Cigarette smoking aide against these neurological diseases
(nicotine can reduce the loss of dopamine producing cells)
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If you are a smoker, then you've likely heard nothing but the grave effects of smoking cigarettes. Now, while I would never condone smoking for any reason, I thought it would be interesting to see if there are any health benefits whatsoever to smoking tobacco. I don't think it's an excuse to light up, but for those of us who are just sick and tired of hearing the negative impacts of cigarettes all the time, it gives a small rebuttal to know that there are a few health benefits as well to smoking cigarettes. Who woulda thought?
Once again, I would never condone smoking. I have smoked, so I know it's a nasty habit that is easily addictive (and super hard to quit once started). However, it is interesting to know that there is actually medically supported health benefits (however minuscule) to smoking cigarettes.
Apparently, smoking reduces the risks of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease in aging adults. According to medical studies, it is the nicotine that improves mental processes in the body and can keep Alzheimer's and Parkinson's at bay or eliminate the risk entirely. In a study done on 19 smoking patients who were at risk genetically to contract Alzheimer's, 15 of them had reduced risks in contracting the disease themselves, and none of them were showed to have an increased risk at all. "The risk of Alzheimer's disease decreased with increasing daily number of cigarettes smoked before onset of disease. In six families in which the disease was apparently inherited, the mean age of onset was 4-17 years later in smoking patients than in non-smoking from the same family." claims Conelia M. van Duljn, MSC, and Albert Hoffman, MD, of Erasmus University Medical School, of their findings. Read more: associatedcontent.com
Selfish Brain
Obesity and type 2 diabetes have become the major health problems in many industrialized countries. There is data-based support for the hypothesis, which states that under conditions of food abundance incompetent brain-pull will lead to build ups in the supply chain culminating in obesity and type 2 diabetes. There is also support for the related hypothesis, which states that under conditions of food deprivation, a competent brain-pull mechanism is indispensable for the continuation of the brain's high energy level. To experimentally determine how the competent brain-pull functions to demand for cerebral energy, healthy young men undergoing psychosocial stress were studied. It was found that the brain under stressful conditions demands for energy from the body by using a brain-pull mechanism, which is referred to as "cerebral insulin suppression" and in so doing it can satisfy its excessive needs during stress. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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