Anti-Alzheimer’s Mechanism In Omega-3 Fatty Acids Found
10 01 2008 
Fish oil, and its key ingredient omega-3 fatty acids (found in fatty fish like salmon), is a deterrent against Alzheimer’s, and researchers have identified the reasons why. (Credit: iStockphoto/Jack Puccio)
Many Alzheimer’s researchers have long touted fish oil, by pill or diet, as an accessible and inexpensive “weapon” that may delay or prevent this debilitating disease. Now, UCLA scientists have confirmed that fish oil is indeed a deterrent against Alzheimer’s, and they have identified the reasons why.
Greg Cole, professor of medicine and neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and associate director of UCLA’s Alzheimer Disease Research Center, and his colleagues report that the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) found in fish oil increases the production of LR11, a protein that is found at reduced levels in Alzheimer’s patients and which is known to destroy the protein that forms the “plaques”
Article submitted by: Juan Garces
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