Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Taurine, the amino acid, prevents lewy bodies when microglia are activated and protects dopaminergic neurons.

Lewy bodies are clumps of abnormal protein particles that, for reasons that are not fully understood, accumulate in the brain. These deposits cause a form of dementia called Lewy body dementia, or LBD — which is what the late actor and comedian Robin Williams suffered from. 

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