Stop the soda and boost your Memory

Researchers at Loma Linda University discovered that mice who drank
pomegranate juice experienced 50% less brain degeneration than animals
that consumed only sugar water. The pom juice drinkers also did better
in mazes and tests as they aged. Drink Up!!

Ned
http://www.naturalneds.com

On Mar 27, 10:51 am, "Mike" wrote:
Researchers at Loma Linda University discovered that mice who drank
pomegranatejuiceexperienced 50% less brain degeneration than animals
that consumed only sugar water. Thepomjuicedrinkers also did better
in mazes and tests as they aged. Drink Up!!

Nedhttp://www.naturalneds.com

Wow, that's amazing. Must mean sugar is better for memory than we
thought. Pom juice has almost twice the sugar of soda.and twice the
calories.

Now, the study would be impressive if they removed the sugar from the
POM and compared that to something like standard Coka Cola aka Coke

Why didn't the researcher just add polyphenols to the water instead.
That was his hypothesis, after all. He should test blueberries,
everyone likes blueberries, while pom is far less universally
appreciated.

It does imply that neither sugar nor pom is really good for you since
neither was a cure-all. It merely showed that something in pom juice
is bad for alzheimers. That rather leads reasonable people to wonder,
if it's able to fight a disease, what else is it bad for?

It helps with kidneys of diabetic patients, but is bad for the liver
(at high levels).

It should be good for general brain function, general liver and
general kidney function... UNLESS you are taking practically any
medication for the heart, cholesterol, and other disorders.

If you take crestor (zocor, lipitor and several others), then drinking
more than just two servings of pom a week will send you to the
hospital for rhabdomyolysis (same with grapefruit juice which is just
yicky anyway). If you take similar statins, you'll have to be aware
of the same caveat.

On the heart side, many (not all though) anti-arrythmia drugs like
norpace and quinidine and cordarone (sp?) also don't play well with
pom juice and you probably don't want to risk misfunction of an
arrythmia medication.

Had a transplant ever (a REAL transplant, not a graft!), then pom is
permanently off the menu because it won't mix with cyclosporine aka
neoral/sandimmune or prograf.

On the OTHER hand, if you had a graft (from within your body to within
your body) then pom juice is actually beneficial.

The list goes on.

Pom is like bug spray, it kills the bugs so YAY, but it might mess up
your parrot and kittens, fortunately only the minority own parrots or
kittens, so for the "house" in general, it's great.