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DHA Found to Protect against Alzheimer’s

We have known for many years that the essential fatty acid DHA is one of the best brain support nutrients for young and old. Researchers at UCLA’s are identifying exactly how DHA acts to protects against Alzheimer’s disease.

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Resveratrol Boosts Brain Rejuvenation

Nutrients that activate the growth of new brain networks, which have the net result of improving brain flexibility or synaptic plasticity, are central to your brain having its own “fountain of youth.” Resveratrol is known to activate the anti-aging gene known as SIRT1 which helps keep cells alive longer. The new research shows that SIRT1, via different mechanisms, also boosts the formation of new brain networks by improving synaptic plasticity.

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High-Fat Diet May Adversely Alter Your Brain Structure

In a rather sobering study scientists have demonstrated that a high-fat diet has the potential to drastically alter the architecture of the brain, resulting in poor circulation within the brain, down-regulated metabolism, and outright brain damage in areas of the brain central to appetite regulation. The implications of the study are that once a person starts eating too much and continues to do so for a period of time they are inducing actual brain damage that will be difficult to reverse – in turn locking in a poor state of metabolic health.

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Carnosine Protects Brain from Iron-Induced Damage

In my recent posting, Can Blueberries Protect Against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, I point out the problem of excess iron damaging the brain and body and leading to degenerative disease. In addition to iron-chelators like blueberries and green tea, the nutrient carnosine is capable of deactivating the free radical damage that otherwise causes DNA damage, cell death, and cell mutation.

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