For amblyopia (lazy eye) mentioned in the article, diet doesn't do anything. Diet doesn't do much for neurodegenerative disorders, either. Today, when you get alzheimer's, it only gets worse. You can't eat a lot of blueberries and suddenly regain brain function.
I thought the article was good. It didn't overhype any expectations of the drugs being tested. The research appears to be proceeding cautiously, but optimistically.
It's not about eating a lot of fruits to suddenly regain brain function.
Take a look at the research on how the average diet of carbs and process foods affects our body. A ketogenic diet has shown to increase brain function in a recent study. I'll try to find it and post here.
Yeah but once you start exhibiting the symptoms of a neurodegenerative disorder, it's far too late for you because the damage has been taking place for many years prior.
Understanding the diseased brain and using drugs to reverse/attack the root causes of neurodegenerative disorders will help further humanity no doubt. The ketogenic diet does seem to help from what I've read though, so that in conjunction with drugs could be big.
I thoroughly agree with the second sentence but by putting it together with the first, it's as though you're claiming we can treat medical conditions just by changing diets (which I disagree with -- but I don't think you deserve the downvotes you seem to be getting).
What you eat absolutely affects brain chemistry. Eg friends of mine in grad school were studying depression via tryptophan depletion. They'd give volunteers a homemade protein drink which would reliably knock down serotonin levels. In other words, a milkshake that made you depressed. No drugs required.
>What you eat absolutely affects brain chemistry. Eg friends of mine in grad school were studying depression via tryptophan depletion. They'd give volunteers a homemade protein drink which would reliably knock down serotonin levels. In other words, a milkshake that made you depressed. No drugs required.
They tried to induce depression?
That's prison camp science, do your friends study at the Josef Mengele memorial faculty of Medicine?
No, they're at the University of Cambridge, working with volunteers who've provided informed consent as part of an ethically approved study. An example of one of the papers is below [1]. The serotonin reduction I'm referring to is temporary.
ummmm, how do you explain learning/brain disorders stemming from childhood?
Neuroplasticity- how the brain is wired (neutral pathways), is a more plausible explanation for dysfunction in our lives. fMRI scans can confirm where activity is taking place in the neurotypical brain as opposed to those who suffer from disorders. What you eat is not going to magically repair the activity in these parts of the brain.
I thought the article was good. It didn't overhype any expectations of the drugs being tested. The research appears to be proceeding cautiously, but optimistically.