You’ll never guess what your body needs to keep you and your brain healthy

On the list of times modern medicine hasn’t seen the forest for the trees, this is the Redwood Forest.

Taking a drug that drives your cholesterol down as low as possible may make your doctor happy. But your brain will suffer.

Guess what your brain needs to ensure good decisions for production and survival?

Cholesterol.

In new research, neurobiologists revealed one of the brain’s secrets. They discovered that a molecule derived from cholesterol sends a signal to stem cells. That signal persuades the cells to become dopamine-producing neurons.

And you do NOT want to impede dopamine production.

Dopamine plays a key role in cognition, memory, mood, sleep regulation, and voluntary movement. Most famously, low dopamine causes Parkinson’s disease.

The new study suggests that cholesterol-derived molecules might treat Parkinson’s.

Huh! Imagine that. Cholesterol therapy!

Here’s a quote from the research… “Cholesterol is extremely important for the body, and in particular for the development and function of the brain.”

I wonder if that message will ever get through to the cholesterol-deprived brains of mainstream doctors.

Sources:
“Fat influences decisions taken by brain cells for production and survival” Karolinska Institutet press release, 12/23/12, eurekalert.org