Posted by JaclinHyde on March 29, 2006, at 22:11:47
In reply to Re: Use Ensam~Get HEALTHIER!, posted by Phillipa on March 29, 2006, at 21:38:52
Phillipa, you didn't read the post right. Smoking really had nothing to do with what it was saying.
"Normally the brain's irreplaceable complement of 30-40 thousand odd dopaminergic cells tends to die off at around 13% per decade in adult life. Their death diminishes the quality and intensity of experience. It also saps what in more ontologically innocent times might have been called one's life-force. Eighty percent loss of dopamine neurons results in Parkinson's disease, often prefigured by depression. Deprenyl has an anti-oxidant, immune-system-boosting and dopamine-cell-sparing effect. Its use boosts levels of tyrosine hydroxylase, growth hormone, superoxide dismutase and the production of key interleukins. Deprenyl offers protection against DNA damage and oxidative stress by hydroxyl and peroxyl radical trapping; and against excitotoxic damage from glutamate."
That is the most important part.
JH
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URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20060329/msgs/626380.html