OK, I admit it, I will go to almost any length to justify my love of fishing and to invent (if need be) reasons to indulge in my hobby. But, researchers may have just provided the perfect, iron-clad reason to wet hook and line and eat the catch. A recent article in the Journal of Neuroscience reports:
As people live longer their chances of developing Alzheimer's disease also grows - however, researchers from UCLA have found that fish oils can really reduce your chances of developing Alzheimer's. More importantly, they have found out why this is so.
Greg Cole, professor of medicine and neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA and associate director of UCLA's Alzheimer Disease Research Center, and team say that omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which is found in fish oil, raises the production of LR11. LR11 is a protein which exists at excessively low levels among Alzheimer's disease patients. LR11 is known to destroy the protein that forms the plaques linked to the disease.
These plaques are deposits of beta amyloid, a protein that experts say is toxic to neurons in the brain - these deposits, as their numbers grow lead to Alzheimer's. If high levels of LR11 protect people from developing Alzheimer's, it is logical that levels that are too low will have the opposite effect. Medical News Today
Before you go out and drop a line in the nearest fishy-looking puddle, understand that researchers are talking about fish oil concentrate from cold water, ocean species, just don't tell my wife, please.
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