Cinnamon Cure?

Around 820,000 people in the UK have dementia with half suffering from Alzheimer’s. And now scientists are hailing Cinnamon as a possible cure.

When mice and fruit flies bred with Alzheimer’s were given an extract in cinnamon bark called CEppt in liquid form for four months the diseased creatures showed ‘remarkably’ normal ‘activity levels and longevity’.

The reason? It is thought that CEppt can break up toxic amyloid fibres that kill neurons, the brain cells that transmit information. But as Dr Marie Janson of Alzheimer’s Research UK said: Although these results look promising in mice and fruit flies it is too early to know what the effect would be in humans.