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Can fish oil and curcumin prevent muscle atrophy?

February 05, 2020 -

In their study, recently published in Nutrition Research, the team noted that the interesting combination can benefit those who are unable to use their muscles, such as patients who are either immobilized or under bed  rest, and even astronauts in spaceflight. The condition, which scientists refer to as mechanical unloading, can lead to muscle atrophy over time, where weakened muscles shrink and lose their mass. This can undoubtedly have negative effects on a person's ...

Scientists discover that high blood sugar can cause muscle atrophy

July 25, 2019 - atrophy.

Under normal conditions, KLF15 is rapidly degraded, thanks to another protein called WWP1. When WWP1 attaches a small protein called ubiquitin to KLF15, it promotes the degradation of KLF15. However, elevated blood sugar levels decrease WWP1 expression, leading to a rise in KLF15 levels in skeletal muscles.

“We have shown that hyperglycemia, a central disorder in diabetes, promotes skeletal muscle atrophy via a WWP1/KLF15 pathway,” the researchers ...

Study: COVID-19 vaccination linked to rare neurological disorder that causes pain, muscle atrophy and paralysis

March 29, 2024 -

In a March 14 paper published in the medical journal Vaccines, researchers found that Parsonage-Turner Syndrome (PTS) may occur after injection of all COVID-19 vaccine types and can recur with additional doses of similar or unrelated vaccines.

PTS, or neuralgic amyotrophy, is a disorder affecting the peripheral nervous system characterized by the rapid onset of severe pain followed by significant muscular atrophy. It primarily affects the skull, shoulder, upper ...

Preventing muscle atrophy in those with diabetes: Animal study reveals tocotrienols can increase skeletal muscle weight

September 30, 2019 - atrophy, which is common among individuals with insulin resistance and high blood sugar.

Tocotrienols, the ideal supplement for diabetics

There are more reasons for people with diabetes to increase their tocotrienol intake. A study published in the journal Nutrients found that tocotrienols can help improve their kidney health, especially since kidney damage – or nephropathy – is one of the common complications of diabetes.

For this study, researchers from ...

You choose your brain health with your diet: Anti-inflammatory diet improves brain health while inflammatory diet accelerates atrophy

December 07, 2017 - atrophy.

In this study, researchers looked at the connection between frequent consumption of various nutrients and the levels of two key irritation markers (C-reactive protein and interleukin-6), neuron-rich gray matter volume, and cognitive performance in 330 elderly adults who did not have dementia. Tthe goal of the study was to determine the relationship between the brain and the circulating inflammatory biomarkers c-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin-6 (IL6), ...

Supplementing with B vitamins can reduce risk of Alzheimer’s

August 06, 2019 - atrophy levels of the patients' grey matter. They continued doing so throughout the trial period.

One of the markers of Alzheimer's disease and dementia is the atrophy of grey matter. On magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, this shows up as shrinkage in the amount of grey matter in the brain.

The Oxford researchers noted that members of both groups displayed reduced amounts of grey matter. However, the participants who took B vitamin supplements ...

Study shows “green” Mediterranean diet helps boost brain function

February 21, 2022 -

Cerebral atrophy is the loss of brain cells (neurons) and their electrochemical connectors (synapses). This cell loss results in brain shrinkage and decline in cognitive ability. Cerebral atrophy occurs naturally in all humans. The loss of brain cells starts while you're in your 30s and 40s. Your brain will also shrink by as much as five percent each decade after age 40. Worse, cerebral atrophy accelerates after 60.Researchers test green Mediterranean ...

Bodybuilders can recover faster if they supplement with Korean mistletoe

July 19, 2018 -

Researchers in Korea looked at the expression pattern of different genes related to muscle physiology in C2C12 cells in order to confirm the benefits of Korean mistletoe on muscle atrophy and muscle hypertrophy. In addition, they tested these effects in denervated mice model by feeding the mice with Korean mistletoe extract for four weeks.

The supplementation of Korean mistletoe extract resulted in the promotion of mRNA expressions SREBP-1c, PGC-1α, and GLUT4a ...

The importance of quercetin in muscle health

November 14, 2018 - atrophy. They found that quercetin was able to improve biomarkers for atrophy, which indicated its efficacy in preventing muscle degeneration. It also prevented cell degeneration and blocked atrophic responses in the skeletal muscle.

The authors concluded that quercetin, when used as a supplement, can inhibit obesity-related muscle atrophy. This, they added, opens up new avenues to further develop quercetin as a dietary supplement for the condition....

Lipoic acid in nutritional supplements found to help prevent multiple sclerosis, study finds

July 20, 2017 - atrophy -- described as the reduction in total brain volume due to neuron loss -- was measured at the start of the study, after a year, and at the end using MRI scans. It was found that lipoic acid reduced brain atrophy by a significant 68 percent, which is greater than the reported impact of ocrelizumab, which was only shown to improve brain atrophy by 18 percent in several clinical trials.

