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Caffeine clue to better memory

c_thomas_wild at my-deja.com c_thomas_wild at my-deja.com
Mon Oct 18 20:55:58 EST 1999


In article <939963343.999220 at server.australia.net.au>,
  "Jo!hn" <johnhkm at netsprintXXXX.net.au> wrote:
> "Researchers in Israel have shown that caffeine makes existing brain
cells
> swell and new ones grow.
>
> Dr Menahem Segal, at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, told BBC News
Online
> that making the connection between this growth and better memory and
> learning capability is "a long jump, but it is what we are aiming
for". "
>
> "And he calculates that a lot of caffeine is needed to be sure of
seeing the
> cell growth effect - about ten cups.
>
> The research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy
of
> Sciences.
>
> "
>
> --
> John
> Remove XXXX in reply address
>
Dr. Anita Uhl Brothers, M.D., of Berkeley, California, wrote an
introduction to an ADHD autobiography titled How to Cure Hyperactivity
(1981) which is about an FDA approved medicine, a special caffeine
compound, which worked better in case of mild ADHD than Ritalin.  There
were certain effects associated with this caffeine compound that
suggested it tended to act as a kind of growth hormone agent/growth
hormone.  The 1981 book is available through the Library of Congress.
C. Thomas Wild (an adult with very mild ADHD)


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