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Friday, April 28, 2017

The same brain disease battering the NFL may have killed Ernest Hemingway according to : The Washington Post

Had he lived in the 21st century, Farah writes, Hemingway would have had an MRI scan, which might have revealed his much-abused brain was shrinking. "The injuries from earlier blows resolved, but, with additional assaults, his brain developed CTE," Farah writes. Modern medicine could have saved Hemingway's life, Farah said. "The concussions, alcohol, hypertension, and pre-diabetes all contributed to the changes in Hemingway's brain," he writes in his book. "His neuronal pathways, the bridges of connection in his mind, were rickety and collapsing," Farah writes.



The same brain disease battering the NFL may have killed Ernest Hemingway
Scroll down for videoAdding soy protein to your diet could ease painful inflammatory bowel disease symptomsWHAT IS IBD? Adding soy to your diet could ease painful inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) symptoms. Irritable bowel disease (IBD) mainly describes Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC). This comes after researchers from Ghent University found that swapping dairy for soy could substantially reduce your cancer risk. Cutting out dairy also lessened men's prostate cancer risk by 30 per cent.

Parkinson's disease may begin in the gut

In addition, other studies have shown that people who will later develop Parkinson's disease have a protein believed to play a key role in Parkinson's disease in their gut." New research published in Neurology reveals that the gut may play a role in the disease and, furthermore, may be where Parkinson's disease begins. New research indicates that 'Parkinson's disease may start in the gut and spread to the brain via the vagus nerve.' Previous studies have associated mechanisms between the gut and vagus nerve with Parkinson's disease. Learn how Parkinson's disease risk may be increased with hepatitis virus infection.


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