2/ Relevance

The findings support blood free carnitine as a reliable test for the early detection of mild cognitive impairment likely to develop Alzheimer disease, especially in women, and as a proxy to disease progression and CSF markers in diagnosed Alzheimer disease.

While…

0/ Background

+ Women are 2x more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer disease than men.

+ Despite the “classical” association with beta-ameloid, bioenergetic explanations of the disease are gaining traction, especially for the later-onset cases. Gradual mitochondrial…

1/ Findings

+ To test the hypothesis blood levels of free carnitine were measured in a cohort of 125 participants including patients with mild cognitive impairment. As expected, only women Baseline levels of free carnitine were also higher in women, reflecting higher fat…

Women are 2x more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer disease than men.

A new study out identifies a sex-specific marker explaining increased Alzheimer disease risk in women, and paves the way to a new blood test for early detection

Children aged 2-11 are exposed to over 4,000 food-related ads annually, with 84% promoting products high in saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, and sodium.

This is not good.

People do things that reward them with power, status and respect, good parenting does not get rewarded properly in current culture.

@jamesmcavity it’s great

@santisiri I think you’re right and why we need to secure our future

@ESYudkowsky One technique I’ve tried that has worked to fall back to sleep is vagus nerve stimulation. Using a device such as senate, nurosym, or Pulsetto. Doing it for 15-20 minutes while doing some body relaxation and breathing exercises. Calming my body down, lower my heart rate, trying…