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Anyone remember the story awhile back about the study indicating GABA administered to older monkeys can sharpen their visual recognition skills in old age? Here's the high points from WebMD:
Boosting levels of a chemical found in the brain called GABA may help keep older minds sharp and reduce the effects of aging. A new study shows elderly monkeys that were given drugs to increase GABA levels responded more like younger monkeys and were able to process visual cues more efficiently.
Researchers say the study may help explain why the brain's most complicated visual processes slow with age and offer a new way to counter these effects of aging.
GABA is an amino acid that acts like a chemical messenger in this part of the brain to relay information back and forth from the sensory organs like the eyes back to the brain.
Researchers say the findings suggest that drugs that increase GABA production, such as the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, might be effective in warding off some types of age-related problems in brain function. end
Don't you like how they tag on the end there the little plug for their prescription drugs?
Gee, I wish there was some sort of drug out there that was more of a direct approach to the GABA issue. I mean, studies indicate that the amino structure in GABA doesn't pass through the blood brain barrier very well...hmmm..... I got it, I'll come up with a similar substance with a hydroxy doohickey instead of an amino doohickey....how 'bout I substitute a hydroxy group for the amino group, and call it gamma-hydroxybutyrate?
But wait, we couldn't charge a hundred bucks a bottle for something a guy could make in his bathtub.
Anyway, I've never used GHB myself, but isn't it funny that they're using a study on a substance related to GHB to push prescription drugs that are technically more toxic than GHB is?
It's just like when they push GH for AIDS related muscle wasting (I'm not an AIDS victim either, thought I'd clarify) rather than steroids simply because of the money and patent factors and the reputation of steroids, even though GH on its own has never been shown to be hugely anabolic.
Of course, we could discuss the degree to which GHB may not affect GABA receptors, but anyway, the point is this study was all over the media without any mention at all of the fact that GHB and GABA are so closely related, and plenty of plugs for anti-anxiety meds like Valium and Xanax.
Boosting levels of a chemical found in the brain called GABA may help keep older minds sharp and reduce the effects of aging. A new study shows elderly monkeys that were given drugs to increase GABA levels responded more like younger monkeys and were able to process visual cues more efficiently.
Researchers say the study may help explain why the brain's most complicated visual processes slow with age and offer a new way to counter these effects of aging.
GABA is an amino acid that acts like a chemical messenger in this part of the brain to relay information back and forth from the sensory organs like the eyes back to the brain.
Researchers say the findings suggest that drugs that increase GABA production, such as the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, might be effective in warding off some types of age-related problems in brain function. end
Don't you like how they tag on the end there the little plug for their prescription drugs?
Gee, I wish there was some sort of drug out there that was more of a direct approach to the GABA issue. I mean, studies indicate that the amino structure in GABA doesn't pass through the blood brain barrier very well...hmmm..... I got it, I'll come up with a similar substance with a hydroxy doohickey instead of an amino doohickey....how 'bout I substitute a hydroxy group for the amino group, and call it gamma-hydroxybutyrate?
But wait, we couldn't charge a hundred bucks a bottle for something a guy could make in his bathtub.
Anyway, I've never used GHB myself, but isn't it funny that they're using a study on a substance related to GHB to push prescription drugs that are technically more toxic than GHB is?
It's just like when they push GH for AIDS related muscle wasting (I'm not an AIDS victim either, thought I'd clarify) rather than steroids simply because of the money and patent factors and the reputation of steroids, even though GH on its own has never been shown to be hugely anabolic.
Of course, we could discuss the degree to which GHB may not affect GABA receptors, but anyway, the point is this study was all over the media without any mention at all of the fact that GHB and GABA are so closely related, and plenty of plugs for anti-anxiety meds like Valium and Xanax.
