Sumamba Buwan
Eutrusca
25-01-2005, 02:21
Just wanted to follow up with you on what we were discussing earlier:
More on memory enhancement: http://www.amermed.com/memory_supplements.htm
Interesting that it talks about improving circulation as a possible means of memory enhancement!
Keruvalia
25-01-2005, 02:32
Interesting that it talks about improving circulation as a possible means of memory enhancement!
Hey! Booze improves the circulation! :D
Nova Terra Australis
25-01-2005, 02:38
Oxygen is a poison. Memory may be improved, but lifespan will be shortened.
Neo-Anarchists
25-01-2005, 02:39
Oxygen is a poison.
What?
Oxygen is necessary to live...
Nova Terra Australis
25-01-2005, 02:46
What?
Oxygen is necessary to live...
The great paradox of life. In many ways, the beauty of it. We are not immortal - oxygen takes care of that. (Perhaps someone with slightly more scientific knowledge than I could confirm/deny?)
Conceptualists
25-01-2005, 02:50
What?
Oxygen is necessary to live...
Well, so is salt. But that shouldn't be taken in too high a dosage (as well as iodine and other poisonous elements iirc)
Boonytopia
25-01-2005, 03:02
The great paradox of life. In many ways, the beauty of it. We are not immortal - oxygen takes care of that. (Perhaps someone with slightly more scientific knowledge than I could confirm/deny?)
*Furiously trying to remember my Year 12 Chemistry*
Oxygen is a strong reductive agent, a poweful corrosive. I'm pretty sure it's the reductive reaction that causes our bodies to break down over time.
Eutrusca
25-01-2005, 03:04
The great paradox of life. In many ways, the beauty of it. We are not immortal - oxygen takes care of that. (Perhaps someone with slightly more scientific knowledge than I could confirm/deny?)
I thought it was the free radicals in the air that are the culprits in shortening life? :confused:
Eutrusca
25-01-2005, 03:04
Hey! Booze improves the circulation! :D
Beer too?? :D
Neo-Anarchists
25-01-2005, 03:07
I thought it was the free radicals in the air that are the culprits in shortening life? :confused:
Yeah, that's what I had heard, but I don't really have a clue about human bio.
Upitatanium
25-01-2005, 04:44
Beer too?? :D
Nuts to your beer!
Vodka's gentle sting as it passes your lips and shimmers down your throat is poetry in motion.
Nova Terra Australis
25-01-2005, 04:53
*Furiously trying to remember my Year 12 Chemistry*
Oxygen is a strong reductive agent, a poweful corrosive. I'm pretty sure it's the reductive reaction that causes our bodies to break down over time.
Sounds right to me.
I thought it was the free radicals in the air that are the culprits in shortening life?
Just found this on wordweb: "Free Radical: An atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule than has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule"
Though, other factors do come into play. It's a dangerous environment we live in.
Sumamba Buwhan
25-01-2005, 05:40
Thanks Etrusca for that. I appreciate your kindness and help. I am looking at the link you posted now.
I knew of Ginko Bilobas and Maca roots role in memory enhancement but not those others.
I'll let ya know if they help me any.
Armed Bookworms
25-01-2005, 07:34
The great paradox of life. In many ways, the beauty of it. We are not immortal - oxygen takes care of that. (Perhaps someone with slightly more scientific knowledge than I could confirm/deny?)
It's a combination of the accumulation of free radicals in our genetic code from the metabolization of oxygen and something else in our genetic structure I believe.
Found it. http://omega.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/ray/dna/telomeres.htm
A number of factors affect aging in organisms. One of these is a shortening of the ends of our DNA molecules, called the telomeres.
With each cell division, the theory states, telomeres get shorter. Eventually the degredation affects useful segments of the DNA.
Support for this theory arises from experiments in the cloning of animals. Dolly, who was cloned from an adult cell, started life with shorter telomeres. This may explain why she shows premature aging.
For more information, visit: http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/SU/dolly599.html