The world's lowest incidence of Alzheimer's disease in rural India can be explained by the fact that the inhabitants of these places abundantly savor the food with spicy mixtures that include turmeric (also called yellow ginger).
To test their assumptions, American scientists injected into the brain of experimental rats amyloid protein, which causes the death of neurons. Animals with food was prepared a large amount of powder of the roots tumeric.
It turned out that turmeric not only reduces the concentration of amyloid, but also makes nerve cells less sensitive to its lethal effects medicus. En.