More resesarch linking nutrients to neuro repair!

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They found some of what we are giving our kids now with nutriiveda

http://www.pursuitofresearch.org and fish oils to help Alzheimer's -interesting

huh?!

Nutrients to Fight Alzheimer's

DateFriday, March 12, 2010 at 5:15AM |

A new nutrient " cocktail " developed by researchers at MIT may help improve the

memory of Alzheimer's patients. The nutrients - uridine, choline and the omega-3

fatty acid DHA plus some B vitamins and antioxidants - boosted verbal memory in

patients with mild Alzheimer's in a clinical trial. The investigators suggested

that the cocktail works by promoting the growth of new brain connections

(synapses). Wurtman, the MIT professor who performed the basic research

that lead to the cocktail, found in animal studies that the nutrients increase

the number of small outcroppings of neural membranes (called dendritic spines).

When these spines come into contact with each other, a new synapse is formed.

Patients in the study drank the cocktail or a control beverage daily for 12

weeks. Those who received the nutrients improved significantly compared to the

controls: 40 percent of them did better on tests of verbal memory compared to

only 24 percent of patients in the control group. In the " cocktail " group those

patients with the mildest cases of Alzheimer's did best on the tests. The study

was published in the January 2010 issue of Alzheimer's and Dementia.

http://www.drweilblog.com/home/2010/3/12/nutrients-to-fight-alzheimers.html

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