Curry cures Alzheimer's?

Mark Frauenfelder: The pigment that makes curry yellow, curcumin, does a better job at treating Alzheimer's than the majority of drugs being tested. (Interestingly, India has one of the lowest Alzheimer rates in the world.)

The new UCLA-Veterans Affairs study involving genetically altered mice suggests that curcumin, the yellow pigment in curry spice, inhibits the accumulation of destructive beta amyloids in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and also breaks up existing plaques.

Link [Boing Boing]

This is of great interest to aging geeks and non-geeks.

Sidenote: back to using w.bloggar since it's now clear it had nothing to do with the duplicate posts that were reported.