Penn study finds hyperbaric oxygen treatments mobilize stem cells

Recovery of injured and diseased tissue the ultimate goal According to a study to be published in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulation Physiology, a typical course of hyperbaric oxygen treatments increases by eight-fold the number of stem cells circulating in a patient’s body. Stem cells, also called progenitor cells are crucial to injury [...]

Further Evidence that Alzheimer’s Is a Type of Diabetes

Insulin levels drop with progression of Alzheimer’s disease, linked to tangles in brain. Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School have discovered that insulin and its receptors drop significantly in the brain during the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, and that levels decline progressively as the disease becomes more severe, leading to further [...]