The world is full of known and unknown diseases. In Italy, people mostly get diabetes and cancer. Yet there are many other less common diseases than these listed for which science continues to search for possible cures.
If the cure for diabetes consists in eating healthy, playing sports and taking specific drugs, possible treatments have been discovered for Alzheimer’s. The first concerns a study conducted by Italian researchers on the benefits of lemon peel on the elderly suffering from Alzheimer’s. The second concerns an American study on the possibility of having the first drug against the disease.
But there is another neurodegenerative disease that, like Alzheimer’s, affects the sphere of the brain for which there is still no cure. Yet the research continues.
Multiple sclerosis
We have already talked about multiple sclerosis in this article in which we have focused attention on the various symptoms. In general, it is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system causing localized lesions in the cerebellum and spinal cord.
Unlike Alzheimer’s, there is no memory loss, but there is greater difficulty in concentration and confusion.
Research is making great strides to definitively establish a pharmacological cure, which is always experimentally based on the state of the disease. Yet an Italian-American study reported by the Veronesi Foundation made a very important discovery.
For this neurodegenerative disease there are great steps in science towards drug therapy
The study found that the inflammation culprit protein could be stopped. That is why for this neurodegenerative disease there are great steps in science towards drug therapy. The next move should be towards testing new drugs capable of targeting the C1q protein. Since it is a protein that causes inflammation, turning it off would limit the damage of the disease.
It is as if we have heartburn and we take those medicines that can stop the inflammation that causes the burning. The principle would be the same. The sensational discovery is, in fact, that this specific C1q protein is fundamental in the inflammatory process for which hope for a new cure is ignited.
The discovery of the protein was made based on progressive multiple sclerosis. That is, the persistent version of the disease that gets worse over time. The study was published in the journal “Nature” which specifies that there is hope of stopping inflammation through drug therapy. We just have to wait.