Everyone knows that tobacco products are bad for your health, and even the new e-cigarettes may have harmful toxins. However, according to research at Texas A&M, it turns out the nicotine itself — when given independently from tobacco — could help protect the brain as it ages, and even ward off Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease. Ursula Winzer-Serhan, PhD, an associate professor at the Texas A&M College of Medicine, and her collaborators found that nicotine’s ability to be neuroprotective may be partly due to its well-known ability to suppress the appetite. Their research is published in the Open Access Journal of Toxicology. Using animal models, Winzer-Serhan and her collaborators added nicotine to the animal’s drinking water. There were three different groups that received nicotine at three different concentrations (low, medium and high) corresponding to occasional, low and medium smokers, respectively, in addition to a control group that did not receive any nicotine. The two groups that received nicotine at low and medium doses didn’t show any levels of the drug in their blood and they experienced no changes in food intake, body weight or number of receptors in the brain where nicotine acts. In contrast, the group getting the highest concentration of nicotine ate less, gained less weight and had more receptors, indicating that at higher doses, the drug gets into the brain where it can impact behavior. However, even at high doses, it didn’t seem to have worrying behavioral side effects like making the individuals more anxious, which the researchers were concerned could happen.
Category: Neuroscience
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) As the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, I’m excited to bring you this announcement: We’re now publishing final bone broth lab test results for 10 products — 2 organic and 8 non-organic — using …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) It’s been all over the mainstream media for days: InfoWars nutritional products have been found to contain high lead, a toxic heavy metal, media stories claim. But is the story really true, or is this just a politically motivated …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) Last Oct. 15, 2017, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the controversial Assembly Bill 967, or the bill that makes it legal to dispose of human remains through water cremation. Also known as alkaline hydrolysis, Californians will b …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) A recent study published in Precision Oncology revealed that a potent combination of compounds from turmeric root, apple peels, and grapes help keep prostate cancer at bay. To carry out the study, a team of health experts at the U …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) We’re learning more every day about the price to be paid for all the conveniences modern technology brings us, and while some of the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence (AI) are rather obvious, others are a bit more ins …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) The amoral Monsanto corporation has been caught yet again fabricating news about its controversial weedkiller Roundup. Uncovered documents that attorneys now suing the world’s most evil corporation are calling the “Monsanto …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) As the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, I’m excited to bring you this announcement: We’re now publishing final bone broth lab test results for 10 products — 2 organic and 8 non-organic — using …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) It’s been all over the mainstream media for days: InfoWars nutritional products have been found to contain high lead, a toxic heavy metal, media stories claim. But is the story really true, or is this just a politically motivated …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) Last Oct. 15, 2017, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the controversial Assembly Bill 967, or the bill that makes it legal to dispose of human remains through water cremation. Also known as alkaline hydrolysis, Californians will b …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) A recent study published in Precision Oncology revealed that a potent combination of compounds from turmeric root, apple peels, and grapes help keep prostate cancer at bay. To carry out the study, a team of health experts at the U …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) We’re learning more every day about the price to be paid for all the conveniences modern technology brings us, and while some of the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence (AI) are rather obvious, others are a bit more ins …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) The amoral Monsanto corporation has been caught yet again fabricating news about its controversial weedkiller Roundup. Uncovered documents that attorneys now suing the world’s most evil corporation are calling the “Monsanto …
Category: Natural Health
Everyone knows that tobacco products are bad for your health, and even the new e-cigarettes may have harmful toxins. However, according to research at Texas A&M, it turns out the nicotine itself — when given independently from tobacco — could help protect the brain as it ages, and even ward off Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease. Ursula Winzer-Serhan, PhD, an associate professor at the Texas A&M College of Medicine, and her collaborators found that nicotine’s ability to be neuroprotective may be partly due to its well-known ability to suppress the appetite. Their research is published in the Open Access Journal of Toxicology. Using animal models, Winzer-Serhan and her collaborators added nicotine to the animal’s drinking water. There were three different groups that received nicotine at three different concentrations (low, medium and high) corresponding to occasional, low and medium smokers, respectively, in addition to a control group that did not receive any nicotine. The two groups that received nicotine at low and medium doses didn’t show any levels of the drug in their blood and they experienced no changes in food intake, body weight or number of receptors in the brain where nicotine acts. In contrast, the group getting the highest concentration of nicotine ate less, gained less weight and had more receptors, indicating that at higher doses, the drug gets into the brain where it can impact behavior. However, even at high doses, it didn’t seem to have worrying behavioral side effects like making the individuals more anxious, which the researchers were concerned could happen.
Category: Neuroscience
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) As the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, I’m excited to bring you this announcement: We’re now publishing final bone broth lab test results for 10 products — 2 organic and 8 non-organic — using …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) It’s been all over the mainstream media for days: InfoWars nutritional products have been found to contain high lead, a toxic heavy metal, media stories claim. But is the story really true, or is this just a politically motivated …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) Last Oct. 15, 2017, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the controversial Assembly Bill 967, or the bill that makes it legal to dispose of human remains through water cremation. Also known as alkaline hydrolysis, Californians will b …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) A recent study published in Precision Oncology revealed that a potent combination of compounds from turmeric root, apple peels, and grapes help keep prostate cancer at bay. To carry out the study, a team of health experts at the U …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) We’re learning more every day about the price to be paid for all the conveniences modern technology brings us, and while some of the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence (AI) are rather obvious, others are a bit more ins …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
(Natural News) The amoral Monsanto corporation has been caught yet again fabricating news about its controversial weedkiller Roundup. Uncovered documents that attorneys now suing the world’s most evil corporation are calling the “Monsanto …
Category: Natural Health
October 22, 2017
DALLAS, Oct. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The notion that man may one day live on another planet has been talked about for centuries. Elon Musk is preparing for a possible colonization strategy on Mars and a typical person could live on the red planet on …
Category: Environmental
October 21, 2017
(Natural News) If you were told that obediently getting your flu shot every year would give you a 40 to 60 percent shot at avoiding the flu (or zero, if the experts get it wrong that year), but would double your chances of having a miscarriage one da …
Category: Natural Health
October 21, 2017
(Natural News) Food Independence is a growing concern for many people, especially as access to foods that are free of GMOs, pesticides and other chemicals grows more and more restricted. For many, self-sufficiency is a path not only to independence a …
Category: Natural Health
October 21, 2017
(Natural News) In a recent podcast Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, took a look at what makes country living much more fulfilling and why it is a much more sustainable lifestyle that living in the city. Adams should know. He …
Category: Natural Health
October 21, 2017
(Natural News) Hollywood celebrities, who regularly push the boundaries of decorum, taste, and class, just can’t get over their love for abortion-on-demand. Now there is a new effort afoot to continue their promotion of Planned Parenthood, the …
Category: Natural Health
October 21, 2017
(Natural News) If you still needed a reason to reject the full-on, government-controlled socialist health care in America that is favored by closet communists like Democratic Sens. Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren, among others, th …
Category: Natural Health