Eating more ketones may fight against Alzheimer’s disease

Monday, December 9, 2019 - 20:40 in Biology & Nature

A ketone-supplemented diet may protect neurons from death during the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, according to research in mice recently published in JNeurosci. Early in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, the brain becomes over excited, potentially through the loss of inhibitory, or GABAergic, interneurons that keep other neurons from signaling too much. Because interneurons require … Continue reading Eating more ketones may fight against Alzheimer’s disease

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