Dr. Spain noted that patients who took the lipoic acid ...

Fight brain decay with a good night’s rest: Age-related memory loss may be caused by SLEEP issues, new study finds

August 22, 2018 - atrophy in the area that is involved with deep sleep. People who had more atrophy produced less rhythm in the brain.

Brain atrophy, or the shrinking of the brain as a result of the loss of neurons, is a normal consequence brought about by aging. Studies have stated that brain weight decreases by about five percent per decade from age 40, which may speed up once the person reaches 70 years of age. Researchers also believe that this is what causes ...

Breakdown of sleep quality and key brain regions tied to Alzheimer’s risk: A new call for prioritizing rest

July 28, 2025 -

In the early hours of July 25, 2025, a landmark study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine reignited the urgent conversation about the connection between sleep quality and cognitive decline. Led by postdoctoral fellow Gawon Cho at Yale School of Medicine, the research tracked 270 adults for over a decade and revealed a disturbing link: spending less time in restorative deep sleep (SWS) and REM sleep correlates with shrinkage in brain regions prone to ...

Research science reveals FIVE most common genetic diseases among Ashkenazi Jews

October 22, 2024 - atrophy, a disease that afflicts one out of every 41 Ashkenazi Jews, suffer the loss of muscle control and movement due to low numbers of specialized nerve cells called motor neurons that live inside the brainstem and spinal cord. While there is no cure for the disease, spinal muscular atrophy can be managed with certain treatments.

The NGF and another community-based public health initiative called JScreen is raising awareness about Gaucher disease and ...

Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol found to have a negative impact on brain health

June 10, 2017 - atrophy, a type of brain damage that affects memory and spatial navigation.

Data showed that those who drank more than 30 units per week had the highest risk. Even those who drank moderately (14 to 21 units a week) were thrice likely to suffer from hippocampal atrophy compared to those who don't drink. Surprisingly, light drinking (maximum of seven units a week) didn't yield a positive result either.

It is important to note that this is just an observational ...

Too much bed rest actually increases back pain

December 31, 2018 - atrophy. Muscles that go through atrophy weaken and become smaller in size.

Furthermore, the men's rectus abdominis, more popularly known as abs, and psoas muscles appeared to increase in thickness. The researchers clarified that this isn't necessarily an improvement – rather, they hypothesized that the change could have been due to the said muscles becoming shorter or neurologically “overactive.”

The multifidus muscles took only four days to recover, ...

Compound found in apple peels helps prevent muscle waisting during the aging process

a long time ago - atrophy.

“Ursolic Acid is an interesting natural compound,” they said. “It’s part of a normal diet as a component of apple peels. They always say that an apple a day keeps the doctor away…”

The researchers next gave Ursolic Acid to fasted laboratory subjects. Those experiments showed that ursolic acid could protect against muscle weakening as predicted. When ursolic acid was added to the food of normal subjects for a period of weeks, their muscles grew. Those effects ...

Scientists look at mitochondria for their anti-aging potential on muscles

March 09, 2020 -

A study published in The FASEB Journal found that dysfunction of the mitochondria can harm muscle health and eventually lead to atrophy or wasting away.

"Mitochondrial dysfunction is a key feature of several muscle diseases, but treatments are currently limited," said study author Dr. Timothy Etheridge.The key to slowing muscle decline

Researchers from the University of Exeter, alongside the University of Nottingham, in the U.K. and Tohoku University in ...

Chemotherapy linked to mitochondrial dysfunction in skeletal muscle

January 21, 2019 -

Researchers concluded that chemotherapy can negatively affect skeletal muscle in patients undergoing therapy.

Learn more about the negative effects of chemotherapy at Chemotherapy.news.

Journal Reference:

Guigni BA, Callahan DM, Tourville TW, Miller MS, Fiske B, Voigt T, Korwin-Mihavics B, Anathy V, Dittus K, Toth MJ. Skeletal muscle atrophy and dysfunction in breast cancer patients: role for chemotherapy-derived ...

Diet and language: Type 2 diabetes linked to decline in speech skills among the elderly, says study

April 28, 2019 - atrophy. The participants also took part in cognitive tests that gauged their verbal skills.

The researchers found that participants with diabetes already displayed evidence of smaller brain volume at the beginning of the trial. This implied that changes to the brain begin occurring much earlier than first thought in patients with diabetes. The researchers added that no additional brain shrinkage was observed through the course of the study.

The lead author ...

Internet search engines give people a wildly exaggerated view of their own intelligence

April 28, 2015 - Internet search engines give people a wildly exaggerated view of their own intelligence

Tuesday, April 28, 2015 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writerTags: search engines, smartphones, intelligence

Excessive smartphone use is causing widespread cognitive atrophy, study finds

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