Plasmalogens were brought up in a comment and it reminded me I had never circled back to them.
HU researchers, do you know about them? It’s really interesting!
diseases. Plasmalogens deficiency was proposed to be strongly associated with neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD), and appropriate supplement of plasmalogens could help to prevent and possibly provide therapy of these diseases. Plasmalogens evolved first in anaerobic bacteria with an anaerobic biosynthetic pathway. Later, an
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I learned of them from Dr. Dayan Goodenowe