Cinnamon can reverse changes in the brains of mice with Parkinsons

Post by lazyant » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 3:11 PM UTC

Post by driverdan » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 3:15 PM UTC

matznerd wrote: post #69

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Are you seriously suggesting that people should go buy a bunch of junk from the organic food shops just in case one of them turns out to be good for you in the future? Adversely, what happens if one of them turns out to be a carcinogen or otherwise something that adversely affects health? Your mom isn't wise, she just threw enough unproven stuff down her kid's throats so that it was inevitable that one of them one da…

This is a really offensive comment... Plants create compounds to battle pests and radiation from the sun. A lot of these compounds such as anthocyanins and phenols are extremely beneficial to healthy humans. Definitive science is actually still catching up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocyanin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol

Post by autokad » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 3:32 PM UTC

lvs wrote: post #60

Because it's clear there isn't a lot of expertise in this thread, I'd like to make clear that nobody should be doing the cinnamon challenge based on these results, or the results of the authors' previous study on the topic. So far, the authors have some interesting data from cell lines and now a mouse model of PD. Specifically, the mouse model is generated by chemical intoxication with a molecule called MPTP, which r…

Post by autokad » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 3:38 PM UTC

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It's sort of gimmicky to say that Cinnamon does this, because it's known to be sodium benzoate that causes this effect. In 2012 they discovered that sodium benzoate has an effect on Parkinson's disease proteins: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21701815 . This new study is, at least, a confirmation of the older study, and is also an attempt to use it to treat the disease.

Interesting. I didn't realize cinnamon metabolized to sodium benzoate. I've actually been trying to avoid sodium benzoate, especially in soft drinks because of worry what that preservative could possibly be doing to us (especially in the presence of vitamin c) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_benzoate But I've been purposefully eating a bunch of Cinnamon. It's hard to reconcile sometimes what might be good for me…

Post by ethagnawl » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 3:47 PM UTC

BugBrother wrote: post #72

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The ingredients in cigarettes are what actually make nicotine addictive...alone, it can actually be beneficial to the brain

>> The ingredients in cigarettes are what actually make nicotine addictive Uh, that sounds wrong. "Snus" users get addicted. That is tobacco, even if it isn't burned. But afaik, users of e-cigarettes also get dependent -- that isn't tobacco.