brain with stem cells
Usually fats and sugars are not considered healthy foodstuffs, but some researchers have found that fats and sugars are necessary to maintain the supply of stem cells to the brain, as they have a positive effect in enhancing immunity and thus fighting infection. At first, neural stem cells help in the formation of the brain, and then return cells that may be damaged later as a result of trauma as well as some diseases, such as head injury or stroke, moreover, the number of cells and their decreased activity is a normal part of aging.
Our long-term goal is to use neural stem cells to repair damage to the brain or spinal cord, so we need to learn how these cells reproduce, and how to keep them inside the brain.
A group of researchers at the University of Georgia College of Medicine studied how to preserve stem cells to help in the long run to supply the brain with them despite aging as well as impotence, and these scientists focused on certain areas of the brain as they are the largest store of neural stem cells in the brain: An area under the midbrain cavities filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), called the sub-ventricular region, as well as the hippocampus, which is a major center for learning and memory.
These researchers discovered that mice that had a deficiency in the sugar-containing component of fats, scientifically called Gangliosides, especially a type called (GD3), they found they had a significantly weak ability of neural stem cells to regenerate themselves. Hence, these researchers came out that GD3, which is specifically on the surface of stem cells, plays an important role in stimulating growth factors, which in turn, positively or negatively affect the neural stem cells themselves to proliferate or die, because the growth elements in the normal position enable the neural stem cells to To produce more stem cells, this gives us a better idea of how to preserve stem cells throughout our life.
As for enhancing natural immunity, the function of Gangliosides is to prevent the attachment of bacteria to certain tissues. In one experiment, after oral administration of Gangliosides, they found that they prevent pathogenic bacteria from sticking to the intestine, and this constitutes the main mechanism that can prevent the spread of infection.
GD3 is found in breast milk, but in varying proportions, and it is more abundant in colostrum, which is the milk that is excreted in the first breastfeeding after birth. Also recently, infant formula containing gangliosides has appeared, as the owners of this product claim that it adjusts the intestinal environment for newborns early, and is based on increasing the content of Bifidobacteria as well as reducing the most famous gastrointestinal infection, which is called Escherichia coli ( Escherichia coli), as a result, early childhood infections can be prevented.
