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home:food [02.08.2019] – [Notes and comments] sallieqhome:food [03.18.2019] – [Research] sallieq
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 +Dietary fats influence risk of developing peripheral metabolic diseases and cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer?s disease (AD). Inflammation of the brain (neuroinflammation), a state associated with progressive neuronal loss, is known to be heightened in cognitive decline and obesity.  
 +[[http://grantome.com/grant/NIH/I01-BX004146-01A1|Obesity and associated comorbidities such as metabolic syndrome and diabetes affect up to 48% of Veterans]].  We hypothesize that dietary fats alter microglial metabolism to directly trigger dysregulated brain immune responses. 
  
 +Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia has specified that immune cells in the brain consume the synapses between brain neurons, when exposed to a high-fat diet.
 +[[https://foodexposed.org/2018/01/05/high-fat-diet-causes-immune-cells-to-start-consuming-synapses-in-the-brain/|High fat diet and microglia in mice]].
  
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