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Oct 2020
Cold water may hold clue to dementia cure
Researchers at Cambridge University have discovered that cold water swimming may protect the brain from degenerative diseases such as dementia, following the discovery of a “cold-shock” protein found in the blood of regular swimmers at London’s Parliament Hill Lido.
In trials involving the use of mice, the protein has been shown to slow the onset of dementia and even repair some of the damage it causes.
Professor Giovanna Mallucci of the UK Dementia Research Institute’s Centre at the University of Cambridge, said the discovery could lead towards new drug treatments which may hold the disease at bay.
There are currently over a million people in the UK with dementia and the total is expected to double by the year 2050.
The disease predominantly affects the older age groups, so even a relatively short delay in the onset of the illness could have significant benefits for patients and for the wider population.
Professor Mallucci went on to say “If you slowed the progress of dementia by even a couple of years on a whole population, that would have an enormous impact economically and health-wise.”
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