MIAMI: Alzheimer’s disease is a terrifying diagnosis. Incurable, difficult to slow — Alzheimer’s disease is in effect, a long, slow death sentence, robbing its victims of their memory and cognitive disabilities and restricting their ability to function as a human being. Now, however, as difficult as it may be to believe, science may have found a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.
A new research study at the University of Manchester has indicated that Alzheimer’s disease can actually be fully cured with an anti-inflammatory drug that is most often used for menstrual pain relief. That drug that may in fact be the cure for Alzheimer’s disease is mefenamic acid.
The team researching Alzheimer’s disease at the University of Manchester was led by Dr. David Brough. Brough and his team worked with mice to discover that mefenamic acid — a popular Non-Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drug, or NSAID — completely reversed inflammation in the brain of test subjects and completely restored lost memory.
Here’s how the Alzheimer’s disease study worked. Twenty mice were genetically altered so that they displayed the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Half of the mice were treated with mefenamic acid by utilizing a mini-pump installed under their skin for one month. The other half of the mice were treated in the same way using a placebo. When the results were in, the research team was astounded at the findings. All the mice that were treated with mefenamic acid saw a complete reversal of memory loss, and the mice that weren’t remained unaffected….