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Eating more fatty fish or taking an omega-3 fatty acid supplement every day may help you to prevent hearing loss according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition: NUTRITION 2023, findings offer hope to billions of people around the world living with hearing impairments.
Findings of a study recently published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine provide the strongest evidence to date of the association and importance of including omega-3 fatty acids in our diets. The study indicates that omega-3 fatty acids may be helpful for maintaining lung health according to evidence from the large multi-faceted supported by the NIH.
Researchers at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UCLA, and the National Institutes of Health have developed a zebrafish model that provides new insight into how the brain acquires essential omega-3 fatty acids, including docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and linolenic acid (ALA). Their findings, published in Nature Communications, have the potential to improve understanding of lipid transport across the blood-brain barrier and of disruptions in this process that can lead to birth defects or neurological conditions. The model may also enable researchers to design drug molecules that are capable of directly reaching the brain.
Scientists from Singapore have demonstrated the critical role played by a special transporter protein in regulating the brain cells that ensure nerves are protected by coverings called myelin sheaths. The findings, reported by researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School and the National University of Singapore in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, could help to reduce the damaging impacts of ageing on the brain.
For the first time, researchers have developed a form of the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) that is capable of crossing into the eyeu2019s retina to ward off visual declines related to Alzheimeru2019s disease, diabetes and other disorders. It is important to note that this preliminary study has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal but has been presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.u00a0
According to recent research published in the journal Neurology, the more omega-3 you have the more your brain will thrive, ad findings show that those who consumed more foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids or took supplements were more likely to be better thinkers and avoid dementia, scoring higher in abstract reasoning tests and having a larger hippocampus which is an area of the brain that control memory.u00a0
According to a study conducted by faculty of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and other investigators of the Framingham Heart Study that was recently published in Neurologyu00ae eating cold-water fish like mackerel, tuna, herring, sardines, cod, and tuna as well as other sources of omega-3 fatty acids may help to preserve brain health and enhance cognition in middle age.
