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FASTING AND HUMAN BRAIN

As many of you know, as people are getting older, there have been advances in the cancer research cardiovascular disease research many people who would have died in their 50s and 60s from those diseases are living in the danger zone for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. It is projected that by 2050 the number of people with Alzheimer's disease will triple from what it is today. It is 5 million today and it will be 15 million by 2050. In Mark Mattson's lab who is the chief of the laboratory of Neuroscience at National Institute on Aging and he is also a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University, they use a number of different animal models that are relevant to age-related neurodegenerative disorders. They have mice that accumulate amyloid in their brain as they get older and they have learning and memory problems. They also have mice that have damage to dopamine-producing neurons that control body movements that is Mylo -Parkinson's disease. They

EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE IS CONNECTED

E ver since I was a young child I was determined to understand how the entire universe worked and that fascination led me to develop a passion for reading in myself. Years after being a student of knowledge I  think I am slowly kind of maturing out of it and entering the world of people. It turns out that the world of people is more complex to understand than the entire universe. But I'm trying to stay with it, and in the process of trying to comprehend the complexity of social world, I've managed to score some observations about people.  Today via this blog I want to share with you  a little bit of what I've learnt. In this quest to understand people, I gotten very interested in the gaps that still remain for us as human beings and us as civilization, relative to the challenges that are in front of us.  One of those gapes that I have seen is around this concept and the concept is really simple one, It's the concept that "Everything Is Connected". You'v