Article: Vitamin B3 Reverses Alzheimer's in Mice

IRA FLATOW
NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday
11-07-2008
Vitamin B3 Reverses Alzheimer's in Mice

Host: IRA FLATOW
Time 2:00-3:00 PM


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IRA FLATOW, host:

This is Talk of the Nation: Science Friday. I am Ira Flatow. Like a spreading weed, Alzheimer's disease attack sufferers by clogging the brain's once spindly and delicate neurons with an overgrowth of protein. The signature plaques entangles damage the brain's communication structures, and block its information highways. Patients lose their memory, their ability to think and care for themselves, eventually they die. But my next guest, says that an over-the-counter supplement, a vitamin can cut through that snarled protein ...

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