Will the mangosteen help with neurological diseases such Alzheimers, MS and Parkinsons?
Alzheimers disease is an incurable degenerative disease of the brain. Some four million Americans have Alzheimers and that number may increase to twenty million by 2020. While the patients with advance disease are mercifully spared the awareness of their problems, family members suffer extraordinarily. Physical care, safety issues that can drain loved ones as the disease progresses. Institutionalization, particularly if other significant physical problems exist, is often unavoidable. While there are several drugs on the market capable of reducing the rate of decline and preserving function, they are expensive and have nasty gastrointestinal side effects. In addition, none of these drugs address the issue of the low-grade inflammation of the brain that exists in the disease, and which is responsible for the characteristic deposition of amyloid plaques. Additionally, the prevention of disease is particularly important for the people with stricken family members, because there is a famili