[HN Gopher] Brain rejuvenation breakthrough: Limiting glucose co...
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       Brain rejuvenation breakthrough: Limiting glucose could spark new
       neuron growth
        
       Author : gnabgib
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2024-10-03 17:13 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (studyfinds.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (studyfinds.org)
        
       | toomuchtodo wrote:
       | The fasting and keto folks were right!
        
       | leoh wrote:
       | Another win for GLP-1s
        
       | adamredwoods wrote:
       | Stop. This is in mice, and they state:
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       | >> By knocking out Slc2a4 and reducing glucose influx, the aged
       | stem cells became more likely to activate and produce new
       | neurons.
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       | They knocked out a gene, it was not glucose alone. Please
       | understand this before joining the new fad diet train.
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       | Article in Nature link:
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       | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07972-2
        
         | leoh wrote:
         | Man, why you gotta be a kill joy
        
           | loa_in_ wrote:
           | It's better than being a kill brain
        
         | hooverd wrote:
         | How much does CRISPR cost nowadays, anyways?
        
         | helph67 wrote:
         | "Overall, mice and humans share virtually the same set of
         | genes. Almost every gene found in one species so far has been
         | found in a closely related form in the other. Of the
         | approximately 4,000 genes that have been studied, less than 10
         | are found in one species but not in the other."
         | https://www.genome.gov/10001345/importance-of-mouse-genome
        
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