This Simple Test Can Tell If You Have Early Alzheimer’s Disease
Any breakouts in diagnosing and treating Alzheimer’s disease are more than welcome as this is a cruel and terrifying ailment.
A graduate student from the University of Florida, Jennifer Stamps developed a simple and ingenious way of helping the detection of this disease early. It involves peanut butter.
How the procedure goes?
You will have to grab some of the butter and take a ruler. It will test you for smell sensitivity as it is associated with the first cranial nerve and is one of the first things which goes with cognitive decline. Use the ruler to note at what distance you are able to smell the butter.
The lead research behind this study, Rosebud Roberts, is optimistic that this test is going to prove helpful to everyday people:
Providing a cheap testing method for the physicians, also. According to Roberts, findings suggest that doing this small test can help in identifying elderly, mentally normal people that are likely to progress to develop memory issues, or if they are having such issues, to progress to dementia or Alzheimer's.
