The Effects of Low Oxygen on Neuronal Energy Generation

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Alzheimer's disease is not caused by amyloid plaques. The biggest factor hinges around metabolism and what the brain has to do to keep up energy. Your brain uses 20% of your body's energy, that's 2% of its biomass. As you get older, your ability to perfuse oxygen in your brain through your blood vessels goes down. And as that happens, certain regions of the brain will become lower in oxygen.

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Hood, Price, and Shermer discuss: why we age and die • sickcare vs. healthcare • the 10 most popular drugs in the U.S. work for only about 10% of treated people • chronological age ≠ biological age • life expectancy, life span, longevity, and healthspan • why eliminating all cancers would only increase average life span by 3 years • genome vs. phenome • gut biome • optimizing brain function • brain plasticity • sleep, nutrition, exercise • Alzheimer’s • AI and quantum computing for better health.