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New insight into how obesity, insulin resistance can impair cognition
Obesity can break down our protective blood brain barrier resulting in problems with learning and memory, scientists report. They knew that chronic activation of the receptor Adora2a on the endothelial cells that line this important barrier in our brain can let factors from the blood enter the brain and affect the function of our neurons.
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It depends on the kind of fat. All fats are not created equal.
This pertains to mice,not humans and they also don't mention carbs are also being fed to the mice. Also,what kinds of fat are they feeding the mice. No one knows. If the above applied to humans,hflc (if that's what the mice are getting) would not work. I'm also very suspicious of these studies and why it's never mentioned this only applies to mice. I also wonder and who is funding them since I smell an agenda. .