Eating at least one seafood meal per week was linked to a reduced risk of having Alzheimer's disease in older adults with a gene known as APOE4, a U.S. study said Tuesday.If you only get one of your genes tested.... it should be APOE.
This association, however, was not found in the brains of people who ate fish weekly but did not carry the gene, said the study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Researchers from the Rush University Medical Center also examined the brains for levels of mercury, which can be found in seafood and is known to be harmful to the brain and nervous system.
They found that seafood consumption was associated with increased mercury levels in the brains but not the amount of beta amyloid protein plaques and tau protein tangles, the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease.
APOE4 totally changes your immune response. Makes you more susceptible to Herpes viruses and the effects of endotoxin.
