A promising, physical Alzheimer’s Treatment

Alzheimer's has long resisted a successful pharmaceutical approach to treatment. Tami Freeman reported in PhysicsWorld about a promising new treatment involving something more physical: exposure to hyperbaric oxygen. Researchers at Tel Aviv University and Shamir Medical Center exposed both mouse and human subjects to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), which essentially amounts to breathing pressurized, oxygen rich air at periodic intervals.

The idea is to force more oxygen into the brain to directly combat - and apparently reduce - the amalyoid plaque development in the brain, and its associated hypoxia.

Per Freeman's article:

"[The researchers] note that HBOT holds promise for the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease as it not only addresses the symptoms, but targets the core pathology and biology responsible for the advancement of the disease."