A potential mechanism supporting the improvements seen in aging male mice on ketogenic or keto diets has been discovered by the researchers.
Cycling male mice between a control diet and a ketogenic diet results in an improvement in the signalling that takes place between synapses in the brain, the researchers proposed.
Earlier, a proof-of-concept study showed that giving male mice a cyclic ketogenic diet reduced their midlife risk of death and prevented memory decline associated with normal aging. It was published by John Newman, MD, PhD, one of the authors of the paper.
“After reading two seminal papers published in 2017 that showed its beneficial roles in the overall health of aged mice, including brain performance, we decided to study the effect of the ketogenic diet,” Christian Gonza lez-Billault, professor at the Universidad de Chile, and director of the Geroscience Center for Brain Health and Metabolism (GERO), told Medical News Today.
The researchers kept 19 male mice aged 20–23 months, considered as an “old age” in mice, either on a control diet, or a ketogenic diet, cycled with the control diet every other week in order to investigate the previous findings further.
The results revealed that the ketogenic diet was associated with lower blood sugar, improved memory and motor ability in older mice. It was also shown by the researchers that there was improved plasticity in the hippocampus brain region of older mice.
“We focus our attention on aged mice because previous work showed that the effect of the diet in young animals was milder and, in some cases, did not show significant differences with a control diet. These previous antecedents suggest that one of the beneficial roles of the diet would be maintaining resilience in aged mice, improving their physiological functions as they age,” said Gonza lez-Billault.
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Ibrahim Murad, President of the University of Management and Technology (UMT), emphasized the critical need for an emergency strategy to boost IT exports in Pakistan. He proposed that the government must set an ambitious target of $20 billion from IT exports. He said that this target is achievable through the training of one million software engineers and IT freelancers.
Ibrahim Murad highlighted the potential for provincial governments to collaborate effectively to increase IT exports. He suggested the Government establish an IT university in every district. He advocated for doubling the shifts in educational institutions to provide quality education to 100 students in disciplines like BS Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, and AI, as a key measure to achieve this goal
President UMT expressed that leveraging the existing infrastructure effectively, we can significantly increase the number of IT graduates. Murad stressed the vital role of the National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC) and the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in boosting the IT sector. Renewal of curricula and enhancement of faculty development programs to align educational standards will also help in this regard.
Drawing a comparison with India, Murad pointed out that India is set to create one million new IT jobs to achieve $36 billion in IT exports in next 18 months. India’s IT exports have reached an estimated $172 billion to $193 billion, far surpassing Pakistan’s total exports. He urged the Pakistani government to take strong measures to accelerate the growth of its IT industry. TheIT sector would play a pivotal role in the country’s near-future development and prosperity says President UMT.
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