dementia

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease leading to a gradual and irreversible loss of memory, linguistic skills, and perception of time and space, thinking, and behavior.  Food habits, Dietary pattern has been presented as a contributor to the incidence of Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia worldwide, with the prevalence continuing to grow in part because of the aging world population. Some Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs are available for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, the outcomes are often unsatisfactory, and there is a place for alternative medicine, in particular, herbal medicine. This paper reviews for the how food habits act as one cause for Alzheimer’s disease & the clinical effects of a number of commonly used types of herbal remedies/medicines for the treatment of AD.

Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative brain disease and the most common cause of dementia. Dementia is also caused by other diseases and conditions. it is characterized by decline in memory , language , problem solving and other cognitive skills that effects a person’s ability to perform everyday activities. This decline occurs because nerve cells (neurons) in parts of the brain involved in cognitive function have been damaged and no longer function normally , In Alzheimer’s neuronal damage eventually affects parts of the brain that enable a person to carry out basic bodily functions such as walking and swallowing . People in the final stages of the disease are bed-bound and required around  the-clock care .Alzheimer’s disease is ultimately fatal.1