I am a 25 year old female. I was diagnosed with a primary brain tumor in June 2008 and underwent surgery to remove it. It was the size of an apple and diagnosed a grade 2 tumor. It grew back in September 2008 and that's when i began rigorous radiation and oral chemotherapy (Temozolomide). My recent MRI has showed the regrowth of the tumor to be "gone." The plan is to take the Temozolomide for 2 years along with Accutane (which helps the oral chemotherapy work better).
Even better, the walnut diets seemed to activate a process called autophagy, which the researchers described as “a neuronal housekeeping function,” in the striatum and hippocampus areas of the brain. This process was more profound in the hippocampus, though, which is the region of the brain involved in memory and cognitive performance. The discovery of the autophagy in the walnut-eating groups was particularly exciting because as we age, this process slows down.
Autophagy is an extremely precise mechanism of action in your body which in a nutshell means that your body flushes out everything it doesn’t need. This happens in the cellular level. So basically your cells remove all the toxins in them.
So it’s “detoxification” on steroids.
The good news are that according to this study, fasting has been shown to induce autophagy in the human body.
We also found that Δ(9)-THC- and JWH-015-induced autophagy relies on tribbles homolog 3 (TRB3) upregulation, and subsequent inhibition of the serine-threonine kinase Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin C1 axis and adenosine monophosphate-activated kinase (AMPK) stimulation. Pharmacological and genetic inhibition of AMPK upstream kinases supported that calmodulin-activated kinase kinase β was responsible for cannabinoid-induced AMPK activation and autophagy.
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Fasting periods accelerate the clearing-out of waste left by dead and damaged cells, a process known as autophagy. A failure of autophagy to keep up with accumulated cellular debris is believed by many scientists to be one of the major causes of the chronic diseases associated with aging.
Occasional fasting also seems to boost activity and growth of certain types of cells, especially NEURONS.
Another article on the same subject:
http://thegatewayonline.ca/articles/news/2010/10/20/hepatitis-c-damages-brain-cells
Hepatitis C damages brain cells
October 20, 2010 - 11:57pm
Catherine Scott, News Staff
University of Alberta virologists have recently confirmed that the hepatitis C virus (HCV), commonly known as a disease that affects the liver, also adversely affects certain cells in the brain.
Working with a team of virologists, Dr. Christopher Power and Dr.
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