Posted on 09/18/2016 11:55:04 AM PDT by Mariner
However, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies believe the cure to Alzheimer's disease might come from a readily available substance: marijuana.
In order to test their theory, researchers at the Salk Institute modified nerve cells to produce high levels of beta-amyloid. Researchers then noted that these higher levels of beta-amyloid production led to the expression of pro-inflammatory proteins and eventually nerve cell death. The ongoing death of these nerve cells is what leads to the progressive cognitive decline witnessed in Alzheimer's patients. This itself was an intriguing finding, as it was long believed that an immune-like response, not the proteins themselves, led to nerve cell death.
Now here's where things get interesting. As the researchers noted in their findings, nerve cells in the brain contain receptors that are activated by lipid molecules known as endocannabinoids, which are naturally produced by nerve cells. These endocannabinoids are believed to help nerve cells with their ability to send signals relating to appetite, pain sensation, and memory. Marijuana contains the chemical tetrahydrocannabinol (more commonly known as THC), which is similar to endocannabinoids and can activate those same nerve cell receptors. In other words, the researchers at Salk Institute hypothesized that cannabis could block the receptors that lead to the release of pro-inflammatory proteins and prevent nerve cell death.
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“...every disease an herb to cure it...”
She died of the flu.
I make an herb formula that is not mind altering like mj, that relaxes muscles, calms the mind and promote sound sleep.
There are herbs that do these things without destroying cognitive thinking, judgement and time/space perception.
She didn't get the right herb.
I was exercising 4 times a week but had an accident and have 3 tears in my ankle so now I’m gaining weight again. Frustrating as ever.
That's a shame. I wonder...if she had smelt of elderberries, then perhaps old age would have claimed her instead? Guess we'll never know.
The flu took a lot of people back then. The flu pandemic of 1918 left my then toddler dad a mother-less child.
“The flu pandemic of 1918 left my then toddler dad a mother-less child. “
My mother was born in 1918. It didn’t get anyone in her family, but she heard stories about it when she was older. One day you’d see a person on the street; the next day the doctor’s buggy would be in front of their house, the day after, the undertaker.
A couple of world wars with a major economic collapse in between, then followed by a cold war and lots of minor wars and skirmishes, world-wide epidemics, biological and ideological, etc., etc....about all that was missing was the final battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus.
As for my dad, between losing his mom and being bounced around from family to family so young, then the 'great' depression and all that happened in WWII, it took him several decades to shake off the damage.
In retirement, my parents would watch TV and comment on how out of place they felt in the world of today.
I used to laugh, but in comparing our evermore redefined now to the slower, seemingly larger and virtually tech-less world they grew up in, I guess I'm not surprised.
And now, I miss hearing about how different things are now.
Life is such a short season for we annuals in this earthly garden.
“In retirement, my parents would watch TV and comment on how out of place they felt in the world of today. “
My mother lived to be 95 and she did similar. Heck, I’m only in my mid-50s and I’m starting to do the same.
TB took my father in 1938.
It was a different world-—2 siblings predeceased him.
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I'm not surprised. We're about the same age and your mom outlived mine by one year, and I'm definitely having that experience!
Having much older parents than the other kids was somewhat similar to being raised by grandparents and offered a somewhat different take on life, aging and human progress.
I've always felt a bit out of phase with the times, but that needle pegged hard with obama's brave new world odor.
“Having much older parents than the other kids was somewhat similar to being raised by grandparents and offered a somewhat different take on life, aging and human progress. “
Yes. Mine had definitely made more mistakes for me to learn from. Not sure yet how well I did with that.
Ditto...
WTF!
You actually trust the Feds to tell the truth?
You certainly did not need the Devil’s tobacco to destroy your reasoning capacity,
Bath salts?
Fall on you head?
Get well soon.
Yeah really, just remove the high part and let the real health benefits begin.
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