Could fasting help to treat Huntington’s disease?
Restricting food intake to a set time period every day could help to clear the brain of a protein that causes Huntington’s disease, new research suggests.
March 6, 2018 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brain, clear-the-brain, food-intake, huntington, huntington's disease, new-research, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, period-every
Neurodegenerative disease: Restricting eating times may boost life quality
In a study of mouse models with Huntington’s disease, researchers found that eating at the same time every day improved motor skills and sleep quality.
January 3, 2018 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: day-improved, diet, huntington, motor-skills, mouse-models, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, the-same, time-every
Possible Approaches To Protect Those At Risk For Huntington’s Disease
In Huntington’s disease, abnormally long strands of glutamine in the huntingtin (Htt) protein, called polyglutamines, cause subtle changes in cellular functions that lead to neurodegeneration and death. Studies have shown that the activation of the heat shock response, a cellular reaction to stress, doesn’t work properly in Huntington’s disease…
June 20, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: abnormally-long, activation, cause-subtle, cellular-functions, huntingtin, huntington, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, shock-response, the-heat, the-huntingtin
