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A calorie-restricted diet which mimics the effects of fasting may reverse the
symptoms of multiple sclerosis and help repair the damage caused by the
disease.
Scientists are so excited about the finding that they are moving to large human
trials and are already recommending it for very ill patients who cannot wait.
The regime simply involves cutting normal calorie counts in half for three days
in every seven.
Although it is unclear what causes MS, it is thought the immune system attacks
the protective coating on nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, leading to
inflammation and pain, disability and in severe cases, death.
But scientists from the University of Southern California showed that, in mice,
the Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) significantly lowered the percentage of
damaging immune cells, while allowing the protective coating to regrow.
Human MS patients who were put on the diet to check that it was not harmful
to their health, also reported improved quality of life and scored better on the
Extended Disability Status Scale (EDSS) which assesses movement, tremors,
speech and swallowing.
Prof Walter Longo, the studys lead author and professor who directs the USC
Longevity Institute said: The effect on humans was improvements for both
quality of life and EDSS, which is remarkable because we only did a single cycle
of the FMD for humans and tested them three and six months after.
Since the pilot human trial was small, now we are setting up a large multicenter clinical trial. However, because we have already tested this and similar
diets on hundreds of patients with various diseases, I believe this can be tried
now by MS patients who cannot wait.
These latest findings follow studies by the same USC lab that the diet, can
entirely reboot the immune system
We started thinking: If it kills a lot of immune cells and turns on the stem cells,
is it possible that maybe it will kill the bad ones and then generate new good
ones? added Prof Longo said. Thats why we started this study.
For the first part of the study, researchers put a group of mice with
autoimmune disease on a fasting-mimicking diet for three days, every seven
days for three cycles, with a control group on a standard diet for comparison.
Idea principal:
Una dieta baja en caloras que imita los efectos del ayuno, podra revertir los
sntomas de la Esclerosis Mltiple y reparar el dao causado por esta
enfermedad.
Ideas secundarias:
-Cientficos de la Universidad de Southern California (USC) demostraron que, en
ratones, la Dieta Imitadora de Ayuno (FMD por sus siglas en ingls), disminuyo
significativamente el porcentaje de dao en las clulas del sistema inmune,
permitiendo, a su vez, que la capa protectora de estas clulas vuelva a crecer.
-En hallazgos recientes realizados por la misma universidad, refieren que esta
dieta puede reiniciar completamente el sistema inmune.
The famed American artist Jackson Pollock suffered from depression and
alcoholism. His inner turmoil was reflected in his broad, sometimes disturbing
canvasses, such as "Circumcision".
Critics rightly pointed out that these studies focused on very specific groups of
high-achievers, and that they relied on anecdotal evidence.
Subsequent studies have cast the net wider. Simon Kyaga led a team of
researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institute.
Using a registry of psychiatric patients, they tracked nearly 1.2 million Swedes
and their relatives. The patients demonstrated conditions ranging from
schizophrenia and depression to ADHD and anxiety syndromes.
Idea principal:
Estudios antiguos han descubierto que las personas creativas usualmente
tienen un inusual elevado nmero de trastornos del estado de nimo.
Ideas secundarias:
-Simon Kyaga dirigi un equipo de investigadores en el Instituto Karolinska de
Suecia, los cuales dieron seguimiento a cerca de 1,2 millones de suecos y sus
familiares. Descubrieron que las personas que trabajan en campos creativos
presentaban altos porcentajes de sufrir trastornos mentales, siendo ms
propensos los escritores.
-Otros estudios sugieren que podra haber un rasgo hereditario que da lugar a
la creatividad y a trastornos mentales.
-Algunas personas pueden heredar una forma del rasgo que fomenta la
creatividad sin la carga de la enfermedad mental , mientras que otros pueden
heredar una versin amplificada que alimenta la ansiedad , la depresin y
alucinaciones.