The brains of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease differ from those of healthy elderly. In these brains are faced with plaques and tangles.

Plaques are deposits of a protein between brain cells. The protein called amyloid. For elderly and particularly in the elderly with Alzheimer’s disease does the degradation of this protein is not good. This causes a kind eiwitbergjes between the brain cells that are likely to transfer messages between the brain cells hamper.

Eventually the nerve cells are also affected. This has been evident in the presence of tangles. A tangle (knot), is a tangle of wire-like proteins in a nerve cell, which the functioning of the nerve cell impossible.

The damage to brain cells is probably because the body reacts with an inflammatory reaction in the presence of plaques. The immune system tries to defuse plaques with toxic substances. That will unfortunately not, but it affects the nerve cells, eventually to. First not function properly. And eventually they die off altogether.