The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
there may be a critical window in which dha is essential and once you're outside of that window you lose the ability to integrate or assimilate dha at about the same time your blood-brain barrier is failing and your ability to regulate even glucose is beginning to diminish
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The other interesting thing is that DHA, and I didn't know this previously until I had been digging into the literature, it also seems to be important for some of the glucose transporters on the blood-brain barrier. And so if you're DHA-deficient those glucose transporters aren't working as well and you're not getting glucose into the brain, which is another real hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.
yes I cannot agree more I think we have to study a bit more DHA omega-3 and how this impact prevent value functions because that could be a some preventive interventions things like that even like targetable drugs like with trucks
It accumulates in cell membranes, plays an important role in the way transporters and receptors function, because all those things are embedded in the cell membrane. And so, for example, glucose transporters at the blood-brain barrier are altered. They're not functioning well when DHA is deficient, and that can cause less glucose to get into the brain.