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“Therapeutic modulation of TLX may be a means to counteract the effects of impaired neurogenesis in age-related cognitive decline, depression, Alzheimer's disease, and other conditions. Brain-derived neurotropic factor, or BDNF, also promotes neurogenesis.”

“Sleep is essential for human health. Not getting enough sleep or having poor, fragmented sleep promotes the development of many chronic illnesses, including cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, stroke, obesity, and depression.”

“Even after taking other risk factors into account, such as age, sex, education, race, cognitive diagnosis, depression, and whether they carried the APOE4 gene, people who took vitamin D were 40 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease during the study period than those who did not.”

“A new study examined the onset of hormonal changes and the timing of accompanying physiological shifts throughout the body. Researchers analyzed more than 300 million lab test results from two large datasets, covering about 36,000 women in US health surveys and 1.3 million women in Israeli medical records.”

“Evidence suggests that tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), a pro-inflammatory cytokine produced by immune cells, activates microglia (the brain's resident immune cells) and recruits white blood cells to the brain, driving the development of inflammation-associated sickness behaviors.”

“The most common complaints were fatigue, memory and attention problems, sleep disorders, and muscle pains. Others included depression, anxiety, visual disturbances, impaired sense of smell, and tingling or numbness.”

“This decrease in stress response may also translate to reduced risk of depression, making these findings relevant to mental health as well. Link to full report. Learn more about telomeres and stress from expert Dr. Elisa Epel in this clip.”

“Future research is needed to determine a dose of creatine that improves cognition without damaging kidney health, which is a concern for older adult populations. Link to full report. Read more about the effects of creatine on cognition, depression, physical performance, and more in this overview article.”

“Characterized as having excessive body fat, obesity affects more than 650 million people worldwide and markedly increases a person's risk for many chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and depression, among others.”

“In episode #41, Dr. Charles Raison explains why we may have evolved immune-mediated mood changes in the first place, a hypothesis he calls the "Pathogen Host Defense" theory of depression.”