you think it is that bad? i have eaten them.

--- Bobby Greer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Yeah, but who would drink the stuff?
>
> Bobby
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> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 2:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Emailing: Pomegranate Juice For Moms
> May Help Babies Resist
> Brain Injury
>
>
> > isn't this interesting?, a natural preventative.
> >
> >
> > --- Meir Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > > Source: Washington University School of Medicine
> > > Date: 2005-07-01
> > > URL:
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> > >
> > > Pomegranate Juice For Moms May Help Babies
> Resist
> > > Brain Injury
> > > St. Louis, June 28, 2005 -- Expectant mothers at
> > > risk of premature birth
> > > may want to consider drinking pomegranate juice
> to
> > > help their babies
> > > resist brain injuries from low oxygen and
> reduced
> > > blood flow, a new
> > > mouse study from Washington University School of
> > > Medicine in St. Louis
> > > suggests.
> > >
> > > In humans, decreased blood flow and oxygen to
> the
> > > infant brain is linked
> > > to premature birth and other irregularities
> during
> > > pregnancy, birth and
> > > early development. The phenomenon, which is
> called
> > > hypoxia ischemia,
> > > causes brain injury in approximately 2 of every
> > > 1,000 full-term human
> > > births and in a very high percentage of babies
> born
> > > before 34 weeks of
> > > gestation. Hypoxic ischemic brain injury can
> lead to
> > > seizures, a
> > > degenerative condition known as hypoxic ischemic
> > > encephalopathy, and
> > > mobility impairments including cerebral palsy.
> > >
> > > When scientists temporarily lowered brain oxygen
> > > levels and brain blood
> > > flow in newborn mice whose mothers drank water
> mixed
> > > with pomegranate
> > > concentrate, their brain tissue loss was reduced
> by
> > > 60 percent in
> > > comparison to mice whose mothers drank sugar
> water
> > > or other fluids.
> > >
> > > "Hypoxic ischemic brain injury in newborns is
> very
> > > difficult to treat,
> > > and right now there's very little we can do to
> stop
> > > or reverse its
> > > consequences," explains senior author David
> > > Holtzman, M.D., the Andrew
> > > B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor and head of
> the
> > > Department of
> > > Neurology. "Most of our efforts focus on
> stopping it
> > > when it happens,
> > > but if we could treat everyone who's at risk
> > > preventively, we may be
> > > able to reduce the impacts of these kinds of
> > > injuries."
> > >
> > > The study, which appears in the June issue of
> > > Pediatric Research, was
> > > conducted in collaboration with POM Wonderful, a
> > > U.S. producer of
> > > pomegranates and pomegranate juice, and
> scientists
> > > at the University of
> > > California, Los Angeles. Lead author David
> Loren,
> > > M.D., formerly a
> > > neonatal critical care fellow in the Department
> of
> > > Pediatrics, performed
> > > the research. He is now at the University of
> > > Washington in Seattle.
> > >
> > > Holtzman's lab has been studying neonatal brain
> > > injury for more than a
> > > decade by temporarily reducing oxygen levels and
> > > blood flow in the
> > > brains of 7-day-old mouse and rat pups. The
> model
> > > produces brain
> > > injuries similar to those seen in human infants
> > > injured by hypoxia
> > > ischemia.
> > >
> > > Pomegranates contain very high concentrations of
> > > polyphenols, substances
> > > also found in grapes, red wine, and berries that
> > > scientists have linked
> > > to potential neuroprotective and anti-aging
> effects.
> > >
> > > Scientists gave pregnant female mice water with
> > > pomegranate juice, plain
> > > water, sugar water or vitamin C water to drink
> > > during the last third of
> > > pregnancy and while they suckled their pups for
> > > seven days after birth.
> > >
> > > After performing the procedures that exposed
> mouse
> > > pups to low oxygen
> > > levels, scientists examined the brains,
> comparing
> > > damage to the cortex,
> > > hippocampus and the striatum. Researchers who
> > > conducted the examinations
> > > were unaware of what the pup's mother drank.
> Mice
> > > whose mothers drank
> > > pomegranate juice had brain injuries less than
> half
> > > the size of those
> > > found in other mice.
> > >
> > > Much of the damage from hypoxia ischemia results
> > > when oxygen-starved
> > > brain cells self-destruct via a process known as
> > > apoptosis. Scientists
> > > found an enzyme linked to apoptosis, caspase-3,
> was
> > > 84 percent less
> > > active in mice whose mothers drank pomegranate
> > > juice.
> > >
> > > Holtzman says the results suggest the need for
> > > studies of pomegranate
> > > juice's effects in humans, but he cautions that
> > > because of the relative
> > > unpredictability of hypoxia ischemia in
> newborns, it
> > > would be difficult
> > > to assemble a sufficiently large study group.
> > >
> > > Hypoxic ischemic brain damage is frequently
> > > associated with premature
> > > delivery. The lungs, brain and circulatory
> systems
> > > in some premature
> > > babies are insufficiently mature to supply the
> brain
> > > with enough
> > > nutrients and oxygen outside the womb.
> Scientists
> > > know some of the
> > > factors that increase risk of premature birth,
> > > including diabetes, low
> > > economic status, youthful mothers, weakness in
> the
> > > cervix and a personal
> > > or familial history of miscarriage.
> > >
>
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