Cherries Countered Cognitive Condition

Q. My husband has had a setback in his Alzheimer’s disease due to stress about my upcoming heart surgery. Recently, for the very first time, he ate Rainier cherries. The entire next day I was once again with the man I first married! This is amazing!
A. We are as astonished as you. We were also surprised to find research in rats showing that a peach pit extract (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, June, 2006) acted in a similar manner to donepezil (Aricept), a prescription drug used to treat Alzheimer’s.