According to a recent Swedish study there may be a connection between eating fast food and an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
The study found that mice fed a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol for nine months developed a preliminary stage of the morbid irregularities that form in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. The [...]

Ginkgo biloba tree is the only surviving member of the Ginkgoaceae family and Ginkgoales order. Ginkgo genus was present approximately 200 million years ago according to the fossil records. Today only Ginkgo biloba has survived in all species. The morphology of the Ginkgo tree appears to have changed very little [...]

Most clinical studies on efficacy have been conducted with a standardized extract of Ginkgo biloba which is named officially Egb 761. A standardized extract of the leaves of Ginkgo biloba contain ginkgolides, bilobalide, terpene trilactones, flavonoids, such as, quercetin, kaempferol, and isohamnetin, and ginkgolic acids. They are limited quantities and these limits was imposed because [...]

The causes of Parkinson’s disease are not well understood. But it appears to result from several risk factors. Exposure to unknown environmental toxicants, toxic endogenous compounds, and genetic alterations are thougt as the risk factors of Parkinson’s disease.
Mitochondria and Oxidative Stress in Parkinson’s disease
Both mitochondria and oxidative stress play a crucial role [...]

In our daily life we don’t even think how we move our bodies. It just happens whenever we want it to. But in order to understand what happens to the body during Parkinson’s disease , it is quite useful to have some knowledge about how brain controls our movements, or in other words our “motor [...]