Comparison between complementary dietary treatment of Alzheimer disease in Iranian traditional medicine and modern medicine

ABSTRACT

Dietary notifications have been introduced recently for Alzheimer Disease [AD]. In Iranian old medical manuscripts, there are some nutritional recommendations related to Nesyan [AD equivalent]. The aim of this article was to compare dietary recommendations of Iranian traditional medicine [ITM] with novel medical outcomes. 1] Searching for dietary recommendations and abstinences described in ITM credible manuscripts; 2] Extracting fatty components of ITM diet according to the database of the Department of Agriculture of the USA; 3] Statistical analysis of fatty elements of traditionally recommended foods via Mann-Whitney Test in comparison with elements of the abstinent ones; 4] Searching for AD dietary recommendations and abstinences which currently published in medical journals; 5] Comparing traditional and new dietary suggestions with each other. 1] Traditionally recommended foods are fattier than abstinent ones [P<0.001]. There are meaningful differences between unsaturated fatty acids [UFAs] [P<0.001], saturated fatty acids [P<0.001], and cholesterol [P<0.05] of recommended foods and abstinent ones. 2] Traditionally recommended diet is also fattier than the abstinent diet [4.5 times]; UFAs of the recommended diet is 11 times more than that of the abstinent one; it is the same story for cholesterol [1.4 times]; 3] Recent studies show that diets with high amounts of UFAs have positive effects on AD; a considerable number of papers emphasizes on probable positive role of cholesterol on AD; 4] Traditional recommended diet is in agreement with recent studies. ITM recommended diet which is full of unsaturated fatty acids and cholesterol can be utilized for complementary treatment of AD