Espresso coffee can protect against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, new report shows

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Italian researchers have published a new report showing that the highly popular Espresso coffee beverage can help to protect against neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer′s and Parkinson’s disease.

Authored by researchers at Italy’s University of Verona, the report is titled “Espresso Coffee Mitigates the Aggregation and Condensation of Alzheimer′s Associated Tau Protein” and was published by the American Chemical Society on Wednesday.

The report explains that Alzheimer′s disease belongs to a group of disorders, called tauopathies “which are characterized by the intraneuronal accumulation of the microtubule-associated protein tau in fibrillar aggregates.” The researchers found that the whole coffee extract, caffeine and genistein have properties that can prevent the aggregation, condensation, and seeding activity of the repeat region of tau.

“Numerous studies report that moderate and, sometimes, even high coffee consumption exerts a neuroprotective action against two of the most common neurodegenerative diseases, i.e., Parkinson′s and Alzheimer′s,” the report asserts.

“We have presented a large body of evidence that espresso coffee, a widely consumed beverage, is a source of natural compounds showing beneficial properties in ameliorating tau-related pathologies. Our findings could pave the way for further investigation into the design of bioactive compounds in the prevention and treatment of tauopathies,” the researchers conclude.

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