patients, having demonstrated that the presence manages to improve memory in mice with the disease.
Previous studies by the University of South Florida and pointing to the caffeinated coffee as the component most likely was responsible for its protective effect by reducing production in the brain of abnormal protein beta-amyloid, considered the cause the disease. Now it has been shown that high blood levels of GCSF caused by regular consumption of caffeinated coffee was associated with better function by rote three mechanisms of action: GCSF recruit stem cells in bone marrow leading them to the brain to eliminate harmful beta-amyloid protein, also creates new connections between neurons and may even result in the birth of new neurons.
But in addition to caffeine, coffee contains many other components with potential beneficial effects on cognitive level. “Among the high content of compounds that have coffee there are some potential anti-inflammatory that may have protective effects against the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,” said Rafael Franco, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona and scientific spokesman Coffee Information Center and Health.
Because Alzheimer’s begins to develop decades before it manifests itself and can be diagnosed, any preventive therapy should be started at early ages. However, according to work done by the University of South Florida, including starting the coffee consumption in older ages could be benefits. In this sense, it is important to consider two key factors: how much coffee you need to take to obtain such protection and whether consumption should be continued or not. “The beneficial effects of coffee against neurodegeneration associated with moderate consumption, ie the equivalent of 3 or 4 cups a day, and chronic or prolonged in time,” concludes Rafael Franco.
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