Fatty foods zombiruet brain

Eating fatty foods leads to an increase in brain volume, as the researchers found. But do not hurry to rejoice - the new cells just tell the body that it must gain more fat.

Researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston put a group of laboratory mice on a diet with lots of fatty foods . After a while it turned out that the mice not only recovered - they also increased brain volume. As experts believe, the same thing probably happens with man.

But fans of cheeseburgers and donuts do not have to show off a sharp mind. Their brains become larger due to the formation of new cells, but they are only notified body on the need to continue to gain weight. Although human studies have not been conducted, and the validity of this assumption has not been proved, this theory can explain the process of the brain control over body weight through the consumption of food and hunger. In the future it promises the creation of new drugs to treat obesity.

Mice fatty food   It causes the nerve cells to grow in the part of the brain, which is called the median eminence, and there formed in their four times greater than that of mice on a normal diet. These changes occurred in a matter of weeks. Mice with a large number of cells added more weight due to the so-called tantsitam - mysterious type of brain cell that is also found in humans. Tantsity this cell connecting neurons and blood vessels.

"This is the first step towards a better understanding of this process, - says study author Professor Seth Blackshaw. - But we are still a long way to go, because we have to prove that studied in mice processes have any relation to the body man. "

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