"Free Your Mind" and the seat of your will follow. Meditate for calm and insight. |
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The finding in Cell Reports could someday lead to [high priced, synthetic, patented, moderately toxic pharmaceutical] drugs that improve memory and learning, researchers say.
Drugs are cool, take more pharmaceuticals! |
"We've discovered a way to potentially boost cognition," says Dena Dubal, one of the study's authors who does research on aging and the brain at the University of California, San Francisco.
And that could mean "a very new way to treat diseases," ranging from Alzheimer's to schizophrenia, she says.
Three Fates, Clotho on right |
And that led Dubal and researchers at the Gladstone Institutes to wonder whether a hormone that protects the body against aging might also protect the brain. So the team set out to see whether Klotho offered... More
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