Heart Healthy Benefits: Coconut oil, like other healthy oils can shift the ratio of goood HDL cholesterol to
the sticky plaque forming LDL cholesterol, thus lowering the formation of plaque in the arteries and lowering the risk of stroke and heart attack.
Not exact matches
The classic villain in Alzheimer's disease is ß amyloid, a protein fragment that can misfold and
form sticky plaques around neurons in the brain.
A definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's includes dementia and two distortions in the brain: amyloid
plaques,
sticky accumulations of misfolded pieces of protein known as amyloid beta peptides; and neurofibrillary tangles,
formed when proteins called tau clump into long filaments that twist around each other like ribbons.
Ambrosia also reported a 20 per cent fall in the level of amyloids — a type of protein that
forms sticky plaques in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.
If the precursor proteins can be cut in such a way as to make the resultant amyloids shorter and less
sticky, then they resist clumping and won't
form plaques.
Amyloid protein
forms clumps in the brains of patients, creating
sticky plaques that lead to brain cell death.
Tartar or calculus
forms when
plaque — a
sticky film that
forms over teeth mere hours after your pet eats — combines with the salts found in your dog's or cat's saliva.
Caused by bacteria which, if left unchecked,
form a layer of a
sticky residue called
plaque over the teeth of an animal, Periodontal disease (PD), will often begin very early in a pet's life.
It results from the buildup of
sticky plaque, which includes bacteria, proteins, and food that solidifies to
form calculus on the teeth.
Plaque is a
sticky, colorless film that is constantly
forming on teeth.
Problems start with the build up of
plaque, a
sticky film that's regularly
forming on the teeth.
Problems usually start with a buildup of
sticky plaque that hardens to
form tartar.
The accumulation of
sticky plaque, made up of bacteria, proteins and food, hardens to
form calculus on the teeth.