Vegetable compound could have a key role in ‘beeting’ Alzheimer’s disease

A compound in beets that gives the vegetable its distinctive red color could eventually help slow the accumulation of misfolded proteins in the brain, a process that is associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists say this discovery could lead to the development of drugs that could alleviate some of the long-term effects of the disease, the world’s leading cause of dementia.

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[sherrie]

It would be nice if we could get a transcript of this since the audio is so bad.

[sherrie]

Wonderful information. Very difficult to understand since the audio quality is so bad.

[pfurr]

Good video but had too put it on CC so I could understand what they were saying thank goodness for closed caption.

[CMAenergy]

one problem I have with this video, . very difficult to understand, audio is very poor, echoing,