LearningRx1 Nutrition | http://www.learningrx.org - Part 20

Asparagine in meat, egg and dairy essential for brain development...

Dec 3, 2013 by

Although Asparagine is found in foods, which means it can provide an essential amino acid to most organs in the body, that’s not true for the brain because it Asparagine is not easily transported via the blood-brain barrier....

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Chemistry team creates self-renewing antioxidant

Nov 24, 2013 by

In what could prove to be of great benefit to those with TBIs and Alzheimer’s, scientists at Rice University used the properties of an element found in a car’s catalytic converter to create a self-renewing antioxidant....

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Oreos as addictive as cocaine or morphine

Nov 20, 2013 by

A professor and his students at Connecticut College found that for lab rats, Oreo cookies appear to be as addictive as cocaine or morphine....

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Vitamin B may stave off stroke

Oct 24, 2013 by

New research of data collected from 54,913 participants indicates that Vitamin B may be beneficial in reducing the risk of stroke by 7 percent. The researchers also found that folic acid appears to decrease the effect of the Vitamin...

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The Mediterranean diet reduces the risk of genetic stroke

Sep 30, 2013 by

The Mediterranean diet appears to interact with a gene variant that’s normally associated with type 2 diabetes. Five years of research found that even people who had two copies of the gene variant had a reduced number of strokes...

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Copper intake may cause Alzheimer’s

Sep 20, 2013 by

Our intake of copper may be causing Alzheimer’s. New research suggests that copper reduces our ability to clear away toxic proteins in our brain, and encourages “clumping” of those toxic proteins....

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Drinking water can increase – and decrease – brain’s performance...

Aug 6, 2013 by

If you’re thirsty, drinking water can improve your performance on tasks that require you to respond quickly. But for complex-rule-learning tasks, performance appears to actually decrease slightly after drinking water. It’s not yet been determined why water helps some...

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