Do Not Forget about Your Calories; Otherwise, Your Calories Will Make You Forget

            If you are concerned about the amount of calories in your organism, you had better not forget about it; otherwise, this would not only make you a potential victim of a cardiac arrest, but it also may make you literally forget about it. A study conducted at Mount Sinai Medicine School in New York by a team of scientists led by Professor Giulio Pasinetti demonstrated that the excess of calories in the body may lead to develop Alzheimer’s disease.

            Professor Pasinetti and his group carried out an experiment using mice as test subjects; these rodents were divided in two groups in which they were fed throughout a period of over six months with low and high-calorie aliment, respectively. As a result, those mice that were provided with high calories presented symptoms similar to Alzheimer’s while the other group had fewer signs given the lower amount of beta-amyloid proteins, which are the responsible for this disease.

            At the same time that beta-amyloid proteins decrease, another group of proteins, known as sirtuins, expresses in calorie diets are controlled; sirtuins are the elements that diminish the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Pasinetti and his team synthesised a sirtuin, SIRT1, and examined brain cells in which this protein was added to make sure that they work the same way as in calorie-restricted diets. The result: in certain way, they did.

            Taking this into account, do you think that you have been careful about your appetite? Would you change your potential memory loss for a bit of belly rumbling?