01 May 2017
Can your multivitamin increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease?
Many of us want to improve our odds of getting into old age in the best of shapes by using multivitamins. I do it. You probably do it, too. But can your multivitamin increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease? Recent research focuses on copper, a common ingredient of many multivitamins as a possible suspect in dementia.
“For some time it has been clear that copper toxicity plays a major role in Alzheimer’s disease,” says professor George Brewer, a researcher at University of Michigan.
It all started with Larry Spark’s rabbits. In his West Virginia laboratory Dr. Larry Sparks, a researcher …read more