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Are there limits to the duration of high quality of life? Are there limits to healthy life for a human brain? [These questions are relevalant for vision as well as cognitive health because the optic nerve is part of the central nervous system.]
THE ROLE OF MACROPHAGES IN OPTIC NERVE REGENERATION
Neuroscience. 2009 February 6; 158(3): 1039–1048.
According to nutritionist Paavo Airola, we should not eat potatoes that have any green tint and he mentioned a toxin called solanine (a nerve toxin) as the reason why. Potatoes often develop this green tint after exposure to light in the supermarket, but farming and harvesting practices play a role as well.
Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease of the optic nerve. Neuroprotection should be of great interest to any glaucoma patient. The abstracts below deal with potential use of dietary antioxidants in the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders.
Calabrese V, Cornelius C, Mancuso C, et al:
Cellular Stress Response: A Novel Target for Chemoprevention and Nutritional Neuroprotection in Aging, Neurodegenerative Disorders and Longevity.
Neurochem Res 2008
Interesting research about therapeutic effects of curcumin against an array of widely-spread diseases with Dave's comments. The article also makes reference to "ancient treatments" and discusses the very nature of inflammation.
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