DHA Deficiency Linked to Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s

Monday, September 27, 2010
Byron J. Richards, Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist
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DHA Docosahexaenoic acid Essential omega 3 fatty acid integral to the health of all cell membranes, nerve and brain function. Must be gotten through the diet via cold water oceanic fish or some very limited plant sources or taken as a supplement. (docosahexaenoic acid) is the most important fatty acid that your brain uses to build and sustain your brain cell networks.  If it is present in brain cell membranes then brain cells work better.  If it is lacking then brain cell health deteriorates.  The researchers proved that DHA Docosahexaenoic acid Essential omega 3 fatty acid integral to the health of all cell membranes, nerve and brain function. Must be gotten through the diet via cold water oceanic fish or some very limited plant sources or taken as a supplement. present in brain cells1 was associated with better cognitive function and that a lack of DHA Docosahexaenoic acid Essential omega 3 fatty acid integral to the health of all cell membranes, nerve and brain function. Must be gotten through the diet via cold water oceanic fish or some very limited plant sources or taken as a supplement. in key brain regions was associated with cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease.  Furthermore, they discovered that a liver defect was present in Alzheimer’s patients that prevented them from making DHA Docosahexaenoic acid Essential omega 3 fatty acid integral to the health of all cell membranes, nerve and brain function. Must be gotten through the diet via cold water oceanic fish or some very limited plant sources or taken as a supplement. out of shorter-length basic omega 3 oils (Alpha-linolenic acid like flax oil).

DHA Docosahexaenoic acid Essential omega 3 fatty acid integral to the health of all cell membranes, nerve and brain function. Must be gotten through the diet via cold water oceanic fish or some very limited plant sources or taken as a supplement. can be obtained in the diet from cold water fish and from animal products wherein the animals grazed on grass.  Grass contains alpha-linolenic acid which is converted to DHA Docosahexaenoic acid Essential omega 3 fatty acid integral to the health of all cell membranes, nerve and brain function. Must be gotten through the diet via cold water oceanic fish or some very limited plant sources or taken as a supplement. during digestion and then stored in animal fat (or present in dairy products).  There is no DHA Docosahexaenoic acid Essential omega 3 fatty acid integral to the health of all cell membranes, nerve and brain function. Must be gotten through the diet via cold water oceanic fish or some very limited plant sources or taken as a supplement. in vegetable sources, meaning that you have to convert basic omega 3 oil into the longer length DHA Docosahexaenoic acid Essential omega 3 fatty acid integral to the health of all cell membranes, nerve and brain function. Must be gotten through the diet via cold water oceanic fish or some very limited plant sources or taken as a supplement. oil.  This process appears not to work in Alzheimer’s patients.

Clearly the best strategy to guard against this problem is to take already formed DHA Docosahexaenoic acid Essential omega 3 fatty acid integral to the health of all cell membranes, nerve and brain function. Must be gotten through the diet via cold water oceanic fish or some very limited plant sources or taken as a supplement. supplements as well as consuming dietary DHA Docosahexaenoic acid Essential omega 3 fatty acid integral to the health of all cell membranes, nerve and brain function. Must be gotten through the diet via cold water oceanic fish or some very limited plant sources or taken as a supplement. (which is not always easy to get). 

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  1. ^ Lack of DHA Linked to Alzheimer’s  PLoS ONE  1.Giuseppe Astarita, Kwang-Mook Jung, Nicole C. Berchtold, Vinh Q. Nguyen, Daniel L. Gillen, Elizabeth Head, Carl W. Cotman, Daniele Piomelli, Silvana Gaetani.

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