Alzheimer's is a type of syndrome with apoptosis of brain cells at almost the same time.
The disease is triggered memory loss and difficulty concentrating so intellectual and social skills will decline.
Alzheimer's disease more often affects the elderly,people aged 65 years had a five percent risk of this disease and will increase twice by the fold every 5 years.
The symptoms of Alzheimer's disease is memory loss,problem when thinking abstractly,disorientation,difficulty in communicating,in assessing the loss of ability and personality changes.
But recently a number of scientists discovered a substance that contained sulforaphane in broccoli can reduce the risk of Alzheimer's.
As in the Daily mail reports,scientists believe that sulforaphane is able to maintain the performance of the brain in old age.
Sulforaphane is also contained in the sprouts and cabbage,also can increase endurance.
Sulforaphane will keep vital cells in the brain from free radical attack.
Antioxidants such as vitamins C and E are able to withstand the attack of free radicals but not quite able to keep the brain.
Free radicals are atoms,molecules or ions with unpaired electrons on an open shell configuration.
Free radicals may have positive,negative or zero charge.With some exceptions,the unpaired electrons cause radicals to be highly chemically reactive.
Free radicals,if allowed to run in the body,are believed to be involved in degenerative diseases.
The human body can actually neutralize free radicals,but if the amount of free radicals is too much then the body's ability to neutralize will decrease.
Sulforaphane found in broccoli can improve the body's ability to protect itself from free radical attack.
More than 2 million people battling Alzheimer's disease and medications that currently exist today are Aricept,Aricept only able to delay the rate of Alzheimer's but could not overcome the causes of brain cell damage.
At this time to get sulforaphane we must consume broccoli directly.
Hopefully someday scientists can extract sulforaphane and process it into a pill so that more effective.