The compound responsible for giving cinnamon its sweet, bright smell could potentially play a role in warding off Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, found that the cinnamon compounds cinnamaldehyde and epicatechin could help stop "tangles" of tau protein -- notorious in the memory-robbing neurodegenerative disease -- from forming in the brain. Tau proteins are more likely to form clumps and tangles with age, but people with Alzheimer's are known to have more of these clumps than people without the disease. Researchers found in cell lab research that cinnamaldehyde could help to...
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