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Stanford Breakthrough: Reviving Brain Stem Cells To Combat Agingscitechdaily.com/stanford-breakthrough-reviving-brain-stem-cells-to-combat-aging/
289 sats \ 6 comments \ @IamSINGLE 6 Oct 2024 science

New research hints at ways to generate neurons.New research hints at ways to generate neurons.

Most neurons in the human brain last a lifetime, and for good reason. Intricate, long-term information is preserved in the complex structural relationships between their synapses. To lose the neurons would be to lose that critical information — that is, to forget.
Intriguingly, some new neurons are still produced in the adult brain by a population of cells called neural stem cells. As brains age, however, they become less and less adept at making these new neurons, a trend that can have devastating neurological consequences, not just for memory, but also for degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and for recovery from stroke or other brain injury.
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22 sats \ 5 replies \ @Signal312 7 Oct 2024

I'm gonna just highlight this quote from the article, about a low carb diet being potentially helpful:

A hopeful finding
The glucose transporter connection “is a hopeful finding,” Brunet said. For one, it suggests not only the possibility of designing pharmaceutical or genetic therapies to turn on new neuron growth in old or injured brains, but also the possibility of developing simpler behavioral interventions, such as a low carbohydrate diet that might adjust the amount of glucose taken up by old neural stem cells.

Carnivore (i.e. a zero carb diet) is the ultimate low carb diet. For me, the benefits just keep piling up.

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65 sats \ 4 replies \ @IamSINGLE OP 7 Oct 2024

I'd like to answer your passion with some negative new. I'm sorry.

The pros and cons of a keto diet depend on your goal. If you want to jump-start a weight-loss program, a keto diet can help you lose five to 10 pounds or more. The downside, even for the short term, is a potential rise in LDL (bad) cholesterol. Personally, I have concerns about staying in ketosis for more than four to six weeks. Longer-term use of a keto diet is linked to a higher risk of kidney stones, osteoporosis, and gout.
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22 sats \ 3 replies \ @Signal312 7 Oct 2024

Thanks for your comment.

I would challenge you to read some more about LDL cholesterol. The high LDL/higher risk of heart disease model is being overturned.

That quote you gave is from Harvard Health. They're well known for being anti-meat/pro carb. Harvard Has Been Anti-Meat for 30+ Years—Why?

The book The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholtz has a full chapter on why low LDL does not mean better health, and why saturated fat is actually good for you.

Also about the history of the demonization of saturated fat (hint - the sugar industry wanted to divert attention from the problems caused by sugar). There's some very well-referenced data in that chapter, as indeed in the whole book.

And Nina Teicholtz as well has a great (short) article out on low carb diets, and how the USDA is deliberately ignoring the many very well proven health benefits of a low-carb diet:
USDA Ignoring the Science on Low-Carb Diets

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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @IamSINGLE OP 7 Oct 2024

I'm not against meat, although I'm a vegetarian due to I being raised in a Hindu Brahmin Family. We don't eat any sort of meat. I love herbs, vegetables and fruits because they have disease prevention and healing capacity which I don't see is a case with meat.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 19 Nov 2024

All Hindu Brahmin are vegetarian?

I have a friend named Vishnu who eats meat. He also comes from a Brahmin family.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 19 Nov 2024

Butter >> margarine

Whole milk is healthier than nonfat milk

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