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“From birth until roughly the age of 36 weeks' gestation, about half of the children received DHA (60 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day) via tube feeding, while the other half did not. When the children were five years old, they took a standardized intelligence test.”

“The mechanisms that drive this protective effect may be related to exercise's capacity to regulate key neurotransmitters, promote the release of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), ameliorate brain inflammation, and reduce oxidative stress.”

“The mechanisms driving this behavior involved activation of IgE antibodies and mast cells (essential immune system components), which, in turn, triggered the activity of key immune-related molecules – cysteinyl leukotrienes and growth and differentiation factor-15 (GDF-15).”

“A recent study shows that older adults who took cocoa flavonols experienced a nearly 10 percent gain in peak oxygen consumption, a marker of cardiorespiratory fitness, during exercise. Researchers conducted a study involving 68 healthy older adults aged 55 to 79.”

“However, smokers experienced up to 17 percent greater decline in memory and up to 16 percent greater decline in fluency, even after considering other factors that influence cognitive aging, including age at baseline, gender, country, education, wealth, and chronic conditions.”

“What's someone unexpected about the fact that additional vitamin C restoring mean lifespan is the fact that Werner syndrome is associated with higher-than-usual ascorbate status rather than reduced, so supplementing with vitamin C being beneficial may be somewhat counter to expectation: > Interestingly, blood ascorbate levels increased with phenotypic progression in [Werner mice].”

“Interestingly, if mice were given DAT two days post-infection, they had worse outcomes than the mice who received DAT before infection, suggesting that DAT primed the immune system for an appropriate response to an immune challenge.”

“Findings from a recent study suggest that children are less likely to develop and spread COVID-19. The authors of the study collected data from 637 households in which all members (3,353 total) had been tested for COVID-19 using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a type of diagnostic test.”

“Notably, this was a relatively small study, and the amount of weight loss – just 10 percent – might have been insufficient to induce global changes in the brain regarding nutrient sensing. Future studies that include more participants and induce greater weight loss may provide different results.”

“Interestingly, some evidence suggests collagen supplementation in the setting of exercise recovery reduces joint pain and improves joint functionality but appears to have no significant effect on post-exercise muscle protein synthesis necessary for hypertrophy and muscle collagen protein synthesis.”