Sentences with phrase «reduced brain plaque»

That is why researchers more often rely on faster - developing indicators of (apparently) improved health: tumor shrinkage in cancer, lowered blood - sugar levels in diabetes, reduced brain plaque in Alzheimer's, lowered bad cholesterol or elevated good cholesterol in heart disease.

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

Not exact matches

Mice that were given the drug showed reduced plaque buildup in the brain (a sign of Alzheimer's) and overall improved memory.

«Brain cells from mice fed diets enriched with extra-virgin olive oil had higher levels of autophagy and reduced levels of amyloid plaques and phosphorylated tau,» Dr. Praticò said.

In a study published online June 21 in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, the researchers show that the consumption of extra-virgin olive oil protects memory and learning ability and reduces the formation of amyloid - beta plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain — classic markers of Alzheimer's disease.

But the brains of 10 - month - old Alzheimer's mice that had a severely reduced amount of an enzyme called BACE1 were essentially clear of new and old plaques.

Subsequent analyses of the brains of these animals revealed that the drug reduced the plaques and tangles in the hippocampus, which is known to play a key role in learning the water maze, but not in the amygdala, which figures importantly in the dark chamber test.

Combine your articles on psilocybin and other psychedelic drugs having beneficial effects on the brain (such as 25 November 2017, p 28) with the promising reports of 40 hertz bass tones and flickering lights reducing the tangles and plaques of tau and amyloid proteins that are correlated with Alzheimer's disease (6 January, p 6).

Studies in mice specially bred to have features of the disease found that DHA reduces beta - amyloid plaques, abnormal protein deposits in the brain that are a hallmark of Alzheimer's, although a clinical trial of DHA showed no impact on people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.

Past research has focused on prevention of the disease by reducing the levels of proteins that cause brain plaques and tangles and kill nerve cells.

The drug also appeared to reduce the amount of the protein amyloid beta (which forms toxic plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients) by decreasing the levels of metals such as zinc and copper.

Previously, other researchers reported that ApoE4 seemed to reduce the clearance of amyloid - β, the protein that clumps together to form the hallmark plaques of AD, from the brain in a mouse model.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

Reducing progranulin markedly increased amyloid - beta plaque deposits in the brain as well as memory impairments.

The idea is that inhibiting Aβ formation to reduce growth of Aβ - based plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients may be therapeutic, although it isn't yet clear how early in the disease process such an intervention would need to be employed to be effective.

The condition results from plaque build - up, which hardens in the arteries, blocking and reducing blood flow to the legs, arms, brain and other organs.

Omega - 3 fats are an important type of polyunsaturated fat as they help to reduce the risk of heart disease, lower blood pressure, guard against plaque build - up in the arteries and aid in brain development.

Reduced metabolic activity of brain cells and neurons means less brain activity and a decreased ability of the brain to clear abnormal structures like the beta - amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease.

It is unlikely that Aβ plaques are a primary causative factor in AD because the effects of reduced glucose uptake in the brain are observed long before the plaques are evident.

It drew mass attention when researchers were astonished to find that low doses of the golden spice significantly reduced amyloid plaque burden — something brain health doctors had been seeking to do for decades.

Scientific evidence demonstrates regular exercise improves your productivity, sleep quality and blood flow to your brain, 1 while reducing the development of damaging neurological plaques.2 Unfortunately, less than 25 percent of Americans over the age of 45 engage in resistance exercises, 3 which are among the most important exercises to stay fit and healthy.

High Vitamin C supplementation reduces amyloid plaque deposition (cause of AD), blood brain barrier disruptions and mitochondrial dysfunction in the brains.

It reduces one of the main factors of memory loss... Brain plaque.

And, coenzyme Q10 reduces amyloid plaque in the brain, helping to prevent — and even reverse — Alzheimer's disease.

Able to slow cognitive decline, BIIB037, or aducanumab, works by «reducing amyloid plaques in the brains of people with dementia.»