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Creatine-Q10 combination protects brain cells and lengthens lifespan: animal study
Combining two sports supplements may delay the rate at which essential brain cells die off in people with Parkinson's and Huntington's disease. If you extrapolate Cornell neurologists' animal study findings to humans, creatine and Q10 [structural formulas shown below] extend the life expectancy of people suffering from Parkinson's and Huntington's disease – and this may work for healthy people too.
There are no medicines yet for Parkinson's or Huntington's disease. That's why researchers are studying the protective effects of nutrients on nerve cells, in the hope of finding a way of delaying the course of these diseases.
This research may also be interesting for people without neurodegenerative diseases. Animal studies have shown that creatine not only extends the lifespan of mice with the equivalent of Parkinson's, but also that of normal mice. One theory is that the course that Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases take is a speeded up form of the aging processes that occur in healthy humans.
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Results
The lifespan of the R6/2 HD mice that were given creatine increased by 17 percent. Q10 supplements increased the lifespan by 14 percent, and the mice that were given both supplements had a 22 percent increase in lifespan.
Conclusion
And just in case you were wondering: the research was funded by the American government, not by a supplements manufacturer.
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