Extra Virgin Olive Oil May Safely Help Prevent Alzheimer’s
A bottle of fresh olive oil and an amphora. Credit: Manfred Werner, cc-by-sa4.0/Wikimedia Commons
A clinical trial in humans with mild cognitive impairment, which is the decline in thinking skills characteristic of an early stage of Alzheimer’s, produced encouraging results.
By Lisa Radinovsky
” width=”1080″>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a controversial drug that may slow cognitive decline in patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Uncertainty about the drug’s efficacy and cost and concern about the possibility of serious side effects led three FDA advisory committee members to resign. Could extra virgin olive oil do better in preventing Alzheimer’s?