Israel's National Bible Contest Led Scientist To Discover That Cinnamon Could Combat Alzheimers

Haaretz reports:

A cinnamon extract inhibits the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD ), Tel Aviv University scientists have discovered.

The scientists, headed by Prof. Michael Ovadia of the zoology department in the life sciences faculty, have isolated a substance from the cinnamon plant, referred to as CEppt, which inhibited the disease in laboratory mice...

Ovadia was interested in cinnamon attributes already as a youth, when he took part in the National Bible Contest and was asked about the substances comprising the holy paste the priests used to spread on the altar before the sacrifices.

"I had a blackout, and remembered the materials, which include cinnamon, just as the gong went," he says.

The substances, including also myrrh, cassia, fragrant cane and olive oil, appear in Exodus chapter 30, verses 23-25.

"The question bothered me for years. I decided to examine cinnamon's attributes and have been doing so, until I made the current discovery," he says.

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