Transgenerational response to nutrition, early life circumstances and longevity

This 2019 study investigated the pathways by which the Western Diet (WD) regulates gene expression in hippocampal brain microvessels of female mice, since it is poorly understood how microvasular disease in the memory centre of the brain develops (while consumption of the WD is associated with cognitive impairment and hyperlipidaemia [high levels of fat in […]

In this paper by Parent et al. (2021), the authors amass evidence that explores the links between memory and eating, in both humans and rodents. Humans who suffer from amnesia demonstrate a hindrance in their memory of meals consumed, hunger, and satiety processing, and they tend to overeat and become obese. Healthy individuals have intact […]