Just in time for Halloween, all of you Twilight, Vampire Diaries and True Blood fans are going to love this one! According to a study out of Stanford University, when older mice were injected with the blood of young mice, they generated three times the amount of nerve cells as they normally would. And, what does MS destroy? That's right: nerve cells.
The young blood injections also resulted in the increased production of neurons, more signals travelling throughout the brain and a decrease in inflammation.
The older mice were found to have more of a protein called eotaxin circulating in their blood. Interestingly, when young mice were injected with eotaxin, they too generated fewer nerve cells and experienced memory loss. I don't know how you measure memory in mice; maybe using some kind of cheese maze...???
Anyway, this is great news for MS, Alzheimer's, Huntington Disease, dementia etc. Not to mention your run-of-the-mill can't remember where I put my wallet issues as we age.
We're just going to have to wait for human trials and data but, it's excellent that researchers have our backs and are working non-stop at helping us out. Until then, you vampire-lovers are just going to have to keep your neck warmers on.
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