Importance of Choline to Health and the Selling of a Nutrient That Reduces It

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"Choline was recently determined to be an essential nutrient by the Institute of Medicine. In adults, choline deficiency results in liver damage in humans and liver cancer in 'animals.] Pregnancy has been shown to deplete choline pools 'in the body] and the demand for choline by a developing fetus could put the mother and the 'fetus] at risk for choline deficiency. Prenatal choline deficiency has been associated with altered....memory and increased 'cell death] ....in the fetal 'brain.]

"The potential 'malformation] effects of DMAE are of special concern as it is currently sold as a nutrient supplement that claims to enhance....functions such as memory and learning."] 
The scientists pointed out that DMAE, by reducing choline in the body "....resulted in increased cell death and 'facial] and neural tube defects in 'tested animals.]

 

Importance of Choline to Health and the Selling of a Nutrient That Reduces It Bibliography

FASEB Journal, vol. 16, 2002, Drs. Fisher, Zeisel, Mar, and Sadler, School of Medicine and Dept. of Nutrition, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.