Tau breakthrough?: m.jpost.com/Business-and... - PSP Association
Tau breakthrough?
Found this article interesting! Thanks!
I went on to find details about the additive and came across 2 things:
1. L-serine is not the additive the article talks about. It talks of phosphatidylserine.
Google showed along my research that the two are different!
L-serine is chemically composed as - C3H7NO3.
Phosphatidylserine is - C13H24NO10P
Have not found out how to put the figures below line!
Most of the other articles that came up were under the longer name (PS)
2. Phosphatidylserine (PS) is available from soy lecithin and white beans, among other foods, but was obtained from bovine brains in most research I looked at. That raised problems once the Mad Cow disease raised its head. Generally, there seems to be little research using soy lecithin derived PS.
L-serine was described as 'non-essential aminoacid' (I think!)
Now my mind is totally 'boggled'!! I didn't do chemistry at school, but my husband was a chemist - so I know the molecules look quite different when drawn, but have little idea of what that difference means!
Anyway! Good to know lots of research going on, and one day - they will find something to help other loved ones, if not ours!
Now off for a snooze, a bit of soy lecithin, gingko and fish oil!!!
Keep digging, MindoverMonkey!
Hugs to all xxxx
Jen
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I've been giving my dad l-serine as that's what they've been using in these trials. I may have to get some of this gear too. Thanks for pointing that out.
Makes it all so complicated! Hope they will find a simple solution soon!
Jen
Do you feel like he is responding? Have you done your own comparison study between your dad and the jews? What they have has enough similarity> It is a neurodegeneative disease.....but PSP doesn't like playing with others...So it would be good to see something that would even slow the progress....
How is dad . How are you. My husband is in ICU for severe pneumonia......I was blinded of reality as he got sicker and sicker, But he is slowly comin round
Thanks for the info
AVB
Yeah he's plodding along. Still on his feet with a Zimmer frame but using a chair when out and about with my maw. I couldn't tell you if the l-serine is doing anything. Who knows. But in this study it's not l-serine. It's bovine phosphatydlserine. They stopped experimenting with it after the mad cow scare but it looks like we need to have another look. There is a soy bean variant and you can find it online but it doesn't present any medicinal value apparently, only bovine phosphatydlserine is up to the task.
I need to look into the Jewish gene thing. There may be something 23andme can tell me about it.
We have a nebuliser and we put a lil colloidal silver in it. In theory it should kill the bacteria in the lungs that cause pnemonia.
Sending good vibes to your fella.
Interesting. My husband had been taking it for a couple of years but we switched to phosphatidylcholine on the recommendation of his nutritionist. unritalinsolution.com/adhd_.... He now gets two eggs a day for the PC.
By the way, the Phase 1 study of L-serine is completed. I have a copy of the study from them, if you wish to read it. Of note,The Institute for Ethnomedicine has applied for a patent for the use of L-serine to treat neurodegenerative illness (US 13/683,821). I stopped the L-serine for my husband, but perhaps prematurely and I was giving him too little.
On another note, I am researching tauopathies as auto-immune diseases. There is a current thought that AD is an auto-immune disease. I will let you know if I can connect some dots in the process.
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