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Can Young Blood Treat Alzheimer’s Disease?

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Can Young Blood Treat Alzheimer’s Disease?

Could injecting blood from young, healthy adults into Alzheimer’s patients become a prescribed treatment sometime soon? Apparently, young mammalian blood contains compounds, specifically one called GDF11, that improve brain cell connections. These are the same connections that are destroyed by amyloid-beta deposits characteristic of Alzheimer’s...

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4 Ways to Prevent Cognitive Decline

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4 Ways to Prevent Cognitive Decline

The Alzheimer’s Association has estimated that the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease in the United States will more than double in the next 40 years. Currently 5.2 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s, but 13.8 million Americans are expected to by 2050. As a result, medical costs will increase to more...

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Estrogen

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Estrogen

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Estrogen is a foundational hormone that regulates the brain and body bioenergetics in the fspanale body.1 There are three types of estrogen found in a fspanale body: estrone, estradiol, and estriol. The levels of all of these hormones fall dramatically at the onset of...

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DHEA

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DHEA

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Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a steroid hormone produced in the adrenal glands, gonads (testes and ovaries), and brain.1 DHEA is often referred to as the “mother of all hormones” because it is the building block from which both male and fspanale hormones are produced. It...

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Pregnenolone

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Pregnenolone

Pregnenolone, a steroid hormone synthesized from cholesterol, is found in the brain, gonads and adrenal cortex. Research shows that correcting low steroid hormones can actually help to normalize cholesterol levels. Having a higher-than-ideal cholesterol level might be the body's way of creating a precursor for the...

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