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Nov 18, 2023Liked by Jennifer Depew, R.D.

great stuffs and thanks for sharing your supplement list!

i have added pomegranate fruit in my daily diet :) atleast 1 or two ..

what is your opinion on a combination of vinpocetine with ginkgo and piracitam? also recently i discovered that Niacin with Gaba and B1( at night) does wonderful job too! Niacin amuses me every other day with various combinations!!

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I am glad to hear you are enjoying pomegranate and niacin/B1/GABA at night (that does sound like a helpful combination). Re vinpocetine with ginkgo and piracitam? No idea. Have you tried it?

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not yet, days back was searching some combinations with piracitam and actually our chemist had that combination with vinpocetine and ginkgo with piracitam, so just bought that .. sometimes i take piracitam with nac+glycine with niacin (JP s combo),ginkgo i need to buy again....actually i want to try vinpocetine+ginkgo+piracitam with niacin :) but need to read more and then try! someone must have tried this combo too :)

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It all ends up in the same place - your stomach.

Good luck with your experimenting.

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Wow, there's a lot in there to consider.

AQP4 is aquaporin-4, it regulates the water and metabolite balance of glial cells & the spinal cord. Autoimmune antibodies can target it, which makes pomegranate of interest to avoid neuropathies.

And we can probably guess why "they" don't want flavonoids & polyphenols classed as vitamins. It would put half the pharma companies out of business in a few years;-)

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AQP4 is under circadian control. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18115-2 That may be why I clear out at night but elevating my legs seems to help.

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Let me sleep on it ;-)

You've just joined a dot for me:

Deletion of aquaporin-4 aggravates brain pathology after blocking of the meningeal lymphatic drainage

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30347264/

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Woot there it is - I am too inflamed.

"These results provide the first evidence suggesting that downregulation of NF-κB by Shp-1 alleviates CVST-induced brain edema through suppression of AQP4."

Baiqiang Chen, Xiangyi Kong, Zhuo Li, Wenjie Hu, Han Zhou, Jingchen Gao, Yu Cui, Shifang Li, Qi Wan, Yugong Feng, Downregulation of NF-κB by Shp-1 Alleviates Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis-Induced Brain Edema Via Suppression of AQP4, Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 31(8,) 2022, 106570, ISSN 1052-3057, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2022.106570.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1052305722002646

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Yeah, I need to start over again in a document I think - on the lymphedema topic.. Read more and keep looking things up. I got tired.

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