The acetylcholine is the most important and abundant neurotransmitter chemical transporter controller memory and motor skills. It is produced in significant quantities in the hippocampus (part of the brain that controls our memory.) With the aging process progressively decreases its production and therefore gradually lose the ability to concentrate on what we do and we started to forget things great and small.
The imbalance between the enzymes needed to synthesize acetylcholine and needed to metabolize it, is responsible for the marked decrease in the levels of acetylcholine that occurs in Alzheimer's disease. In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease also produces a decrease of cellular energy, making the brain less able to extract oxygen and glucose from the blood, a situation that can be reversed in patients supplemented with acetyl-L-carnitine.
has been experimentally found that supplementation with acetyl-L-carnitine in mice not only normalized energy metabolism brain cells but reversed the abnormalities caused by ammonia, which causes degeneration of brain cells similar to that found in people with Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Iraima Acuña. Nutrition Specialist
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