You want to protect your brain . We send our kids onto the field with a helmet. The Tour de France riders wear helmets. So why do we destroy it from the inside out? Clearly we value the role of our brain in our everyday lives. This is the reasoning for the aforementioned protective headgear and all […]
Brain power. We want to preserve it as we age, but are there brain supplements that can protect our brain? One form of magnesium may be able to do just that. Magnesium is one of those minerals that never seems to get the press it deserves. It’s not as glamorous as CoQ10, doesn’t sound as […]
XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE I would have to say that we have PD pretty close to wrapped up. There has been strong evidence of mitochondrial dysfunction leading to loss of dopaminergic neurons leading to the symptoms of PD. Once that is understood, all the protective factors and the contributing factors really make sense. This […]
Pro-oxidant activity of aluminum in the rat hippocampus: gene expression of antioxidant enzymes after melatonin administration Maybe I’m just looking, but it seems like there’s been an awful lot of research on melatonin lately. I had previously just considered melatonin as a sleep aid, and did not consider it as an antioxidant. However, with the […]
Gene–Diet Interactions in Brain Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders Once again, it is becoming more clear that another chronic degenerative condition (in this case Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s) are diseases of lifestyle. Elevated levels of homocysteine is being found to a major play in onset of these disorders. Of course this would mean that folic acid, B6 […]
