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Bergamot essential oil is neuroprotective (in rats).Love your brain=Love bergamot.

July 18, 2009

Neuroprotection is very elusive. No definitive medical treatments exist except cold. Prescription steroids have been tried but they do not work emphatically well to prevent further brain injury and definitely are not natural.

So here is an alternative. Oil of BERGAMOT.
Of course this an intrapertoneal rat study not a human clinical trial but it did reduce the amount of dead brain tissue damaged by artificially induced ischemia. Who would have guessed, BERGAMOT?

Int Rev Neurobiol. 2009;85:389-405.
Prevention of Glutamate Accumulation and Upregulation of Phospho-Akt may Account for Neuroprotection Afforded by Bergamot Essential Oil against Brain In… Induced by Focal Cerebral Ischemia … Continue Reading

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the Allen Institute for Brain Science to map the mouse brain genome, which has great prospects for medical applications in humans. Craig Venter mapped the human genome and is working on mapping the genome of the life forms found in the worlds’ oceans, with the hope of finding cancer cures (Haefner, 2003; Costantino, 2004). All of these people are working tow […]

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Nervous Insomnia January 3, 2012

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