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“In particular, participants exhibited higher levels of glutathione peroxidase, an enzyme that protects against oxidative stress. However, biomarkers among participants who took the placebo were associated with inflammation and cardiovascular disease.”

“Researchers gave 60 children with NASH either 30 milligrams of zinc or a placebo daily for four months. Before and after the intervention, they assessed the children's liver function and measured their liver and inflammatory biomarkers.”

“The Omega-3 Index, a biomarker developed by Drs. Bill Harris and Clemens von Schacky, measures the amount of EPA + DHA as a percentage of total fatty acids in red blood cell membranes. The Omega-3 Index has been proposed as a measurable biomarker of sudden cardiac death risk.”

“In a second experiment, they used a strain of knockout mice whose genomes do not contain the gene FoxO3a, a regulator of aging that may slow cellular senescence. Maternal diabetes increased the abundance of biomarkers of cellular senescence and DNA damage in the lining of the brain in offspring.”

“Despite a beneficial improvement in vascular health, creatine did not improve biomarkers of oxidative stress but did improve fasting blood glucose from 103 to 99 mg/dL and triglycerides from 100 to 84 mg/dL. Both of these are traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors.”

“Controversy exists as to whether BDNF traverses the blood-brain barrier "BDNF levels in the blood could be a useful biomarker for underlying conditions that mental health practitioners may fail to assess.".”

“For example, muscle biopsies after UA dosing show higher levels of mitophagy-related and mitochondrial metabolism proteins and improvements in muscle ATP production, and circulating biomarkers of mitochondrial dysfunction (acylcarnitines and ceramides) fall alongside reductions in C-reactive protein.”

“We all age at different rates, however, so our chronological age – the number of years we've lived – often differs from our biological age. These differences are often reflected in certain biomarkers and disease states that can predict biological age.”

“An extended overnight fast can improve hemoglobin A1C levels, a biomarker for the three months average plasma glucose concentration, and C-reactive protein levels, a biomarker of inflammation.”

“00:23:00 - The biomarkers, particularly hormones, that make up the “atrophic” subtype of Alzheimer’s disease, which Dr. Bredesen refers to as type 2 Alzheimer’s. *Note: Some of these signaling factors, namely BDNF, are not amenable to being assayed, but are produced robustly in response to exercise.”